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Living Lament: Explorations in Shifting Ideologies
Viliina Silvonen & Eila Stepanova (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.21435/sff.26
This edited volume opens new approaches to lament research by analysing the intersections between ideologies and lament traditions, providing advancements in methodologies and the knowledge of domains that emerge at this intersection.
In this book, laments are mainly discussed as a form of verbal art that conveys strong emotions, while ideology is regarded as broad and flexible, including not only formal systems but also more informal, unconscious models of thinking that shape people’s approaches, interpretations, discussions, and practices of laments.
The book offers a multidisciplinary, multicultural view on laments, drawing from folklore studies, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, and religious studies, covering regions from Northern Europe to indigenous cultures in Venezuela.
Charles L. Briggs discusses laments as an example of incommunicability. Frog clarifies the historical Scandinavian lament tradition. Madis Arukask, Aušra Žičkienė, Viliina Silvonen, and Larissa Mulder analyse the changing tradition and the new meanings of laments. Hannah Kaarina Yoken and Arja Turunen focus on laments as a tool in feminist protest.
The book shows how ideologies may valorise, elevate, subjugate, or erase laments, and that ideologies form the lens that exoticises or stigmatises laments, or that surrounds them with romantic nostalgia.
Ontologies of titles. Office-person relationships and social taxonomies in 13th-century Norway and Iceland
Simon van Rekum
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004755659
More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. Ontologies of Titles questions modern assumptions that guide how historians frame social titles; it shows that Norse titles often were indifferent to boundaries between individual and common, person and office.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book explores how titles were shaped by political practice, textual production, and the conflicting aprioris governing the categorization of beings. It demonstrates how social titles alternated between signaling inherent personal qualities and abstract categories, thus revealing how language operated across multiple ontological registers in structuring social order.
Signs of the Right: Scandinavian Right-Wing Extremism on Social Media
Tonje Carlsen
https://www.buechner-verlag.de/buch/scandinavian-right-wing-extremism-on-social-media
https://doi.org/10.14631/978-3-96317-990-7 (direkt zur PDF-Datei)
Right-wing extremism is increasingly becoming a threat to the progressive values of Western democracies. The far right, like the rest of society, seems to have moved much of its activity to digital spaces over the last decade. Social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok host a wealth of far-right content posted by right-wing extremists around the world. This is also the case in Scandinavia. Organizations such as the Scandinavian Nordic Resistance Movement and the Norwegian SIAN (Stopp islamiseringen av Norge) are both groups that actively seek to spread far-right ideology through social media channels.
Tonje Carlsen aims to shed light on far-right activities in Norway and Sweden, with a particular focus on their social media activities and the semiotics applied in respective contributions there. It examines various trends in the content posted, where it is posted and for what purpose. The work seeks to understand how the Norwegian and Swedish extreme right circumvents the social media »rules« set by platform moderators and other users. What kind of content do they post? In what ways do they use social media to express their concerns? What does the radicalization process look like on social media? And how do other users react to this content? These are some of the questions this book seeks to answer using specific examples on different platforms.
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