A Strange Romance : Malin Kivelä, Du eller aldrig (2006) as a Case Study of Late Modern Multilingualism in Finland-Swedish Literature

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MARX ET CO REVISITED. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ECONOMY IN RALF ANDTBACKA’S WUNDERKAMMER (2008)

The present article studies the representation of economy in Wunderkammer (2008), a collection of poetry by Finland-Swedish author Ralf Andtbacka. Going back to the historical form of cabinets of curiosities, Wunderkammer depicts acts of buying, selling, and collecting. By showing the connectivity of objects and their impact on human subjects, Andtbacka actualizes and deconstructs topics originally initiated by Karl Marx, such as value, fetish, commodifica-tion, and alienation. The portrayal of capitalism, both past and pres-ent, in the book is highly ambivalent. On the one hand, collecting functions as a critical, anticapitalistic act. On the other hand, eco-nomic discourse has invaded the text and turned the author into a writing machine powered by the energy of neoliberal labor. Besides an excess of objects, the poems display an overflow of information, a characteristic feature of a postcapitalist economy. As an exam-ple of cognitive mapping, Wunderkammer allegorically portrays humans, objects, and information in the middle of a paradoxical economic transformation

”Svalbard” and the End of Nordic Exceptionalism in Ralf Andtbacka’s Wunderkammer (2008).

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The Havoc of Good Intentions: Destructive Leadership through the Gender Lens

One important objective of the Swedish Armed Forces, which is expressed in the plan for implementing gender mainstreaming from 2015, is to increase the number of women in the organization and especially in the higher ranks. Recruiting more women to the officers’ program, while at the same time ensuring that women who have already enrolled as officers will remain in their occupation, is therefore of utmost importance. This chapter is based on a previously made qualitative study where six female cadets were interviewed regarding experiences of their time in training to become officers at the Swedish military academy, as well as how they perceive a future career in the Swedish Armed Forces. The result that emerged was analyzed as three factors: ambition, culture, and visibility. When reviewing the material from a leadership perspective, destructive leadership behaviors at strategic levels were identified as influencing the experiences of the cadets. Seen through a gender lens, destructive leadership in the Swedish Armed Forces describes a pattern where the design of equality work, which is based on good intentions, in some cases fosters leadership behaviors that have a negative impact on the room of action of women in the organization

Fagerholm goes Oprah : Minor literature, global market, and gender in literary exchange

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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality : Preface and Acknowledgments

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Nordens noder – en omfattande introduktion till platser och rum i nordisk litteratur

Thomas A. Dubois & Dan Ringgaard (eds), Steven P. Sondrup & Mark B. Sandberg (eds in chief), Nordic Literature. A Comparative History. Volume I: Spatial Nodes. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2017, 747 s

99%? En kvantitativ studie av litteratur publicerad på svenska i Finland året 1916

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