Images of formal home care in Finnish newspapers – a social representations approach

Media representations play an essential role in how older adults are perceived in society. The aim of the study is to examine what kind of understanding newspaper images construct of home care and older adults as care recipients by utilizing social representations theory. The data consist of 95 images published in Finnish newspapers in 2022 and 2023. The images were analysed using visual rhetorical analysis. The media images constructed four social representations of formal home care: (1) vulnerable older adults as objects of care, (2) efficient care workers in a hurry, (3) lonely older adults at home, and (4) vital and content older adults. The images represented care workers as active agents, while the older adults were mainly presented as passive and lonely objects of care. The study shows that the images used in newspapers as depictions of home care reinforce the prevailing perceptions of older adults as a burden

Water plus what? On the politics of addition in the good economy of climate adaptation

In this article, I trace the transformation of climate adaptation in Denmark into a good economy. Empirically, I explore a shift in rainwater management from building sewers underground to making cheaper solutions on the surface. Moreover, these solutions are expected not only to handle rainwater but also to “add value,” particularly recreational value. I call this approach the politics of addition, emphasizing that it entails a specific set of principles for doing good while adapting to climate change. Theoretically, I relate this politics of addition to the concept of the good economy. By drawing on the orders of worth perspective, I emphasize how good economies are compromises between multiple versions of the good and that these compromises need to be stabilized through so-called composite objects. Relying mainly on document material supplemented by interviews, I identify several composite objects in climate adaptation, including tools of valuation as well as specific projects. By analyzing these composite objects, I describe how the politics of addition compromises several versions of the good in climate adaptation, eventually promising that adding value will ease “the battle for space” in cities by composing economic, technical, and recreational value into the same facilities

Att utveckla arbetet med lek på fritidshem - Erfarenheter från ett aktionsforskningsprojekt

Lek är något som är centralt för fritidshemmets verksamhet och som har en stark tradition men som ibland tas för given och därför blir oreflekterad. Genom att arbeta aktivt med lek så har vi tillsammans varit tvungna att ifrågasätta våra förgivettaganden om lek och därmed kunnat utveckla arbetet med lek. I denna artikel beskrivs erfarenheterna från ett aktionsforskningsprojekt i vilket fritidspedagoger/lärare i fritidshem på Grebyskolan och forskare från Linköpings universitet tillsammans har arbetat med att utveckla lek i fritidshem

ULF som motor för attutveckla fritidshemslärares profession och arbete

För en underbeforskad utbildningspraktik som fritidshem kan praktiknära forskning bidra till att stärka yrkesrollen, leda till kvalitetshöjningar och generera betydelsefulla forskningsresultat. I denna artikel vill vi lyfta fram hur viktigt ett ULF-projekt kan vara men också diskutera hur de specifika förutsättningar som råder i fritidshem, exempelvis avseende en mångskiftande personalgrupp, kan ha för konsekvenser för forskningsprocessen

Didier Eribon (2009) (2024): Tillbaka till Reims, och, En arbetarkvinnas liv, ålderdom och död, Verbal förlag,

Är ursprunget i arbetarmisär en större skam än homosexualitet, frågar sig den franske sociologen och queerteoretikern Didier Eribon i boken ”Tillbaka till Reims” (2009) när han återvänder till hemorten efter trettio år i exil. Som ung studerade Eribon (född 1953) vid Sorbonne. Gaykretsarna var klassöverskridande. Fabriksarbetarsonen blir nära vän med den kände filosofen Michel Foucault som han också skriver en betydande biografi om

Temporal Layering: How past, future and present intersect in the valuation of pharmaceutical innovation

We investigate how temporality matters in processes of valuation. Taking our empirical point of departure in the case of a novel gene therapy that has been the centre of a heated pricing debate, we explore how the ‘goodness’ of such a pharmaceutical good was negotiated by researchers, patients, pharmaceutical companies and regulators, and how these negotiations were shaped by the mobilisation of past experiences and future expectations. Seeking to advance the beginning of an analytical sensitivity to temporality in valuation studies, we develop the notion of ‘temporal layering’. We argue that moments of valuation consist of multiple ‘temporal layers’ where select past experiences and future expectations are rendered visible – or left obscure – depending on how these layers are drawn upon in valuation struggles and by whom. Thus, what is at stake in determining the ‘good’ in particular moments of valuation is not just a contest over certain qualities or ways to evaluate an object, but also over which (particular layers of) pasts and futures come to count. We suggest that such fine-grained temporal analysis can provide new openings to questions of valuation for a wide-ranging array of economic objects, particularly for those situated in contemporary bioeconomies

Making Mining Good: Tracing the semiotics of justification in mineral exploration and mining

What does it mean for a business or industry to be and do good? And who can count themselves within the good economy? This article investigates the justification of goodness in mineral exploration and mining and uses the entwinement between value creation and destruction characteristic of mining to trouble notions of goodness in impactful industries. Based on analyses of indepth interviews, ethnographic fieldnotes, and archival materials, the article follows the ways in which mining industry actors seek to negotiate contradictions between creation and destruction; and does so while using an innovative conceptual framework based in Peircean semiotics to open up justification for analysis of the underlying semiotic machinery that actors rely on to signify goodness. Mobilizing this conceptual toolkit, the article investigates how miners and explorers emphasize certain values, or signs, over others and how values are used to assert that some mines and miners do more good than others

Att hålla lärobubblan hel

Denna text beskriver ett ULF-projekt som handlar om att freda lektionerna. Att elever ska ha tillgång till sin lärare vid undervisningstillfällen borde vara självklart. En tillgänglig lärare ska ha fokus på sina elever och vara koncentrerad på lektionsinnehållet. Det här utvecklingsprojektet tog dock sin utgångspunkt i det motsatta, det vill säga att eleverna upplevde att det fanns många avbrott vilket påverkade undervisningen och deras tillgång till sin lärare.&nbsp

Past, present, and future in the context of queer ageing: a qualitative study with same-sex couples in Scotland

This paper explores imagined futures of same-sex couples in Scotland through the intersection of their age and queer identities, focusing on the concepts of queer time and chrononormativity. The paper draws on qualitative interview data gathered through two joint semi-structured interviews with seven same-sex couples, and written accounts that the couples produced between the interviews. The paper demonstrates how these couples belong to the future and use their actions and knowledge to construct it. The paper contributes to ageing and future studies by exploring the queer ageing experience and the intersectionality of sexual­ity and age in the construction and imagination of the future. By explor­ing the social, cultural, and personal experiences of aging among queer adults, the findings of this paper contribute to the international discourse on aging and sexuality