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This study explores how vernacular understandings of climate change and sustainability are formed in relation to local disputes concerning mineral exploration. In a search for a solution to climate change, the interest in rare earth elements (REEs), and other metals used in green technology has resulted in granting mining companies processing concessions in Sweden. At the same time, industrial scale metal extraction imposes great risks to the local environment. Offering an ethnological view on local resistance to mining in two areas in Sweden where mining corporations has been granted processing concessions for exploratory drilling, this study seeks to contribute to a theoretical discussion regarding the dialectical relationship between the material and the spatial and its influence on vernacular understandings of mining as a solution towards decreased environmental impact. Applying a phenomenological framework, this study analyzes how sustainability as a diversified concept is constructed through social and cultural practices in the everyday life. Through in-depth interviews with local inhabitants who have chosen to protest against mining establishment in two southern areas in Sweden, themes such as temporality, local cultural and historical identity, and the NIMBY-phenomenon is addressed. This study finds several climate change temporalities within the local resistance movements. Various time-scales intertwine, together stretching both the need for the slow pace of natural preservation, and immediacy through de-growth. These time-scales are in turn shaped by knowledge of the areas cultural history, as well as personal family heritage. Expressions holding temporal connotations, such as eternal destruction and permanent damage, indicate that conceptions of climate change and sustainability are shaped by current media climate change discourse. The positions in the local conflicts are continuously negotiated, as objecting to mineral exploration is considered an obstacle to necessary change towards fossil fuel dependency. This study concludes that local activism in the shadow of societal transformation into a green economy ultimately transforms into a question concerning what kind of nature that matters, and how we measure its value.

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This study explores the creative aspects of creating new rituals and what it tells us about humans as cultural beings. It focuses on individual stories from participants who through interviews and questionnaires have told their experiences of creating or re-shaping rituals for individual purposes. Emphasis is on the practical shaping of the ritual and the participants thoughts on it.The results points to the creating of new rituals as experimenting and as a creative expression. With theories and prior research in ritual psychology, phenomenology and ritual criticism the study shows how individual stories of creation show worldviews and phenomenon through ritualization.

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<p>Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur det talade språket påverkar socialt samspel, kamratkultur och arbetsmiljö i skolan. Studien bygger på material som är insamlat genom etnologiskt fältarbete på en högstadieskola i Uppsala, med tyngdpunkt på kvalitativa metoder, såsom intervjuer och observationer. Språket kan betraktas som ett socialt redskap, som ständigt används av skolungdomarna i vardagen, för att skapa nya eller bekräfta redan befintliga sociala och kulturella mönster. Uppsatsen beskriver skolmiljön som präglad av maktrelationer och språket som en bärare av makt. Eleverna kan upprätthålla en hierarkisk social struktur genom att använda generaliserande benämningar gentemot andra elever. Genom att använda förnedrande skällsord som associeras med kvinnor, invandrare och sexuellt avvikande, har man med hjälp av språket makten att bekräfta en svensk, maskulin norm. Bland eleverna finns också olika strategier för att göra sina röster hörda genom en ljudmatta – antingen genom ljudmässig överröstning, eller genom att använda ord som genom sin laddade innebörd väcker särskild uppmärksamhet. Slutligen beskrivs hur ungdomarna anpassar sitt språk efter olika situationer och sammanhang. Varje uttalande betraktas som ett resultat av en mer eller mindre medveten riskbedömning, vars konsekvenser är avgörande för individens sociala roll.</p>