Inspired by Austin’s work on the performativity of speech acts, Goffman’s notion of speaker positionings and Swales’ notion of genre moves, this paper explores how annual general meetings as a corporate genre are governed and propelled by the Swedish Companies Act, the Swedish Code of Corporate Conduct as well as explicit and tacit genre expectations. While observing more than thirty corporate ann

The movement of plants, animals, and microorganisms by humans, consciously or unconsciously, has changed both ecosystems and societies throughout history. This article focuses on one such transformative species, lodgepole pine, and its relocation from northwestern America to northern Sweden in the mid-twentieth century. A cultural biography of the lodgepole pine’s existence in Sweden examines how

Archaeological data repositories usually integrate excavation data archives as single data collections with restricted capacities to accommodate excavation data interoperability at the sub-collection level. This is largely due to the complexity of excavation data archives that are compiled with different tools and methodologies, use distinct conceptual descriptions at variable granularities, can o

This chapter analyses the implications of findings in epigenetics for the ascription of moral responsibility for children. It contrasts shared understandings of procreative responsibility and discusses its extension to include all (individual or collective) actors who influence a child’s gene expression. It also problematizes the focus on biology in this process, using the example of epigenetics a

Residential reasoning is a complex process that includes decisions on whether to age in place or to relocate. Ageing in the Right Place (ARP), a web-based housing counselling service was created to support older adults in this process. The study’s aim was to evaluate the usability of the ARP as regards content, design, specific functions, and self-administration as a mode of delivery and to lay th

The archaeological site of Gebel el-Silsila, between Edfu and Kom Ombo, has preserved the largest ancient Egyptian quarry. Archaeologically known since the beginning of the 19th century and portrayed in the Description de l’Égypte, it was documented by the Egypt Exploration Society and Ricardo Caminos during the 1950s–1980s. However, Caminos’s thorough graphic work remains mainly unpublished, whil

The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate psychometric properties for use among persons 55 years and older in Sweden. The UJACAS contains 17 items to be self-assessed regarding goals, abilities, opportunity, and activity. Psychometric properties content validity, data quality including floor a

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This paper proposes a ‘tool for thinking with’1: that we can describe the interaction between peopleand computers, and especially people and developer tools, as a form of conversation. We outline thisperspective, construct a work in progress analytical frame, and use it to talk about a couple of differentexamples and draw implications for future work.