Butchering of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus L.): A Case Study from the Late Mesolithic Settlement of Tybrind Vig, Denmark

Butchering of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus L.) - A Case Study from the Late Mesolithic Settlement of Tybrind Vig, Denmar

Familie-arbejdslivspolitikker fra et ligestillingsperspektiv - det "glemte" sociale ansvar i danske CSR-initiativer

Work-life balance policies from a gender equality perspective – the forgotten corpo- rate social responsibility in Danish CSR policy. CSR has increasingly attracted national governments and social partners’ attention worldwide. Denmark is no exception. The Danish initiatives have mainly focused on employment related issues rather than gender equality and work-life balance issues. In fact, gender equality is rarely a topic discussed in the Danish CSR policies. This paper argues that social partners have through collective agreements voluntary taken on a social responsibility to ease employees’ work/life balance and thereby promote gender equality. However, these policies mainly address the problems faced by working mothers, less so fathers and rarely careers other than parents are therefore expected to combine work and care-giving with limited if no support from their workplace

Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities

Has the Corona crisis triggered changes to Nordic social protection? We address this question by examining how Denmark, Finland, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden reacted to the crisis, which in many ways resembles a Litmus-test for Nordic social protection. Analytically, we draw on historical institutionalism, welfare, and segmentation literature. We find that although the Nordic relief packages aim to create an encompassing safety net, the reforms expose and sometimes reinforce institutionally embedded cracks in the Nordic systems around the nexus of standard and non-standard work, leading to potential layers of institutionally embedded inequalities. The Nordic countries have expanded and adjusted their existing social protection, portraying strong elements of path dependency, but with examples of novel initiatives. Their mix of universal and targeted measures appears to reflect so-called ‘expanded universalism’, where targeted measures supplement the ‘ordinary’ Nordic social protection to cover the most crisis ridden, but not necessarily the poorest, groups

Beyond the insider/outsider debate in ‘at-home’ ethnographies:Diffractive methodology and the onto-epistemic entanglement of knowledge production

In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one’s own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing field work in a hospital and in one’s own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an 'insider' researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical infrastructure and how the acute and scheduled/planned patient trajectories differentiate but build on the same logic, creating the same dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. Through a situated and sociomaterial perspective, we analyze different clinical interactions in which we follow the hospital bed as an example of a central relational element that cocreates sleep as an institutional phenomenon. Inspired by Karen Barad, we demonstrate how to move diffractively when doing and analyzing fieldwork and argue how moving diffractively as a researcher doing field work ‘at home’ is productive and challenges the concept and demand of ‘distance’ as the phenomenological exercise in fieldwork.In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one's own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing fieldwork in a hospital and in one's own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an “insider” researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical infrastructure and how acute and elective patient trajectories differ but build on the same logic, creating the same dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. Through a situated and sociomaterial perspective, we analyze different clinical interactions in which we follow the hospital bed as an example of a central relational element that co‐creates sleep as an institutional phenomenon. Inspired by Karen Barad, we demonstrate how to move diffractively when doing and analyzing fieldwork and argue how moving diffractively as a researcher doing fieldwork “at home” is productive and challenges the conceptand demand of “distance” as the phenomenological exercise in fieldwor

Sleep as homework and engagement in rehabilitation

In today’s push for shorter and quicker hospitalisations, everyday life often becomes a place of rehabilitation for people after they undergo surgical procedures. In order for hospitals to manage shortened periods of admission and to facilitate post-operative rehabilitation, a patient‘s active engagement has become a central element to clinical treatment and care in Denmark. For example, in the recovery from orthopedic surgery, sleep becomes a type of "homework" assignment that is a vital element of the patient‘s rehabilitation trajectory. Building on the theoretical concept of ‘engagement’ developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2005), we examine the patient‘s relation to sleep as part of recovery; we refer to this as ‘sleep engagement.’ In particular, we analyze sleep as part of an institutional pedagogy in rehabilitation, and we ask how this pedagogy mobilizes rehabilitation for older patients after they have been admitted to the hospital for an orthopedic surgical procedure. Using ethnographic material, our analysis leads to a discussion of institutional expectations for what it means to be engaged in one's own patient trajectory. The article presents three results: 1) Expectations of sleep as an institutionally defined homework assignment are fulfilled through the establishment of the ‘rehabilitable and non rehabilitable body’; 2) As an active attempt to mobilize resources in rehabilitation, patient sleep engagement becomes part of a historical and contextual nexus; and 3) Institutional sleep potential creates new points of ambivalence—on the one hand, sleep is an optimization-promoting requirement in order to exercise while, on the other hand, the midday nap reflects an outdated view of old age that opposes an active lifestyle perspective

A New Mode of European Regulation? The Implementation of the Autonomous Framework Agreement on Telework in Five Countries

This article examines the implementation of the first autonomous framework agreement signed by European social partners in a number of member states. Although the telework agreement states that it is to be implemented in accordance with national procedures and practices specific to management and labour, practice is often different. The approach adopted reflects the specific policy character of the telework agreement and the ongoing power struggle between unions, employers and the state

Sleep as active participation: An analysis of sleep in an orthopedic surgical department from a sociomaterial perspective

Sleep in a clinical perspective is the cause of (renewed) attention. In orthopedic surgery, this attention is focused on sleep as a means of recovery. However, sleep is also an everyday life practice that is performed in a relation between body, spatial and temporal structure. A relation that is particularly intensified for older people and people with disabilities. Through a socio-material perspective on becoming, the article unfolds and discusses how sleep as phenomenon are enacted - and as practice are constituted in the institution as an relation between sleep as an everyday life and a medical practice for the older orthopedic patient. The analysis indicates that sleep is created through a medical and organizational participation perspective, as a social performance during hospitalization.Søvn i et klinisk perspektiv får (igen) opmærksomhed. I det ortopædkirurgiske indlæggelsesforløb er opmærksomheden rettet mod søvn, som et middel i recovery, men søvn er også en hverdagslivspraksis, som udføres i en relation mellem krop, rumlig og tidslig struktur. En relation, som er særligt intensiveret for ældre mennesker og mennesker med funktionsnedsættelse. Gennem et sociomaterielt perspektiv på tilblivelse udfolder og diskuterer artiklen, hvordan søvn som fænomen bliver til, og som praksis får mulighed for at være i den institutionelle sammenhæng mellem søvn som en hverdagslivs- og en medicinsk praksis for den ældre ortopædkirurgiske patient. Analysen peger på, at søvn bliver til gennem et medicinsk og organisatorisk deltagelsesperspektiv, som en social performance under indlæggelse

Precarious Work in the Nordics: Introduction to The Theme of The Special Issue

In recent years, we have seen a growing body of literature with a strong focus on labour market inequalities. In the Anglo-Saxon literature, concepts such as the working poor and bad jobs have been applied to jobs in, for example, the US to describe jobs with low pay and inferior working conditions (Kalleberg 2011; Klein & Rones 1989). In the UK and other parts of Europe, the concept of the precariat is often used to capture the employment situations characterized by fragmented and insecure employment and low income (Standing 2011). Also in Germany, the discussion on labour market inequalities has been revitalised. The emergence of mini jobs and various forms of bogus self-employment (Scheinselbständige), etc. have gained momentum in the political and academic debates as part of a larger trend of labour market dualization in line with some of the early works on labour market segmentation (Brady & Biegert 2017) (...