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Thanks to name statistics published by the national bureaus of statistics in Scandinavia it is possible to study the changing popularity of first names. This paper is based on statistics from the years 1998-2002 in Sweden, 1998-2000 in Finland and 1880-2000 in Norway. The rise and fall in popularity — and in some cases renaissance — of individual names are shown and analyzed.It is observed that
Under 1960- och 1970-talen etablerades internationellt bistånds- och utvecklingsarbete som en ny och betydelsefull del av svensk utrikespolitik.1 Sedan dess har Sverige förblivit en i internationell jämförelse betydande biståndsgivare, i synnerhet med hänsyn tagen till folkmängd och BNP.2 Genom utvecklingsbiståndet etablerade Sverige bilaterala relationer med länder i andra världsdelar och intog e
A report on a panel convened by the Nordic Association for Romantic Studies at the 'Romanticism Takes to the Hills' conference at Edge Hill University (UK), 29 April 2017
Recension av Tilmann Lahme, Familjen Mann (2017).
The access economy is rising in importance in the marketplace. In this conceptual article, we chronicle access practices in market and nonmarket economies. In nonmarket economic systems, access is gained via social exchange and primarily takes the form of sharing. That is, sharing is non-market-mediated access. In the contemporary market economy, economic exchange practices, such as renting, domin
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to adapt. For ethnographic areastudies, such adaptations take place both at the level of the researcher andthe researched. This essay reflects on how the study of an Indian childrights advocacy network adapted to ‘going online’ as a consequence of thepandemic and lockdown in India. Although the researcher could no longerbe physically present in the studied s
