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Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Today the European welfare states are strongly challenged and it is heavily debated how much social security a society should provide and how much private insurance is possible. This article goes back to the origins of the German welfare state. In the 1830s, industrialists from the district of Aachen (Prussian Rhineprovince) suggested to implement collective labour rules regulating working hours and wages. In the 1860s – 20 years before Bismarck – they proposed a mandatory pension system with equal contributions of employers and employees; they suggested labour conflict resolution by joint arbitration panels of employers and labour representatives. The proposals did not gain support from the Prussian ministries arguing collective agreements would violate freedom of contracting. Entrepreneurs demanding social welfare and the Prussian state defending economic liberalism – this challenges the perception of the Bismarckian welfare state as a means to reconcile labour with the German state. Yet, in the early 19th century the district of Aachen was the most advanced economic region in Prussia in regard with industrial employment and modern industrial organisation. Producing quality goods for the world markets, the industrialists aimed at stabilizing the social environment and reconciling labour with the capitalist society. Their motivation, however, was not based on philanthropy; it was guided by economic aims and collective selfinterest. Analysing ‘social policy’ as a capitalist aim, the paper puts the German welfare state in a new perspective. By doing this it also wants to contribute to the discussion on the future of the modern welfare states, because if the argument presented here holds it might have implications for the possibility of privately solving social problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8983 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: In the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial scale within few decades production was mechanised and new types of industrial organization emerged that allowed for concentration on production and economies of scale. The region hosted two mining areas (the Wurm area and the Inde area) showing rather different patterns of development; while the industry on the Inde was already concentrated at the turn of the century, and industrial modes of production emerged earlier, the industry on the Wurm developed slowly more slowly. Decentralized ownership prohibited scale economics before the mid-1830s. Then, new joint stock companies allowed for concentration of ownership, rationalisation of production and efficient governance. The analysis shows that these different patterns result from different pre-industrial institutional arrangements that were only harmonized during the French occupation of the Rhineland. The ms. containes 189p., 24 figures and maps, 49 tables on regional industrial production. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8981 Files in this item: 1
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En analyse af daginstitutionslederens betydning for et frivilligt engagement i de selvejende daginstitutionerHjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Højlund, Holger (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I 2010 blev forsøgsprojektet ”Netværksledelse i selvejende daginstitutioner. Et partnerskabsprojekt mellem kommunerne Svendborg, Århus og København” sat i gang. Deltagere var paraplyorganisation for selvejende daginstitutioner Menighedernes Daginstitutioner (MDI), de tre kommuner, 116 selvejende daginstitutioner og forskere fra Copenhagen Business School (CBS). I forsøgsprojektet var et væsentligt motiv at eksperimentere med ny partnerskabsorganisering. Projektet blev, som titlen indikerer, bygget op omkring tre kommuners samspil med sine selvejende daginstitutioner. En målsætning var at undersøge mulighederne for at formulere nye veje for selveje herunder at undersøge partnerskabet som en ny måde at organisere sig på med civile kræfter i de offentlige velfærdsydelser på daginstitutionsområdet. Projektets dagsorden var på denne vis udtryk for en både forskningsmæssig interesse i og en praktisk dagsorden om at engagere civile kræfter i de offentlige ydelser. I følgeforskningen har forskere fulgt udvalgte institutioner og gennemført undersøgelser af frivilligt engagement. Ønsket har været igennem interviews at få viden om brugen af frivillige bestyrelser og forventninger til bestyrelsesmedlemmer i daginstitutioner. En sådan viden om bestyrelser vil spille sammen med det overordnede forsøgsprojekts fokus på ledelse af frivilligt engagement på betingelse af nye samarbejdsformer, der folder sig ud på tværs af den offentlige og frivillige sektor. Det er et håb, at undersøgelsen kan bidrage til at forstå og problematisere betingelser for ledelse og ledelsespositioner i samspillet mellem det offentlige og frivillige. Datagrundlaget for undersøgelsen er forvaltningsdokumenter, kvalitative interviews med ledere og bestyrelsesmedlemmer i 31 selvejende daginstitutioner i tre kommuner samt udtræk fra kvalitative kommentarer i en spørgeskemaundersøgelse besvaret af 1.975 forældre. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9082 Files in this item: 1
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Omdømmearbejde og omdømmepolitikRiis Larsen, Troels (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen undersøger: 1)Hvordan staten har forholdt sig til de ikke-statslige omdømmeaktører og deres arbejdsområder. 2) Hvilke omdømmepolitikker den danske stat førte over for henholdsvis Sovjetunionen og USA inder den kolde krig (1945-1988). En diskussion af en række teorier om, hvordan stater relaterer til landets omdømme viser, at eksisterende teorier såsom nationbranding, public diplomacy og soft power ikke er anvendelige til en historisk analyse af ovenstående spørgsmål. Derfor bliver der i starten af afhandlingen brugt tid på at opbygge et begrebsapparat der relatere til hvert spørgsmål. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8980 Files in this item: 1
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Barinaga, Ester (Stockholm, 2014)[More information][Less information]
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Organisational Theatre and Organisational PolyphonyMatula, Linda J.; Meisiek, Stefan; Badham, Richard J. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper seeks to further the understanding of the potential of organisational theatre as an intervention in organisational development and change programs. It employs the concept of polyphony to support an analysis of the character and impact of organisational theatre processes. The findings of this paper rest on a longitudinal single-case study, which followed an organisational theatre process from its early development until follow-up stages at an innovative health care project over eighteen months. The analysis suggests that, while organisational theatre is able to provide multivocal and diverse debates and interpretations, the outcomes and effects of organisational theatre for individual participants largely depend on their perceived power status within the organisation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9029 Files in this item: 1
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Financial Literacy and the Corporate Governmentalization of the ‘Business of Life’Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is a work-‐in-‐progress. The purpose of the paper is programmatic in the sense that it tries to formulate elements of a research agenda revolving around the issue of corporate governmentalization. By this term I intend to indicate ways in which companies seek to construe and mobilize consumer subjectivities whose consuming practices involve the self-‐ management of the individual along etho-‐political goals of good governance. The back-‐drop of this topic is the investigation of the forms of contemporary social and political transformation, with a focus on the transformative powers of ‘politicized private enterprises’ or the ‘political corporation’. The research question is: How do corporations seek to construe and mobilize responsible citizens by offering products and services, the consumption of which are assumed to transform the individual¹s self-‐relationship along proclaimed ethical and political goals? The research question will be discussed in the context of financial literacy educational initiatives. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, increasing the financial literacy of ordinary citizen-‐consumers has taken a prominent position among regulators and financial institutions alike. The logic seems to be that financially capable individuals will enjoy social and political inclusion as well as an ability to exercise a stronger influence in markets. The paper specifically contributes to our understanding of the governmentalization of the present by addressing how -‐ at least in part -‐ the corporate spread of financial literacy educational initiatives can be observed as a particular form of power at-‐a-‐distance. The focus is on the role of private enterprise in governmentalizing the ‘business of life’ by establishing and mobilizing specific conceptual forms around which the life skills of the entrepreneurial self involves a responsibilization of the individual citizen-‐consumer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9006 Files in this item: 1
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Foucault’s historical mappings of the networks of social realityRaffnsøe, Sverre; Gudmand-Høyer, Marius; Thaning, Morten S. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article advances the ‘dispositive’ (le dispositif) as a key conception in Foucault’s work. As developed in his annual lectures in 1978 and 1979, the dispositive represents a crucial constituent of societal analysis on par with the familiar analytics of power/knowledge and the governmentality perspective – indeed it forms a lesser known intermediary between these. Foucault’s dispositional analysis articulates a history of connected social technologies that we have constructed to relate to each other. Expounding these points, the article distinguishes various dispositional prototypes and develops key ‘socio-ontological’ implications of the analy-sis. Reinstating the proper analytical status of the dispositive contributes to the reception of the important notion; the interpretation of Foucault’s entire oeuvre; and a resourceful approach to the study of contemporary societal problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9077 Files in this item: 1
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A Penrosian History of Fiberline CompositesKorsager, Ellen Mølgaard (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: My dissertation tells a history of Fiberline Composites a small Danish producer of reinforced plastic. The purpose of telling this story, which stretches over 25 years from the company’s founding in 1979 to 2004, is to discuss the process of growth. In The Theory of the Growth of the Firm economist Edith Penrose seeks to explain this process and she proposes that it is best studied through historical analysis of the individual firm. This is the case, she argues, because firm growth is a path-dependent process of accumulating and exploiting resources and because every firm exists in a specific context of time and place. The firm’s available resources are exploited, or put to service, as a response to the (productive) opportunities that the firm sees and as Penrose notes the theory of the growth of firms is basically an examination of the changing productive opportunity of firms. Penrose describes productive opportunity as a subjective phenomenon. She notes that when the firm acts on such opportunities it will base its decisions on the company’s own self-conception and image of context. As such these concepts are the key to explaining the growth process of the firm. The object of my dissertation is to discuss the connection between the process of firm growth and the self-conception and image of context of the firm. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8999 Files in this item: 1
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Hoffmann Pii, Kathrine (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The patient-centred approach is expanding in the Danish healthcare system. This approach strives to organize treatment and care so that it takes departure in the individual patient’s personal values, wishes and motivations. The intention behind the approach is to offer more effective and more ethical treatment and care. The patient-centred approach assigns to a great extent the responsibility for individuals’ state of health and improvement to the individual patient. But what challenges does the approach pose for the professionals who work with it? In this thesis, I seek to explore the organizational and managerial problematics that the patient-centred approach implies in a case from the vascular specialty in the Danish healthcare system. The research question that I explore in the thesis is: How is preventive capacity and responsibility built and distributed in patient-centred prevention practices? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8884 Files in this item: 1
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The Emergence of a Transnational Elite In and Around Foreign-based Headquarters of MNCsSmith, Irene Skovgaard; Poulfelt, Flemming (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Within international management it has become somewhat of an aspirational ideal that a truly global corporation should have no national home base (Ghemawat 2011). MNCs should transcend their national administrative heritage and become ‘placeless’ and stateless transnationals by moving their main global headquarters to neutral and strategically relevant locations (Birkinshaw, Braunerhjelm, Holm & Terjesen 2006). In practice, most MNCs and their main headquarters still remain firmly rooted in their home countries (Ghemawat, 2011; Strauss-Kahn & Xavier, 2009). However, there are indications that many MNCs are moving in the direction of a growing dispersion of headquarter activities with the use of foreign-based divisional and regional headquarters (Barner-Rasmussen, Piekkari & Björkman 2007; Benito, Lunnan & Tomassen 2011; Birkinshaw et al. 2006, Forsgren, Holm & Johanson 1995). The number of European Regional Headquarters for instance has increased by 76% over the past decade alone and a similar rise can be observed in the Asia-Pacific region (Nell et al. 2011). Today most headquarters are located in developed countries but going forward the number being placed in emerging countries is predicted to increase (McKinsey Global Institute, 2013). Regional or divisional headquarters are organizational units with a formal mandate to manage a region or a division within the MNC’s global structure, here termed foreign-based headquarters. They are often located in central, technologically advanced, internationallyoriented, metropolitan hubs where other MNC headquarters are similarly located, where there is easy access to major airports with direct flights across the globe and an international work force. In this paper we explore how the transnational professionals who manage and staff such foreign-based headquarters, develop a sense of community and identity based on an idea of being non-national which is closely linked with the ‘placelessness’ of the organizations in which they work. As such the paper aims to contribute to new perspectives on global elites in the context of MNCs addressing the sub-theme call for submissions exploring the emergence of transnational communities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8952 Files in this item: 1
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Austin, Robert D.; Hessel, Shannon (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Business schools all over the world claim educating leaders as a primary objective. Consider these from the “mission statements” of prominent players: • “We educate leaders who make a difference in the world” (Harvard Business School), • “…to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders” (Stanford Graduate School of Business), • “Through teaching, we develop responsible, thoughtful leaders” (INSEAD) At the same time, however, there have been many claims that business schools have not delivered on these commitments. Just two weeks ago, Robert Reich, a former US Treasury Secretary, criticized Harvard Business School for “inculcating in [its graduates] a set of ideas and principles that have resulted in a pay gap between CEOs and ordinary workers that’s gone from 20-‐to-‐1 fifty years ago to almost 300-‐to-‐1 today,” implying that social ills have been a direct result of the content and nature of the school’s leadership training.1 David Brookes, writing in the New York Times on September 22 suggests we are experiencing a “leadership crisis” in today’s world.2 There is a pressing need for leadership pedagogy to (continue to) evolve, especially in business schools. Progress needs to be made in terms of content, but also, in this time of MOOCs and advancing educational technologies on every front, in terms of modes of delivery. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9086 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: The Weimar Republic is analysed within the framework of limited and open access orders. Germany had developed into a mature limited access order before World War I, with rule of law and open economic access but only limited access to politics. After the war, Germany developed toward an open access order; this process was, however, not sustainable. Two interpretations are discussed, which both pose a challenge to the limited access-open access framework: (1.) Weimar Germany was the first open access order that failed; (2.) sufficiency conditions of the sustainability of open access are not yet included in the framework. It is proposed that sustainable open access orders do not only depend on open political and economic access and on the state monopolising violence capacities (coercive power); government and the political institutions must also have the capacity to efficiently create legitimacy via coordination capabilities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8950 Files in this item: 1
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Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Work of Art’ and Scholarly Poli0cal EngagementBarinaga, Ester (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article takes up Lefebvre’s challenge to apply the intellectual tools of the academy to the practical production of urban space, and discusses an effort to make use of our theories of signification in re-articulating stigmatized suburbs. Often referred to as ‘vulnerable’, ‘disenfranchised’ or ‘marginalized’, stigmatized suburbs and the people living in them are targeted by many social and economic initiatives simply because they are distinctly vulnerable, marginalized or disenfranchised. In so doing, initiatives interpellate and reproduce the geographical imaginary that is both the outcome and the source of their target groups’ political disadvantage. The article shows how a particular community initiative attempts to overcome the problem of interpellation. It uses Callon’s notion of ‘the qualification of products’ to understand the initiative’s efforts to transcend the objectification of the targeted groups as well as the symbolic limitation of agency. This allows us to follow the process by which the initiative attempts to re-symbolize the body and the neighborhood identified through the category of ‘the immigrant’. The article suggests that efforts to overcome the problem of interpellation must go beyond the realm of the symbolic to include, as well, social and material elements. The article ends with a reflexive note on the extent to which the engaged scholar is also caught within the interpellation paradox. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9020 Files in this item: 1
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Economic Development in the Industrial Region of Aachen, 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and developed to a powerful industrial region. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections be-tween firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments trans-gressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions support-ive to this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8982 Files in this item: 1
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Monografi om dobbeltheden i tænkning af strategi, dels som vidensfelt i organisationsteori, dels som kunstnerisk tilgang til at skabe i erhvervsmæssig innovationGylling, Martin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is a study of processes of commercial artistic creation focusing on the practice of processual strategy in a context of designed strategy. The thesis focuses on the practice of processual strategy, seeing as strategy within the field is primarily understood and practised in a designerly approach. This concerns constructivist and objective thinking which, according to critical voices in organizationstudies, has difficulties explaining how strategic organisation creation gains a processual character. This is the critique that comes from the more poststructuralist positions in research on process theory and strategy, which in these years aims to move focus away from the dominance of designed strategy. I.e. an approach to practice understood as methodological individualism and pragmatic rationality (Chia & Holt 2009; Steyaert 2007; Stacey 2011; Hjorth 2012). Through recent poststructuralist currents in the field of processual strategy thinking and organisational entrepreneurship, for example Chia & Holt’s creation philosophical research in strategy without design and Steyaert’s (2007) thinking on the concept of entrepreneuring; the process theoretical thinking of entrepreneurship and innovation, the aim is to look beyond constructivist thinking of practice in order to understand processual dynamics in strategic work at the level of the organisation. In relation to this thinking the present thesis provides an empirically based discussion of processual strategy with an aim to contributing to the field of organisational entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8895 Files in this item: 1
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Boundary-crossing Leadership Cooperation in the MNC The Case of ‘Group Mindset’ in Solar A/SNielsen, Rikke Kristine (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation deals with global mindset leadership understood as border- and boundary-crossing leadership within the multinational corporation by exploring the concept of global mindset as both an individual managerial meta-competence, as well as a strategic organizational capability. The research project presented explores the practical and theoretical avenues for working with global mindset as a strategic lever and method of securing business strategy executional agility, which is explored in the context of a single-case study organization, Solar - an internationalizing medium-sized MNC seeking to work in practice with global mindset leadership development and enactment as a strategy execution facilitator. Internationalizing corporations often experience the liability of foreignness when moving into new markets, and in effect suffer a globalization penalty vis-à-vis local competition in different markets. At the same time, they are pushed to consider the potential non-transferability of domestic competitive advantages and business models, when moving into new territory and may have to make adjustments to cater to different customer preferences and other local specificities in a variety of markets simultaneously. Further, international and global collaboration is more complex than local collaboration and as a consequence, corporations need to be better at collaborating in order to receive the same effect compared to domestic operations alone. This is due to the fact that culturally and strategically employees and managers at all hierarchical levels understand each other less, while language barriers may at the same time place a strain on communication and collaboration. Transaction costs rise as corporations move from high-context collaboration with low psychic distance in a domestic setting or between relatively similar groupings, where many things are shared and taken for granted and thus need not be explicated to a low-context communication setting where little or no common ground can be taken for granted. This dissertation argues the case that leadership with a global mindset is relevant for companies and organizations that make strategic use of global mindset as a driver for global business strategy. As such global mindset is seen as strategic global mindset in that the rationale for developing global mindset is as a facilitator of business strategy. The context of the individual company is an indicator for what global mindset means in the particular company, and for who can benefit from it. Global mindset is not seen as generic, but highly contextual when looking at the practical implementation of the concept empirically. The aim of working with global mindset, then, is the optimization of global mindset in relation to the context, the managerial role and the business strategy, not an end in itself. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8974 Files in this item: 1
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Degnegaard, Rex (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Co-‐creation as a concept has won terrain over the past 10 years (Bhalla, 2010; Ramaswamy and Goulliart, 2010; Ramaswamy, 2011). In practice as well as in literature, co-‐creation is climbing the agenda in relation to contemporary opportunities and challenges within management, organization design, and change initiatives. Thus, there has been a vast growth in application and conceptual development of the concept of co-‐creation. However, there is very little research-‐based literature on how the field of co-‐creation has developed, and of how the concept is being established, and on the future frontiers of the concept of co-‐creation. This paper aims to build an overview of the literature on co-‐creation to explore what the existing literature relate to and indeed to pinpoint if any patterns or streams can be identified. The paper illustrates how the use of the concept of co-‐creation suggests a necessity for focusing further on specific co-‐creation related issues and challenges of significance to business and society. Thus, the paper highlights new co-‐creation related issues, challenges, and frontiers in practice and research rather than giving answers or solutions to existing problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8732 Files in this item: 1
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Privat produktpolitik i det indre markedFrankel, Christian; Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: De politiske og administrative studier af det indre markeds færdiggørelse har overvejende fokuseret på, hvordan gennemførelsen er bundet til en forandring af kompetence‐ og arbejdsdelingen mellem de eksisterende EU institutioner og medlemslandene. Et sådant EU internt fokus ser imidlertid bort fra, at væsentlige dele af gennemførelsen allerede i 1987 med Fællesaktens vedtagelse blev overladt til de private europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer (ESO2). Når man tænker på, hvor vigtig en rolle disse organisationer er tildelt i udviklingen af det indre marked, kan det undre, at denne uddelegering hidtil ikke har været belyst i nævneværdigt omfang. For det første synes uddelegeringen at indeholde demokratiske udfordringer, fordi private aktører gennem medlemsskab af de autonome europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer deltager direkte og i et vist omfang uden for politisk og administrativ kontrol i at fastlægge reglerne for markedsførelsen af varer i det indre marked. For det andet rejser uddelegeringen en række analytiske spørgsmål om, hvor EU integrationens institutionelle locus skal findes, når sikringen af EUs politiske målsætninger med det indre marked er afhængig af en inter‐organisatorisk koordination mellem EU og ESO. Udover at det indre marked er betinget af institutionelle forandringer inden for rammerne af EU er det ligeledes afhængig af en institutionsdannelse mellem de gensidigt autonome organisationer EU og ESO. Endelig, for det tredje, indebærer uddelegeringen en særskilt udfordring for ESO. I takt med at europæisk teknisk standardisering skal indfri bredere samfundsmæssige og politiske hensyn i markedsdannelsesprocessen er der risiko for, at én af de bærende principper i standardiseringsarbejdet, nemlig frivilligheden, sættes under pres. Der er sandsynligvis grænser for, hvad teknisk standardisering kan levere i forhold til samfundsmæssig regulering uden at undergrave sin egen logik. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8717 Files in this item: 1
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Omtydningen af melankolien og manien som bipolære stemningslidelser i dansk sammenhæng under hensyn til dannelsen af det moderne følelseslivs relative autonomi. En problematiserings- og erfaringsanalytisk undersøgelseGudmand-Høyer, Marius (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen har to formål. For det første undersøges hvorledes det blev muligt at de to sygdomsnavne mani og melankoli samt de tilstande de har refereret til i løbet af et bestemt tidsrum, omtrent sammenfaldende med det 19. århundrede, kunne forskyde sig i forhold til tidligere overleverede bestemmelser af en ganske anden art. Hvor tidligere problematiseringsformer i vid udstrækning forbandt disse sygdomslidelser med en fuldstændig galskab stående overfor en der var mere begrænset, udforskes det således hvordan og i forbindelse med hvad melankolien og manien senere kunne finde sammen i et nyt fællesskab omkring stemningen som en særlig artikulationskategori. Det blev her tale om et fællesskab hvori manien og melankolien grundlæggende afgrænsedes og artikuleredes som bestemte sindssygdomme under hensyn til følelseslivets område og hvori de indbyrdes primært kom til at adskille sig bipolært ved det opstemte (lysten, nydelsen, det behagelige) overfor det nedstemte (ulysten, smerten, det ubehagelige). I denne sammenhæng var den førhen definerende afsindighed ikke længere en betingelse for de maniske og melankolske tilstandes sygelighed, men var derimod blevet en ofte forekommende stemningskongruent fremtrædelsesform. Afhandlingens andet formål er på denne baggrund at skildre centrale dele af den historiske baggrund for den særegene fremmedgørelsesfigur der er kommet til at høre til det moderne begreb om psykisk sygdom. Der synes her at være blevet tale om en form for fremmedgørelse der ikke forudsætter den intellektuelle forstyrrelse som førhen kunne sætte den gales sensus privatus udenfor fornuftens forudsatte sensus communis. I stedet er trådt en om sig selv bevidst fremmedgørelse fra et eget sædvanligt selv indenfor rammerne af et fællesskab som både før og efter forrykkelsen er lige så alment som det moderne følelsesliv i sin relative autonomi. Det empiriske materiale for denne historiske undersøgelse består i det bredest mulige udvalg af offentliggjorte ytringer der med herkomst i en dansk sammenhæng i perioden 1800-1900 tematiserer manien og melankolien som psykiske sygdomme. Den analytik som bringes i anvendelse overfor dette materiale er den historiske problematiserings- og erfaringsanalyse, hvilken afhandlingen samtidig præsenterer i sin hidtil mest udviklede form. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8704 Files in this item: 2