Anette Nyqvist
Biographic Data
| ID | 91433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anette Nyqvist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anette |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyqvist |
| SIGNATURE | NYQVIST A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, c…
Notes on the Location of Happiness
This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate the world to their readership at home (Archetti 1994). By highlighting three different examples of travel writing, the article discusses the persistent notion of the tropical island as an actually e…
Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs
This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional g…
The corporation performed: Minutes From the Rituals of Annual General Meetings
Purpose – In this paper the annual general meetings (AGM) of corporations are conceptualized as front-stage performances and dramas where the three roles of the corporation – the shareholder, manager and director – perform the corporation as a particular type of organization. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Meeting ethnography conducted at four seasons of AGMs in Sweden. Findings – The study sheds light on ho…
Insecurity in an Orange Envelope: National Pension System Reform in Sweden
In this article, I examine the implications of Sweden's reformed national pension system and how this policy reconfigures the state-citizen relationship. By applying the methodological approach of "studying through," the study depicts a shift in responsibility from a state level to an individual level. More specifically, I here shed light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats work to educate and foster the general public into responsib…
Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
The corporation performed: Minutes From the Rituals of Annual General Meetings
Purpose – In this paper the annual general meetings (AGM) of corporations are conceptualized as front-stage performances and dramas where the three roles of the corporation – the shareholder, manager and director – perform the corporation as a particular type of organization. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Meeting ethnography conducted at four seasons of AGMs in Sweden. Findings – The study sheds light on ho…
Insecurity in an Orange Envelope: National Pension System Reform in Sweden
In this article, I examine the implications of Sweden's reformed national pension system and how this policy reconfigures the state-citizen relationship. By applying the methodological approach of "studying through," the study depicts a shift in responsibility from a state level to an individual level. More specifically, I here shed light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats work to educate and foster the general public into responsib…
Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
The corporation performed: Minutes From the Rituals of Annual General Meetings
Purpose – In this paper the annual general meetings (AGM) of corporations are conceptualized as front-stage performances and dramas where the three roles of the corporation – the shareholder, manager and director – perform the corporation as a particular type of organization. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Meeting ethnography conducted at four seasons of AGMs in Sweden. Findings – The study sheds light on ho…
Insecurity in an Orange Envelope: National Pension System Reform in Sweden
In this article, I examine the implications of Sweden's reformed national pension system and how this policy reconfigures the state-citizen relationship. By applying the methodological approach of "studying through," the study depicts a shift in responsibility from a state level to an individual level. More specifically, I here shed light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats work to educate and foster the general public into responsib…
Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs
This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional g…
Notes on the Location of Happiness
This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate the world to their readership at home (Archetti 1994). By highlighting three different examples of travel writing, the article discusses the persistent notion of the tropical island as an actually e…
Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, c…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)