Per Ståhlberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 198343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Per Ståhlberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Per |
| FAMILY NAME | Ståhlberg |
| SIGNATURE | STÅHLBERG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5150-7731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution
The Other within: Reflections on fieldwork in Ukraine before the Russian full-scale invasion
In this article, I reflect on several instances of symbolic communication that has been taking place in the shadow of the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine.The article should be read as some afterthoughts from a research project that was completed just before the Russian full-scale invasion.It builds mainly on material from intermittent fieldwork among PR consultants and government officials in Ukraine, with particular interest in meaning management…
Disruption and transformation in media events theory: The case of the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
Media events, Dayan and Katz argue, compose a narrative genre that follows specific structural principles and narrative tropes and that works toward societal integration. However, a specific subset of media events is labelled transformative, and these work towards societal change. In this article, we point to an unresolved tension between transformative events and what has subsequently been introduced as disruptive events. Our discussion builds o…
The PowerPoint Nation: Branding an Imagined Commodity
In the formation of the modern nation state and the social imaginary of nationalism in the nineteenth century, the media and representational practices have, among most scholars, been ascribed a prominent position. The question is, however, how have changes in media technologies, from mass media to digital and interactive personal media, impacted on the national imaginaries over the past few decades? This article discusses what happens with the s…
Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in India
No abstract available
The Jaipur Literature Festival and Its Critics: World Literature as Social Practice
The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has been held in the Indian city of Jaipur for the past ten years. The event has grown spectacularly and has provided an arena for encounters between literary worlds. It has also become a focus of debate and friction within the sphere of Indian writing. This article is based on fieldwork at the JLF 2017
Indian Imaginaries in World Literature and Domestic Popular Culture
This chapter will focus on two novels, both of them written in English by Indian authors and published in the same year, 2008: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Chetan Bhagats’s The Three Mistakes of my Life . Both novels narrate contemporary Indian society and share several themes, but they belong in different literary fields. Adiga’s book is circulating in a global literary field, Bhagat’s is a domestic bestseller. By focusing on common narra…
Having a soul or choosing a face? Nation branding, identity and cosmopolitan imagination
If nation branding is about constructing and promoting national identity, what kind of ‘identity’ could it possibly be? This article analyses how the branded nation qualitatively differs from earlier forms of imagined communities by focusing on the tension between inward- and outward-directed dimensions of nation branding. A particular focus is placed on the concept of ‘identity’, which, it is argued, is insufficiently problematized in previous r…
Nationen som vara och gemenskap: Identitet, agens och publik inom nationsmarknadsföring
Nation-branding is a dynamic and rapidly developing practice promoting or readjustingimages of a nation-state for tourists or investors. New, postcolonial nation-statesseem to have a particular need to build new images of themselves in the eyes of thewider world. However, since they have a short history of sovereignty, these statessimultaneously need to build social solidarity and community at home if they are toform the basis needed for building…
Population and Publics in the Indian Communication Society
In post-liberalised India, the vast population is regarded as an enormous resource to be exploited as labourers, consumers or for their knowledge. A feature of the new media economy is that newspapers, mobile phones and TV shows are not exclusively produced for the better-off among an urban middle class and, furthermore, that the mass media are increasingly making use of 'common people' and their lives in a multitude of places as media content. T…
On the journalist beat in India: Encounters with the near familiar
This article concerns journalism as an object of anthropological study. It raises questions about how we should study an occupation that is so familiar in most places of the world. For example, how should we conceptualize newspaper journalism both as a globally diffused media form and as localized cultural practice? Furthermore, I discuss the relationship between the anthropologist and the journalist as two professionals that are equally engaged …
On the journalist beat in India: Encounters with the near familiar
This article concerns journalism as an object of anthropological study. It raises questions about how we should study an occupation that is so familiar in most places of the world. For example, how should we conceptualize newspaper journalism both as a globally diffused media form and as localized cultural practice? Furthermore, I discuss the relationship between the anthropologist and the journalist as two professionals that are equally engaged …
Having a soul or choosing a face? Nation branding, identity and cosmopolitan imagination
If nation branding is about constructing and promoting national identity, what kind of ‘identity’ could it possibly be? This article analyses how the branded nation qualitatively differs from earlier forms of imagined communities by focusing on the tension between inward- and outward-directed dimensions of nation branding. A particular focus is placed on the concept of ‘identity’, which, it is argued, is insufficiently problematized in previous r…
Disruption and transformation in media events theory: The case of the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
Media events, Dayan and Katz argue, compose a narrative genre that follows specific structural principles and narrative tropes and that works toward societal integration. However, a specific subset of media events is labelled transformative, and these work towards societal change. In this article, we point to an unresolved tension between transformative events and what has subsequently been introduced as disruptive events. Our discussion builds o…
Population and Publics in the Indian Communication Society
In post-liberalised India, the vast population is regarded as an enormous resource to be exploited as labourers, consumers or for their knowledge. A feature of the new media economy is that newspapers, mobile phones and TV shows are not exclusively produced for the better-off among an urban middle class and, furthermore, that the mass media are increasingly making use of 'common people' and their lives in a multitude of places as media content. T…
The Other within: Reflections on fieldwork in Ukraine before the Russian full-scale invasion
In this article, I reflect on several instances of symbolic communication that has been taking place in the shadow of the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine.The article should be read as some afterthoughts from a research project that was completed just before the Russian full-scale invasion.It builds mainly on material from intermittent fieldwork among PR consultants and government officials in Ukraine, with particular interest in meaning management…
The PowerPoint Nation: Branding an Imagined Commodity
In the formation of the modern nation state and the social imaginary of nationalism in the nineteenth century, the media and representational practices have, among most scholars, been ascribed a prominent position. The question is, however, how have changes in media technologies, from mass media to digital and interactive personal media, impacted on the national imaginaries over the past few decades? This article discusses what happens with the s…
Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in India
No abstract available
The Jaipur Literature Festival and Its Critics: World Literature as Social Practice
The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has been held in the Indian city of Jaipur for the past ten years. The event has grown spectacularly and has provided an arena for encounters between literary worlds. It has also become a focus of debate and friction within the sphere of Indian writing. This article is based on fieldwork at the JLF 2017
On the journalist beat in India: Encounters with the near familiar
This article concerns journalism as an object of anthropological study. It raises questions about how we should study an occupation that is so familiar in most places of the world. For example, how should we conceptualize newspaper journalism both as a globally diffused media form and as localized cultural practice? Furthermore, I discuss the relationship between the anthropologist and the journalist as two professionals that are equally engaged …
Population and Publics in the Indian Communication Society
In post-liberalised India, the vast population is regarded as an enormous resource to be exploited as labourers, consumers or for their knowledge. A feature of the new media economy is that newspapers, mobile phones and TV shows are not exclusively produced for the better-off among an urban middle class and, furthermore, that the mass media are increasingly making use of 'common people' and their lives in a multitude of places as media content. T…
Nationen som vara och gemenskap: Identitet, agens och publik inom nationsmarknadsföring
Nation-branding is a dynamic and rapidly developing practice promoting or readjustingimages of a nation-state for tourists or investors. New, postcolonial nation-statesseem to have a particular need to build new images of themselves in the eyes of thewider world. However, since they have a short history of sovereignty, these statessimultaneously need to build social solidarity and community at home if they are toform the basis needed for building…
Having a soul or choosing a face? Nation branding, identity and cosmopolitan imagination
If nation branding is about constructing and promoting national identity, what kind of ‘identity’ could it possibly be? This article analyses how the branded nation qualitatively differs from earlier forms of imagined communities by focusing on the tension between inward- and outward-directed dimensions of nation branding. A particular focus is placed on the concept of ‘identity’, which, it is argued, is insufficiently problematized in previous r…
Indian Imaginaries in World Literature and Domestic Popular Culture
This chapter will focus on two novels, both of them written in English by Indian authors and published in the same year, 2008: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Chetan Bhagats’s The Three Mistakes of my Life . Both novels narrate contemporary Indian society and share several themes, but they belong in different literary fields. Adiga’s book is circulating in a global literary field, Bhagat’s is a domestic bestseller. By focusing on common narra…
Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in India
No abstract available
The Jaipur Literature Festival and Its Critics: World Literature as Social Practice
The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has been held in the Indian city of Jaipur for the past ten years. The event has grown spectacularly and has provided an arena for encounters between literary worlds. It has also become a focus of debate and friction within the sphere of Indian writing. This article is based on fieldwork at the JLF 2017
The PowerPoint Nation: Branding an Imagined Commodity
In the formation of the modern nation state and the social imaginary of nationalism in the nineteenth century, the media and representational practices have, among most scholars, been ascribed a prominent position. The question is, however, how have changes in media technologies, from mass media to digital and interactive personal media, impacted on the national imaginaries over the past few decades? This article discusses what happens with the s…
Disruption and transformation in media events theory: The case of the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
Media events, Dayan and Katz argue, compose a narrative genre that follows specific structural principles and narrative tropes and that works toward societal integration. However, a specific subset of media events is labelled transformative, and these work towards societal change. In this article, we point to an unresolved tension between transformative events and what has subsequently been introduced as disruptive events. Our discussion builds o…
Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution
The Other within: Reflections on fieldwork in Ukraine before the Russian full-scale invasion
In this article, I reflect on several instances of symbolic communication that has been taking place in the shadow of the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine.The article should be read as some afterthoughts from a research project that was completed just before the Russian full-scale invasion.It builds mainly on material from intermittent fieldwork among PR consultants and government officials in Ukraine, with particular interest in meaning management…
Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)