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Denne artikel inviterer ind i et materialitetsunivers og er samtidig et indblik i og udtryk for en forskers forsøg på at udfordre sit forsker- og analyseblik i tilknytning til et LegeKunst-projekt. Projektet udspiller sig på legepladsen i en børnehave, hvor børn mellem tre-seks år og deres pædagoger møder fire jazzmusikere og deres instrumenter i en periode fra start august til og med september 2020. Afsættet og intentionen med projektet er at lege sammen – både med udgangspunkt i jazzmusikernes instrumenter og musik, men i høj grad også ud fra børnenes optagetheder og spontanitet. Artiklens empiriske objekt er videooptagelser og øjebliksfotos fra samme, og i genbesøget af disse trængte materialiteten sig på – både visuelt i form af legepladsens skovle og skraldespande og auditivt i form af den musik eller lyde, som musikere og børn frembragte. Ved at tvinge blikket væk fra mennesker som centrum og privilegeret position for analysen og i stedet rette sig mod, hvad materialiteten gør, fremanalyserer jeg, hvordan lyd, musik, legepladsens remedier g musikinstrumenter går i samklang, vibrationer og intra-aktion med børn, pædagoger og musikere og således influerer på samspillet, og det der udfolder sig af leg. Artiklens teoretiske objekt er teorier og tilgange til materialitet som aktør og selvstændig medspiller, der påvirker og etablerer vibrationer og går i samklang med deltagerne (Pacini-Ketchabaw, Kind og Kocher, 2017; Gershon 2013; Rosa, 2021). Gennem analyser af udvalgte videosekvenser, hvor materialitetens kraft er omdrejningspunkt (Bennet, 2021), vises hvordan materialitet som aktør indvirker på og taler tilbage til deltagerne og således får betydning for resonans og den leg, der opstår. Artiklen bidrager til indsigt i betydningen af forskningstilgang og afsæt og desuden i leg i levet børneliv i institutionaliserede kontekster. Her er børn og barndom spændt ud i et net af materialitet, sted og relationer, der både er og skabes/gøres. En central pointe er, at musikere, børn og materialitet skaber en fælles form for børnekultur – en børnekultur in the making. Dermed aktualiserer artiklen betydningen af at inddrage materialitet ikke blot som en analysekategori i forskningsøjemed, men som en central igangsætter og medspiller i pædagogiske praksisser både i og udenfor LegeKunst-regi.

This article focuses attention on how children in a Danish prep class do, unfold, and expand play and peer culture as an aesthetic practice. Play is always framed, and play in school settings attaches to the school's structure and schedule and to rules made by adults. The present study focuses on play scenes taking place outside and inside between 8:00 am and noon. The article analyses and exposes the intentions from the children's perspectives and the different strategies and intentions behind doing and protecting play. The study draws on notions of play from cultural and aesthetic perspectives and how children do culture aesthetically through play. The study is part of a larger collaborative work undertaken in one school and involving three researchers. As a result of Covid-19 restrictions, the research design implies focused ethnography with short, intensified fieldwork and creating fieldnotes, video recordings, photos, drawings, and interviews. In addition, reflective workshops with the teachers involved were developed.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of public libraries as institutions underpinning a democratic public sphere as reasons legitimizing libraries compared to reasons that are more traditional and the actual use of libraries as public sphere arenas. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of representative samples of the adult population in six countries – Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Hungary and Switzerland – was undertaken. Findings – Legitimations related to the libraries role as a meeting place and arena for public debate are ranked as the 3 least important out of 12 possible legitimations for upholding a public library service. Libraries are, however, used extensively by the users to access citizenship information and to participate in public sphere relevant meetings. Originality/value – Few studies have empirically analyzed the role of libraries in upholding a democratic and sustainable public sphere. This study contributes in filling that gap.

AbstractThis case study of the 1773 and 1774 election contests in the city of Worcester investigates how members of the local oligarchy, and the political opposition to that oligarchy, drew on contemporary discourses on citizenship to convince the electorate that their candidate would become a worthy representative of their city in parliament, and to refute the claims of their opponents. Since independence was absolutely essential to the voters' identities as male householder citizens, this became the main issue of conflict. The candidate of the opposition interest, Sir Watkin Lewes, sought to establish himself as the guardian of the independence of the citizens of Worcester against the corrupt corporation. The candidates of the corporation, Thomas Bates Rous and his successor, Colonel Nicholas Lechmere, instead claimed that Lewes was the real threat, as his anti‐corruption campaign deprived the voters of the usual fruits of the election. While such claims also entailed an appeal by the local elite to the financial interest of the voters, the need to justify this incentive ideologically, and the high portion of voters who turned their backs on their patrons, does suggest the power embedded in the concept of citizenship in the political life at the level of the localities. Gendered and classed conceptions of citizenship, furthermore, were employed as offensive weapons in the political propaganda surrounding the elections, as each faction sought to discredit the other by claiming that they were neither manly enough, nor of the proper social status, to qualify as worthy political subjects. Thus, citizenship was not only fundamentally gendered in the masculine, but also highly hierarchical and equally intertwined with contemporary notions of class.

The purpose of this article is to study how Sweden's political parties handled the process of constitutional review from 2004-2008. In particular the analysis examines how parties choose between their office-seeking, policy-seeking and vote-seeking goals and the desire to maintain ultra party agreement. Three expectations are identified: (a) parties' different strategic situations lead them to advocate different long-term goals; (b) different parts' levels will take different stands in order to increase their influence vis-a-vis other levels: (c) party leaderships will try to increase their freedom to negotiate with others by avoiding extensive intra party debates or decisions. The study is based on 30 interviews with representatives closely involved in the constitutional-reform process. The conclusion is that parties have self-interested goals as regards the question of how the political game should be regulated. The conflict between different intra-party levels is also obvious. However, due to party members' disinterest in the constitutional review, party leaders did not need to adopt a variety of strategies to avoid a large scale intra-part debate, It was enough for them to claim that the resulting compromise was actually something of a victory' for each party. Adapted from the source document.

ABSTRACTThe literature on the business case for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has identified possible mechanisms for CSR to increase profits. Other parts of the CSR literature argue that any strategy yielding above‐average profits will be imitated by competitors and profits driven down to industry average; consequently, CSR may only be a strategy for achieving average profits. The empirical research on the relationship between CSR and profits, consisting mostly of quantitative studies, has thus far proved inconclusive and many studies are challenged on methodological grounds. This paper presents the results of interviews with senior executives of 15 of the largest textile companies on the Norwegian market. The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between CSR and profits while avoiding the most important methodological pitfalls of the quantitative research and acknowledging the distinction between CSR as a strategy for achieving average profits and as a strategy for achieving above‐average profits. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

The object of this article is to explore the political processes behind the regionalisation of film production in Sweden since the early 1990s and forward. What can explain the transfer of power from central government and film production companies to regionally based institutions? My thesis is that institutions matter. Institutions are seen as an intermediate level between state structures and rational choice/actor explanations. Institutions are equivalent to formal rules, compliance procedures and standard operation practices that structure the relationship between individuals in various units of the polity and economy. The redefinition of film production from national art policy to regional and local policy for development and economic growth is crucial. This redefinition also has to be seen in the light of the general trend towards regionalisation both in Sweden and internationally.