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The aim of this study has been to, through a quantitative content analysis and a qualitative text analysis, determine which meaning nationality is given in news reports in Swedish daily press, and how it creates the event as a scandal. Focusing on two major scandals in cross country skiing, articles from the Finnish scandal in Lahtis 2001 and the revealing of doped Russian skiers in 2016 has been analysed. The theoretical framework for the study has been Stuart Halls representation theory, the framing theory, and theories regarding media scandals and nationality. The results from the quantitative and qualitative analyses has been divided into four themes: Imagined communities, Us and them, Individual and corporate and Fallen star. The results show that nationality is given meaning through the creation of imagined communities. It creates a gap between us and them, a sense of the nations parting from each other in form of cultural and moral aspects. There is also a difference between the representation of the countries. In the Russian doping scandal, Russia is considered as a doped nation, with a systematic doping where little guilt is to be put on the skiers themselves. In Finland, the nation stands for the people and is not in any ways to be associated with the doping scandal. Instead, the skiers get all the blame and little notion is made about the doping as being organised. This has also made the scandals to be divided into individual or corporate doping. As for the framing of the event as a scandal, attributes as “cheating” and a portrayal of the skiers as fallen stars is represented. By revealing the names of the suspected dopers it increases the news worth. An unexpected outcome was that the Russian dopers was not mentioned by name as often as the Finnish, which could enhance the event as a scandal even more. Furthermore, doping scandals could be studied in many different ways and is an interesting subject to immerse oneself in.

This thesis focuses on Astrid Lindgren and film tourism in the Vimmerby region in Sweden. Lindgren introduced her imagined worlds in her books and films, which was inspired by her personal experience of growing up in Vimmerby. Film location sites and other film tourism places around Vimmerby indicate the relationship between the imagination of the author and the local region. This thesis draws on the concept of imagination and Stijn Reijnders research about Places of the Imagination, as well as Abby Waysdorf and Reijnders research on film tourism as an imaginative experience. By focusing on these sites and the advertisement, the main research question is what experience these sites offer for the film tourist and how they present the local identity and imagined world by Lindgren. This thesis introduces a new approach called imaginative archaeology. It describes film tourism as an archaeological reconstruction of imagination and the imagined world, that is presented on screen. As a result, the film tourism sites offer an archaeological reconstruction. The film sites can be seen as archaeological sites, the tourism sites in Vimmerby provide traces of Lindgren’s imagination, the theme park can be seen as an open-air museum and the film museum offers a museum experience for the film tourist.

Cette étude s’attache à analyser deux performances symboliques ayant cours sur les îles de Pitcairn et de Norfolk dans le Pacifique Sud. Les habitants de ces deux îles séparées par 6000km de distance partagent tout d’abord un événement historique ayant eu lieu en 1789, la révolte du Bounty, rendue célèbre par des réalisations cinématographiques hollywoodiennes et de nombreux ouvrages ; et également un rattachement à cette histoire et à leur filiation avec ces mutins qui prennent forme dans une performance annuellement répétée qu’ils nomment : le Bounty Day. Ici, nous verrons comment l’identité émerge de la manipulation de faits historiques, pour saisir non seulement l’importance du processus de construction identitaire, mais comment cette macro-identité influence certains aspects du micro-vécu. « L’histoire », dans l’analyse qui sera proposée, est un domaine rhétorique et un ensemble de valeurs qui lient les individus non seulement à un monde oublié mais à un monde invisible, à l’Autre lointain, inconnu et donc potentiellement menaçant. / This study focuses on the analysis of two symbolic performances occurring on the islands of Pitcairn and Norfolk in the South Pacific. The people who live on those two islands, separated by 6000 km, share a particular bond: through a historic event which took place in 1789, the Bounty mutiny, which was made famous by several well-known Hollywood film productions and by numerous books. They are joined by this story and by their heritage, as they share common ancestors, the mutineers. both also commemorate every year the mutiny and subsequent events by, a special ceremony : Bounty Day. This study shows how a specific identity emerges from the manipulation of the historical facts, which not only bears witness to the importance of the identity building process itself, but also how this macro-identity influences some aspects of everyday life on the individual level. Their “story”, in the following study, concerns a rhetorical purview and the enactment of a set of values that tie individuals not only to a forgotten world, but also to an invisible one, to the distant Other, unknown and potentially harmful.

Cette recherche explore comment l’infrastructure et les utilisations d’eBird, l’un des plus grands projets de science citoyenne dans le monde, se développent et évoluent dans le temps et l’espace. Nous nous concentrerons sur le travail d’eBird avec deux de ses partenaires latino-américains, le Mexique et le Pérou, chacun avec un portail Web géré par des organisations locales. eBird, qui est maintenant un grand réseau mondial de partenariats, donne occasion aux citoyens du monde entier la possibilité de contribuer à la science et à la conservation d’oiseaux à partir de ses observations téléchargées en ligne. Ces observations sont gérées et gardées dans une base de données qui est unifiée, globale et accessible pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent au sujet des oiseaux et sa conservation. De même, les utilisateurs profitent des fonctionnalités de la plateforme pour organiser et visualiser leurs données et celles d’autres. L’étude est basée sur une méthodologie qualitative à partir de l’observation des plateformes Web et des entrevues semi-structurées avec les membres du Laboratoire d’ornithologie de Cornell, l’équipe eBird et les membres des organisations partenaires locales responsables d’eBird Pérou et eBird Mexique. Nous analysons eBird comme une infrastructure qui prend en considération les aspects sociaux et techniques dans son ensemble, comme un tout. Nous explorons aussi à la variété de différents types d’utilisation de la plateforme et de ses données par ses divers utilisateurs. Trois grandes thématiques ressortent : l’importance de la collaboration comme une philosophie qui sous-tend le développement d’eBird, l’élargissement des relations et connexions d’eBird à travers ses partenariats, ainsi que l’augmentation de la participation et le volume des données. Finalement, au fil du temps on a vu une évolution des données et de ses différentes utilisations, et ce qu’eBird représente comme infrastructure. / This research explores the evolution of the infrastructure and uses of eBird, one of the world’s largest citizen science projects. It concentrates on the work of eBird with two of its local partners in Latin America who manage regional portals in Mexico and Peru. eBird allows users throughout the world to contribute their observations of birds online and so to advance the case of science and conservation. These observations are stored and managed in a unified, global database that is freely accessible to all who are interested in birds and their conservation. Participants can use the platform’s various functionalities to organize and visualize their data as well as that of others. The research follows a qualitative methodology based on observation of the eBird platform and on interviews with members of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the eBird team and members of local organizations responsible for eBird in Peru and Mexico. We analyze eBird as an infrastructure whose technical and social sides are interrelated and need to be examined simultaneously. We also explore how the eBird team conceives the uses of the eBird platform and the data it contains. Three major themes emerge: the philosophy of collaboration underlying the development of eBird, the extension and diversification of eBird through its network of partnerships and a corresponding increase in both participation and volume of data. Finally, we also observe an evolution in the type and variety of uses for eBird observations and the eBird infrastructure itself.

En prenant le concept de la « translated modernity» comme point de départ, cette thèse a pour but d’étudier la relation entre la traduction et un des aspects de la modernité chinoise : la nation à la fin de la dynastie Qing. Nous nous engageons dans cette thèse à scruter les relations complexes entre la traduction, et l’imagination et la construction d’une nouvelle nation à la fin de la dynastie de Qing. Josephe Levenson observe que le changement le plus remarquable dans la pensée chinoise dans l’histoire moderne de la Chine est une transition de « tianxia » (toutes choses sous le ciel, le monde, l’univers, Tout-ce-qui-est-sous-le-Ciel) à « guojia » (état, nation ou état-nation ). Cette thèse confirme que la transition de « tianxia » à «guojia» est facilitée par la traduction des savoirs modernes occidentaux à la fin de la dynastie de Qing. La thèse se base sur l’école du constructionnisme social dans les recherches de la « nation » et du « nationalisme ». Une « nation » est envisagée comme un « construit social», c'est-à-dire une entité créée, objectivée ou institutionnalisée. En s’appuyant sur l’analyse de Benedict Anderson sur l’émergence de la nation comme une communauté imaginaire et l’essor du nationalisme partout dans le monde, et en empruntant la méthodologie de « translingual practice » proposée par Lydia Liu, cette thèse a pour objectif de répondre aux trois questions suivantes : Comment la traduction de l’époque de fin de la dynastie Qing contribue à la genèse des conditions cognitive et psychologique favorable pour la conception de l’état-nation ? Comment la conception de l‘état-nation a-t-elle été traduite, diffusée et acceptée? Comment les intellectuels de l’époque se servent-ils de la traduction des romans étrangers comme soutien technique ou matériel pour imaginer une nouvelle nation ? / This doctoral dissertation approaches translation as an important site for producing meaning and knowledge, so as to highlight the essential role translation plays in human history, especially to bring more attention to the complex relationship between translation and nation. By adopting as a research model Benedict Anderson’s analysis of the rise of nation as an “imagined community”, and by employing Lydia H. Liu’s “translingual practice” as the main research method, this doctoral thesis aims to explore how translation practices contributed to Chinese people’s imagining of a new “nation” in late Qing era.This dissertation claims that translation in the late Qing era exerted great influence on Chinese people’s imagining of a modern and new nation: Firstly, translation of western geographic science and the international laws reshaped the world view of people in late Qing era, thus prompting Chinese people to reposition China in relation to the “Other”. Secondly, the western concept of "minzu guojia" was translated into Chinese in late Qing era, and was quickly integrated into political thoughts and popular discourses in China. Constructing a new and strong nation was a common goal and has fostered solidarity in the community. Thirdly, foreign fictions translated into Chinese had strong impacts on Chinese literature in late Qing era, making “fiction” a critical site for the imagining of nation. The future narrative first introduced into China through foreign fiction was quickly adopted as an effective strategy for imagining new China in various literary works. Besides, foreign fictions were very often rewritten for the purpose of enlightening the people for the construction of a strong and independent nation. / 本文以Benedict Anderson的“想象的共同体”理论为基础，结合刘禾提出的“跨语际实践”研究方法，试图考察晚清中国语境中的翻译实践如何促成了近代中国人士的民族国家想象。全文除导言外共由四个章节及结论组成。第一章为理论基础、研究思路陈述及随后各章具体研究问题的设定。本章首先指出，翻译对社会、文化、历史的影响方面的研究备受关注，翻译与民族国家建构之间的关系是其中一个重要研究问题。在众多有关民族国家兴起历史的研究当中，Benedict Anderson的“想象的共同体”理论专注于从社会、文化条件的变迁的角度来解释民族国家的建构，这为我们考察翻译与民族国家的关系提供了非常有启发意义的参考。笔者根据Anderson的理论分析思路，结合中国晚清语境的历史情况，确定了本文考察的三个方面的内容：晚清时期的翻译实践在民族国家共同体兴起之前的文化与认知条件形成过程中扮演的角色，翻译如何促成了“民族国家”概念与原型从西方向中国的传播和扩散，以及经由印刷媒体所传播的创作小说以及翻译小说如何承载了近代中国人士的民族国家想象。第二章指出晚清时期的翻译实践影响了近代中国人士的认知和心理，为民族国家想象创造了有利的条件。首先，西方地理、西方各国知识的翻译促成了晚清时期中国传统的“天下”观念的崩塌。晚清的中国人认识到中国传统的“天下”观念和体系已经不再适用，而接纳了以西方民族国家为基本单位构建起来的“世界万国”体系，为晚清民族国家共同体的想象提供了他者的对比参照,促使晚清中国人士对中国的地理位置以及国际地位进行重新定位。其次，翻译促成了华夏文化中心主义的衰退。甲午战争以后，在亡国灭种危机的沉重压力下，维新派人士纷纷建言，提倡翻译和学习西方、学习日本。译书强国话语逐渐驱散了华夏文化中心主义，进一步促使晚清中国人士在心理和认知层面重新定位中国文化。第三章着重考察西方的民族国家概念如何被译介到在晚清中国。在十九世纪末二十世纪初中国知识分子的写作中“民族国家”已经成为他们一致追求的目标，取代了“天下”与“王朝”成为了晚清人士认同的对象。而通过对晚清时期出版的英汉-汉英双语词典的考察，笔者认为西方的民族国家观念在近代中国的传播和接受经历了两个步骤，首先是“国家”概念的转型，其次是“民族”概念的译介。“主权”的译介推动了古代国家观念的转型，而作为现代国家观念核心的“主权”概念主要是通过国际公法译介到中国的。“民族”概念则是从日本转口输入到中国的，梁启超在这个这个概念最初引介的过程中起了很重要的作用。第四章：近代外国小说的翻译活动影响了晚清中国的小说的社会地位以及创作情况，可以说晚清小说翻译还为晚清中国人展开民族国家想象创造了重要的场域和手段。首先，翻译促使近代中国小说地位的提升以及小说创作局面的更新，使之成为民族国家想象的重要场所。其次，翻译为晚清小说家提供了想象民族国家的叙述手段。具体而言，传教士李提摩太翻译的《百年一觉》对晚清士人的影响非常深远，该小说中的未来叙述很快被中国小说家所接受并广泛运用到了他们的写作之中，借以展开他们对未来新中国的想象。再次，晚清的翻译小说也成为了开展民族国家想象的一个重要的场所。本文的创新之处体现在两个方面：首先这是一个跨学科的研究考察。本论文糅合了翻译研究、近代中国历史研究以及民族国家理论三个不同领域的研究成果，试图对近代中国史上的翻译实践对思想观念、历史与社会的影响，尤其是近代翻译如何促成了现代“民族国家”观念的兴起进行考察，将焦点放在“跨语际实践”过程中，这个研究有助于我们更好地把握近代中国历史的面貌。其次，本文关注的翻译实践是比较宽泛的翻译，除了备受关注的晚清小说翻译实践以外，还考察了国际法、双语词典等近代中国历史上重要的翻译文本。晚清翻译被视为中国翻译史上的一个高潮，但是对这个时期的翻译实践的历史性考察大多关注与文学翻译活动，而忽略了其他如社科书籍、字典、地图、法律文献等的翻译实践，而实际上后者对近代中国社会的影响更加深远，因此本文的研究有助于拓宽和丰富了近代中国翻译史研究。

This thesis analyses four European writers, whose common denominator is that they have moved to Sweden from other European countries and chosen to write in Swedish: Caterina Pascual Söderbaum, Theodor Kallifatides, Gabriela Melinescu and Sigrid Combüchen. Focus lies on novels published by the authors in the 21st century. The thesis builds upon theories on memory by Pierre Nora and on imagined communities by Benedict Anderson, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand. In Imagined Communities, Anderson shows the effects of the emerging nation states on the modern novel in the 19th century. The hypothesis of this study is that the emergence of the European Union and the resulting European movement will affect narratives in a similar way, but on a European rather than national level. The main finding seems to confirm this, showing that an imagined European community takes shape in the studied novels, surpassing that of the nation state’s borders.  All writers focus on memories, but in two different ways: Kallifatides and Melinescu depict long memories, starting in ancient times and with a positive view on remembrance as a focus on what is in common for Europeans. Pascual Söderbaum and Combüchen, on the other hand, depict memories from the dark 20th century and the importance of forgetting and moving on in order to give future generations freedom. In most novels, however, there are examples of lieux de mémoire (sites of memory), with Nora’s terminology, expanding towards a common European identity, in spite of the plethora of myths and languages. / Den här uppsatsen analyserar fyra europeiska författare vars gemensamma nämnare är att de har flyttat till Sverige från andra europeiska länder och valt att skriva på svenska: Caterina Pascual Söderbaum, Theodor Kallifatides, Gabriela Melinescu och Sigrid Combüchen. I fokus är romaner som givits ut av författarna under 2000-talet. Uppsatsen bygger på teorier om minne av Pierre Nora och föreställda gemenskaper av Benedict Anderson, Chiara Bottici och Benoît Challand. I Imagined Communities visar Anderson vilken påverkan de framväxande nationalstaterna hade på den moderna romanen under artonhundratalet. Den här uppsatsens hypotes är att framväxten av EU och den europeiska rörlighet som EU resulterat i påverkar narrativen på ett liknande sätt, men på en europeisk snarare än nationell nivå. De viktigaste resultaten tycks i huvudsak bekräfta denna hypotes, och visar på hur en föreställd europeisk gemenskap tar form i de studerade romanerna, en gemenskap som överskrider nationalstatens gränser. Samtliga författare fokuserar på minnen, men på två vitt skilda sätt: Kallifatides och Melinescu skildrar långa minnen med början i antiken och en positiv syn på hågkomst som det som förenar européer. Pascual Söderbaum och Combüchen, å andra sidan, skildrar minnen av det mörka nittonhundratalet och vikten av att glömma bort och gå vidare för att ge framtida generationer frihet. I de flesta romaner finns det dock exempel på lieux de mémoire (minnesplatser), med Noras terminologi, som vidgar sig mot en gemensam europeisk identitet, trots den stora mångfalden av myter och språk.

Cette étude s’attache à analyser deux performances symboliques ayant cours sur les îles de Pitcairn et de Norfolk dans le Pacifique Sud. Les habitants de ces deux îles séparées par 6000km de distance partagent tout d’abord un événement historique ayant eu lieu en 1789, la révolte du Bounty, rendue célèbre par des réalisations cinématographiques hollywoodiennes et de nombreux ouvrages ; et également un rattachement à cette histoire et à leur filiation avec ces mutins qui prennent forme dans une performance annuellement répétée qu’ils nomment : le Bounty Day. Ici, nous verrons comment l’identité émerge de la manipulation de faits historiques, pour saisir non seulement l’importance du processus de construction identitaire, mais comment cette macro-identité influence certains aspects du micro-vécu. « L’histoire », dans l’analyse qui sera proposée, est un domaine rhétorique et un ensemble de valeurs qui lient les individus non seulement à un monde oublié mais à un monde invisible, à l’Autre lointain, inconnu et donc potentiellement menaçant. / This study focuses on the analysis of two symbolic performances occurring on the islands of Pitcairn and Norfolk in the South Pacific. The people who live on those two islands, separated by 6000 km, share a particular bond: through a historic event which took place in 1789, the Bounty mutiny, which was made famous by several well-known Hollywood film productions and by numerous books. They are joined by this story and by their heritage, as they share common ancestors, the mutineers. both also commemorate every year the mutiny and subsequent events by, a special ceremony : Bounty Day. This study shows how a specific identity emerges from the manipulation of the historical facts, which not only bears witness to the importance of the identity building process itself, but also how this macro-identity influences some aspects of everyday life on the individual level. Their “story”, in the following study, concerns a rhetorical purview and the enactment of a set of values that tie individuals not only to a forgotten world, but also to an invisible one, to the distant Other, unknown and potentially harmful.

This research project is primarily a case study about planning practice and its affect on peacebuilding activities in Belfast and Jerusalem. The primary method of data collection is semi-structured interviews with planners, policymakers, and community leaders involved in peacebuilding activities in the study cities. The primary data collection is triangulated with a literature review and a number of supplementary planning documents, books, and videos on the subject matter. The data has been analyzed using the lens of fundamental human needs, as laid out by Max-Neef, who sees all human needs as equally important rather than hierarchical as some human need theories are. Both Belfast and Jerusalem have centralized planning systems based on the British Town Planning model. Planning in both cities is frequently viewed as a contentious issue, most especially around housing issues. In both cities, one population group is characterized as “bursting” at the seams in terms of housing need, while the other population group feels endangered. Security issues are critical in both cities resulting in the building of security barriers, which ultimately change patterns of free movement in the city and affect the imagined city of both sides of the conflict. The barriers affect the ability to meet other fundamental human needs as well, such as the need for participation and understanding. Despite the clear problems in these cities, there are some indications of success as well. Northern Ireland ran a hugely successful public consultation on the direction the citizens want the government to go in. The resounding answer was for a shared future and some planners and urban leaders have taken this to heart and are working hard to build and define shared spaces in the urban fabric. This work is happening at all levels of the community and several excellent projects have been a positive result of cross-community work aimed at building understanding. In Jerusalem several organizations and various planners are working on similar goals to empower the disadvantaged Palestinian community and instill more justice in the planning system.

This research project is primarily a case study about planning practice and its affect on peacebuilding activities in Belfast and Jerusalem. The primary method of data collection is semi-structured interviews with planners, policymakers, and community leaders involved in peacebuilding activities in the study cities. The primary data collection is triangulated with a literature review and a number of supplementary planning documents, books, and videos on the subject matter. The data has been analyzed using the lens of fundamental human needs, as laid out by Max-Neef, who sees all human needs as equally important rather than hierarchical as some human need theories are. Both Belfast and Jerusalem have centralized planning systems based on the British Town Planning model. Planning in both cities is frequently viewed as a contentious issue, most especially around housing issues. In both cities, one population group is characterized as “bursting” at the seams in terms of housing need, while the other population group feels endangered. Security issues are critical in both cities resulting in the building of security barriers, which ultimately change patterns of free movement in the city and affect the imagined city of both sides of the conflict. The barriers affect the ability to meet other fundamental human needs as well, such as the need for participation and understanding. Despite the clear problems in these cities, there are some indications of success as well. Northern Ireland ran a hugely successful public consultation on the direction the citizens want the government to go in. The resounding answer was for a shared future and some planners and urban leaders have taken this to heart and are working hard to build and define shared spaces in the urban fabric. This work is happening at all levels of the community and several excellent projects have been a positive result of cross-community work aimed at building understanding. In Jerusalem several organizations and various planners are working on similar goals to empower the disadvantaged Palestinian community and instill more justice in the planning system.