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This thesis studies the famous boat graves in Valsgärde, Sweden and Sutton Hoo, England.  Its purpose is to understand the affects these graves had on the people who surrounded and visited them. Affect describes the first reaction when a person experience somthing new. The other focus of this thesis is the boat graves that seemingly lack buried people, and why the bodies in the graves are missing. There are some fragments of both humans and animals in the Valsgärde graves. In Sutton Hoo there are small amounts of remains from humans or animals, the osteologists have not been able to ascertain which of the two. There are some theories that the burials have been open for everyone to see, the question is then why and if this is the case, how did people react to this phenomenon, that is the boat-graves affects. The thesis concludes that the now missing bodies may have been exposed in the open for a long time, before they were buried. The soil´s acidity at Sutton Hoo is at pH 3,8 at the lowest, which has an impact on how well bodies are preserved in the ground. Both the soil and the exposing of the bodies might have done an equal amount of damage to the bodies.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att diskutera några av de minnespraktiker i efterdiktaturens Argentina som behandlar det kollektiva minnet av det Smutsiga Kriget och de som blev utsatta för tvångsförsvinnande. Praktikerna som studerats är Madres de Plaza de Mayo, minnesplatser upprättade i före detta fångläger och Parque de la Memoria. Uppsatsen anknyter till ett teoretiskt ramverk för kollektivt minne och kollektivt trauma, minnesmuseer och materiell kultur. Studien har utformats som en fallstudie. Materialet består av observationer, intervjuer och fotografier insamlade under fältarbete i Argentina 2017. Madres de Plaza de Mayo analyserades genom att använda teorier om lieux de mémoire framförda av Pierre Nora och minnesceremonier framförda av Paul Connerton. Minnesplatserna studerades utifrån ett minnesmuseumsperspektiv med hjälp av teorier av Paul Williams. Parque de la Memoria studerades utifrån teorier om krigsmonument framförda av Jay Williams. Madres de Plaza de Mayo kan förstås som lieu de mémoire eftersom de i sina artikulationer och aktioner är materiella, symboliska och funktionella. Genom dem bevaras de försvunna vid liv. Minnesplatserna presenterar ett mer ambivalent narrativ som placerar de försvunna i limbo. Parque de la Memoria är en plats för sorg och för att offentligt hedra dem som föll offer under det Smutsiga Kriget. Kontexten som dessa praktiker befinner sig i är komplex och de olika praktikerna uttrycker tre olika narrativ över de försvunna, som sträcker över spektrumet från liv till död. Detta är en tvåårig mastersuppsats i ämnet musei- och kulturarvsvetenskap / The purpose of this thesis is to discuss some of the memory-practices in post-dictatorial Argentina regarding the collective memory of the Dirty War and the people who were objects of forced disappearances. The practices studied are Madres de Plaza de Mayo, sites of memory established in former centres of detention and Parque de la Memoria. The thesis draws upon the theoretical framework of collective memory and collective trauma, memorial museums and material culture. The study was formed as a case study. The materials are observations, interviews and photographs, and were gathered through field work in Argentina in 2017. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo were analysed using theories on lieux de mémoire brought forward by Pierre Nora and commemoration ceremonies brought forward by Paul Connerton. The sites of memory were studied out of the perspective on memorial museums by Paul Williams. Parque de la Memoria was studied with theories on war memorials by Jay Winter. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo can be interpreted as lieu de mémoire due to their material, symbolic and functional dimensions. Through them, the disappeared are alive. The sites of memory present an ambivalent narrative. The narrative of the disappeared is that of a state of limbo. Parque de la Memoria is a park of mourning, placing the disappeared in a narrative of death. The situation of memory-practices in post-dictatorial Argentina is complex and the practices articulates three different narratives of the disappeared, ranging from life to death. This is a two-year master’s thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies

Abstract Every year the Swedish police handle 25,000 reports on missing people. A majority of those gone missing come back home, without the need of outside assistance. For some, help is critical, and many don’t even know that they are missing. These people are persons with dementia and a large percentage of them go missing in Sweden´s largest city, Stockholm. Searching for a person with dementia in a sprawling city creates its own set of obstacles and requires a certain skill from the police in order to execute assistance.   The result of the study is based on interviews with experienced police officers from the  Stockholm police force and their experience of searching for missing persons with dementia in an urban environment. The results of this study indicate that the Managing Search Operations, or “EFP-metoden” in Swedish, is a search method that works when the police search for a person with dementia in an urban environment. Why the method works can`t be explained and the reason is that there is lack of research and verified statistics in the research area of persons gone missing.  This indicates that there is a need of more research studies about people gone missing for the Swedish “EFP-metoden” to develop.    This study is done as a quality interview study and the study has been done to develop new information to the study of missing people who have dementia and to give suggestions to future research data in this field of study.

1 252 unaccompanied refugee children have disappeared in Sweden since 2007. These children have never been found. Nearly one unaccompanied refuge child disappears per day. This happens during the time they are within the Swedish authorities' responsibility. This thesis uses the framing theory of the mass media regarding the missing unaccompanied refugee children and what the mass media considers to be the cause of their disappearance, the moral aspects of the articles and the solutions to the problem. The study uses a qualitative content analysis to explore the framing theory and the agenda of the mass media to answer the research questions of the thesis. A quantitative analyze has been implemented to present how many articles there are that gets written regarding the missing unaccompanied refugee children. The material used in this thesis is a complete selection of the daily newspapers from Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, Svenska dagbladet as well as the two newspapers Sydsvenskan and Göteborgs-Posten. The material includes 71 articles that where published from 1st of January 2007 and 1st of April 2015. Thus the material consists of 71 articles from an eight-year period. Nearly one unaccompanied refuge child disappears per day in Sweden while the mass media publishes eight articles a year about this matter. The results of this thesis indicate that the missing unaccompanied refugee children do not get much attention in the agenda of the mass media. The results also show that the reason why these unaccompanied children may disappear while they are within the responsibility of the Swedish authorities is that there is no one who cares about them. Neither the authorities, journalists nor the citizens. / 1 252 ensamkommande flyktingbarn i Sverige har försvunnit sedan 2007. Dessa barn har aldrig återfunnits. Det försvinner nästintill ett ensamkommande barn om dagen i Sverige under tiden de är under svenska myndigheters ansvar. I denna uppsats analyseras massmedias gestaltning kring de försvunna ensamkommande flyktingbarnen, vad massmedia anser vara orsaken till att de försvinner, hur de moraliska aspekterna presenteras i artiklarna samt vilka lösningar på problemet som framläggs i media. Studien använder sig av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys för att analysera gestaltnings teorin samt massmedias dagordningsmakt i uppsatsen material samt för att besvara uppsatsens frågeställningar. En kvantitativ analys har även används för att presentera hur pass många artiklar som skrivs kring de försvunna ensamkommande flyktingbarnen. Materialet är ett totalurval från dagstidningarna Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet samt ytterligare två tidningar Sydsvenskan och Göteborgs-Posten. Materialet består av 71 artiklar och dessa artiklar är publicerade mellan 1 januari 2007 till 1 april 2015. Materialet består därmed av 71 artiklar från en åtta års period. Det försvinner nästan ett ensamkommande flyktingbarn per dag i Sverige och massmedia skriver Åtta artiklar per år om detta, det innebär att varje tidning skriver 1,4 artiklar var per år.   Uppsatsens resultat visar att problemet med de försvunna ensamkommande flyktingbarnen inte får stor plats i massmedias dagordning. Resultatet visar även att orsaken till att dessa ensamkommande flyktingbarn kan försvinna under tiden som de är under svenska myndigheters ansvar är att ingen verkar bry sig. Varken myndigheter, journalister eller medborgare.