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Konstvetenskaplig avhandling om samtidsspeglingen i den unika konstsamling som byggdes upp av paret Göthilda och Pontus Fürstenberg i Göteborg.

Tradition and renewal Swedish craft is now to be found in new cultural contexts everywhere. The book surveys trends and styles of 247 of the leading craftsmen in Sweden today. A wide selection of craft and artistry from Skåne in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. The latest work by the craftsmen displays a wide-ranging creativity in their own words, with colourful photos, maps and with numerous different categories: glass, ceramics, textile, wood, concrete, metal, plastic, stone etc. 320 pages, 620 photos. This is both a guide book and a celebration of Swedish craft.

Social Policy, Welfare State, and Civil Society in Sweden I-II gives a comprehensive account of the global invention of the welfare state, from the far north of the West to the global East and Southeast, and from its social policy origins to the most recent challenges from civil society. This second volume aims at the civil society challenge to the welfare state since 1988, or "the lost world of social democracy". It opens with an overview of the three generations of comparative welfare state research, from Harold Wilensky to Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Theda Skocpol and onwards. Inspired by the work of Norbert Elias, Karl Polanyi, and Stein Rokkan as well as by Benedict Anderson, Tom Nairn and Elinor Ostrom, the civilizing process and embeddedness of the welfare-industrial complex are scrutinized. The author's key concepts are imagined welfare communities, and common pool resources in (civil) society and state. Privatization trends in Sweden - from take-off to bonanza - and domestic resistance to the powers of the day are then lucidly assessed, and the simultaneous deconstruction and reconstruction of a once famous welfare state is elaborated with force and vigour. Finally, the cross-national Scandinavian differences are outlined. The five essays of volume II emphasize the historical relativity of social welfare institutions and argue against all developmental metaphysics. This work is an updated and enlarged edition in two volumes of Sven Hort's well-known and wide-ranging dissertation Social Policy and Welfare State in Sweden, published under the author's birth name Sven E. Olsson in 1990. The first volume contains the original four essays and covers the formation and evolution of the Swedish welfare state 1884-1988. Sven E. O. Hort is Professor in Social Welfare at the College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea. He is an alumnus of Lund University. In Sweden he taught sociology at Linneaus and Södertörn universities. Currently he is the chief editor of the Swedish journal Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys and a deputy editor of European Societies. With Stein Kuhnle he is the author of "The Coming of East and South-East Asian Welfare States", Journal of European Social Policy (2000). In praise of the new edition: "The publication of this book in 1990 marked a turning point in understanding of how the Swedish welfare state should be conceptualized both from a historical and comparative perspective. Its combination of sophisticated theoretical perspectives and in-depth empirical analysis became a model for many later studies of welfare state regimes. Added to the timely new edition is a 'volume II' sequel that updates and deepens the analysis of how the Swedish welfare state has fared during the era of globalization. This new edition is a 'must read' for everyone interested in the history and future of welfare state regimes." - Bo Rothstein, August Röhss Chair in Political Science, University of Gothenburg In praise of the first edition: "... takes us beyond simple analyses, emphasizing the deep historical roots of social democracy in Sweden and considering the role of ideas, the organization of politics, and the activities of social classes other than labor in building and securing Swedish social policy. Olsson's book presents a comprehensive overview of the development of the Swedish welfare state and a detailed consideration of several key episodes of welfare-state development." - American Journal of Sociology "This is a very scholarly and broad ranging analysis of the postwar Swedish welfare state ... which is invaluable for comparative policy analysis." - Critical Social Policy "... essential reading for sociologists and political scientists." - Contemporary Sociology

The book will examine ways in which systems of power have used tactics of amnesic oblivion and silence as a political strategy. The project will look at work by artists who interfere with history-making by rescuing events and their protagonists from historical oblivion and seek to open up the readings of contemporary history. Moreover, A story within a story will explore history as a radical act by focusing on socially engaged projects, which interrogate notions of collective memory and publicness from transnational and transhistorical perspectives. Taking the notion of open work as both a conceptual backdrop and curatorial methodology, GIBCA 2015 will question the structure of biennials themselves as systems of power and propose instead to engage with a series of acts of conscious freedom. This project invites artists, thinkers and cultural producers, together with members of civil society and public authority from Scandinavia and across the globe to partake in various initiatives enquiring the meaning and production of history. This book is published in conjunction with Göteborg Art Biennale 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Pontus Lomar, architect and founder of the award-winning, multi-disciplinary practice Lomar Arkitekter, brings his watercolours with him whenever he travels. When there is time, he selects a place or a building and paints what he sees swiftly, impromptu, without reflection. Over 25 years, this has resulted in thousands of watercolours from all over the world. Snapshots of places and architecture, of light and colour. But also of the context of architecture. The pace of the city. The life of its inhabitants. All those things that breathe life into architecture. In his new book, Pontus Lomar paints a portrait of his beloved hometown, Stockholm, and its boroughs. With a selection of 62 watercolours from different places, from Drottningholm to Skogskyrkogården, and personal reflections on the motifs, he invites us to see the city through the eyes of an architect. Welcome to Pontus Lomar s Stockholm.

Vandkunsten Magazine - Renovation & Transformation [Bok / Flexband]

<p>Sweden is one of the world s most globalised countries with a strong tradition of promoting international free trade and other international connections. Sweden s technologically advanced industry and its capacity for innovation in many different fields has helped make exports of goods and services become an important part of its economy. </p><p>In this book, author and business historian Anders Johnson describes a number of successful Swedish innovations. It s about products, corporations and individuals but also about ideas and phenomena. What they all have in common is having their origins in Sweden while also leaving their mark far beyond its borders.</p>