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  • 101. Andersson, Jenny
    No limits. The scenario tool and a world beyond limits2019Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 102.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris;Swedish Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
    Not without a future2011In: The future of European social democracy: Building the good society / [ed] Henning Meyer & Jonathan Rutherford, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 166-176Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    What is the good society? At the moment this is a question that is being asked by political actors all over the political spectrum, and not only by social democracy. The very word ‘society’, at least in the UK, has become a rather troublesome one, as New Labour’s active state was transplanted by Cameron’s big society, made up as this was of social conservatism and rather disturbing continuations of New Labour policy — such as the behavioural Nudge Unit. The latter is charged with making people behave in ways deemed better for their own and society’s good. It is not only the paternalism and the social engineering latent in this conception that are troubling; troubling is also the way in which ‘good’ has come to be understood in its economic sense, as determined by socio-technical parameters of efficiency. Is this the enduring legacy of New Labour? The conservatives did not come up with this themselves; on the contrary, this is a notion of the good that social democracy has actively promoted, not only in its Fabian past, but specifically in the last decades, as the welfare state was reinvented from a moral and ethical argument to a form of socioeconomic investment. With such heavy legacies from past and recent history, it would seem that neither the element of ‘good’ nor that of ‘society’ is particularly useful in terms of rethinking social democracy and a possibly better world to live in. At least at the moment, both elements are tainted by political discourses emanating from a central field that seems to have become a kind of intellectual prison.

  • 103.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    När framtiden redan hänt: socialdemokratin och folkhemsnostalgin2009Book (Other academic)
  • 104. Andersson, Jenny
    Produktiv socialpolitik under socialdemokratiet2004In: Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, ISSN 0800-336X, E-ISSN 1504-3053Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 105.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Recension av John Lapidus avhandling: Social democracy and the Swedish welfare model:: Ideational analyses of attitudes towards competition, individualisation and privatisation2015In: Historisk Tidsskrift, ISSN 0018-263X, E-ISSN 1504-2944Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 106.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Reflections on the meaning of the Social and Liberal Model2006In: Social Europe: a continent’s answer to market fundamentalism / [ed] Albers, Detlev, Haseler, Stephen & Meyer, Henning, London: European Research Forum at London Metropolitian University , 2006, p. 133-145Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 107.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Socialdemokratin, tillväxten och den sociala utslagningen2008In: Industriland : tolv forskare om när Sverige blev modernt, Vol. S. 83-100 : ill.Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 108.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Solidarity or competition. Creating the European Knowledge Society2007In: European solidarities: tensions and contentions of a concept / [ed] Magnusson, Lars & Stråth, Bo, Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang , 2007Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 109.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    The future factory2019In: OpEd SocioEconomic NewsletterArticle in journal (Other academic)
  • 110.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    The future of the Western world: the OECD and the Interfutures project2019In: Journal of Global History, ISSN 1740-0228, E-ISSN 1740-0236, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 126-144Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 111. Andersson, Jenny
    The future of the world2019Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 112. Andersson, Jenny
    The Future of the World2019Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 113. Andersson, Jenny
    The future of the world2017Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 114. Andersson, Jenny
    The future of the world. Author meets critics2019Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 115.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France .
    The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination2018Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The book is devoted to the intriguing post-war activity called—with different terms—futurism, futurology, future research, or futures studies. It seeks to understand how futurists and futurologists imagined the Cold War and post-Cold War world and how they used the tools and methods of future research to influence and change that world. Forms of future research emerged after 1945 and engaged with the future both as an object of science and as an object of the human imagination. The book carefully explains these different engagements with the future, and inscribes them in the intellectual history of the post-war period. Futurists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Futurism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which came from new strands of critical theory in the margins of the social sciences or sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion. Different forms of prediction lay very different claims to how, and with what accuracy, futures could be known, and what kind of control could be exerted over coming and not yet existing developments. Not surprisingly, such different claims to predictability coincided with radically different notions of human agency, of morality and responsibility, indeed of politics.

  • 116.
    Andersson, Jenny
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    The knowledge economy as utopia2007In: Exploring the utopian impulse: essays on utopian thought and practice / [ed] Griffin, Michael J. & Moylan, Tom, Oxford: Peter Lang , 2007, p. 357-375Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 117. Andersson, Jenny
    The making of predictive science2013Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 118. Andersson, Jenny
    The political economy of foresight2014Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 119. Andersson, Jenny
    The power of prediction2014Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 120. Andersson, Jenny
    The power of prediction2014Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 121. Andersson, Jenny
    The Swedish model – then and now2016In: The Oxford handbook of Swedish politics / [ed] Pierre, Jon, Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 122. Andersson, Jenny
    Towards a political history of the future2012Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 123. Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Béland, Daniel
    Petersen, Klaus
    Social policy language2012Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 124.
    Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Björkman, Jenny
    Humlesjö, Inger
    Välfärdsstatens skräpvind: historiska spår i dagens välfärdspolitik2005Book (Other academic)
  • 125. Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Godechot, Olivier
    Destabilizing Orders - Understanding the Consequences of Neoliberalism: Proceedings of the MaxPo Fifth-Anniversary Conference Paris, January 12–13, 20182018Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Throughout the long postwar period, crisis was a conjectural phenomenon and the exception in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the social sciences – indeed, our understanding of democracy, embedded markets, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and problem-solving progressive alliances – seem inapt for understanding today’s societal upheaval. In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, we have witnessed the breakdown of majority alliances, the return of populism on a grand scale both in the Western world and globally, and the eruption into chaotic and sometimes violent social protests. The forces that underpinned the framework of welfare capitalism seem obsolete in the face of financial and political elites who are paradoxically both disconnected from national territory and sometimes in direct alliance with nationalist and populist movements. Politics of resentment, politics of place, and new politics of class interact in ways that we do not yet understand. Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that neoliberalism has spawned authoritarianism. At the same time, these processes are not at all new, but must be put in the context of the socioeconomic and cultural cleavages produced by the shift to neoliberalism since the 1970s. The paper presents arguments by leading scholars in economic history, economic sociology, and political economy in brief thinknotes that were prepared for the MaxPo Fifth-Anniversary Conference on January 12 and 13, 2018, in Paris.

  • 126.
    Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Hilson, Mary
    Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries2009In: Scandinavian Journal of History: Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries, Vol. 34, no 3, p. 219-228Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 127.
    Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economic History.
    Keizer, Anne-Greet
    Governing the future:: science, policy and public participation in the construction of the long term in the Netherlands and Sweden2014In: History and Technology, Vol. 30, no 1-2, p. 104-122Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper is a historical study of two institutions devoted to the problem of the future - the Dutch WRR (the Scientific Council for Government) and the Swedish Secretariat for Futures Studies - both created in 1972. While there is a growing interest in the social sciences for prediction, future imaginaries and the governance of risk, few studies have examined historically the integration of the category of the ’future’ or the ’long term’ in political systems in the postwar years, a period in which this category took on specific meaning and importance. We suggest that governing the long-term posed fundamental problems to particular societal models of expertise, decision-making and public participation. We argue that the scientific and political claim to govern the future was fundamentally contested, and that social struggle around the role and content of predictive expertise determined how the long term was incorporated into different systems of knowledge production and policy-making.

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  • 128. Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Prat, Pauline
    Gouverner le «long terme».: La production bureaucratique des futurs en France2015In: Government et action publiqueArticle in journal (Refereed)
  • 129. Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Westholm, Erik
    SLU.
    Closing the Future: Environmental Research and the Management of Conflicting Future Value Orders2019In: Science, Technology and Human Values, ISSN 0162-2439, E-ISSN 1552-8251, Vol. 44, no 2, p. 237-262Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper examines a struggle over the future use of Nordic forests, which took place from 2009 to 2012 within a major research program, Future Forests—Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk, organized and funded by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. We explore the role of strategic environmental research in societal constructions of long-term challenges and future risks. Specifically, we draw attention to the role played by environmental research in the creation of future images that become dominant for how societies structure action for the long term. We also show that this process is on several accounts problematic. Research labeled “strategic” or “relevant” is intended to manage long-term risks and challenges in a sustainable way, by taking into account the “open” and “plural” nature of the future. The case of Future Forests suggests, rather, that by contributing to the emergence of dominant future images, environmental research is entangled with a process of gradual consensus creation around what may be highly selective or biased narratives of the long term, which may conceal or postpone key forms of future conflict.

  • 130.
    Andersson, Jenny
    et al.
    Institut d'études politiques de Paris; Institutet för framtidsstudier.
    Westholm, Erik
    Slaget om framtiden: forskningens roll i konflikten mellan tillväxt och miljö2019Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Hur kan vi skapa balans mellan ekonomisk tillväxt och en hållbar miljö? Hur påverkas framtida liv på jorden av vårt sätt att leva idag? Hur tänker vi människor kring tid och framtid och vilken roll spelar framtiden i dagens samhälle?

    Klimatkrisen kräver att våra samhällen omvandlas, men den hindras av nutida intressen. Det behövs kunskap, social mobilisering och kreativa lösningar för att ge kraft åt både civilsamhälle och politiska institutioner. Humanister och samhällsvetare står inför en viktig uppgift: visa att samhället inte är ett gemensamt vi som väljer framtid. Varje förändring sker i kamp mellan olika intressen som har att vinna eller förlora på att allt fortsätter som förut respektive förändras. Den som får gehör för sin bild av framtiden får makt i nutiden.

    Miljöforskningens roll är avgörande. Men kravet på att forskningen ska vara till nytta nu står i direkt konflikt med framtiden. Forskningsprogrammen riskerar att bli megafoner för förutbestämda idéer präglade av finansiärernas kortsiktiga intressen. Strävan efter enighet urholkar sökandet efter alternativa vägar till framtiden.

    Med konkreta exempel från den svenska skogsforskningen och forskningen om Arktis visar författarna att det behövs samhällsvetenskap och humaniora som står fri från dagens intressen och agendor.

  • 131.
    Andersson, Jesper
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    John Takman och legalförskrivningen: Om bakgrunden till den omdiskuterade svenska verksamheten med missbruksvård under 1960-talet2023Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis explores the origins of the Swedish project with legal prescription of narcotics during the 1960s. Although the project remains one of the most discussed events in Swedish drug policy history, there remain some historiographical uncertainties surrounding its ideological origins. The purpose of this thesis is to clarify some of these uncertainties by examining the thoughts of an important actor behind the initiation of the project, the Swedish physician John Takman. To achieve this purpose, the thesis poses four questions about the origins of Takman’s ideas about legal prescription, as well as his thoughts about and intentions with the treatment method itself. The material used for this examination has been various texts and statements by Takman from the period 1958–1965, and the method has been that of a traditional close reading and interpretation of these utterances. Through this analysis, this thesis has reached four main results. First, it shows that Takman’s ideas of legal prescription had its background in his socio-medical convictions and a growing concern about drug abuse among young people during the late 1950s. Second, it points out strong indications that Takman developed his treatment ideas largely on his own, in his practice as a physician. Third, it highlights the complexity and flexibility of Takman’s treatment ideas. Finally, it points out that Takman saw legal prescription of narcotics as just one of many measures to combat the Swedish drug abuse problem. These results are important for two reasons. To begin with, they help clarify common historiographical misconceptions about Takmans’s thoughts about the treatment method. Furthermore, they strongly indicate that the ideas behind the project had its main origins in Swedish developments during the 1950s and early 1960s, rather than foreign ideas about drug treatment, as has been commonly argued. While there remain some uncertainties about the project’s origins, these results can hopefully provide a starting point for further research on the subject.

  • 132.
    Andersson, Johan Daniel
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Tema Environmental Change. Linköping University, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Aesthetic Ideology in the Anthropocene: On the Total Mobilization of the Earth into the Status of a Work of Art2021In: Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, E-ISSN 1832-9101, Vol. 17, no 3, p. 113-144Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In light of the radical change to the reach and range of technical alteration, the co-evolution of mankind and the biosphere has become one of the principal questions of our age. As we find that man has altered the planet at just about every scale we are capable of measuring, the question concerning the essence of technology, in its power to not only imitate but in many ways even surpass the forces of nature, has become critical for the discussion about global environmental change. Often, the empirical findings of the geosciences have been interpreted as a motive to question the long-standing dualism between nature and artifice that itself has served, during almost the entirety of the history of Western philosophy, as the productive tension through which concepts such as technology and history have hitherto been conceptualized. But if much of our contemporary discourse on global environmental change is premised upon the functional and formal similarities between natural and artificial organs, I argue that returning to the intellectual current of 1920s and 30s Weimar Culture, where the relationship between globalization and industrialization first became of central hermeneutic concern, may shed new light on the Anthropocene as the conceptual site for a resurged geoaesthetics that denotes the ontological ubiquity of the designed environment, making the technological the foundation for a modern typological cosmology. Examining Ernst Jünger’s early work on the meaning of the planetary impact of modern technology, I caution that by reifying the cybernetic disclosure of the earth as a natural-artificial hybrid into a naturalistic ontology of work, we are liable to render our planet perfectly functional to its sustained instrumental appropriation as standing-reserve.

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  • 133.
    Andersson, Johan Daniel
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Tema Environmental Change. Linköping University, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR.
    Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity2023Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, that anthropogenic environmental change has become so prevailing that it ought to be conceived of as a force of nature, in the literal sense of the expression. Artificial Earth argues that to fully grasp the stakes of this discourse, we need not only understand the contemporary scientific and technological transformations behind the Anthropocene, but also explore the history of an ontological concern tied up with it.

    In order to do so, Artificial Earth examines reflections on the ontological dualism between nature and artifice within the history of earth science from the late eighteenth century onwards. Paying particular attention to its consequences for how human subjectivity has been conceptualized in the Anthropocene, it then enrolls these resources in an effort to problematize attempts since the 1980s to formalize earth science in systems theoretical terminology. In sum, the aim is to investigate the historical conditions for the possibility of conceiving human artifice as an integral part of the earth’s terrestrial environment, with the conviction that such an investigation may assist in resolving the aforementioned contradiction or at least to understand it better by tracing its historical lineage.

  • 134.
    Andersson, Johan Daniel
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Tema Environmental Change. Linköping University, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR.
    Telluric Recollection: On the Disappearance of History in Deep Time2021In: Anthropocenes - Human, Inhuman, Posthuman, ISSN 2633-4321, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 1-13, article id 1032Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Since the turn of the millennium, the humanities have been progressively forced to come to terms with the materiality of a warming world, in particular the entanglement of natural environments with technical infrastructures that lies at the heart of anthropgenic environmental change, and its implications for the hithertofore seemingly impentetrable ontological wall of separation between natural and human history. In an effort to address the concomitant insufficiency of remaning solely at the discursive level, some scholars have sought to reorient the interpretative concerns of the humanities by submerging the modern subject into geological registers of deep time. This paper cautions that along with such a reorientation, however, any sense of a limit – such as a horizon of understanding belonging to human history – recedes into the modal void of deep time, with the unfortunate side-effect that questions of human agency and responsibility have a tendency to get lost in the more-than-human networks of the earth’s geophysical forces. This is ironic, given that the purported novelty of the so-called ‘Anthropocene’ condition is to highlight the anthropogenic dimension of global environmental change, and thus the deep time consequences of human action.

  • 135.
    Andersson, Linus
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    "En individ som ingenting är, ingenting representerar": Meningskapande kring demokratiseringen i den liberala debatten om anarkisterna på 1890-talet2011Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • 136.
    Andersson, Madeleine
    Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM).
    Upplevd realism i dokusåpans verklighet: En studie om hyperrealitet i Expedition: Robinson2013Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Denna uppsats studerar dokusåpan Expedition: Robinson som exempel på en hyperrealitet. Syftet är att förtydliga betydelsen av hyperrealitet som teoretiskt begrepp på ett svenskt sammanhang. Uppsatsen börjar därför med en introduktion av Jean Baudrillards teori om hyperrealitet och därefter en fördjupning i dokusåpagenrens historia, innan dokusåpans bemötande i pressen analyseras. Uppsatsen argumenterar för att det finns ett nära samband mellan dokusåpan som medialt fenomen och hyperrealiteten som teoretiskt begrepp, då båda är fiktioner som utger sig för att vara verkligheter: hyperrealitet är ett slags overklighet som ger intryck av förhöjd verklighet och dokusåpa är ett programkoncept som påstås visa verkligheten men egentligen konstruerar den.

    Uppsatsen undersöker hur och vad produktionen av dokusåpan betonar som ”verklighet”, dvs. vilka faktorer framhävs som verklighetstrogna. Som den första svenska, och tidigt kontroversiella, dokusåpan ligger uppsatsens fokus på Expedition: Robinson; som ett tävlingsprogram utspelad i en exotisk miljö, inspirerad av en litterär förlaga, är effekten av realism särskilt intressant i detta fall. Analysen av Expedition: Robinson koncentreras till produktionen och mediareceptionen främst av säsongerna 1 och 7, som resulterar i en diskussion kring mediebevakningens förändring och huruvida man kan uppfatta ett skifte i hyperrealitet i samband med den utvecklingen.

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  • 137.
    Andersson, Rasmus
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Metodologiska utmaningar vid jämförande studier:: En fallstudie av Aaron Stalnakers "Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine"2018Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This essay examines Aaron Stalnakers,” Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine”; with respect to how he manages to avoid misinterpretations and anachronism in the face of handling two separate traditions of thought, as is required in comparative studies.

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  • 138.
    Andersson, Samuel
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    God and the moral beings: A contextual study of Thomas Hobbes’s third book in Leviathan2007Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The question this essay sets out to answer is what role God plays in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, in the book “Of a Christian Common-wealth”, in relationship to humans as moral beings. The question is relevant as the religious aspects of Hobbes’s thinking cannot be ignored, although Hobbes most likely had rather secular and sceptical philosophical views. In order to answer the research question Leviathan’s “Of a Christian Common-wealth” will be compared and contrasted with two contextual works: the canonical theological document of the Anglican Church, the Thirty-Nine Articles (1571), and Presbyterian-Anglican document the Westminster Confession (1648). Also, recent scholarly works on Hobbes and more general reference works will be employed and discussed. Hobbes’s views provide a seemingly unsolvable paradox. On the one hand, God is either portrayed, or becomes by consequence of his sceptical and secular state thinking, a distant God in relationship to moral humans in “Of a Christian Common-wealth”. Also, the freedom humans seem to have in making their own moral decisions, whether based on natural and divine, or positive laws, appears to obscure God’s almightiness. On the other hand, when placing Hobbes in context, Hobbes appears to have espoused Calvinist views, with beliefs in predestination and that God is the cause of everything. Rather paradoxically it not unlikely that Hobbes espoused both the views that appear to obscure the role of God, and his more Calvinistic views.

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  • 139.
    Andersson Schwarz, Jonas
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Media and Communication Studies.
    Bloggen som annex till akademin: En skådeplats för kunskapande och vänskapande2015In: Universitetet som medium / [ed] Matts Lindström, Adam Wickberg Månsson, Lund: Mediehistoria, Lunds universitet , 2015, p. 109-134Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 140.
    Andersson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Bertha Wellin, Folke Henschen och gränsöverskridandets genusimplikationer2008In: Mångsysslare och gränsöverskridare: 13 uppsatser i idéhistoria, Umeå: Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier , 2008, p. 73-88Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 141.
    Andersson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Historical Studies.
    Ett högt och ädelt kall: kalltankens betydelse för sjuksköterskeyrkets formering 1850-19332002Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis describes the impact of the notion of a calling on the development of the nursing profession during the period 1850–1933. The focus of the study is on how perceptions andnotions of a calling were altered over time, and in which way this historically shaped conceptinfluenced the professionalisation of the female health care work. Some contexts of relevancefor the notion of a calling and which are emphasised in the thesis are the women’s rights movement, the expansion of the civil servants’ movement, the professionalisation and modernisationof the health care system as well as the general secularisation of society.

    The study consists of three parts. The first part constitutes a conceptual background tothe notion of a calling and here the Christian heritage of ideas is examined. The second partof the thesis describes three leading institutions of nursing education: the Ersta Institution ofdeaconesses (1851), the Red Cross education (1867), and the Sophia Home (1884). The study shows how Lutheran features influenced these educational institutions, mainly the educationof the deaconesses. The meaning of the calling differed between the deaconesses and thenurses of the Sophia Home. The deaconnesses’ notion of a calling emphasised the value ofhumbly serving fellow beings, whereas the Sophia Home attached more importance to theelevated and noble aspect of the calling.

    The third part of the thesis is the most comprehensive one. It is here analysed how the circlearound the Swedish Nursing Association (SNA), used and related to the notion of a calling during the period 1910–1933. The description is structured under four themes. The first describes how the notion of a calling expresses a particular professional ideal and an ethical attitude characterised by a Lutheran work ethics with strong altruistic features. Under the second theme, the gendered perception of the vocation is discussed. It is claimed that the nursingprofession was not unambiguously permeated by feminine gendered perceptions. Instead the nurses’ professional ideal espoused a mixture of masculine and feminine gendered metaphors.Under the third theme, it becomes clear that the nurses’ proclamation of a calling strengthened and increased the status of the profession. Under the fourth theme, the nurses’notion of a calling is related to two male professional groups, doctors and clergymen, and thepessimistic and sombre spirit of time at the turn of the century, 1900. The general secularisation of society, and the gradual modernisation of the health care sector seemed to have contributedto a need for a professional corps, marked by strong tradition, apparently considereda guarantee for a health care system that would still comprise Christian love.

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  • 142.
    Andersson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Historical Studies.
    Förgubbningen av befolkningen: diskussioner om åldrandet i svenska läkartidskrifter 1945-19502004In: Historiens mångfald: presentation av pågående forskning vid Institutionen för historiska studier, Umeå universitet / [ed] Ann-Katrin Hatje, Umeå: Umeå universitet , 2004, Vol. 1, p. 110-119Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 143.
    Andersson, Åsa
    University West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture. University West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Division of Health and Culture.
    Knife in the Heart: Suburban mythology in the new post-industrial order2010In: (Re)searching Gothenburg: Essays on a Changing City / [ed] Holgersson, Helena m. fl., Göteborg: Glänta produktion , 2010Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 144.
    Andersson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Successful ageing in modern social gerontology: a historical perspective on theories of activity and disengagement2013In: Social science in context: historical, sociological, and global perspectives / [ed] Rickard Danell, Anna Larsson & Per Wisselgren, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2013, p. 132-144Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 145.
    Andersson, Åsa
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Population Studies (CPS).
    Kalman, Hildur
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    "Kan man göra så i ditt ämne?"2010In: Undervisning på tvären: student- och lärarerfarenheter : den nionde universitetspedagogiska konferensen 25-26 februari 2009 : konferensrapport / [ed] Erik Lindenius, Umeå: Universitetspedagogiskt centrum (UPC), Umeå universitet , 2010, p. 47-58Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    I artikeln diskuteras de pedagogiska utmaningar som följer av att undervisa i tvärvetenskapliga sammanhang. Följande frågor ställs: på vilka sätt kan olika ämnesbakgrunder vara till hinder eller till hjälp i lärandesituationer?; vilka pedagogiska utmaningar ställs man inför som lärare?; vad sker med förståelsen av det egna ämnet efter möten med nya och annorlunda ämnestraditioner?; vilken roll spelar förmågan att kunna läsa texter från olika ämnen och traditioner än det egna, för att kunna uppnå en gynnsam lärandeprocess?

  • 146.
    Andréasson, Pascal
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Den vite generalen: Baptistpastorn Albert Wickmans kamp för fred2021Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis set out to analyse early baptistic peace-activities in Sweden in the 1900s, through a micro-historical analysis of Albert Wickman (1884-1942) who was a Swedish Baptist pastor and peace-agitator. In nonconformist-churches we find the earliest pacifists and Wickman started out as a theological trained Baptist, but he founded an independent organisation with ideas based on teachings by Leo Tolstoy. His Anti-war organisation was organised much like the Salvation Army and had as key-concept to gather members who claimed they would not kill another human being. Another idea was to create an army of volunteers who would be willing to put themselves between fighting nations. The organisation had many thousands member but existed only between 1912-1918 and it never practiced it go-in-between ideas. In the 1920s Wickman was involved with the oldest Swedish peace-society, “Svenska Freds och Skiljedomsföreningen”, and raised their membership from 4 000 in 1922 to 49 000 in 1930, but he also led this organisation to almost bankruptcy. This thesis gives an account of who Albert Wickman was and through him offers contexts and world-views on his pacifistic thinking in the first decades of the 1900s and how peace was promoted at the time in Sweden.

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  • 147.
    Andréasson, Pascal
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Pingströrelsen - en tyst pacifistisk folkrörelse?: Den vapenfria värnplikten 1960-1976 studerad genom frikyrkans pacifistiska tradition2020Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Since 1902 conscientious objectors in Sweden could apply for civil military services without arms, based on religious convictions. A new law in 1966 gave legal ground to apply for non-military service also based on ethical convictions. The number applicants increased much more than authorities expected. In the 1960s the political left also began involve themselves in pacifistic issues which has been quite studied before. But with the change of the new law, the number of applications with a religious (Christian) conviction also multiplied.With this background, this thesis set out to study two historical problems. First, it asks how the conscientious objectors from the nonconformist-churches were looked upon by the authorities. Secondly it enquires about the discrepancy between the pacifistic convictions found in the men doing non-army service from Pentecostal churches, versus the non-existing public support on a national level in the Pentecostal movement for their pacifism.3 (31)The study spans 1960-1976 and uses a comparison between four different narratives - the national military narrative, the individual-ethical narrative, the pacifistic-political narrative and the nonconformist-churches pacifistic narrative - as a method to explore different views. The thesis shows that the largest number of conscientious objectors came from the non-conformist churches and the Pentecostal movement. However, while the majority Pente-costals on grassroots level stayed true to an historical pacifism, the prominent leader, Lewi Pethrus, had a more nationalistic view accepting a militaristic narrative. This discrepancy was never publicly debated and while the Pentecostals exercised a strong pacifistic practice they never developed any formal doctrine for it. The thesis shows how grassroots pacifism was hindered to become a wider peace-vision in the Swedish Pentecostal movement.

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  • 148.
    Andén, Birgitta
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Frosseri som slöseri, synd, last eller hälsofara: Ideologiska skäl för styrning av mat- och dryckesvanor i stormaktstidens Sverige2017Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This study explores the ideological causes for restrictions on eating and drinking in Sweden during an approximate period from the year 1600 until 1720.Drawing on Michel Foucault´s theory of societal control in early modern Europe, a view on society is adapted, presupposing the control to be executed on grossly three levels: one national, one intermediary and one individual. The research material consists of normative texts, grouped into three sections, according to the position of their assumed receivers: in the first section are sumptuary laws, applying nationwide; in the second are texts giving instructions to heads of smaller communities on housekeeping and restraints; and in the third section are texts directed to individuals. In each group, statements of food and drink restrictions will be qualitatively analysed, with a focus on the ideological driving forces. The result of the study is of interest, since previous research exposes divergent opinions of reasons for consumption restrictions generally, and since food and drink is a category mostly neglected.

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  • 149.
    Anstey, Tim
    KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Architecture. KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Architecture, Architectural Technologies.
    The ambiguities of disegno2005In: Journal of Architecture, ISSN 1360-2365, E-ISSN 1466-4410, Vol. 10, no 3, p. 295-306Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 150.
    Arborén, Otto
    Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History of Ideas.
    Hiroshima som världstillstånd: Atombombens filosofiska implikationer enligt Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt och Karl Jaspers2023Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This paper aims to analyze the philosophical implications of the atomic bomb in the thinking of three German post-war philosophers: Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, and Karl Jaspers. Although they differ greatly in interest and philosophical perspective, the atomic bomb can be discerned as a problem of humanity's technological, ethical, and political conditions in the intersection of their authorships. In the examination of their ideas, they are situated within a diachronic tradition of philosophy of technology. Their common entanglement with phenomenological-hermeneutic philosophy is also considered, most notably in the form of the influence of Martin Heidegger.

    For Anders, the atomic bomb is the defining feature of the ethical and political conditions of post-war humanity, yet humans are unable to grasp its reality. In the thinking of Jaspers, the bomb necessitates a supra-political principle grounded in the faculty of reason. For him, politics in the nuclear age must rest upon the responsibility of the many individuals, in an ethical re-birth of humanity. Arendt primarily understands the bomb as a product of the increasing power of the thoughtless instrumentality of science. The destructive potential of atomic weapons solidifies to her a crisis in the meaning of politics, in which brute force has undermined political power.

    All three thinkers share the view that the atomic bomb must be understood in conjunction with a certain thought- and meaninglessness in the science and politics of their contemporary. The bomb also signifies to them a technological obscuring of human agency, the implications of which are exacerbated by the fact that it has also immensely improved the ability of one individual to commit heinous acts. In impairing the conditions for ethical action and meaningful politics for lasting peace, the bomb necessitates these very same principles. By threatening to make humanity as mortal as only individuals had been before, the bomb has made radical change in human thinking and activity urgent. However, to what extent sufficient adaptations are probable, or even possible, is a question in which the philosophers discussed in this paper diverge.

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