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    "Ni är inte hemma i soffan nu!" - Supporterkultur hos kvinnor i klacken i allsvenska herrfotbollslaget BK Häcken
    (2022-05-31) van Viegen, Mary; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    When I was in the process of starting this essay I had no idea about what I wanted to investigate. I read the book Etnografiska hållplatser, a book about reflexivity and methodology while doing field studies and working with ones material, in a predecending course and it came to me! I knew that some among my women friends are soccer supporters for the local male soccer team. This came with predjudisms. And lots of curiosity. This is a study to see what my female friends supporters see in the local soccer support team for BK Häcken. And why the team supporters has a no bad reputation, while the area we live in is one with a bad reputation? I preformed interviews with three informants and I made field studies during home games. And what I found is something very different from the usual norm of a suporterclub. This is a supporter club that, through the teams CSR, is not using violence, racist or sexist slurs. And if someone does use a slur of some sort, the other team supporters help with telling each others to stop. Its also a place where my female informants feel safe within a group that is mainly consisting of men.
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    DEN REPARATIVA SLÖJDEN. Ungdomar om motstånd, kulturarv, krishantering, prepping och framtiden
    (2025-08-18) van Viegen, Mary; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    This master thesis is an attempt to fill in a gap in research that I found when I was investigating craft traditions in Sweden. Sweden is a country that has a rich cultural heritage when it comes to craft and we have obligatory craft as a subject in school. There is plenty of research about pedagogy, craft and children in school. I also found that there is a lot of research with grownups in fields like my own, the cultural studies and similar fields. Since I could not find any research, I started wondering if young people do crafts. So I conducted my own research, with my favorite method; etnography. I interwieved eight young persons in the ages of 18-22 about their crafts, their relations to ofter crafters and craft as a subject in school. I asked them about crisis, cultural heritage, prepping, the present and the future. My theoretical framwork is of Donna Haraway on making kin and taking care of this broken world. But also of Zygmunt Baumans thinkings about nostagia and fear. I followed Les Backs listening and his thoughts about what makes a life livable. I have dug into Wendy Browns thinkings about neoliberalism and homo oeconomicus. And I have dabbled with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and her reparative practices. And more. In this essay we follow eight young people and learn their crafts, why they do what they do and how they are making a better world for themselves by using less screen time, and more creative time. These are their stories.