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  • 1.
    Bellman, Lina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law.
    Ekholm, Sara
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Hemmingsson, Olov
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Jarnkvist, Karin
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Lundgren, Minna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Olofsson, Anna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    ֖hman, Peter
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law.
    Climate Change, Insurance, and Households: A Literature Review2016Report (Other academic)
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  • 2.
    Bellman, Lina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law.
    Gebert-Persson, Sabine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law.
    Öhman, Peter
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Nyhlén, Sara
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Olofsdotter, Gunilla
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Lidén, Gustav
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Olofsson, Anna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Att vända det onda till gott: möjligheter till nytänkande i mellersta Norrland till följd av den demografiska förändringen2015Report (Other academic)
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  • 3.
    Danielsson, Erna
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Eliasson, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Samverkan i praktiken2011Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med denna rapport har varit att studera den samverkan som sker på en skadeplats där flera räddningsorganisationer och enskilda frivilliga är inblandade i räddningsarbetet. Men rapporten omfattar även den samverkan som sker i händelsens periferi, inom och mellan organisationernas staber, samt samverkan med frivilligorganisationer verksamma vid kriser och olyckor. Resultatet visar att omvandlingen av en olycksplats till en skadeplats påbörjas då en spontanfrivillig uppmärksammar en olycka och ringer till SOS Alarm. När räddningsorganisationerna kommer till skadeplatsen skapas en organisation för att ta hand om händelsen. I denna miljö möts spontanfrivilliga och räddningspersonal. Spontanfrivilliga kan i detta möte fylla två viktiga funktioner, för det första som informationskälla, dvs. i definitionen av en första lägesbild och i egenskap av vittnen. För det andra kan de få en funktion som medhjälpare, t.ex. påbörja lättare sjukvårdsinsatser eller dirigera trafik. Men genom att händelsen omgärdas av ett organisatoriskt sammanhang sätts gränser t.ex. för vad som betraktas som en legitim aktör. Ofta inkluderas spontanfrivilliga så tillvida att de blir geografiskt inkluderade, men de blir lika ofta symboliskt exkluderade. Räddningspersonalens avståndstagande gör att spontanfrivilliga känner sig obekväma i situationen och lämnar skadeplatsen i ett tidigt skede. Liksom skadeplatsen utgör räddningsstaben både en organisatorisk konstruktion och en institutionell miljö. Det som är särskilt utmärkande för staber är deras behov av lägesbilder. Till skillnad mot arbetet på skadeplatsen som börjar i kaos, börjar staben med ett ”tomt” rum som ska fyllas av händelsen, där lägesbilderna som förmedlas från skadeplatsen utgör grunden för stabens arbete. Etableringen av frivilligorganisationer följer till dels andra rutiner. Det som utmärker dessa organisationer är deras elasticitet, dvs. tillkomsten av frivilliga i händelse av en kris. Den verksamhet som vissa frivilligorganisationer bedriver är till dels lika dem som de bedriver i vardagen. Frivilligorganisationerna är inte verksamma på skadeplatsen och de aktiveras senare under händelsen och verksamheten kan pågå under lång tid efteråt. Om arbetet på skadeplatsen kännetecknas av en räddningspraktik, så kännetecknas de frivilligorganisationer som ingår i studien av en omhändertagandepraktik. Sammanfattningsvis framkommer att samverkan etableras i vardagen och att det finns en tendens att överbetona samverkan; samverkan är inte alltid viktig. Svårigheter att samverka kan bero på kunskapsbrister, att gränser försvårar samverkan där vissa inkluderas och andra exkluderas, samt att en strävan efter en gemensam lägesbild inte alltid är en rimlig utgångspunkt vid samverkan.

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  • 4.
    Danielsson, Erna
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Samverkan under räddningsinsatser2013Report (Other academic)
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    Samverkan under räddningsinsatser
  • 5. Demarin, Eva-Lena
    et al.
    Danielsson, Erna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Eliasson, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Olofsson, Anna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sparf, Jörgen
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Öhman, Susanna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på risk och kris: Uppfattning, kommunikation och organisation.2010Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Forskargruppen KRIHS, Kris och risk i det heterogena samhället, har fått uppdraget att skriva en kunskapsöversikt inom ramen för MSB:s verksamhetsområden skydd mot olyckor, krishantering och civil beredskap. Uppdraget har gjorts i samarbete med Eva-Lena Demarin som stått för stora delar av sammanställningen av tidigare forskning samt delar av övriga avsnitt. Undertecknad ansvarar för översiktens vetenskapliga kvalitet. Kunskapsöversikten är dock ett resultat av forskargruppens gemensamma ansträngningar. Tillsammans med Eva-Lena har gruppen träffats vid fem tillfällen varav vid ett seminarium där texten diskuterats och reviderats. De som varit med och diskuterat, samlat in material och/eller skrivit delar av översikten är förutom ovan nämnda, Erna Danielsson, Sara Ekholm, Linda Eliasson, Roine Johansson, Jörgen Sparf, Erika Wall och Susanna Öhman.

    Då både tiden och utrymmet har varit begränsat gör vi inga anspråk på att kunskapsöversikten är heltäckande. Den ska snarare ses som en ganska grovkorning bild av de senaste tio årens risk- och krisforskning rörande uppfattningar, kommunikation och organisation. Det huvudsakliga bidraget är att översikten identifierar vissa områden där kunskapsuppbyggnad behövs. På så sätt kan översikten ses som en karta där vissa kompassriktningar markerats utifrån vilka MSB kan välja vilka som passar myndighetens framtida verksamhet.

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    Demarin et al: Samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på risk och kris: : Uppfattning, kommunikation och organisation 2010
  • 6.
    Eliasson, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    En forskare i räddningsjacka: Om forskarrollens platsbundenhet2010In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, no 2, p. 35-45Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 7. Eriksson, Kerstin
    et al.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Forest fires and landscape identity: values, meanings and engagement in local communities2021Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In the summer of 2018, Sweden faced one of the greatest national disasters in modern times. In total, about 60 forest fires ravaged around the country. In this paper, we draw on the concept of landscape identity (see e.g., Butler et al., 2018) with the purpose to investigate how local citizens were affected by these forest fires. The concept of landscape identity refers to the way that our identity is tied to how we engage with the landscapes in which we find ourselves. As such it can be utilized as a way to gain deeper knowledge of social aspects related to climate related events such as forest fires (Butler et al., 2018; Stobbelaar & Pedroli, 2011). This makes it possible to understand landscape as a social product, as something that rests upon processes, practices and cultural discourses (Eiter, 2010). On an individual level, on the other hand, landscape is internalized through values, meanings and engagement (Butler et al., 2018). When a landscape drastically changes, as in the case with forest fires, both practices and meanings associated with this landscape are likely to be affected. This paper rests on interviews with people that had to evacuate their homes due to the forest fires in 2018. The result indicates that values, meanings and engagement associated with the landscape played a significant role in how people made sense of the situation they found themselves in.  

  • 8.
    Heidenstrøm, Nina
    et al.
    University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Coping with blackouts: A practice theory approach to household preparedness2018In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, ISSN 0966-0879, E-ISSN 1468-5973, Vol. 26, no 2, p. 272-282Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The article focuses on how rural households cope with blackouts caused by winter storms. We approach household preparedness using a practice theory perspective, and argue that preparedness is mundanely preformed as part of everyday practices. The data material consists of at home visits to 14 households from Norway and Sweden. The results demonstrate that households cope with blackouts by activating and mobilising competences, meanings and materials belonging to different practices, and that this is an ongoing process to ensure the continuation of everyday life during disruption. The article concludes by arguing for the need to bring forward studies on informal preparedness activities, in a research field where household preparedness tends to be framed using a top-down perspective on crisis management.

  • 9.
    Johansson, Roine
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Danielsson, Erna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Eriksson, Kerstin
    RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Lund.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Karlsson, Robin
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    At the external boundary of a disaster response operation: The dynamics of volunteer inclusion2018In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, ISSN 0966-0879, E-ISSN 1468-5973, Vol. 26, no 4, p. 519-529Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the present article, practices of inclusion of different types of volunteers in the response to a large-scale forest fire in Sweden are studied. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three types of voluntary actors. The volunteers were organized to different degrees, from members of organizations and participants in emergent groups to organizationally unaffiliated individuals. Organized volunteers were the most easily included, particularly if they were members of voluntary emergency organizations. It was difficult for volunteers lacking relevant organizational affiliation to be included. Disaster response operations are dynamic, conditions change over time, and tensions between different modes, degrees, and levels of inclusion may arise. However, irrespective of changing conditions, practices of inclusion of highly organized volunteers work best.

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  • 10.
    Johansson, Roine
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Danielsson, Erna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Eriksson, Kerstin
    RISE, Lund.
    Preconditions of emergence: Volunteerism in disaster response operations2018Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 11.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    A need to help: stories of emergent behaviour from the scene of accident2018In: International Journal of Emergency Services, ISSN 2047-0894, E-ISSN 2047-0908, Vol. 7, no 3, p. 203-213Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how spontaneous volunteers make sense of their actions at the scene of accident. More specifically, this paper focusses on the moral aspects of this sense-making process in terms of how spontaneous volunteers justify their own and others actions at the scene of accident through moral positioning. Design/methodology/approach: This is done through a narrative analysis of volunteers’ retrospective stories from the scene of accident. The empirical material consists of interviews with 12 witnesses to traffic accidents. Findings: The narrative analysis identifies two central storylines: the interviewees frame their own and others’ actions through norms of how one should act, and the interviewees frame their own actions by presenting themselves as a person of a certain type, sometimes positioned against an real or imaginative “other”. Originality/value: Disaster sociologists have long argued that emergent behaviours and norms are one of the phenomena distinguishing disasters from everyday emergencies. However, as this paper shows, emergent behaviours and norms are also present at everyday emergencies such as traffic accidents where spontaneous volunteers can play an important role by filling the void before the arrival of emergency services. 

  • 12.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    "Bara framtiden kan visa om vi gör det här rätt": Att göra vardag av den svenska strategin2021In: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 58, no 1-2, p. 133-152Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med den här artikeln är att studera hur människor skapar mening av den svenska coronastrategin samt hur de implementerar denna strategi i sina vardagsliv. Artikeln bygger på en intervjustudie med åtta personer boendes i Stockholm. Samtliga intervjuer genomfördes under pandemins initiala fas (april–maj 2020). Artikeln tar sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i ett risksociologiskt intresse för hur människor skapar mening kring osäkerheter, här exemplifierat genom en vardag präglad av coronapandemin och den svenska strategin för att hantera denna. Resultaten visar att intervjupersonerna stödjer den svenska strategin och dess vetenskapliga grund samtidigt som de upplever en stor osäkerhet inför hur strategin ska omsättas i vardagliga praktiker. Denna ambivalens kan förstås i relation till Becks risksamhälle och hans antaganden om människans paradoxala inställning till vetenskap och riskexperter samt mot bakgrund av Tulloch och Luptons sociokulturella perspektiv på vardag och risk.

  • 13.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Emergence in the sociology of Mead: Process, interaction and the conditions of social life2016In: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 53, no 3, p. 227-245Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Within sociology, and especially in the symbolic interaction genre thereof, emergence have been used in order to analyze the process between different dichotomies such as structure and agency, individual and collective, improvisation and the pre-determined as well as the relationship between a now, a past and a present. The aim of this article is to, based on mentioned dichotomies, discuss the possibilities and the limitations of emergence. In terms of possibilities emergence can be used as an analytical and theoretical tool for analyzing the process between different social phenomena. In terms of limitations, emergence could (and have been) criticized for not acknowledging the pre-conditioned aspects of social life. Hence, this article is concluded in a discussion on how to integrate pre-conditioned aspects of social life, such as power, dominance and subordination in the analysis of the emergent and dynamic social life.

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  • 14.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Everyday Life During Covid-19 in Stockholm: A biographical approach2022In: Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents / [ed] Patrick O. Brown & Jens O. Zinn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 147-166Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    While the majority of European citizens have experienced periods of full lock-down during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Swedish strategy has emphasised individual responsibility by posing recommendations and restrictions rather than pure prohibitions upon its citizens. This study investigates how Swedish citizens navigated and made sense of everyday life during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, using empirical material in the form of eight narrative interviews. The analysis focuses on three of these narratives by emphasising the interviewees’ past experiences of risk, present understanding of COVID-19 in everyday life, and expectations for a post-COVID-19 future. From a biographical perspective, I argue that the interviewees made sense of the new behavioural guidelines that characterised everyday life during COVID-19 by applying the recommendations and restrictions provided by the government and authorities. Thus, these recommendations could be understood as biographical structures that temporarily re-structured the citizens’ everyday lives. Moreover, the analysis reveals some difficulties with ‘soft’ governance from a subjective perspective. While the interviewees supported the Swedish strategy and adjusted their everyday lives in accordance with its recommendations, they sometimes found it hard to transform them into practice. These difficulties in managing the ‘soft’ Swedish strategy emphasises the subjective side of being governed and thus makes an interesting contribution to critical studies on risk and uncertainty.

  • 15.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Först på plats: Gränsdragningar, positioneringar och emergens i berättelser från olycksplatsen2015Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    When accidents occur, citizens often are the real first responders. This has been acknowledged and studied from an international perspective, particularly in relation to large crises and disasters, but remains relatively unstudied from a Swedish perspective. This thesis takes its point of departure from people who have been emergency callers or witnesses to traffic accidents, studying their actions and interactions at the scene of an accident in terms of boundaries, positioning and emergence. The aim of this thesis is to study how people’s actions in a specific situation are affected by their interactions with both real and imagined others and how their actions are affected by the spatial context. The thesis consists of four individual studies that relate differently to the main aim of the thesis. The first study focuses on first responders’ options to act in a place that simultaneously is the workplace of emergency personnel: the incident site. This study shows how first responders’ options to act are governed in large part by their interaction with emergency personnel and their boundary practices at the incident site. In this study, we apply theories of boundary practices from Nippert-Eng and the concept of boundary work from Gieryn to explain how emergency personnel control their place of work through boundary practices and through that process control those first responders who are present at the site. In other words, people’s actions at the incident site are affected by both the social and the spatial context. The second study focuses on a limited selection of first responders: those who have placed emergency calls. Through interviews with callers and transcriptions of their emergency calls, this study explores how the callers frame their decision to stop and place the call through different presentations of self. These presentations are constructed through moral positioning, in which the callers position themselves and their actions in relation to both real and imagined others. Thus, the callers also construct normative accounts of what is considered a “preferable” and “non-preferable” way to act at the scene of an accident. The third study takes its point of departure from theories and previous research on emergence because they have been used by disaster sociologists to explain how citizens are the real first responders to crises and disasters. Through the concepts of emergent behavior and emergent norms, papers in this research field have argued that people in these situations act according to “new and not-yet-institutionalized behavior guidelines”. In this study, I argue that emergence, in other words, citizens as the real first responders, is also present in everyday emergencies. Through the narratives of citizen first responders, I explore how they frame their actions through different normative narratives. These normative narratives are not necessarily emergent, however. Rather, the interviewees use past experience and presentations of self to justify their actions at the scene of an accident. The fourth study is an ethnographic reflection of the researcher’s place-bounded identity in a field study that revolves around several different places. Rather than focusing on a story of first responders, this study focuses on the researcher’s, i.e., my own, story from the scene of an accident, the fire truck and the fire station. What I have been able to study through these different studies are stories of actions rather than “actual” actions or behaviors. In these stories, it becomes clear that first responders relate to both a social and spatial context as they provide accounts of their actions at the scene of an accident. They relate to a social context because they frame their actions through their interactions with different actors and position themselves in relation to those actors—and in relation to a spatial context. That is, they perform their actions in a place that is someone else’s place of work, with jurisdictional claims of both legitimacy and control. In summary, this thesis contributes a deeper knowledge of how citizen first responders interpret, understand and tell the story of their actions at the scene of an accident. The contribution considers the fact that citizen first responders are something of a “blind spot”, not only in the field of emergency research but also for emergency personnel who do not always acknowledge the experience of first responders at the scene of accidents.

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  • 16.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Hemberedskap och vardagens praktiker: Urbana och rurala perspektiv2021Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Den här populärvetenskapliga rapporten presenterar resultaten från forskningsprojektet ”Hushållsberedskap i samhällssäkerhetsdiskurser och vardagens praktiker”. Resultaten visar bland annat att människor ställer sig positiva till att ta ansvar för den egna krisberedskapen, men att denna positiva inställning inte nödvändigtvis avspeglar sig ifaktisk krisberedskap. Rapporten avslutas med ett antal råd och rekommendationer för hur projektets forskningsresultat kan användas för att stärka samhällets motståndskraft och samlade beredskap.

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  • 17.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Hur kan vi förstå hemberedskap?: En orientering i hemberedskap som politiskt och empiriskt fenomen2020Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Hemberedskap, i betydelsen privatpersoners krisberedskap i hemmet, är ett kunskapsområde som har utvecklats kraftigt de senaste åren, både vad gäller forskningoch olika former av utredningar och statistiska undersökningar. Sådana studier motiveras ofta mot bakgrund av att den övervägande andelen av alla olyckor i Sverige inträffar i hem och fritidsmiljöer. På så vis kan det förstås som ett empiriskt fenomen, där privatpersoners beredskap mäts och studeras genom olika undersökningar. Men, vilket flera samhällsvetenskapliga forskare har framhållit, hemberedskap kan också förstås som ett politiskt fenomen: som ett uttryck för den ansvarsförskjutning och individualisering som har präglat svensk krishantering sedan början av 2000-talet. Som en konsekvens av denna samhällsutveckling så har krisberedskap allt mer kommit att placeras i den privata sfären:i allas våra hem.

    Under senare hälften av 2010-talet har antalet informationskampanjer om säkerhet och krisberedskap riktade till svenska folket ökat kraftigt. Behovet av dessa informationskampanjer har motiverats utifrån skäl som extremväder och dess konsekvenser, nedmonterat totalförsvar samt ett allt skörare säkerhetspolitiskt läge. Oavsett bakomliggande skäl så syftar informationskampanjerna till att stärka människors förmåga att klara sig själva i händelse av kris, krig eller samhällsstörning. 2010-talet har också bjudit på flera situationer som aktualiserat behovet av hemberedskap. Omfattande stormar med längre efterföljande elavbrott, översvämningar, skogsbränder där människortvingat lämna sina hem och den pågående Coronapandemin har alla aktualiserat behovetav en god krisberedskap i hemmet.

    Forskning om krisberedskap har pågått i många år, så väl nationellt som internationellt,och kan idag sägas utgöra ett relativt omfattande forskningsfält. Det är dock ettforskningsfält som domineras av organisatoriska studier och analyser av samhälletskrisberedskap. Forskningen kring privatpersoners krisberedskap i hemmet utgör inte allspå samma sätt ett samlat forskningsfält. Många gånger behandlas privatpersonerskrisberedskap som en mindre del av mer omfattande studier om samhällets krisberedskap. Det är dessutom ett kunskapsområde som är relativt ”spretigt” till sin karaktär genom attomfatta alltifrån attityder till och praktiserande av krisberedskap till kritiska granskningar av statlig styrning mot individers krisberedskap. I den här kunskapsöversikten försöker jag ta ett samlat grepp kring forskning om privatpersoners krisberedskap i hemmet utifrån ett nationellt perspektiv.

    Syftet med den här rapporten är att diskutera hemberedskap som empiriskt och politisktfenomen utifrån befintlig forskning. Det är dock en genomgång av tidigare forskning som är tematisk snarare än systematisk till sin karaktär. Det innebär att jag på förhand har valt några specifika teman som är av central relevans för att diskutera hemberedskap som empiriskt och politiskt fenomen, för att sedan söka litteratur och tidigare forskning inom just dessa teman. De teman som jag har valt att fokusera vid i rapporten är följande: historiska perspektiv på hemberedskap, ansvar och hemberedskap, allmänhetens attityder till och praktiserande av hemberedskap samt offentliga aktörers perspektiv på allmänhetens hemberedskap.

    Hemberedskap är ett kunskapsområde starkt färgat av sin historiska, politiska och sociogeografiska kontext. För att göra en fördjupande snarare än en jämförande studie så har jag därför valt att avgränsa mig till ett nationellt perspektiv på allmänhetens krisberedskap. Rapporten inkluderar således framförallt undersökningar, rapporter och vetenskapligapublikationer som utgår ifrån det svenska krishanteringssystemet.

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  • 18.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Landsbygder i brand: Kroniska kriser och krishantering på periferialiserade platser2022In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. 31, p. 1-8Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Artikelns syfte är att undersöka hur en akut kris, i det här fallet skogsbränderna sommaren 2018, förstås mot bakgrund av en bredare social och politisk kontext, nämligen den kroniska kris som en periferialisering av landsbygden utgör. Här studeras en sådan periferialisering framförallt genom hur den tar sig i uttryck i människors berättelser om och erfarenheter från skogsbränderna sommaren 2018. Artikeln grundar sig på intervjuer med räddningspersonal, frivilliga och evakuerade från några av de byar som hotades av skogsbränderna. I dessa intervjuer ryms både motstånd och försvar: ett motstånd mot, och ett ifrågasättande av, landsbygders ojämlika förutsättningar till krishantering och samtidigt ett försvar av den egna bygden och de politiska förutsättningar som råder där.

  • 19.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    När det brinner runt knuten - Risk, roller och resurser i samband med skogsbrandsevakuering2019In: Festskrift till Björn Fjæstad: Utvecklingen av en forskningsmiljö: Ett verksamhetsnära engagemang på distans / [ed] Erna Danielsson, Roine Johansson, Anna Olofsson, Susanna Öhman, Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University , 2019, p. 17-31Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    "This is something that we need to get used to": Stories about acute and chronic crises2022Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Both research and media reports from the Swedish wildfires of 2018 has mainly dealt with the issue of acute disaster management and the firefighting of the forest that was burning. In this paper alternative stories about the wildfires are developed, where the acute crisis is understood in relation to other constantly ongoing, chronic, crises. The analysis is based on interviews with firefighters, volunteers and local citizens that were all involved with, or affected by, the wildfires. The purpose of this paper is to explore how an acute crisis is made sense of in relation to stories about chronic crises. From the empirical material three central stories emerge: 1) the one about the lack of resources, 2) the one about the right to public welfare and services and 3) the one about climate change, where even more wildfires are to be expected in the future. These three stories all share the storyline where the acute crisis (the wildfire) is understood in relation to two different, but constantly ongoing, chronic crises: the dismantling of rural welfare services and climate change. In sum, this brings important knowledge to how lived experiences from a disaster is framed as both a local and global issue.

  • 21.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Vad är en kris när skogen brinner?: Berättelser om akuta och kroniska kriser2022In: Skogens värden: forskares reflektioner / [ed] Catrin Johansson, Hans-Erik Nilsson, Peter Öhman, Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson, Birgitta Engberg, Oskar Englund, Per Simonsson och Inger Axbrink, Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet , 2022, p. 58-59Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 22.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    When Resources aren't enough: Rural (disaster) volunteerism as a compensatory act2021Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In the summer of 2018, both rescue services and volunteers fought against the extensive forest fires that spread over the northern parts of Sweden. The challenges were many and one of the most obvious one was the lack of resources, both material and human. This lack of resources, together with the long distances that characterize the rural northern parts of Sweden, have been highlighted in subsequent evaluations as one of the main reasons for the heavily spread of the fires. The lack of resources in itself can be understood against the background of several years of dismantling and centralization of the Swedish fire service. However, the responses from local community was enormous during the forest fires of 2018. Local volunteers, spontaneous as well as organized, assisted in firefighting; in providing food and services; in offering shelter for evacuated and many other things. In disaster research, volunteer activities have often been described as something that “fills the void” when official resources are scarce. This seems to be particular true in rural contexts. This paper applies a critical perspective on rural disaster volunteerism by framing it as an expression of spatial vulnerability and peripheralization: as something that is performed as a compensatory act (cf. Lundgren 2021) in rural areas affected by social dismantling. In other words, both place and politics are central in understanding (rural) voluntary activity. Inspired by the theoretical concept geographies of volunteerism (Fyfe & Milligan 2004; Milligan, 2007), this paper argues that people makes sense of volunteer initiatives in relation to both the place where these activities take place and in relation to the power relations associated with this place.

     

    References:

    Fyfe, N.R. & Milligan, C. (2003). ”Space, citizenship, and voluntarism: Critical reflections on the voluntary welfare sector in Glasgow. Environment and Planning A 35, 2069-2086.

    Lundgren, A. (2021b). ”’För att vi ska kunna leva… överleva!’ Frivilligengagemang som rurala motståndspraktiker?” I: Lundgren, A. (red.) (2021). Makt, moral och motstånd. Engagemang för norrländska landsbygder. Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskap: Etnologiska skrifter nr.69. Umeå Universitet.

    Milligan, C. (2007). ”Geographies of voluntarism: Mapping the terrain.” Geography Compass 1(2), 183 – 199.

     

  • 23.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Mittuniversitetet.
    Danielsson, Erna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Mittuniversitetet.
    Ekholm, Sara
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Mittuniversitetet.
    Eriksson, Kerstin
    RISE.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Frivilligheten och skogsbränderna sommaren 20182022Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Detta är en avrapportering av forskningsprojektet Sverige brinner: en studie av frivilliginsatser och lokalbefolkningens krisberedskap under skogsbränderna sommaren 2018. Projektet är ett så kallat akutbidrag som har finansierats av FORMAS under perioden december 2018 – december 2020. Syftet med forskningsprojektet i sin helhet har varit att studera hur olika typer av frivilliga samt boende i de branddrabbade områdena upplevde och hanterade skogsbränderna sommaren 2018. Den här rapporten fokuserar vid frivilligheten i samband med skogsbränderna genom att utgå från följande frågeställningar: På vilka sätt, och i vilken omfattning, inkluderades frivilliga under Skogsbränderna 2018? Hur förändrades detta över tid? samt Vilka kategorier av frivilliga aktiverades under Skogsbränderna 2018? Vad karaktäriserade dessa? Resultatet visar att frivilligas insatser var betydelsefulla och att de inkluderades i hög grad. Inkluderingen kom dock med vissa förbehåll, där frivilliga utan organisatorisk tillhörighet hade det betydligt svårare att bli inkluderade, i jämförelse med de frivilliga som engagerade sig genom en organisation. Sammantaget belyser den här rapporten krisfrivillighetens mångfald och komplexiteter

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  • 24.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Boundary practices at incident sites: making distinctions between emergency personnel and the public2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 25.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Roine
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Boundary practices at incident sites: Making distinctions between emergency personnel and the public2014In: International Journal of Emergency Services, ISSN 2047-0894, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 65-76Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Purpose – Incident sites can be described as the joint work site of the emergency services, where one of their challenges is to interact with the public. The purpose of this paper is to study how this interaction is structured by the emergency personnel's jurisdictional claims.

    Design/methodology/approach – This paper rests upon qualitative method and in-depth interviews. In total, 28 people have been interviewed, out of which 13 are emergency personnel and 15 are unaffiliated volunteers. The interview material has been analysed qualitatively and thematically by the authors.

    Findings – The findings show that the interaction between emergency personnel and unaffiliated volunteers can be described in terms of three different boundary practices: cordoning off, division of labour and conversation, varying in degrees of inclusion and exclusion. The result shows that the emergency personnel's relationship to volunteers is ambivalent, as they are both seen as an uncertain element at the incident site in need of control and as a valuable source of information.

    Originality/value – While most other studies have been focusing on the interaction between emergency organizations, the authors have investigated the interaction between emergency organizations and a group previously unstudied: unaffiliated volunteers. While sociologists in the field of boundary work normally describe boundary practices in terms of negotiation, sympathizing with the concept of negotiated order, the results point to the fact that boundaries are not necessarily a subject for negotiation.

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  • 26.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Magnusson, Monika
    Centrum för HumanIT, Handelshögskolan, Karlstad Universitet.
    Öberg, Lena-Maria
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Computer and System science.
    Kunskapsöversikt: Övningsverksamhet2017Report (Other academic)
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  • 27.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Montelius, Elin
    Den kvinnliga hemberedskapen: Genus och ansvar i krisberedskapskampanjer2020In: Genus, risk och kris / [ed] Hobbins, Jennifer; Danielsson, Erna; Sjöstedt-Landén, Angelika., Lunda: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Montelius, Elin
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Militariseringen av Covid-192020In: Dagens Arena, Vol. Mars, no 31Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 29.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Montelius, Elin
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Danielsson, Erna
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Privilegierad prepping när beredskap mest blir konsumtion2022In: ETCArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 30.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Wall, Erika
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences.
    Stories of the storm: the interconnection between risk management strategies and everyday experiences of rurality2021In: Journal of Risk Research, ISSN 1366-9877, E-ISSN 1466-4461, Vol. 24, no 8, p. 1016-1029Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Households play an important role in risk management. In this article, we take a closer look at risk management strategies applied by rural citizens in relation to an actual situation: a specific storm. The storm chosen, named Ivar, hit the northern parts of Sweden in December 2013 and caused major blackouts and heavy problems for road and train traffic due to extensive tree falls. After the storm, there were persistent problems with electricity, Internet, telephone communications, heating and drinking water supply, especially in the affected rural areas. The aim of this article is to explore the interconnection between risk management strategies and living conditions among rural citizens affected by this storm and its aftermath. The empirical material consists of narrative interviews with households from the area most affected by the storm: a small company town where the citizens were without electricity for 5-10 days after the storm. Our analysis resulted in two broad storylines ('stories of social dismantling' and 'stories of capability') illustrating how household risk management is intertwined with subjective experiences of rurality. That is, the households made sense of their experiences of the storm by relating them to an urban norm and to the everyday experience of living in 'the periphery'. By that, rural households' risk management strategies can be understood as a manifestation of different power relations in society (urban/rural, centre/periphery) as well as being embedded in the everyday experience of rurality.

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  • 31.
    Wall, Erika
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Hållbarhet, hälsa och hemberedskap: Berättelser om när klimatkrisen blåste in i svensk glesbygd2019In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, ISSN 0037-833X, Vol. 96, no 3, p. 446-454Article in journal (Refereed)
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  • 32.
    Wall, Erika
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Riskfyllt vatten: Hur individen skapar förståelse av oväntad parasitförekomst i dricksvattnet2012In: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 49, no 1, p. 5-24Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This quick response study was carried out with the aim to study how individuals made sense of the outbreak of the parasite Cryptosporidium in the drinking water in Ostersund. In total 24 interviews were made with people in Ostersund. The result shows that the interviewees related to social as well as spatial dimensions when they made sense of this risky situation, which can be understood in relation to the concept of sensemaking of risk. Six groups among the interviewees emerged in the analysis, illustrating how different aspects of the risk where focused in the process of sensemaking. Further, the study shows that the process of sensemaking was built upon direct as well as indirect social relations, where the interviewees made sense of the risk by relating to people who were close to them as well as to people to whom they had no personal relation. These indirect social relations were defined as: elderly, children and people in other countries, which also points at the fact that the interviewees made sense of the risk in a global context. Finally, the results suggest that social relations could be further explored in future studies in sensemaking of risk.

  • 33.
    Wall, Erika
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences (HOV).
    Kvarnlöf, Linda
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Ljungdahl, Jens
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Individens ansvar och möjligheter vid extraordinära händelser: en litteraturstudie2022Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med denna studie är nå fördjupad förståelse för hur individen förhåller sig till eget ansvar vad gäller extraordinära händelser. Här har vi valt att återknyta begreppet ansvar till praktiska insatser, att ta ansvar till exempel genom förebyggande åtgärder, samt att inkludera forskning med fokus på resiliens. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i samhällsvetenskaplig riskforskning. Aspekter som då har varit särskilt relevanta att ta hänsyn till är betydelsen av sociala och kulturella sammanhang för hur individen förhåller sig till risk och tar eget ansvar för att vidta förebyggande åtgärder. Den litteraturöversikt som gjorts här har utgått ifrån tre analytiska steg: strategiskt urval av tidskrifter, val av artiklar genom strukturerade sökningar med sökord och kriterier samt analys av vald litteratur. Analysen visar att en stor del av forskningen återkopplar till olika stora naturhändelser (till exempel jordbävningar och orkaner), att sårbarhet i hög grad definierats utifrån den plats individen lever på och att resiliens lyfts fram i litteraturen främst på policynivå.

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