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Books by Anna Sofia Lundgren

Makt, moral, motstånd. Engagemang för norrländska landsbygder., 2020

Jordbruksverkets Instagramkonto "Min landsbygd" uppmanar följarna att tagga sina bilder #minlands... more Jordbruksverkets Instagramkonto "Min landsbygd" uppmanar följarna att tagga sina bilder #minlandsbygd för att få dem delade av Jordbruksverket. med foton av öppna landskap, djur, äldre hus och grödor. Sammantaget bidrar de till den genre bland landsbygdsrepresentationer som handlar om att visa landsbygder som idylliska (Short 1991;. Dessa gestaltningar kan förstås både som delar av ett konsumistiskt narrativ där landsbygder säljs in som varor att konsumera (och som används bland annat i turistbroschyrer, se t.ex. Baylina & Berg 2010). Men de utgör också ett svar på en underprivilegierad positionering, som ett försvar eller en moteld. Dessutom ger de uttryck för en glädje att bo mitt i allt det vackra. Landsbygdsliv framställs som privilegierat -jämfört med ett mer urbant liv. som handlar om att synliggöra landsbygder på ett eller annat vis. En del tillhör myndigheter, organisationer, ideella föreningar eller nätverk som använder plattformar som Facebook och Instagram för sin verksamhet. Andra är startade av privatpersoner som har intresse av att samla människor med likartade intressen. Oavsett vilket så bidrar grupperna/kontona till Flera agerar i uttalad opposition mot vad de ser som negativa stereotyper av landsbygder. Sådana negativt laddade föreställningar omfattar ofta effekterna av neddragningar i service och av en minskande och åldrande befolkning, såsom de typiskt illustreras av obebodda hus och ensamma äldre människor och som delvis bidrar till en diskurs om landsbygden som sakta

Papers by Anna Sofia Lundgren

... Lundgren, Anna Sofia (Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studi... more ... Lundgren, Anna Sofia (Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies). Title: Representing what?: Aspects of the teacher role in light of heteronormativity. Department: Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. ...

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This article is about elderly Sami women who are front figures in the ethno-political mobilisatio... more This article is about elderly Sami women who are front figures in the ethno-political mobilisation movement, acting from artistic platforms or in traditional political arenas. The Sami culture has been described as male-dominated and Sami women as dually oppressed, belonging to a minority people while also being women, but there are many Sami women, especially the elderly, who in recent decades have emerged as prominent figures in the fight for the survival of Sami culture. How do these prominent figures describe their own position and status? What strategies do they use, as elderly Sami women, to enter the Sami and non-Sami public spheres? How do they tell their story, what is it that motivates them, what obstacles have they faced and what has helped them? This chapter conducts an intersectional analysis on an individual level of the strategic approaches of three women. I have looked at the way these strategies emerge in the women’s life stories. Depending on special circumstances,...

Space and Polity, 2021

How do politicians make sense of situations in which they may find themselves caught up in betwee... more How do politicians make sense of situations in which they may find themselves caught up in between opposing loyalties, for example, party loyalty on the one hand and loyalty to neighbours and friends or ideological convictions on the other? Based on interviews about a rural occupation in protest of a political decision in a small community in Northern Sweden, this paper explores the approaches of local politicians to the protest and to the people involved in it. The results show how discourses of geographic space and party-political loyalty structured the negotiated responsibility for the situation, affected the politicians’ descriptions of the occupation as such, and made support for the protest become more or less difficult.

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In this article, we explore what the understanding of ‘choice’ does in a research project with th... more In this article, we explore what the understanding of ‘choice’ does in a research project with the overall aim of deepening the knowledge of fertility patterns. The expression ’reproductive choices’ was central to the research project, and the authors were likely, in the first instance, to have taken for granted the discourse on choice as a way to think and talk about reproductive practice. Contextualising and understanding the interviewed women’s choices were important impetuses for the interviews, but we soon found ourselves struggling with some of the underlying assumptions of the project. Interviewees oscillated between an overall unwillingness to talk about marriage and childbearing in terms of choices, and the simultaneous presence of narrated as well as narrating agency. The narratives were primarily organised around two discourses, one discourse on ‘choice’ and one discourse on ‘contentment’. The analysis also engages in methodological reflections, thus including the often s...

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... reference ». Author: Lundgren, Anna Sofia (Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of cu... more ... reference ». Author: Lundgren, Anna Sofia (Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies). Title: ”Erfarenhet och nostalgi – försåtliga berättarstrategier”. Department: Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. ...

Journal of Digital Social Research

The use of healthcare apps for medical advice is becoming increasingly common. This paper explore... more The use of healthcare apps for medical advice is becoming increasingly common. This paper explores apps that offer interaction with medical experts. Working from the supposition that digital technologies are intimately entangled in their cultural context, we argue that the apps do more than just neutrally mediate contacts and offer medical and psychological advice. The article addresses the cultural dimensions of healthcare apps and answers questions about the ways in which such apps contribute to forming changing notions of what “healthcare” and being a “patient” entail. Three popular Swedish apps and their marketing material is studied using a discursive interface analysis of the apps’ affordances. The results show that the apps significantly contribute to producing a marketable narrative about app health care that includes accessibility, security/safety and personalisation, and which is partly produced as an alternative to what is offered by Swedish public health care. The result...

Frontiers in Public Health

Introduction: The Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) in the Region Västerbotten Sweden is ... more Introduction: The Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) in the Region Västerbotten Sweden is one of the very few cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programmes globally that is integrated into routine primary health care. The VIP has been shown as a cost-effective intervention to significantly reduce CVD mortality. However, little is known about the effectiveness of a digital solution to tailor risk communication strategies for supporting behavioral change. STAR-C aims to develop and evaluate a technical platform for personalized digital coaching that will support behavioral change aimed at preventing CVD.Methods: STAR-C employs a mixed-methods design in seven multidisciplinary projects, which runs in two phases during 2019–2024: (i) a formative intervention design and development phase, and (ii) an intervention implementation and evaluation phase. In the 1st phase, STAR-C will model the trajectories of health behaviors and their impact on CVDs (Project 1), evaluate the role...

Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality

In this chapter, we examine the work of the Sámi artist Anders Sunna and the Egyptian artist Bahi... more In this chapter, we examine the work of the Sámi artist Anders Sunna and the Egyptian artist Bahia Shebab in order to address strategies of artistic criticism of the relations between states and their citizens. Both artists are protesting against contemporary processes relating to space, state and nation, and they express themselves in ways that are embedded in the aesthetics of unsanctioned street art. This expression constitutes an interesting form of politics, situated somewhere in-between, or alongside, party politics and the practices of civil society. Our aim is to describe and discuss what we see as specifically effective and dynamic themes in the chosen artwork—the use of space as object and methodology, and the production of iconic imageries within fantasies of protest. The stencils and spray paintings of Shehab and Sunna offer us keys to exploring efforts to artistically reveal and dismantle national and neocolonial power.

The Journal of Men’s Studies, Mar 24, 2020

This article analyses the coverage of the #MeToo movement in Swedish news media. The aim of the s... more This article analyses the coverage of the #MeToo movement in Swedish news media. The aim of the study was to explore how men and masculinity were represented. The results showed that masculinity was associated with violence, harassment, and a culture of abuse, as well as with progressive ideas of a "new man" that is both strong and gentle at the same time. The article discusses how the represented masculinities might be problematic in relation to the #MeToo movement's ambition to reform a sexist society because of the stereotypical and gender-dualistic tendencies that permeate the material and the tendencies to individualize the represented assaults and perpetrators.

MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, Nov 2, 2017

In spite of the fact that we are living in a digital era the position of traditional news media a... more In spite of the fact that we are living in a digital era the position of traditional news media as the fi rst chosen source of information has not been altered. Th is is especially true when it comes to older persons. What are the reasons for this persistency? Th is article gives an account of how older persons refl ect on whether and why they believe in, and trust, news press reporting and their reasons for acquiring news from traditional news media. Using a discourse theoretical logics approach we found that whether or not the informants believed in and trusted the news they all referred to an overarching fantasy stating that it is a right and an obligation of an ideal citizen to update oneself of the surrounding world via the news media. We also found social habits to be crucial for the informants' practice of obtaining information from the news media.

Makt, moral, motstånd. Engagemang för norrländska landsbygder., 2020

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Space and Polity, 2021

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Journal of Digital Social Research

Frontiers in Public Health

Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality

The Journal of Men’s Studies, Mar 24, 2020

MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, Nov 2, 2017

Journal of Occupational Science

Background: The concept of occupation has been widely discussed and developed theoretically in oc... more Background: The concept of occupation has been widely discussed and developed theoretically in occupational science and occupational therapy. Objectives: To explore how older community living adults themselves describe and negotiate the meaning and definition of "occupation". Methods: Twenty-seven persons in northern Sweden (67-95 years old) participated in workshops with audio-recorded discussions. The transcribed discussions were analyzed using discourse theory. Findings: Discussions started with efforts to establish a initial definition of occupation focusing on what kinds of practices could be seen as occupations. Second, there were significant efforts to value and grade different occupations, described as evaluative definitions. Last, participants resonated around the disadvantages of stable definitions of occupations, and put forth reflexive arguments for more relativizing definitions. Conclusion: While physical occupations were tellable, social and mental occupations seemed to require a language that was less familiar. Therefore, interventions that suggest participants to engage in social or mental occupations need to provide a language that makes non-physical occupations comprehensible as occupations.