Eva Samuelsson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 210442 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eva Samuelsson |
| NOMBRES | Eva |
| APELLIDO | Samuelsson |
| FIRMA | SAMUELSSON E |
| AFILIACIONES | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0508-2709 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Substance use assemblages as producers of healthy and unhealthy bodies
The article examines how alcohol use and well-being are entangled in young people’s lives by analyzing qualitative longitudinal interviews with four participants, following their substance use practices over seven years. It examines what kinds of bodily and incorporeal transformations their substance use facilitated when it became connected in a particular way to human and non-human actors that formed assemblages. The substance-using assemblages …
Attachments to human capital
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm
Background Drug policy is prone to build on rationales based on different moralities rather than evidence. Less is known about how moralities influence drug policy implementation in practice. The aim was to analyze expressions of moralities among local policy-makers, professionals, and drug users in the context of the Stockholm needle and syringe exchange program (NSP).Methods Using political documentation from Stockholm (2003–2016), focus group …
Locked Out, Opened Up and Locked In by Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs
Intrigued by the overwhelmingly positive response to the needle and syringe exchange program (NSP) by people who inject drugs in Stockholm, this article sought to untangle harm reduction in a prohibitionist drug policy context. The article drew on assemblage thinking and used semistructured individual interviews with 32 people who inject drugs, and three focus groups with staff at the Stockholm NSP. The aim was to dissect harm reduction in the fo…
Injecting drugs as a matter of care
In this article, we analyze the care work employed by people who inject drugs to counter risks in their life situations and make their drug use safer. Injecting drugs is associated with numerous health and social risks, such as overdose, the use of used and shared equipment, and getting caught by the police. We approach descriptions of injection events as narratives of care. Participants (N=32) were recruited for semi-structured interviews primar…
Parenting and substance use problems in Sweden
Parenting and heavy substance use
Our study suggests that by shifting the perspective from doubt and criticism (NT) to empathy and care (ANT), research can transcend mere critique and serve as a tool for empowerment, advocacy, and meaningful change
Planned pleasures
It has been suggested that a pivotal explanation for the drastic decrease in young people's alcohol consumption is the younger generations concern with taking responsibility for a variety of areas in their lives. Emanating from this, the overall aim of this article is to consider how alcohol and drinking situations are enacted among a group of emerging adults in Sweden from this 'generation sensible', and how they describe the relation between al…
Following the changes in young people’s drinking practices before and during the pandemic with a qualitative longitudinal interview material
The paper analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people's alcohol-related assemblages, trajectories of becoming and identity claims in Sweden. The data is based on longitudinal qualitative interviews among heavy and moderate drinking young people (n = 23; age range 15–24 years). The participants were interviewed two to three times before the Covid-19 pandemic and once at the end of it, between 2017 and 2021. The analysis draws on actor…
Secrecy, self-blame and risks for social exclusion—Family members’ experiences of gambling problems in Japan
The predominant gambling policy to respond to the adverse consequences of excessive gambling has been the Reno Model, which places the responsibility for gambling-caused problems on gamblers themselves. The newly implemented Japanese gambling policy, which shares basic premises with the Reno Model, focuses on the individual pathology of gamblers. However, this model lacks other critical perspectives: environmental and structural factors. To fully…
Sense or sensibility—Ideological dilemmas in gamblers' notions of responsibilities for gambling problems
The gambling market is a complex field of conflicting stakeholders and interests involving dimensions, such as economy, health, social inequality and morals. The division of responsibility between gamblers, the gambling industry and the regulating state for limiting the harmful effects of this activity, however, are unclear. The aim of this study was to explore how gamblers in the Swedish market attribute responsibility to various actors within t…
Becoming Safe, Legal, Mature, Moderate, and Self-Reflexive
In recent years, a vast body of research has investigated trends of declining alcohol consumption among youths. However, the extent to which restrictive-youth approaches towards drinking are maintained into adulthood is unclear. The aim of this study is to explore how young people's relation to alcohol changes over time. Our data are based on longitudinal qualitative in-depth interviews with 28 participants aged 15 to 23 conducted over the course…
There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”
We identified an intolerance towards regressive constructions of gender that emphasise weakness for women and strength for men and a valorisation of gendered expressions of maturity through controlled drinking. Though subtle differences in gendered drinking practices between and within countries were observed, our findings offer insight into how young people's enactions of gender are embedded in, and evolve alongside, these large declines in yout…
How Covid-19 restrictions affected young people's well-being and drinking practices
The results suggest that material domestic spaces, communication technologies and performance are important actants both for alcohol consumption and well-being among young people. These actants may increase or decrease young people's drinking and well-being depending on what kinds of relations become assembled
Social health’, ‘physical health’, and well-being
As the 'physical health' approach appears to modify young people's practices of drinking to be less oriented to intoxication or away from drinking, this may partly explain why young people are drinking less today than earlier. Compared to drinking, the physical health-related social spaces also seem to provide more powerful arenas within which to bolster one's masculine and feminine habitus. This further suggests that intoxication may have lost i…
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives
This study analyzes how emerging adults negotiate their relation to alcohol in the context of declining youth drinking and how this relationship changes over time. The sample consists of longitudinal qualitative interview data ( N = 28) with 9 boys and 19 girls aged 15 to 21. The participants were recruited through schools, social media and non-governmental organizations from mainly the Stockholm region and smaller towns in central Sweden to reac…
Health, risk-taking and well-being
In the last 20 years, adolescents’ heavy drinking in many western countries has declined. Simultaneously, researchers have identified an increased interest in health among young people. The paper compares adolescents’ gendered discourses and practices on intoxication and health in order to clarify the role gender plays in their current low alcohol consumption. The data consists of semi-structured interviews about alcohol, health and leisure activ…
Online gambling venues as relational actors in addiction
With the emerging technologies of the Internet and smartphones during the last decades, the gambling environment has undergone a massive transformation. In Sweden, and Europe in general, online gambling has more than doubled since 2007. The paper studies online gambling venues (OGVs) as relational actors of addiction. By drawing on the actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage thinking, we examine how OGVs, as actors in specific networks of attac…
How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people
Research shows that young people’s online practices have become a continuous, seamless and routine part of their physical and social worlds. Studies report contradictory findings on whether social media promotes intoxication-driven drinking cultures among young people or diminishes their alcohol consumption. By applying actor-network theory, our starting point is that the effects of social media depend on what kinds of concerns mediate its use. S…
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol
Since the 2000s, there has been a worldwide trend of decreased alcohol consumption among young people. Although recent studies have given multiple explanations for this, we know little about the meaning of alcohol for this generation as they enter adulthood. The aim of this article is therefore to describe and analyze the age-related views toward alcohol among this group as they transition from adolescents to adults. The study was based on 39 qua…
Why are young people drinking less than earlier? Identifying and specifying social mechanisms with a pragmatist approach
Recent surveys have found a strong decrease in alcohol consumption among young people and this trend has been identified in European countries, Australia and North America. Previous research suggests that the decline in alcohol consumption may be explained by changes in parenting style, increased use of social media, changes in gender identities or a health and fitness trend. We use qualitative interviews with drinking and non-drinking young peop…
Configurations of gambling change and harm
Background: Gambling participation and problems change over time and are influenced by a variety of individual and contextual factors. However, gambling research has only to a small extent studied gamblers’ own perceptions of transitions in and out of problem gambling.Method: Qualitative telephone interviews were made with 40 gamblers who had repeatedly participated in the Swelogs Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study. The framework approach was us…
A utopia da plena felicidade e a expressão da histeria das massas na contemporaneidade
Fornecendo uma análise reflexiva sobre o conceito de felicidade postulado por Sigmund Freud em seu trabalho intitulado como “O Mal Estar na Civilização”, obra na qual Freud desenvolveu reflexões que contemplam as exigências impostas pela civilização e a busca incansável pela felicidade, correlacionando com a dificuldade da então plenitude da existência, ou felicidade plena. Objetivos: Compreender e conceituar o conceito de felicidade e sua dinâmi…
Perceptions of treatment needs – A factorial survey of Swedish addiction care practitioners
The aim of the study was to analyze addiction care staff (N = 447) perceptions of needs for psychosocial and medical treatment, and possibilities for self-change in relation to fictitious cases. By means of a factorial survey and multilevel analysis, the importance of user, respondent and work characteristics were estimated, with a particular focus on the comparison between healthcare staff and social services staff. Healthcare staff were more sk…
Substance Use and Treatment Needs
Men’s and women’s drinking tend to elicit different societal reactions, which may be attributed to different perceptions of masculinity and femininity. This study analyzes addiction care practitioners’ constructions of substance use and treatment needs in relation to gender. Data were collected by means of six focus group interviews with 30 addiction care practitioners. An interpretative repertoire of difference emerged, whereby women were constr…
My Greatest Dream is to be Normal
Depression is common among young people. Gender differences in diagnosing depression appear during adolescence. The study aim was to explore the impact of gender on depression in young Swedish men and women. Grounded theory was used to analyze interviews with 23 young people aged 17 to 25 years who had been diagnosed with depression. Their narratives were marked by a striving to be normal and disclosed strong gender stereotypes, constructed in in…
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol
Since the 2000s, there has been a worldwide trend of decreased alcohol consumption among young people. Although recent studies have given multiple explanations for this, we know little about the meaning of alcohol for this generation as they enter adulthood. The aim of this article is therefore to describe and analyze the age-related views toward alcohol among this group as they transition from adolescents to adults. The study was based on 39 qua…
How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people
Research shows that young people’s online practices have become a continuous, seamless and routine part of their physical and social worlds. Studies report contradictory findings on whether social media promotes intoxication-driven drinking cultures among young people or diminishes their alcohol consumption. By applying actor-network theory, our starting point is that the effects of social media depend on what kinds of concerns mediate its use. S…
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives
This study analyzes how emerging adults negotiate their relation to alcohol in the context of declining youth drinking and how this relationship changes over time. The sample consists of longitudinal qualitative interview data ( N = 28) with 9 boys and 19 girls aged 15 to 21. The participants were recruited through schools, social media and non-governmental organizations from mainly the Stockholm region and smaller towns in central Sweden to reac…
Substance Use and Treatment Needs
Men’s and women’s drinking tend to elicit different societal reactions, which may be attributed to different perceptions of masculinity and femininity. This study analyzes addiction care practitioners’ constructions of substance use and treatment needs in relation to gender. Data were collected by means of six focus group interviews with 30 addiction care practitioners. An interpretative repertoire of difference emerged, whereby women were constr…
Planned pleasures
It has been suggested that a pivotal explanation for the drastic decrease in young people's alcohol consumption is the younger generations concern with taking responsibility for a variety of areas in their lives. Emanating from this, the overall aim of this article is to consider how alcohol and drinking situations are enacted among a group of emerging adults in Sweden from this 'generation sensible', and how they describe the relation between al…
Following the changes in young people’s drinking practices before and during the pandemic with a qualitative longitudinal interview material
The paper analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people's alcohol-related assemblages, trajectories of becoming and identity claims in Sweden. The data is based on longitudinal qualitative interviews among heavy and moderate drinking young people (n = 23; age range 15–24 years). The participants were interviewed two to three times before the Covid-19 pandemic and once at the end of it, between 2017 and 2021. The analysis draws on actor…
A utopia da plena felicidade e a expressão da histeria das massas na contemporaneidade
Fornecendo uma análise reflexiva sobre o conceito de felicidade postulado por Sigmund Freud em seu trabalho intitulado como “O Mal Estar na Civilização”, obra na qual Freud desenvolveu reflexões que contemplam as exigências impostas pela civilização e a busca incansável pela felicidade, correlacionando com a dificuldade da então plenitude da existência, ou felicidade plena. Objetivos: Compreender e conceituar o conceito de felicidade e sua dinâmi…
My Greatest Dream is to be Normal
Depression is common among young people. Gender differences in diagnosing depression appear during adolescence. The study aim was to explore the impact of gender on depression in young Swedish men and women. Grounded theory was used to analyze interviews with 23 young people aged 17 to 25 years who had been diagnosed with depression. Their narratives were marked by a striving to be normal and disclosed strong gender stereotypes, constructed in in…
Disentangling practitioners’ perceptions of substance use severity
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of user, staff and work unit characteristics on addiction care practitioners’ assessments of the severity of alcohol and drug use. A factorial survey was conducted among 489 social workers, therapists, nurses, doctors and executives from 77 addiction care units in the three largest Swedish counties. Staff assessed the severity of 10 fictive scenarios, vignettes (n = 4724), describing persons with…
Women's Experiences of Internet-Based or Postal Treatment for Stress Urinary Incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence is common and sometimes embarrassing. New, simple, and easily accessible treatments are needed. We telephone interviewed 21 women who participated in a randomized controlled study comparing two treatment programs based on instructions for pelvic floor muscle training. One program was Internet-based and included email support by a urotherapist; the other was sent by post. There was no face-to-face contact in either prog…
Perceptions of treatment needs – A factorial survey of Swedish addiction care practitioners
The aim of the study was to analyze addiction care staff (N = 447) perceptions of needs for psychosocial and medical treatment, and possibilities for self-change in relation to fictitious cases. By means of a factorial survey and multilevel analysis, the importance of user, respondent and work characteristics were estimated, with a particular focus on the comparison between healthcare staff and social services staff. Healthcare staff were more sk…
Substance Use and Treatment Needs
Men’s and women’s drinking tend to elicit different societal reactions, which may be attributed to different perceptions of masculinity and femininity. This study analyzes addiction care practitioners’ constructions of substance use and treatment needs in relation to gender. Data were collected by means of six focus group interviews with 30 addiction care practitioners. An interpretative repertoire of difference emerged, whereby women were constr…
Configurations of gambling change and harm
Background: Gambling participation and problems change over time and are influenced by a variety of individual and contextual factors. However, gambling research has only to a small extent studied gamblers’ own perceptions of transitions in and out of problem gambling.Method: Qualitative telephone interviews were made with 40 gamblers who had repeatedly participated in the Swelogs Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study. The framework approach was us…
A utopia da plena felicidade e a expressão da histeria das massas na contemporaneidade
Fornecendo uma análise reflexiva sobre o conceito de felicidade postulado por Sigmund Freud em seu trabalho intitulado como “O Mal Estar na Civilização”, obra na qual Freud desenvolveu reflexões que contemplam as exigências impostas pela civilização e a busca incansável pela felicidade, correlacionando com a dificuldade da então plenitude da existência, ou felicidade plena. Objetivos: Compreender e conceituar o conceito de felicidade e sua dinâmi…
Why are young people drinking less than earlier? Identifying and specifying social mechanisms with a pragmatist approach
Recent surveys have found a strong decrease in alcohol consumption among young people and this trend has been identified in European countries, Australia and North America. Previous research suggests that the decline in alcohol consumption may be explained by changes in parenting style, increased use of social media, changes in gender identities or a health and fitness trend. We use qualitative interviews with drinking and non-drinking young peop…
Health, risk-taking and well-being
In the last 20 years, adolescents’ heavy drinking in many western countries has declined. Simultaneously, researchers have identified an increased interest in health among young people. The paper compares adolescents’ gendered discourses and practices on intoxication and health in order to clarify the role gender plays in their current low alcohol consumption. The data consists of semi-structured interviews about alcohol, health and leisure activ…
Online gambling venues as relational actors in addiction
With the emerging technologies of the Internet and smartphones during the last decades, the gambling environment has undergone a massive transformation. In Sweden, and Europe in general, online gambling has more than doubled since 2007. The paper studies online gambling venues (OGVs) as relational actors of addiction. By drawing on the actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage thinking, we examine how OGVs, as actors in specific networks of attac…
How do social media-related attachments and assemblages encourage or reduce drinking among young people
Research shows that young people’s online practices have become a continuous, seamless and routine part of their physical and social worlds. Studies report contradictory findings on whether social media promotes intoxication-driven drinking cultures among young people or diminishes their alcohol consumption. By applying actor-network theory, our starting point is that the effects of social media depend on what kinds of concerns mediate its use. S…
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol
Since the 2000s, there has been a worldwide trend of decreased alcohol consumption among young people. Although recent studies have given multiple explanations for this, we know little about the meaning of alcohol for this generation as they enter adulthood. The aim of this article is therefore to describe and analyze the age-related views toward alcohol among this group as they transition from adolescents to adults. The study was based on 39 qua…
Social health’, ‘physical health’, and well-being
As the 'physical health' approach appears to modify young people's practices of drinking to be less oriented to intoxication or away from drinking, this may partly explain why young people are drinking less today than earlier. Compared to drinking, the physical health-related social spaces also seem to provide more powerful arenas within which to bolster one's masculine and feminine habitus. This further suggests that intoxication may have lost i…
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives
This study analyzes how emerging adults negotiate their relation to alcohol in the context of declining youth drinking and how this relationship changes over time. The sample consists of longitudinal qualitative interview data ( N = 28) with 9 boys and 19 girls aged 15 to 21. The participants were recruited through schools, social media and non-governmental organizations from mainly the Stockholm region and smaller towns in central Sweden to reac…
Secrecy, self-blame and risks for social exclusion—Family members’ experiences of gambling problems in Japan
The predominant gambling policy to respond to the adverse consequences of excessive gambling has been the Reno Model, which places the responsibility for gambling-caused problems on gamblers themselves. The newly implemented Japanese gambling policy, which shares basic premises with the Reno Model, focuses on the individual pathology of gamblers. However, this model lacks other critical perspectives: environmental and structural factors. To fully…
Sense or sensibility—Ideological dilemmas in gamblers' notions of responsibilities for gambling problems
The gambling market is a complex field of conflicting stakeholders and interests involving dimensions, such as economy, health, social inequality and morals. The division of responsibility between gamblers, the gambling industry and the regulating state for limiting the harmful effects of this activity, however, are unclear. The aim of this study was to explore how gamblers in the Swedish market attribute responsibility to various actors within t…
Becoming Safe, Legal, Mature, Moderate, and Self-Reflexive
In recent years, a vast body of research has investigated trends of declining alcohol consumption among youths. However, the extent to which restrictive-youth approaches towards drinking are maintained into adulthood is unclear. The aim of this study is to explore how young people's relation to alcohol changes over time. Our data are based on longitudinal qualitative in-depth interviews with 28 participants aged 15 to 23 conducted over the course…
There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”
We identified an intolerance towards regressive constructions of gender that emphasise weakness for women and strength for men and a valorisation of gendered expressions of maturity through controlled drinking. Though subtle differences in gendered drinking practices between and within countries were observed, our findings offer insight into how young people's enactions of gender are embedded in, and evolve alongside, these large declines in yout…
How Covid-19 restrictions affected young people's well-being and drinking practices
The results suggest that material domestic spaces, communication technologies and performance are important actants both for alcohol consumption and well-being among young people. These actants may increase or decrease young people's drinking and well-being depending on what kinds of relations become assembled
Following the changes in young people’s drinking practices before and during the pandemic with a qualitative longitudinal interview material
The paper analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people's alcohol-related assemblages, trajectories of becoming and identity claims in Sweden. The data is based on longitudinal qualitative interviews among heavy and moderate drinking young people (n = 23; age range 15–24 years). The participants were interviewed two to three times before the Covid-19 pandemic and once at the end of it, between 2017 and 2021. The analysis draws on actor…
Planned pleasures
It has been suggested that a pivotal explanation for the drastic decrease in young people's alcohol consumption is the younger generations concern with taking responsibility for a variety of areas in their lives. Emanating from this, the overall aim of this article is to consider how alcohol and drinking situations are enacted among a group of emerging adults in Sweden from this 'generation sensible', and how they describe the relation between al…
Morality boundary work in the making of the needle and syringe exchange program in Stockholm
Background Drug policy is prone to build on rationales based on different moralities rather than evidence. Less is known about how moralities influence drug policy implementation in practice. The aim was to analyze expressions of moralities among local policy-makers, professionals, and drug users in the context of the Stockholm needle and syringe exchange program (NSP).Methods Using political documentation from Stockholm (2003–2016), focus group …
Locked Out, Opened Up and Locked In by Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs
Intrigued by the overwhelmingly positive response to the needle and syringe exchange program (NSP) by people who inject drugs in Stockholm, this article sought to untangle harm reduction in a prohibitionist drug policy context. The article drew on assemblage thinking and used semistructured individual interviews with 32 people who inject drugs, and three focus groups with staff at the Stockholm NSP. The aim was to dissect harm reduction in the fo…
Injecting drugs as a matter of care
In this article, we analyze the care work employed by people who inject drugs to counter risks in their life situations and make their drug use safer. Injecting drugs is associated with numerous health and social risks, such as overdose, the use of used and shared equipment, and getting caught by the police. We approach descriptions of injection events as narratives of care. Participants (N=32) were recruited for semi-structured interviews primar…
Parenting and substance use problems in Sweden
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