Yes / There is increasing recognition in management and organization studies of the importance of materiality as an aspect of discourse, while the neglect of materiality in post-structuralist management and organization theory is currently the subject of much discussion. This article argues that this turn to materiality may further embed gender discrimination. We draw on Luce Irigaray’s work to highlight the dangers inherent in masculine discourses of materiality. We discuss Irigaray’s identification of how language and discourse elevate the masculine over the feminine so as to offer insights into ways of changing organizational language and discourses so that more beneficial, ethicallyfounded identities, relationships and practices can emerge. We thus stress a political intent that aims to liberate women and men from phallogocentrism. We finally take forward Irigaray’s ideas to develop a feminist écriture of/for organization studies that points towards ways of writing from the body. The article thus not only discusses how inequalities may be embedded within the material turn, but it also provides a strategy that enriches the possibilities of overcoming them from within.

No / Within the academic career literature, disabled academics are under-researched, despite calls for career theory development through the exploration of marginalized groups' career experiences and the boundaries which shape these experiences. Here, boundaries refer to the symbolic resources which become reified to construct social boundaries shaping what is and is not possible in career contexts. This article contributes to the advancement of academic career theory by enabling insights into impairment effects as an embodied career boundary for disabled academics and outlining how experiences of impairment effects and disabled academics' agency are entangled with their career context and organizational members' responses. Impairment effects shape career choices and opportunities, by being negated, and/or influencing expectations of employers to provide inclusive contexts which acknowledge impairment effects as a legitimate organizing principle. However this recognition of impairment as a legitimate organizing principle is not always reciprocated, with implications for disabled academics' careers.

The demand for ‘green’ resources is growing, and in response to this, industrial expansion in northern Sweden is accelerating, leaving little room for a thorough examination of long-term consequences from ecological and social perspectives. Resource extraction in Sweden is nothing new, and some areas still deal with the consequences of previously hastily induced industrialism. This research explores how embodied experiences can be utilized to convey the hidden narratives of a riverine landscape affected by extractive industries, more precisely the area around Áhkájávvre situated in the Luleå River, and how situating oneself within these embodied narratives can contribute to raising public awareness of their ecological and cultural impacts. To support this research question, theories of situated knowledge are introduced, which advocate for the subjective knowledges of the landscape’s ecology and the embodiment of the agents in it. By highlighting the perspectives of its ecology, this thesis aims to connect the urban and the hinterlands - the operational landscapes and change how we view them. The research is conducted through interviews and case studies, followed by a design-as- research methodology, a process-based project which explores various methods of artistic research representation as mediators to situate the observer in the subject and embody the knowledge of the site. It is explored through two perspectives: the area of disturbance (the operational landscape) and the disruptor (us), through the scope of social and ecological dimensions, represented by ‘the people’ and ‘the soil’. This research presents scenarios and explorations aimed at increasing connection to, and raising public awareness of, resource extraction, both historical and ongoing. These scenarios highlight the local effects of the affected area, and the interconnectedness of operational landscapes and urban environments. This research contributes to the understanding of the need for embodied experiences in developing an understanding of the hidden consequences of resource extraction on operational landscape, and to situate oneself in its context.

Eine Vielzahl von Studien zeigt, dass die Valenz eines Reizes nicht nur das Entscheidungs- und Urteilsverhalten gegenüber diesem, sondern auch gegenüber nachfolgenden Reizen beeinflusst. Jedoch ist nicht ausreichend untersucht, wie eine solche kontextuelle emotionale Stimulation Einfluss auf nachfolgende Urteile und Entscheidungen einer Person nimmt. Repräsentativ für eine Vielzahl ähnlicher Prozeduren habe ich in der vorliegenden Arbeit jene funktionellen Mechanismen untersucht, die dem Einfluss der Valenz einer Stimulation auf nachfolgende bewertende Urteile unterliegen. Dabei habe ich mich auf das Paradigma des Projektiv Evaluativen Priming (PEP) konzentriert, in welchem die zu beurteilenden Reize emotional neutral sind. Die Ergebnisse des ersten Teils der Arbeit legen nahe, dass Priming durch supraliminal präsentierte Primes unabhängig von der Prime-Klasse (Wörter, Bilder von Umweltszenen, Bilder von Gesichtsausdrücken), zuverlässig auftritt. PEP ist deshalb nicht durch die Annahmen der Feeling As Information Hypothese erklärbar. Die Ergebnisse des zweiten empirischen Blocks zeigen außerdem, dass PEP besser durch eine im Rahmen der Dissertation entwickelte Theorie des Cognitive Emotional Compound (CEC) als durch das assoziativ-semantische Netzwerkmodell beschreib- und vorhersagbar ist. Im dritten Teil der Arbeit konnte ich beobachten, dass der Einfluss eines subliminal präsentierten Prime auf nachfolgendes bewertendes Urteilsverhalten mit dem zeitlichen Abstand zwischen Prime und Target (SOA), und darüber hinaus mit der Interozeptiven Bewusstheit der Person steigt. Diese Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass das Resultat der impliziten emotionalen Verarbeitung eines Reizes körperlich repräsentiert ist, und dass ein bewertendes Urteil über einen Reiz bzw. Compound, auf der subjektiven Wahrnehmung solcher valenzindikativen, körperlich verankerten Signale beruht. / Judgment and decision are biased by contextual emotional stimulation. However, it has not yet been sufficiently examined how this influence is mediated. Therefore, in this work I investigated the functional mechanisms that underlie the impact of the valence of a prime stimulus on subsequent evaluative judgments. Specifically, I focused on the paradigm of Projective Evaluative Priming (PEP), where the target stimuli that have to be explicitly evaluated are emotionally neutral. The results of the first part of the current work indicate that priming with supraliminally presented primes occurs reliably across diverse classes of primes (words, landscapes, pictures of facial expressions). These findings are incompatible with a core assumption of one of the most prominent theories about affective influence on judgment and decision, the Feeling As Information hypothesis (Schwarz & Clore, 1983, 2003). The findings of the second part show that supraliminal priming increases with the prime’s cognitive complexity, emotional intensity, and the participants’ cognitive resources during target processing. In contrast, priming decreases with the extent to which the participants allocate cognitive resources during prime processing. These findings indicate that PEP is better explained and predicted by the theory of the cognitive-emotional compound (CEC) than the prominent associative semantic network model (e.g. Bower, 1981). The CEC has been developed by the author within the current dissertation process. In the third part of the current work I observed that the impact of a subliminally presented prime on following evaluative judgment behavior increases with the temporal distance between prime and target (SOA), and with the participants’ interoceptive awareness, respectively. These findings suggest that the output of implicit emotional stimulus processing is (partly) embodied, and that the perception of the resulting valence-indicative somatic state provides the agent with information about the value of an event.

Dans cette thèse, nous proposons de nouvelles approches et processus de conception pour créer et produire des plates-formes robotiques dont le contrôle et la morphologie peuvent être explorés et expérimentés librement dans le monde réel, tout en assurant une dissémination directe dans le milieu académique. Ainsi cette thèse adresse deux questions fondamentales dans le processus de recherche scientifique en robotique:1. Comment peut on étudier systématiquement et efficacement l’impact des propriétés morphologiques du corps d’un robot humanoïde pour l’acquisition et le contrôle de savoir-faire sensorimoteurs, ainsi que de capacités d’interactions physiques et sociales avec l’humain ?2. Comment peut on produire des contributions scientifiques en robotique qui soient réellement reproductibles et directement réutilisables, tout en exposant les moindres détails des expérimentations ? Ainsi notre approche propose de nouvelles méthodes de conception et de production, et ce, pour tous les aspects technologiques d’un robot (mécanique, actionneur,électronique, logiciels, distribution). En particulier, ces méthodes reposent sur l’impression 3D pour toutes les pièces mécaniques, un environnement Arduino pour l’acquisition des capteurs, une bibliothèque Python appelée pypot pour le contrôle proposant un API intuitive et enfin la distribution de tout notre travail sous des licences open source.En utilisant cette méthodologie, nous avons créé le robot Humanoïde Poppy, un robotlow-cost, entièrement modulaire et imprimé en 3D. Ce robot est diffusé sous licence open source et tous les fichiers sont facilement accessibles sur le dépôt GitHub du projet: https://www.github.com/poppy_project/.Nous expérimentons l’utilisation de ce robot pour plusieurs applications. Tout d’abord, comme un outil scientifique où nous montrons que Poppy peut être facilement et rapidement modifié, que ce soit pour explorer le rôle de la morphologie ou pour être adaptés à différentes configurations expérimentales. Basé sur ce travail, mais d’un autre point de vue, nous étudions aussi l’impact potentiel d’une telle plate-forme pour des applications éducatives et artistiques. / This thesis suggests novel approaches and design processes to create and produce robotic platforms, the control and morphology of which can be freely explored through experimentation in the real world, that are easy to diffuse and reproduce in the research community. Especially, this alternative design methodology is driven by the desire to:• freely explore morphological properties,• reduce the amount of time required between an idea and its experimentation on an actual robotic platform in the real world,• makes experiments that should be easy to do, actually easy to do,• make the work easily reproducible in any other lab,• keep the work modular and free to use in accordance with open source principles,so it can be reused and extended for other projects.Our approach follows novel design methods for both design and production, for all technological aspects of the robot (i.e. mechanics, actuation, electronics, software,distribution). In particular these methods relies on 3D printing for all mechanical parts, the Arduino electronic architecture for the sensors acquisition, an easy to use Python API called pypot for the control and finally the distribution of all our work under open source licenses. Using this methodology, we create the Poppy Humanoid robot, a fully modular robot allowing exploring freely the role of morphology and adapting its body to specific experimental setup. This robot has been released under open source license and all files are easily accessible on the GitHub repository: https://www.github.com/poppy_project/. We experiment the use of this robot for several applications. First, as a scientific tool and we show that Poppy can be easily and quickly modified to either explore the role of morphology or to be adapted to different experimental setups. Based on this work, but from another perspective we investigate the potential impact of such platform for educational and artistic applications.

Underlättar kongruens mellan sinnestillstånd och påstående (vad gäller dess värdeladdning) vid bedömning av ett påståendes sanningshalt? Denna fråga uppkom via studier av embodiment och lögner, forskning från de båda områdena påvisar nämligen att olika ”kroppsliga signaler” kan hjälpa oss att avslöja om andra människor ljuger. Frågan har undersökts via en faktoriell design med repeterade mätningar där deltagarna försattes i olika sinnestillstånd varpå de utsattes för olika stimuli och fick göra olika bedömningar. Resultatet visade att kongruenta betingelser varken underlättar eller påskyndar vid bedömning av ett påståendes sanningshalt, däremot erhölls ett signifikant resultat som indikerade att kongruenta betingelser ökar människans konfidensnivå (högre grad av säkerhet vad gäller att en korrekt bedömning gjorts) vid bedömning av falska påståenden.

Det här kandidatarbetet syftar till att synliggöra länken mellan kroppen och narrativet, och i utförandet belysa och problematisera befintliga maktstrukturer som reproduceras i medietekniska gestaltningar. Genom begreppen situerad kunskap och embodiment reflekterar jag över ifall berättelser, likt kunskap, kan berikas genom akten av begränsning och vad som sker när berättelser färdas från sin originella kontext till en annan. Jag undersöker stereotyp representation av minoriteter så som funktionsförändrade i film, och reflekterar därefter kring mina egna försök att gestalta narrativ utanför min egen situerade kontext. Jag vill uppnå en position i mitt eget gestaltande där jag kan tala om de konstruerade verkligheter jag producerar, acceptera mitt hantverk som en makt-teknologi, och ta steg till att skapa normkritiska gestaltningar med hjälp av metoderna designfiktion och diffraktion. Genom att använda webbteknologier för att förflytta fiktiva narrativ mellan de kroppar jag har gestaltat, hoppas jag kunna reflektera över vad som gör ett narrativ universellt och när de bör ses som situerade. / This Bachelor's thesis aims to shed light on the connection between the body and the narrative, and in the execution illuminate and problematize existing power structures that are being replicated in media technical designs. Together with the terms situated knowledges and embodiment I reflect upon if stories, like knowledge, can be enriched through the act of limitation and what happens as stories are transported from their original context to another. I examine stereotypical representation of minorities in film, such as the differently abled, and thereafter reflect upon my own attempts to illustrate narratives beyond my own situated context. I aim to reach a position within my own designing where I can talk about the constructed realities that I replicate, accept my craft as a technology of power, and take steps towards creating designs that are critical of the norm, using the methods design fiction and diffraction as tools. By using web technologies to transport my fictional narratives between bodies, I hope to reflect upon what makes a narrative universal and when they are to be considered situated.

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Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka om och hur abakusen kan vara ett alternativt verktyg för elever med svårigheter i matematik. Sex intervjuer med matematiklärare har genomförts. En av dessa lärare arbetade på gymnasiet, tre på högstadiet och två på lågstadiet. Tre använder eller har använt abakusen och övriga tre har ingen erfarenhet av den. Studiens resultat visar att samtliga deltagare är positiva till att använda abakusen som ett alternativt verktyg för elever med svårigheter. De ansåg dock att matematiklärare behöver en bred kunskap om abakusen, för att arbeta med eleverna, och att det finns en kunskapströskel som eleverna behöver komma över för att lära sig hur abakusen fungerar. Studiens resultat visar också att de deltagande matematiklärarna anser att speciallärare har en betydelsefull roll att fylla i detta sammanhang, som rådgivare till lärare angående abakusens användning samt funktion. Detta, i kombination med att lärarna ger elever grunderna i matematik, leder till att elever med svårigheter i matematik lättare tar till sig kunskap i matematikämnet. Avslutningsvis diskuteras betydelsen av alternativa verktyg för elever som påvisar brister i matematiken samt speciallärares uppdrag att främja, förebygga och stödja elever i svårigheter. / The purpose of this study is to investigate if and how the abacus can be an alternative tool for students with mathematics difficulties. Six interviews with mathematics teachers have been conducted. One of these teachers worked in high school, three in high school and two in primary school. Three use or have used the abacus and the other three have no experience with it. The study's result show that all participants are positive about using the abacus as an alternative tool for students with difficulties. However, they felt that mathematics teachers needed a broad knowledge of the abacus to work with the students, and that there was a knowledge threshold that the students needed to come across to learn how the abacus works. The study's result also show that the participating mathematics teachers consider that special education teachers have an important role to play in this context, as advising teachers about the use and function of the abacus. This, in combination with the teachers giving the students the basics of mathematics, makes it easier for students with difficulties in mathematics to gain knowledge in the mathematics subject. Finally, the importance of alternative tools for students demonstrating shortcomings in mathematics, as well as specialist teachers' assignments to promote, prevent and support students in difficulties, is discussed.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka mäns positiva kroppsuppfattning och embodiment. Syftet var också att jämföra män som utövar aktiviteter som främjar positiv kroppsuppfattning vandring, yoga, frigörande dans, klättring, dykning, kampsport, ridning och mindfulness meditation med män som inte utövar någon av dessa aktiviteter.Fyra hypoteser formulerades och testades med Mann Whitney U-test och Spearman´s korrelationskoefficient. Data samlades in med elektronisk enkät via sociala medier. Stickproven bestod av 328 män som utövade aktivitet och 40 män som inte utövade aktivitet. Positiv kroppsuppfattning mättes med Body Appreciation Scale-2 och embodiment mättes med det förenklade instrumentet Physical Body Experiences Questionnaire Simplified for Active Aging. Resultaten visade att män som utövar aktiviteter som verkar främjande för positiv kroppsuppfattning har en högre positiv kroppsuppfattning och embodiment än män som inte utövar sådana aktiviteter. Korrelationskoefficienten visade också att allmän motion/träning korrelerar med positiv kroppsuppfattning och embodiment för båda grupperna men visar också på en högre korrelation för de män som inte utövar aktivitet. Slutsatserna i föreliggande studie är det vidare behöver undersökas vilka aktiviteter och vad hos aktiviteterna som kan verka främjande för positiv kroppsuppfattning. Slutsatsen är också att mot bakgrund av tidigare forskning så behövs ytterligare forskning för att utröna vilka aktiviteter samt vilka egenskaper hos aktiviteterna som kan verka främjande för mäns kroppsuppfattning. Vidare dras slutsatsen att vissa aktiviteter kan användas i arbete för att främja kroppsuppfattningen och även i vardagslivet för att förebygga en negativ kroppsuppfattning. / The purpose of this study was to examine mens positive body image and embodiment. The purpose was also to compare men that practice activities that promote positive body image; hiking, yoga, freestyle dancing, rock climbing, scuba diving, martial arts, horse riding and mindfulness meditation, with med that does not practice any of these activities. Four hypotheses was formulated and tested with Mann Whitney U-test and Spearman´s rank correlation coefficient. Data was collected through an electronic questionnaire that was published on social media. The samples consisted of 328 men that practiced activity and 40 men that did not practice activity. Positive body image was measured with Body Appreciation Scale-2 and embodiment was measured with the simplified instrument Physical Body Experiences Questionnaire Simplified for Active Aging. The results showed that men that practice activites that promote positive body image has a higher level of positive body image and embodiment than men that doesn´t practice that kind of activities. The correlation coefficient show that general exercise correlates with positive body image and embodiment for both groups but shows a greater correlation for the men that doesn´t practice activity. The conclusions in this study is that further research is needed to examine whichactivities and which characteristics in those activities that could promote positive body image. The conclusion is also that in the light of previous research further research is needed to examine which activities and which traits in those activities that can promote body image in men. Further, the conclusion is that some activities could be used in work to promote body image and in daily life to prevent a negative body image.