Robert Aman
Biographic Data
| ID | 454660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Aman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Aman |
| SIGNATURE | AMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2387-1883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The red bear: Class politics and international solidarity in Bamse
Rune Andreásson’s hero Bamse, the world’s strongest bear, stands as one of the most recognisable and successful comic book characters in Sweden. The comic is renowned for its social pathos, aiming to impart values considered positive. This article critically analyses the ideological content of the comic during the 1970s. It argues that Bamse serves as a prime example of what has been classified as politicised children’s literature in the wake of …
Semi-naked revolutionary: Native Americans, colourblind anti-racism and the Pillaging of Latin America in Tumac
The eponymous protagonist of Tumac, a comic book published monthly in Sweden between 1978 and 1980, is a young indigenous boy who in contemporary times becomes emperor of a hidden Inca empire. After attempting to create a society where all social hierarchies have ceased to exist, Tumac leaves this hidden location in the jungle to help bring about a revolution in Latin America. This essay argues that Tumac is a prime example of what can be classif…
Spirou in the Congo: Colonial racism and civilising mission in journal de Spirou 1938-1960
This article situates Journal de Spirou and its flagship title in the context of Belgium’s imperial history. It examines pro-empire messages in the magazine from the inaugural issue in 1938 up to the independence of the Congo in 1960. The magazine is one of Europe’s most successful, and the bellboy whose name is on the cover has evolved into a true icon of Franco – Belgian comics. Less known is the role Spirou played in promoting the colonial ide…
Muscular superheroes and girly ducks: Gender talk using comics in the classroom
This paper explores how participants in a Swedish secondary school do gender talk with comics. Swedish schools are tasked with working with gender, but this can be a challenge for many teachers, and finding materials to work with gender aspects can be difficult. Meanwhile, literary research on comics has shown them to be a potential tool for problematising gender, but little educational research has investigated the gender discussions that comics…
Interculturality, interculturalidad, and the colonial difference
Policy makers, academics, and practitioners around Europe propagate the importance of interculturality as a strategy for coping with ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, citing the SAGE handbook of intercultural competence, as a means “to better understand others’ behaviors to interact effectively and appropriately with others and, ultimately, to become more interculturally competent”. Nevertheless, the purpose of this chapter is not to unc…
Whiteness and the Colonial Origins of America’s First Superhero: Lee Falk’s The Phantom
A double pressure to perform? Pupils talk about grades and parents in a multicultural school setting in Sweden
The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best described as robust. Some pupils want and ask for a better school-home relationship because they think it w…
Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning
Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning
Colonial Differences in Intercultural Education: On Interculturality in the Andes and the Decolonization of Intercultural Dialogue
This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted away from the policies of the European Union and UNESCO to the Andean region of Latin America where the notion of interculturalidad is not only a subject on the educational agenda but has also be…
Swedish Colonialism, Exotic Africans and Romantic Anti-Capitalism: Notes on the Comic Series Johan Vilde
The award-winning Johan Vilde comic series deals with what has been referred to as a concealed part of Swedish history – namely Sweden’s involvement in the slave trade during the seventeenth century. The protagonist is a cabin boy on a Swedish merchant ship who is forced to escape after being accused of mutiny. After jumping ship, he floats ashore in Cabo Corso – located in modern-day Ghana – where he is eventually adopted by a local clan and gro…
Why Interculturalidad is not Interculturality: Colonial remains and paradoxes in translation between indigenous social movements and supranational bodies
Interculturality is a notion that has come to dominate the debate on cultural diversity among supranational bodies such as the European Union and UNESCO in recent years. The EU goes so far as to identify interculturality as a key cultural and linguistic characteristic of a union which, it argues, acts as an inspiration to other parts of the world. At the same time, the very notion of interculturality is a core component of indigenous movements in…
Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America
No abstract available
In the name of interculturality: On colonial legacies in intercultural education
This paper scrutinises the ways in which students who have completed a university course on interculturality distinguish between sameness and otherness in attempts to integrate, relate to and build a bridge to those deemed culturally different. It makes use of interviews to analyse the factors that shape the interpretation of otherness and difference in the students' definitions of interculturality, as well as their statements about the relations…
The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education
This paper explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literature, implicitly or otherwise, defines in terms of samen…
Genuine multiculturalism: The Tragedy and Comedy of Diversity
No abstract available
Impossible Interculturality: Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World
An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate 'interculturality' as a method for approaching 'the Other' and reconciling universal values an
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
The EU and the Recycling of Colonialism: Formation of Europeans through intercultural dialogue
The present essay focuses on problematizing the European Union's claim that intercultural dialogue constitutes an advocated method of talking through cultural boundaries—inside as well as outside the classroom—based on mutual empathy and non‐domination. More precisely, the aim is to analyze who is being constructed as counterparts of the intercultural dialogue through the discourse produced by the EU in policies on education, culture and intercul…
Colonial Differences in Intercultural Education: On Interculturality in the Andes and the Decolonization of Intercultural Dialogue
This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted away from the policies of the European Union and UNESCO to the Andean region of Latin America where the notion of interculturalidad is not only a subject on the educational agenda but has also be…
In the name of interculturality: On colonial legacies in intercultural education
This paper scrutinises the ways in which students who have completed a university course on interculturality distinguish between sameness and otherness in attempts to integrate, relate to and build a bridge to those deemed culturally different. It makes use of interviews to analyse the factors that shape the interpretation of otherness and difference in the students' definitions of interculturality, as well as their statements about the relations…
The EU and the Recycling of Colonialism: Formation of Europeans through intercultural dialogue
The present essay focuses on problematizing the European Union's claim that intercultural dialogue constitutes an advocated method of talking through cultural boundaries—inside as well as outside the classroom—based on mutual empathy and non‐domination. More precisely, the aim is to analyze who is being constructed as counterparts of the intercultural dialogue through the discourse produced by the EU in policies on education, culture and intercul…
Impossible Interculturality: Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World
An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate 'interculturality' as a method for approaching 'the Other' and reconciling universal values an
Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America
No abstract available
The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education
This paper explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literature, implicitly or otherwise, defines in terms of samen…
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
The EU and the Recycling of Colonialism: Formation of Europeans through intercultural dialogue
The present essay focuses on problematizing the European Union's claim that intercultural dialogue constitutes an advocated method of talking through cultural boundaries—inside as well as outside the classroom—based on mutual empathy and non‐domination. More precisely, the aim is to analyze who is being constructed as counterparts of the intercultural dialogue through the discourse produced by the EU in policies on education, culture and intercul…
Managing by measuring: Academic knowledge production under the ranks
No abstract available
Impossible Interculturality: Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World
An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate 'interculturality' as a method for approaching 'the Other' and reconciling universal values an
Why Interculturalidad is not Interculturality: Colonial remains and paradoxes in translation between indigenous social movements and supranational bodies
Interculturality is a notion that has come to dominate the debate on cultural diversity among supranational bodies such as the European Union and UNESCO in recent years. The EU goes so far as to identify interculturality as a key cultural and linguistic characteristic of a union which, it argues, acts as an inspiration to other parts of the world. At the same time, the very notion of interculturality is a core component of indigenous movements in…
Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America
No abstract available
In the name of interculturality: On colonial legacies in intercultural education
This paper scrutinises the ways in which students who have completed a university course on interculturality distinguish between sameness and otherness in attempts to integrate, relate to and build a bridge to those deemed culturally different. It makes use of interviews to analyse the factors that shape the interpretation of otherness and difference in the students' definitions of interculturality, as well as their statements about the relations…
The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education
This paper explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literature, implicitly or otherwise, defines in terms of samen…
Genuine multiculturalism: The Tragedy and Comedy of Diversity
No abstract available
Swedish Colonialism, Exotic Africans and Romantic Anti-Capitalism: Notes on the Comic Series Johan Vilde
The award-winning Johan Vilde comic series deals with what has been referred to as a concealed part of Swedish history – namely Sweden’s involvement in the slave trade during the seventeenth century. The protagonist is a cabin boy on a Swedish merchant ship who is forced to escape after being accused of mutiny. After jumping ship, he floats ashore in Cabo Corso – located in modern-day Ghana – where he is eventually adopted by a local clan and gro…
Colonial Differences in Intercultural Education: On Interculturality in the Andes and the Decolonization of Intercultural Dialogue
This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted away from the policies of the European Union and UNESCO to the Andean region of Latin America where the notion of interculturalidad is not only a subject on the educational agenda but has also be…
Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning
Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning
A double pressure to perform? Pupils talk about grades and parents in a multicultural school setting in Sweden
The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best described as robust. Some pupils want and ask for a better school-home relationship because they think it w…
Interculturality, interculturalidad, and the colonial difference
Policy makers, academics, and practitioners around Europe propagate the importance of interculturality as a strategy for coping with ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, citing the SAGE handbook of intercultural competence, as a means “to better understand others’ behaviors to interact effectively and appropriately with others and, ultimately, to become more interculturally competent”. Nevertheless, the purpose of this chapter is not to unc…
Whiteness and the Colonial Origins of America’s First Superhero: Lee Falk’s The Phantom
Semi-naked revolutionary: Native Americans, colourblind anti-racism and the Pillaging of Latin America in Tumac
The eponymous protagonist of Tumac, a comic book published monthly in Sweden between 1978 and 1980, is a young indigenous boy who in contemporary times becomes emperor of a hidden Inca empire. After attempting to create a society where all social hierarchies have ceased to exist, Tumac leaves this hidden location in the jungle to help bring about a revolution in Latin America. This essay argues that Tumac is a prime example of what can be classif…
Spirou in the Congo: Colonial racism and civilising mission in journal de Spirou 1938-1960
This article situates Journal de Spirou and its flagship title in the context of Belgium’s imperial history. It examines pro-empire messages in the magazine from the inaugural issue in 1938 up to the independence of the Congo in 1960. The magazine is one of Europe’s most successful, and the bellboy whose name is on the cover has evolved into a true icon of Franco – Belgian comics. Less known is the role Spirou played in promoting the colonial ide…
Muscular superheroes and girly ducks: Gender talk using comics in the classroom
This paper explores how participants in a Swedish secondary school do gender talk with comics. Swedish schools are tasked with working with gender, but this can be a challenge for many teachers, and finding materials to work with gender aspects can be difficult. Meanwhile, literary research on comics has shown them to be a potential tool for problematising gender, but little educational research has investigated the gender discussions that comics…
The red bear: Class politics and international solidarity in Bamse
Rune Andreásson’s hero Bamse, the world’s strongest bear, stands as one of the most recognisable and successful comic book characters in Sweden. The comic is renowned for its social pathos, aiming to impart values considered positive. This article critically analyses the ideological content of the comic during the 1970s. It argues that Bamse serves as a prime example of what has been classified as politicised children’s literature in the wake of …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 works) · Interculturality (6 works) · Art (5 works)