Poppionjärer & propagandaprojekt : En kritisk diskursanalys av det svenska musikundrets framställning i kulturjournalistiken

Sedan 1990-talet har uttrycket ”det svenska musikundret” använts för att beskriva Sverige som en stor musikexportör i världen. Detta begrepp är dock mångfacetterat och inte helt oproblematiskt. I denna uppsats har jag genom en kritisk diskursanalys studerat hur det svenska musikundret framställs inom kulturjournalistiken. Mitt syfte har varit att ta reda på vilka diskurser av det svenska musikundret som dominerar i medieframställningen, hur dikotomin kultur och ekonomi synliggörs i framställningen av dessa diskurser samt vilken roll journalisten har i reproducerandet. Uppsatsen har Bourdieus teorier om kapital och fält som grund, vilka är essentiella för förstå de regler som förekommer inom populärmusikens produktionsfält. Vidare har jag utgått från kritisk teori, forskning kring kulturjournalistik samt relationen mellan ekonomi och kultur. I min analys har jag kommit fram till fyra dominerande diskurser – den postmoderna, den marknadsliberala, den kollektivistiska och den anti- nationalistiska diskursen. Utifrån dessa diskurser har jag kommit fram till några olika sätt som dikotomin kultur och ekonomi synliggörs på. Det har skett en de-differentiering och placeringen på produktionsfältet kan idag tillåtas vara närmare den kommersiella polen. Musikundret är en del av ”varumärket Sverige”, där Sverige som musikland lyfts fram, och fungerar som en populärmusikalisk kanon eftersom uttrycket pekar på någon slag enhet. Journalisterna är representanter i ett åsiktsmaskineri som handlar om det svenska musik- undret, vilka till stor del består av vita män. De bidrar till formandet och reproducerandet av synen på det svenska musikundret som baseras på subjektiva åsikter. Synen på populärmusik verkar från journalisthåll ha förändrats mot en större öppenhet även för mer kommersiella akter inom musikundret. Det visar på att journalisternas texter präglas av den samhälleliga kontexten, samtidigt som deras texter är med och formar samhällskontexten. 

Moskéer i Sverige : En religionsetnologisk studie av intolerans och administrativ vanmakt

Författarens nuvarande namn: Pia Karlsson Minganti.

The Social City : Middle-way approaches to housing and sub-urban golvernmentality in southern Stockholm, 1900-1945

This dissertation deals with the period bridging the era of extreme housing shortages in Stockholm on the eve of industrialisation and the much admired programmes of housing provision that followed after the second world war, when Stockholm district Vällingby became an example for underground railway-serviced ”new towns”. It is argued that important changes were made in the housing and town planning policy in Stockholm in this period that paved the way for the successful ensuing period. Foremost among these changes was the uniquely developed practice of municipal leaseholding with the help of site leasehold rights (Erbbaurecht). The study is informed by recent developments in Foucauldian social research, which go under the heading ’governmentality’. Developments within urban planning are understood as different solutions to the problem of urban order. To a large extent, urban and housing policies changed during the period from direct interventions into the lives of inhabitants connected to a liberal understanding of housing provision, to the building of a disciplinary city, and the conduct of ’governmental’ power, building on increased activity on behalf of the local state to provide housing and the integration and co-operation of large collectives. Municipal leaseholding was a fundamental means for the implementation of this policy. When the new policies were introduced, they were limited to the outer parts of the city and administered by special administrative bodies. This administrative and spatial separation was largely upheld throughout the period, and represented as the parallel building of a ’social’ outer city, while things in the inner ’mercantile’ city proceeded more or less as before. This separation was founded in a radical difference in land holding policy: while sites in the inner city were privatised and sold at market values, land in the outer city was mostly leasehold land, distributed according to administrative – and thus politically decided – priorities. These differences were also understood and acknowledged by the inhabitants. Thorough studies of the local press and the organisational life of the southern parts of the outer city reveals that the local identity was tightly connected with the representations connected to the different land holding systems. Inhabitants in the south-western parts of the city, which in this period was still largely built on private sites, displayed a spatial understanding built on the contradictions between centre and periphery. The inhabitants living on leaseholding sites, however, showed a clear understanding of their position as members of model communities, tightly connected to the policy of the municipal administration. The organisations on leaseholding sites also displayed a deep co-operation with the administration. As the analyses of election results show, the inhabitants also seemed to have felt a greater degree of integration with the society at large, than people living in other parts of the city. The leaseholding system in Stockholm has persisted until today and has been one of the strongest in the world, although the local neo-liberal politicians are currently disposing it off.