Johan Nilsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Nilsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilsson |
| SIGNATURE | NILSSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Örebro University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6860-6090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Influence of Marxism upon the Trump Movement
This article uncovers the surprising and highly counter-intuitive influence of Marxism upon the Trump movement. This influence stems from James Burnham’s synthesis of Marxist and elite theory, which has been transmitted to the populist wing of the Republican party by way of paleoconservative and neo-reactionary theorists. This article demonstrates this by offering the most extensive literature review of elite theory thus far. In the course of map…
Inequality persists in a large citizen science programme despite increased participation through ICT innovations
Biological recording is a prominent and widely practised form of citizen science, but few studies explore long-term demographic trends in participation and knowledge production. We studied long-term demographic trends of age and gender of participants reporting to a large online citizen science multi-taxon biodiversity platform ( www.artportalen.se ). Adoption by user communities and continually developing Information and Communications Technolog…
How slow is ‘slow TV’? Audiences’ experiences of meditation, obsession and authenticity when watching swimming moose on Swedish television
This article explores viewers’ experiences of the Swedish Public Service (SVT) ‘slow TV’ broadcast Den stora älgvandringen ( The Great Moose Migration ), aired as a three-week long, live, multi-platform programme since 2019. Through semi-structured interviews with key informants, the aim is to qualitatively understand the audience attraction to the 24/7 programme, especially when it comes to authenticity, affordances and its apparent slowness of …
The Metaverse’s Thirtieth Anniversary
The metaverse is equivocal. It is a science-fictional concept from the past; it is the present’s rough implementations; and it is the Promised Cyberland, expected to manifest some time in the future. The metaverse first emerged as a techno-capitalist network in a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Our article thus marks the metaverse’s thirtieth anniversary. We revisit Stephenson’s original concept plus three sophisticated antecedents…
Inculcative address, commercial worldbuilding, and transmedia economy in the children’s franchise Bamse
Capitalist enterprises continuously push consumption of commercial products on children, for instance in the form of transmedial worlds in which multiple stories can play out across media and over time. The popular Swedish children's franchise Bamse has undergone an obvious capitalist expansion over time, with more and more commodities being made available for purchase. At the same time the brand continues to be promoted as a force for spreading …
If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”
The fascination with the “Eastern Wisdom” exhibited among esoteric movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is often understood as an interest in spirituality. Existing research has focused on how these movements took an interest in beliefs in doctrines like karma and reincarnation, as well as in practices of meditation and divination. Although this characterization is broadly correct, it is not the whole picture. This article…
The art of being governed
The licensed serving of alcoholic beverages is an important institutional aspect of food culture. In Sweden, the Government’s policies to battle the Covid-19 pandemic meant further restrictions, including a temporary law, to mitigate contagion at licensed restaurants, bars, producers’ tasting events, etc. This paper inquiries into the “art” exercised by managers of such businesses, already used to strict governance, of “being governed” when faced…
Kunglig förening
Research on the early 20th century European and American reception of yoga have revealed the significance of esoteric movements like the Theosophical Society in creating the modern, global phenomenon of yoga. Alongside interpretations of yoga as primarily a form of meditation which were common in the literature and, sometimes practice, of movements like Theosophy or Thelema there exist another phenomenon labeled yoga that have received less atten…
Shaping epistemic distance
This article explores the notion of ‘epistemic distances,’ which are operationalised by acts of showing as well as omitting. It is investigated through practices of market research where researchers aim to overcome a perceived lack or absence of market knowledge. However, such work relies on keeping clients and respondents away from many details of how the research is undertaken. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this article inquires into how …
Orinoco
We present Orinoco, an open-source Python toolkit that applies the fast-marching method to derive a river delta channel network from a water mask and ocean delineation. We are able to estimate flow direction, along-channel distance, channel width, and network-related metrics for deltaic analyses including the steady-state fluxes. To demonstrate the capabilities of the toolkit, we apply our software to the Wax Lake and Atchafalaya River Deltas usi…
Producing consumers
This article inquires into how market researchers produce a relationship between subjects of study and objects of knowledge in consumer research. The relationship is explored through the routines that a group of market researchers use to select and exclude research subjects. Adding to studies of how market research and other marketing activities establish their objects of knowledge in terms of "performing" and "construction," the article draws at…
Jan Olsson's Hitchcock à la Carte
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Book Review| February 01 2015 Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. By Marco Pasi. Acumen, 2013. xiv + 238 pages. $99.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. Johan Nilsson Johan Nilsson 1University Of Lund Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (3): 140–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.3.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Change in spring arrival of migratory birds under an era of climate change, Swedish data from the last 140 years
Many migratory bird species have advanced their spring arrival during the latest decades, most probably due to climate change. However, studies on migratory phenology in the period before recent global warming are scarce. We have analyzed a historical dataset (1873-1917) of spring arrival to southern and central Sweden of 14 migratory bird species. In addition, we have used relative differences between historical and present-day observations (198…
Valuation Studies
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Hanne Bruun
Hanne Bruun: Dansk tv-satire: Underholdning med kant. Kobenhavn: Books on Demand GmbH. 2011
American Critic
This article focuses on how critical reviews of Bulworth can be said to draw attention to political discourse when discussing the film's satirical aspirations. This entails a consideration of contemporary American reviews, which are discussed in relation to a conceptualization of satire in terms of a discursive practice. It is concluded that satire is understood, in quite unproblematic terms, both as a determinant for and as attributing a tone to…
Change in spring arrival of migratory birds under an era of climate change, Swedish data from the last 140 years
Many migratory bird species have advanced their spring arrival during the latest decades, most probably due to climate change. However, studies on migratory phenology in the period before recent global warming are scarce. We have analyzed a historical dataset (1873-1917) of spring arrival to southern and central Sweden of 14 migratory bird species. In addition, we have used relative differences between historical and present-day observations (198…
Inequality persists in a large citizen science programme despite increased participation through ICT innovations
Biological recording is a prominent and widely practised form of citizen science, but few studies explore long-term demographic trends in participation and knowledge production. We studied long-term demographic trends of age and gender of participants reporting to a large online citizen science multi-taxon biodiversity platform ( www.artportalen.se ). Adoption by user communities and continually developing Information and Communications Technolog…
Producing consumers
This article inquires into how market researchers produce a relationship between subjects of study and objects of knowledge in consumer research. The relationship is explored through the routines that a group of market researchers use to select and exclude research subjects. Adding to studies of how market research and other marketing activities establish their objects of knowledge in terms of "performing" and "construction," the article draws at…
American Critic
This article focuses on how critical reviews of Bulworth can be said to draw attention to political discourse when discussing the film's satirical aspirations. This entails a consideration of contemporary American reviews, which are discussed in relation to a conceptualization of satire in terms of a discursive practice. It is concluded that satire is understood, in quite unproblematic terms, both as a determinant for and as attributing a tone to…
Hanne Bruun
Hanne Bruun: Dansk tv-satire: Underholdning med kant. Kobenhavn: Books on Demand GmbH. 2011
Valuation Studies
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Book Review| February 01 2015 Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. By Marco Pasi. Acumen, 2013. xiv + 238 pages. $99.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. Johan Nilsson Johan Nilsson 1University Of Lund Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (3): 140–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.3.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Change in spring arrival of migratory birds under an era of climate change, Swedish data from the last 140 years
Many migratory bird species have advanced their spring arrival during the latest decades, most probably due to climate change. However, studies on migratory phenology in the period before recent global warming are scarce. We have analyzed a historical dataset (1873-1917) of spring arrival to southern and central Sweden of 14 migratory bird species. In addition, we have used relative differences between historical and present-day observations (198…
Jan Olsson's Hitchcock à la Carte
Orinoco
We present Orinoco, an open-source Python toolkit that applies the fast-marching method to derive a river delta channel network from a water mask and ocean delineation. We are able to estimate flow direction, along-channel distance, channel width, and network-related metrics for deltaic analyses including the steady-state fluxes. To demonstrate the capabilities of the toolkit, we apply our software to the Wax Lake and Atchafalaya River Deltas usi…
Producing consumers
This article inquires into how market researchers produce a relationship between subjects of study and objects of knowledge in consumer research. The relationship is explored through the routines that a group of market researchers use to select and exclude research subjects. Adding to studies of how market research and other marketing activities establish their objects of knowledge in terms of "performing" and "construction," the article draws at…
Kunglig förening
Research on the early 20th century European and American reception of yoga have revealed the significance of esoteric movements like the Theosophical Society in creating the modern, global phenomenon of yoga. Alongside interpretations of yoga as primarily a form of meditation which were common in the literature and, sometimes practice, of movements like Theosophy or Thelema there exist another phenomenon labeled yoga that have received less atten…
Shaping epistemic distance
This article explores the notion of ‘epistemic distances,’ which are operationalised by acts of showing as well as omitting. It is investigated through practices of market research where researchers aim to overcome a perceived lack or absence of market knowledge. However, such work relies on keeping clients and respondents away from many details of how the research is undertaken. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this article inquires into how …
The art of being governed
The licensed serving of alcoholic beverages is an important institutional aspect of food culture. In Sweden, the Government’s policies to battle the Covid-19 pandemic meant further restrictions, including a temporary law, to mitigate contagion at licensed restaurants, bars, producers’ tasting events, etc. This paper inquiries into the “art” exercised by managers of such businesses, already used to strict governance, of “being governed” when faced…
How slow is ‘slow TV’? Audiences’ experiences of meditation, obsession and authenticity when watching swimming moose on Swedish television
This article explores viewers’ experiences of the Swedish Public Service (SVT) ‘slow TV’ broadcast Den stora älgvandringen ( The Great Moose Migration ), aired as a three-week long, live, multi-platform programme since 2019. Through semi-structured interviews with key informants, the aim is to qualitatively understand the audience attraction to the 24/7 programme, especially when it comes to authenticity, affordances and its apparent slowness of …
The Metaverse’s Thirtieth Anniversary
The metaverse is equivocal. It is a science-fictional concept from the past; it is the present’s rough implementations; and it is the Promised Cyberland, expected to manifest some time in the future. The metaverse first emerged as a techno-capitalist network in a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Our article thus marks the metaverse’s thirtieth anniversary. We revisit Stephenson’s original concept plus three sophisticated antecedents…
Inculcative address, commercial worldbuilding, and transmedia economy in the children’s franchise Bamse
Capitalist enterprises continuously push consumption of commercial products on children, for instance in the form of transmedial worlds in which multiple stories can play out across media and over time. The popular Swedish children's franchise Bamse has undergone an obvious capitalist expansion over time, with more and more commodities being made available for purchase. At the same time the brand continues to be promoted as a force for spreading …
If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”
The fascination with the “Eastern Wisdom” exhibited among esoteric movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is often understood as an interest in spirituality. Existing research has focused on how these movements took an interest in beliefs in doctrines like karma and reincarnation, as well as in practices of meditation and divination. Although this characterization is broadly correct, it is not the whole picture. This article…
Inequality persists in a large citizen science programme despite increased participation through ICT innovations
Biological recording is a prominent and widely practised form of citizen science, but few studies explore long-term demographic trends in participation and knowledge production. We studied long-term demographic trends of age and gender of participants reporting to a large online citizen science multi-taxon biodiversity platform ( www.artportalen.se ). Adoption by user communities and continually developing Information and Communications Technolog…
The Influence of Marxism upon the Trump Movement
This article uncovers the surprising and highly counter-intuitive influence of Marxism upon the Trump movement. This influence stems from James Burnham’s synthesis of Marxist and elite theory, which has been transmitted to the populist wing of the Republican party by way of paleoconservative and neo-reactionary theorists. This article demonstrates this by offering the most extensive literature review of elite theory thus far. In the course of map…
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Politics (4 works)