The ambivalence of losing weight after bariatric surgery

This study is grounded in a phenomenological lifeworld perspective. It aims at providing rich descriptions of lived experience of the process of losing weight after obesity surgery. Two women participated in in-depth interviews four times each during the first postoperative year. Based on the women's experiences, a meaning structure—the ambivalence of losing weight after obesity surgery—was identified across the women's processes of change. This consisted of five core themes: movement and activity—freedom but new demands and old restraints; eating habits and digestion—the complexity of change; appearance—smaller, but looser; social relations—stability and change; and being oneself—vulnerability and self-assurance. These core themes changed over time in terms of dominance. The experience of ambivalence is discussed according to a phenomenological perspective of the body as lived experience

Critic, negotiator and gatekeeper. : An analasis of the role and influence of the curator within the contemporary art field

The study examines the role of the art-curator with the focus on how it have influencedand may influence the art-scene and the concept of art. The study is based onmaterial extracted from texts involving the art-debates around the role of the curator,published in media and in literature. The study looks at the subject throughthe perspective of authorship and risk-theories in social sciences, and with a crossdisciplinarypoint of view, which takes into consideration how the debate regardingthe art-curator relates to the contemporary media landscape and the overall field ofcultural production. The study shows examples on how the role of the curator havebeen and currently is debated and defined. Through examples it shows that thecurators role have been compared to other characters within and without the fieldof cultural production. The comparisons include, among other things, the role ofthe critic and the music-DJ, but also the role of the guard-keeper and the diplomat.The most problematic comparison is where it is compared to the contemporary conceptualartist. The study shows that the role of the curator is becoming graduallycloser to the role of other producers in the cultural and medial field. This alsomeans that art is increasingly considered to be a cultural and medial product, incontrast to the classical romantic perception of art