Mapping and Characterizing : Nordic Everyday Life Research

Mapping and Characterizing  

Nordic Everyday Life Research 

Kristina Karlsson

Anna Olaison

Karin Skill

Arbetsnotat Nr 343, maj 2010

ISSN 1101-1289

ISRN LiU-TEMA-T-WP-343-SE

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Acknowledgements 

The authors of this report, Kristina Karlsson, Anna Olaisson, and Karin Skill, developed it at

the request of the local network on Everyday Life Research at Linköping University, of which

we are members. We thank the local network for entrusting us with this task and supporting

us all the way. We also thank the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University for

making the work possible by partially financing it. However, the making of this report

required more than monetary support. The efforts of librarian Christina Brage, who searched

through thousands of references, have been vital. The patient librarian Jenny Betmark made

the handling of the references easier by teaching us how to use RefWorks. Our colleague

Helena Karresand assisted us with the translation of the Finnish references. Our everyday life

research colleagues in the Nordic research network on Everyday Life Processes in European

Societies (ELPiES) have offered valuable feedback and encouragement. Finally, Peter

Berkesand and David Lawrence at Linköping University Electronic Press made our dreams of

an Everyday Life Research Database seem attainable. Thanks to you all!

Linköping, May 2010

Kristina Karlsson

Anna Olaison

Karin Skill

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Summary 

The aim of this report is to present references that originate from the Nordic countries,

including Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway, and that have been assigned the keyword

“everyday life” or one of its Nordic counterparts and published in the period 1990 through

2008. The presentation includes information on the total number of references from each

country, the most frequent authors and the institutions to which they belong, and the reference

types and the number of each type. Based on an analysis of some limited information about

the dissertations and the journals, it is discussed how Nordic everyday life research may be

characterized.

In total 560 references were found in the search procedure that is described in the report. The

number of references from the different countries is: Finland 176, Sweden 171, Denmark 110,

and Norway 103. The analysis imply that the field of Nordic everyday life research is big,

multifaceted, and multi- and interdisciplinary. It is performed mainly within the frame of

various social science subjects, but also to quite a great extent within subjects of health

science, and to a minor extent within technology subjects. Some of the references seem to

represent studies with a more comprehensive view on the everyday lives of a certain group of

people located in the same place or sharing some characteristic and they try to capture both

what people do and what they think and experience. Other studies are narrower and focus on,

for example, attitudes towards food or how computers are used or should be designed. In

other words Nordic everyday life research is hard to define clearly. The limited analysis and

the fact that the international field of everyday life research is not well known, do not allow

conclusions to be drawn about either a typically Nordic character of everyday life research, or

differences between the Nordic countries. However, the work of mapping Nordic everyday

life research will continue and the plans of constructing an open-access Everyday Life

Research Database that will be easily accessible on the Internet are presented.

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Contents 

Introduction ... 5 

Method ... 7 

The search procedure ... 7 

The reference database ... 11 

Analyzing what Nordic everyday life research may be about ... 11 

Result ... 12 

Total number of references ... 12 

Most frequent authors (more than two references) ... 12 

Reference types ... 14 

Dissertations ... 15 

Journals ... 17 

Attempting to characterize Nordic everyday life research ... 20 

Constructing a database of Nordic everyday life research ... 22 

Aims of the database ... 22 

Defining and finding everyday life research ... 22 

Appendix 1 ... 24 

Appendix 2 ... 32 

References Sweden ... 32 

References Finland ... 48 

References Denmark ... 66 

References Norway ... 76 

References Iceland ... 86 

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Introduction 

Linköping University has had a research network on Everyday Life Research since 2005.

Researchers representing different disciplines, subject fields, and methodological approaches

participate in the network, sharing in common an interest in doing research grounded in the

everyday lives of people. Although the interdisciplinary collaboration implies, among other

things, that the concept of everyday life is understood from different theoretical perspectives,

the unifying idea is that everyday life research is always performed close to people and aims

at increasing knowledge about how individuals act and conceive of their lives over time and

in different social and spatial contexts. The local research network is also represented in the

Nordic research network on Everyday Life Processes in European Societies (ELPiES). The

participants who are most involved in the running of this network come from Denmark,

Finland, and Sweden. The network studies everyday life processes in time and space in the

context of the ongoing modernization of European societies. ELPiES arranged two

international conferences in 2008 at the University of Helsinki and in 2009 at Linköping

University. A third conference will take place at Roskilde University in Denmark in May

2010.

In 2008 the local network at Linköping University applied for and received money from the

Faculty of Arts and Sciences to conduct a literary survey of everyday life research. We, the

authors, were given a free hand to formulate the aim and to define the scope of the survey. We

soon realized that the scope of everyday life research can be huge, depending on what

definition is used. We actually decided to start on a rather broad scale with international

literature, but then to narrow down the study to Nordic literature. Now, the aim of this report

is twofold. First, based on a search for international references that was performed by

librarian Christina Brage we have sorted out and aim to present references that originate from

the Nordic countries and that have been assigned the keyword “everyday life” or one of its

Nordic counterparts, published in the period 1990 through 2008. Iceland was not included in

these searches; however, a small sample of Icelandic articles published in international

journals will be presented. All references are presented in the reference lists in Appendix 2.

Based on this selection of references we then discuss how we might characterize Nordic

everyday life research. For this purpose we describe the selection of references by

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the institutions to which they belong, and the reference types and the number of each type,

and we also analyze what some of the literature may be about by studying some information

about the dissertations and the journals that we found.

Second, it is hoped that this report and the references found will form the basis for the

Everyday Life Research Database that the local network on Everyday Life Research at

Linköping University plans to construct in cooperation with Linköping University Electronic

Press (LiU E-press). The intention is to build an open-access database that will be easily

accessible on the Internet. Therefore, we will present the plans for the construction of the

database in more detail.

In the following we will present the method used, including names of databases, selection

criteria, the handling of references and how we made our analyses. After that, for each

country we present the total number of references, the most frequent authors, the reference

types and the number of each type, and categorizations of broader themes of the dissertations

and the journals respectively. Based on the information presented we then discuss how we

might characterize Nordic everyday life research. Finally, we present the plans for the

construction of an Everyday Life Research Database.

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Method 

The search procedure 

To begin, we engaged librarian Christina Brage to scan Nordic and international databases for

references using the English keyword “everyday life” and its German, French, and Nordic

counterparts from 1970 to 2008 inclusive. Brage was also given some supplementary

keywords that she could either combine with the keyword “everyday life” when scanning a

database, or have in mind when she selected references from the lists of hits. The keywords

included gender, health, technology, tradition, family, household, work, welfare, environment,

modernity, culture, normality, and globalization.

Next, we began our attempts to categorize items on the reference lists that Brage sent to us.

This proved to be a difficult task in many ways. For example, Brage’s searches resulted in

thousands of hits. It was not really possible for her to go through and select references in a

systematic way. She used the criteria stated above and selected references that appeared to be

scientific. To some extent she also selected references that could be categorized as “popular

science”, rooted in the science but geared to a non-specialist readership. That is to say, she

also wanted to give an indication of the great scope of actors and subjects that might possibly

be included in the field of everyday life research. Publications such as student theses,

non-peer-reviewed journals, and book reviews were removed from the lists.

Working with a list of about 1700 references, we wanted to get an overview of what they are

about by categorizing broader themes. We started to categorize them according to topic

(based on their titles) and authors’ departmental/institutional affiliations. We came up with a

somewhat arbitrary list of themes, which is presented in Table 1.

The total number of themes is more than 1700, as references were usually assigned more than

one theme. Moreover, the categories are not altogether mutually exclusive.

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Table 1. Categorization of themes of about 1700 references.

Themes

Number of titles

dealing with the themes

Health 292

Way of living

283

Occupation/work 269

Social organization

234

Generation 202

children 96

youth 52

adults 9

older people

57

Technology 147

Gender 134

women 72

men 4

Research 112

Culture 80

Environment 44

Consumption 33

Energy 16

Transportation 13

Time use

9

Difficult to categorize

37

Total number of recorded themes

1905

After this we decided to sort out and present the references that originate from the Nordic

countries and were published in the period 1990 through 2008. In Table 2 we present nearly

all of Brage’s work, and that has been the starting point for the analysis of the Nordic

literature. We chose to exclude two lists of references that were included in the 1700

references we had worked with before. One was a list of 387 references that Brage had

removed from the hits she got in the Norwegian database NORART and the other was a list of

27 references selected from the Swedish database Artikelsök, which we did not consider

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scientific enough. Table 2 presents information on databases used, keywords, number of hits,

and number of selected references.

Table 2. Information on databases used, keywords, number of hits, and number of selected

references.

Database information

Keywords and number of hits

Number of selected references

Norwegian:

NORART

References of articles in about

440 Norwegian journals and

yearbooks

Keywords: hverdagsliv and

hverdag

Hits: 466

80

Various Norwegian:

Norbok – Norwegian catalogue

for books

Bibsys - The national library in

Oslo

Sambok – catalogue for books

Keywords: hverdagsliv and

everyday life

Hits: 423

153

Swedish:

LIBRIS

Keyword: vardagsliv

Hits: 2311

Keyword: everyday life

Hits: 1596

Keyword: alltagsleben

Hits: 93

Keyword: (im) alltag

Hits: 218

Keyword: hverdagsliv

Hits: 233

Academic dissertations:

54, 103, 3, 26, and 47

respectively

Danish:

Det kongelige bibliotek

Keyword: hverdagsliv

Hits: 700

76 references

Various Danish: references

from various lists of references

and libraries, e.g. Bibliotek.dk

Keyword: hverdagsliv

Hits: 1174 in Bibliotek.dk

144

Various Finnish: University of

Helsinki and the national library

Keyword: everyday life and

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Hits: 335 dissertations in

University of Helsinki, 76 in the

National library (not only

dissertations)

Google Scholar

Keyword: vardagsliv

Hits: 2870

66 from the first 500 references

Google Scholar

Keyword: hverdagsliv

Hits: 3074

53 from the first 500 references

SCOPUS

Keyword: everyday life

combined with gender, health,

technology, tradition, family,

household, work, welfare,

environment, modernity,

culture, normality, globalization

Hits: 7580

115 with everyday life in the

title

SCOPUS

Title-abs-key: everyday life

AND Affiliation Sweden,

Denmark, Norway, Finland,

Hits: 317, 129, 95 and 164

respectively

30, 24, 9 and 20 respectively

Academic Search

Keyword: everyday life

Hits: 11217

Limited to academic journals:

7019

Limited to everyday life as a

subject word: 719

126

Web of Science

(SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI)

Topic=Everyday life AND

Address=Sweden, Finland,

Denmark, Norway

Hits: 368, 148, 124 and 112

respectively

27, 24, 39 and 28 respectively

Total

1353

Thus, among the 1353 references we have sorted out those originating from Sweden, Finland,

Denmark, and Norway and have removed duplicates and references that were published

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outside the time frame in question or that were student theses, non-peer-reviewed journals, or

book reviews. The total number of references then became 560. We have not checked all

references in detail, and there still may be publications among them that do not match our

reference type criteria. One problem contributing to this is the fact that the search systems

vary from country to country and there are some interpretation difficulties concerning what is

regarded as, for instance, a dissertation or a report. We performed one search for Icelandic

references by using the keyword “everyday life” in Scopus and Web of Science and with

address/affiliation=Iceland. The result was 8 hits.

The reference database 

We have imported the references from the databases to the web-based reference database

software RefWorks. Linköping University has a campus license giving both students and

employees access to the program. Moreover, RefWorks is well suited for being imported to an

Everyday Life Research Database, which is the goal of the work with this report. However,

the task of importing references to RefWorks is quite complicated if the aim is to include all

correct information about the publications and, thus, to achieve as correct reference lists as

possible. It has not been possible to achieve this completely within the existing time frame

and that is why some of the references in Appendix 2 may seem somewhat obscure. This will

be corrected when the references are imported to the database.

Analyzing what Nordic everyday life research may be about 

In order to get an understanding of what the literature may be about we have analyzed the

titles of the dissertations and the journals as well as some additional information about these

reference types found on the Internet. We have tried to discern and categorize broader themes.

As opposed to the categorization of themes of the 1700 titles we decided to try defining one

theme for each dissertation and one for each journal. The categorization of the dissertations

was complicated and the result is still somewhat arbitrary, and the categories are not

completely mutually exclusive. Additional themes that have been connected to each of the

categories as well as the disciplinary subjects within which each category has been studied,

are presented in connection with Table 3 in the Result section. All journals and how they have

been categorized are presented in Appendix 1, and the categorization is presented in Table 5.

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Result 

In this section, we present for each country the total number of references, the most frequent

authors, the reference types and the number of each type, as well as the analyses of the

dissertations and the journals. We present one result category at the time, but show the result

for each country. Iceland is included in the result only when the categorization of journals is

presented.

Total number of references   

Sweden: 171

Finland: 176

Denmark: 110

Norway: 103

Most frequent authors (more than two references)  

Sweden:

Ellegård, Kajsa - Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change,

Linköping University – 7 references

Åquist, Ann-Cathrine - School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro

University – 5 references

Löfgren, Orvar - Division of Ethnology with the Folk Life Archives, Lund University –

3 references

Finland:

Savolainen, Rejo - Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media, University of

Tampere - 7 references

Oksman, Virpi -

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland -

5 references

Heikkinen, Kaija – Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research, University

of Joensuu– 3 references

Jokinen, Eeva - Department of Social Policy, University of Joensuu – 3 references

Tiilikainen, Marja – Department of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki –

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Denmark:

Simonsen, Kirsten – Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde

University – 7 references

Jørgensen, Birte Bech - Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organization, Aalborg

University (until 2005) - 6 references

Cronberg, Tarja - former director of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute - 5 references

Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten – Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University – 4

references

Halkier, Bente - Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies

Roskilde University - 4 references

Andersen, Johannes – Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg

University – 3 references

Koefoed, Lasse - of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University – 3

references

Røpke, Inge – Department of Management Engineering Innovation and Sustainability,

Technical University of Denmark – 3 references

Norway:

Hjorthol, Randi - Department of Communication and Accessibility, The Institute of Transport

Economics (TØI), Oslo - 8 references

Gullestad, Marianne (1946-2008) – last employed at The Institute for Social Research (ISF),

Oslo - 4 references

Aune, Margrethe – Center for Technology and Society, Norwegian University of Science and

Technology, Trondheim – 3 references

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Reference types  

The types of references found and the number of each type for each country are presented in

Table 3.

Table 3. Types of references and number of each type for each country.

Country

Reference

type

Sweden Finland Denmark Norway

Dissertation/thesis

73 29 6 13

Journal

article

45 76 53 32

Book,

whole

31 31 37 50

Book, section

12

4

5

--

Book, edited

4

2

5

Report

1 13 4 --

Conference

proceedings

1 15 3 2

Web page

2

2

2

--

Monograph 2

4

--

--

Generic --

--

--

1

Total 171 176 110 103

The uneven distribution of different reference types between the countries, implying for

example that more dissertations on everyday life have been written in Sweden, is presumed to

be an unreliable indication. The uneven distribution is more likely due to the fact that the

search systems of the countries are different and that there are some interpretation difficulties

concerning what is regarded as, for instance, a dissertation or a report.

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Dissertations 

The categorization of themes of the dissertations and the number of each category for each

country is presented in Table 4.

Table 4. Categorization of themes of the dissertations and the number of each category

presented for each country.

Country

Theme

Sweden Finland Denmark Norway

Organization of

everyday life

19 3 1 4

Organization of

everyday life in

institutions

3 1

Living with

illness/disability

16 4

Study abroad

5

5

2

Media use

11

1

Older people

4

2

1

Children/Adolescents 5

2

2

Food 4

Work 2 2

School 2

Nationalism/Identity

5

1

Parenting 3

Ecological

sustainability/

Energy use

1 1 1 1

Gender 1

Difficult to

categorize

3 2 1

Total 73 29 6 13

As stated above, the uneven distribution of dissertations among the countries does not

necessarily indicate that more dissertations on everyday life are written in Sweden. However,

a multifaceted research field including a wide range of research interests is indicated. Each

dissertation has been assigned only one of the categories, but in reality all studies do of course

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combine more themes and reflect different perspectives. The category “organization of

everyday life” is the broadest, including subjects such as history, social work, ethno

geography, time geography, social geography, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, and

architecture. Among other things these dissertations have included the perspectives of gender,

immigrants, urban life, and life mode, and they have highlighted issues such as transportation,

social relations, household chores, moral life conditions, religious doctrines, and the balancing

of home/leisure life and work life. “Organization of everyday life in institutions” refers to

studies focusing on the interplay between the personnel and those living in or visiting public

institutions. This interplay is not the only focus in the dissertations in the “School” category,

which seem to reflect a wider view of school as a field of activities.

The categories of “older people” and “children” include dissertations that could have been

assigned the category of “organization of everyday life,” as they deal with older people’s or

children’s organization of everyday life. However, these categories also include dissertations

that seem to deal with more clearly defined research questions. Moreover, there are more of

them than, for example, dissertations dealing with immigrants. This reasoning applies also to

dissertations in the category of “living with illness/disability,” which cover subjects such as

rehabilitation, nursing, occupational therapy, clinical medicine, social work, and ethnology.

Some of these dissertations include the perspectives of next of kin.

Gender, in terms of sex, is the most common co-theme/perspective and most often concerns

women. The gender category include one study actually reflecting both men and women and

focuses specifically on what mechanisms create women’s subordination and men’s superiority

in partner relationships.

As dissertations dealing with “media use” seemed quite common, at least in Sweden, it

merited its own category. However, it includes studies focusing on, for example, media use by

children and people with disabilities, as well as media use in the workplace. It also includes

the perspectives of the producers and how, for example, computer support should be

designed. It has been studied within informatics, journalism & mass media, sociology, media

& communication, ethnology, and technology & social change.

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Studies within the category of “study abroad” deal with different kinds of issues and have

been performed within the contexts of social, cultural, and musical anthropology, sociology,

science of religion, and architecture.

The “food” category refers to studies dealing with consumer views and demands concerning

food in general or specific kinds of food; these studies were performed at departments of Food

Technology as well as Psychology. Studies in the “work” category deal either with health

issues or professional identity and were performed by occupational therapists, psychologists,

ethnologists, and sociologists. “Parenting” has been studied within psychology and ethnology

and from the perspectives of motherhood as well as fatherhood. “Ecological

sustainability/energy use” has been studied by ethnologists and sociologists who focus on

resource use in households, in terms of, for example, energy and food, and from a

sustainability/climate perspective. The category “nationalism/identity” refers to dissertations

that have been written, for example, at the Department of Finnish Language and Literature

and the Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark).

Journals 

In Table 5 the categorization of themes, the number of journals in each category, and the

number of articles in each category are presented for each country. The names of the journals

and how they have been categorized are shown in Appendix 1.

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Table 5. Categorization of themes, the number of journals in each category, and, in

parentheses, the number of articles in each category presented for each country.

Country

Theme

Sweden Finland Denmark Norway Iceland

Ageing

2 (2)

1 (1)

Occupational therapy

3 (4)

1 (1)

Health/Disease

6 (7)

5 (8)

3 (3)

2 (3)

4 (4)

Disability 2

(2)

Psychology

3 (3)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Youth

1 (2)

1 (2)

1 (1)

2 (2)

Gender

2 (2)

4 (5)

1 (1)

2 (2)

Anthropology/Ethnology

3 (3)

8 (14)

5 (8)

1 (1)

Geography

4 (4)

2 (2)

2 (3)

2 (2)

Housing

1 (1)

1 (1)

Occupational science

2 (3)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Sociology

2 (3)

1 (5)

9 (13)

3 (5)

Language

1 (1)

1 (1)

Innovations 1

(1)

Media

4 (4)

9 (14)

6 (6)

4 (4)

2 (2)

Environment

2 (2)

3 (6)

3 (7)

2 (2)

Education

1 (1)

2 (2)

1 (1)

Drugs

3 (5)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Space research

1 (1)

Culture/Art

1 (1)

1 (1)

Ethnicity

4

(4)

Architecture

1

(1)

Consumer studies

1(1)

History

1(2)

3 (3)

1 (1)

Administrative work

1 (1)

Food

2

(2)

Leisure

1 (1)

3 (3)

Transportation 2

(2)

Philosophy

1

(1)

19

Total

40 (45)

46 (75)

41 (53)

29 (32)

8 (8)

The multitude of themes points, once again, towards a multifaceted research field, which we

further comment upon below.

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Attempting to characterize Nordic everyday life research 

The results imply that the field of Nordic everyday life research is big, multifaceted, and

multi- and interdisciplinary. It is performed mainly within the frame of various social science

subjects, but also to quite a great extent within subjects of health science, and to a minor

extent within technology subjects. Some of the references seem to represent studies with a

more comprehensive view on the everyday lives of a certain group of people located in the

same place or sharing some characteristic and they try to capture both what people do and

what they think and experience. Other studies are narrower and focus on, for example,

attitudes towards food or how computers are used or should be designed. In other words

Nordic everyday life research is hard to define clearly. This elusiveness may be frustrating

when we want to explain to others what everyday life research is about, or when we are

searching for references that match our own more clearly defined everyday life research

interests. In spite of this lack of conformity, taken together we believe the studies contribute

insights about the tangible complexity of everyday life and its great variety of problems,

experiences, injustices, dreams, restrictions, choices, dilemmas, possibilities, negotiations,

and so forth.

Does the result point to something typically Nordic? The limited analysis does not enable us

to draw conclusions about either a typically Nordic character of everyday life research, or

differences between the countries. Moreover, we are not familiar with the international field

of everyday life research. Our own categorization of themes of the 1700 international

references (Table 1), including Nordic references, is the only basis for comparison that we can

use. Based on that, and the fact that the categorization methods differ, we cannot really

discern any difference other than, possibly, the “work” category, which seems more frequent

internationally.

However, our characterization of Nordic everyday life research as big, multifaceted, and

multi- and interdisciplinary is based on our definition of everyday life research in this survey,

that is to say, any publication using “everyday life” or one of its Nordic counterparts as a

keyword and being published in the period 1990 through 2008. It is of course possible to

question this and come up with some other criteria that should decide which publications to

include in a field of research called “everyday life research”. For example, by letting the

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keyword “everyday life” guide the survey we are probably missing a lot of studies that we

would consider of interest to everyday life research, such as more historical studies and more

studies in the field of occupational therapy. In any event, we do not question the very

existence of a research field called “everyday life research”. On the contrary, we hope this

survey will be a starting point for the construction of an Everyday Life Research Database

that will enable deeper analyses of, for example, the existence of a typically Nordic

perspective on everyday life, existing definitions of everyday life and related concepts,

theories and methodologies used, findings that are brought to the fore, and the kinds of studies

that have yet to be undertaken.

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Constructing a database of Nordic everyday life research 

The long-term goal of this report and the mapping of Nordic everyday life research is, thus, to

construct an open-access database that will be easily accessible on the Internet. In this section

we present the plans for this database in terms of its aims and how to organize the work of

defining and finding everyday life research.

Aims of the database 

The Everyday Life Research Database is planned to be constructed by Linköping University

Electronic Press (LiU E-press) for registering of previously unregistered data, importing of

data already registered in different sources, searching, and quality control of registered

records. A web interface for external searching via the Internet, including a section for

recommending new publications for the database, will also be made. By way of the web

interface, users will be invited to subscribe to the database newsletter and then regularly be

notified of new references. LiU E-press also offers parallel publishing of the full text of

research publications and electronic republishing of out-of-print books. This infrastructure

would then serve the aims of 1) facilitating the identification and consolidation of the field of

everyday life research, 2) facilitating the establishment of a common knowledge base and the

accomplishment of meta-analyses of the field of everyday life research, and 3) making it

easier for everyday life researchers to map studies in line with their specific research interests

and to describe the state of the art within their specific fields of everyday life research.

Defining and finding everyday life research 

At least one editor of the database will need to continue going through the existing references,

searching for more, and dealing with recommendations of publications. Which publications

should then be eligible for a place in the database? The question of delimitation, of course,

could be approached in different ways. We assume that we will continue to focus on Nordic

research, but widen this focus later on. We will pose some questions that we have thought of,

but do not intend to answer them here.

• Should other kinds of texts than empirical studies be included (e.g. theoretical studies

elaborating on subjects such as the concept of everyday life)? This is connected to the next

question.

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• Should Nordic everyday life research deal specifically with Nordic everyday life and be

performed only by Nordic researchers—or by any researcher? Or should Nordic everyday

life research represent studies performed anywhere in the world, but be performed only by

Nordic researchers?

• What time span should be considered valid? Should we begin by focusing on the latest

research, starting from the year 2000, or should we not have any time frame at all?

• Should we have some quality and ethical criteria? How should they be formulated?

Strategies for the continuous search for new publications would include spreading information

and marketing the database, searching in databases in order to come up with relevant search

words, interviewing colleagues about their ways of searching for and defining everyday life

studies, and, finally, searching for researchers and networks on the Internet. We believe we

have made a good start and look forward to continuing this work.

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Appendix 1 

Below are the names of the journals as well as the categorization of themes (in italics). The

number of articles published in each journal is one if nothing else is indicated in parenthesis.

Sweden:

Ageing

Aging and Mental Health

Journal of Aging Studies

Occupational therapy

Occupational Therapy International

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy (2)

Health/disease

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences (2)

Nursing Philosophy

Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition/Näringsforskning

Acta Dermato – Venereologica

Disability

Disability and Rehabilitation – Assistive Technology

Disability and Society

Psychology

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Nordisk Psykologi

New Review of Information Behaviour Research

Youth

Young (2)

Gender

Gender and Society

Womens Studies International Forum

Anthropology

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Ethnos

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Journal of Material Culture

Geography

Urban Studies

European Urban and Regional Studies

GeoJournal

Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography

Housing

Housing, Theory and Society

Occupational science

Journal of Management Studies

Journal of Occupational Science (2)

Sociology

Acta Sociologica

Sociologisk Forskning (2)

Language

Language and Society

Innovations

Innovation

Media

New Media and Society

Information, Technology and People

Information, Communication and Society

Electronic Government

Environment

Biomass and Bioenergy

Waste Management

Education

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Finland:

Drugs

Nordisk alkohol och narkotika tidskrift

Nicotine & Tobacco Research (2)

Journal of drug issues (2)

Health/disease

Health Risk and Society

Journal of advanced nursing (2)

Nursing and health Sciences

Society Health & Illness

Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (3)

Ageing

Gerontologia

Media

Health informatics journal

New Review of Information Behavior Reserch

New Media & Society (2)

Behavior & Information Technology

Multimedia systems

Internet Research- Electronic Networking Applications and Policy (2)

Information research (2)

Journal of Information Science Library and Information Science Research (3)

Libri 22

Environment

Journal of Industrial Ecology (3)

Environmental values (2)

Environmental history

Geography

International Journal of Urban Regional Research

Geography and Research forum

Space research

Space and Policy

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Education

International journal of lifelong education

Life and education in Finland

Sociology

Sosiologia (5)

Culture

New Formations

Gender

Feministische Studien

Gender and education (2)

Gendered Mobilities

Women and the environment

Anthroplogy/Ethnology

Etnologica Fennica (5)

European journal of anthropology (2)

Modus Vivendi (2)

Studies in Folk Culture

Studia Fennica Folkloristica

Finnish Review of East European Studies

Synteesi

Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura

Ethnicity

Ethnicity, Identity and migration

Slavic Review

Hungarologische Beiträge

Social Compass

Architecture

Life and Architecture

Consumer studies

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Youth

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History

Neophilogus (2)

Language

Kulttuuritukimus

Denmark:

Environment

Ecological economics (5)

Journal of Cleaner Production

Energy Policy

Media

Behavior & Information Technology

Cognitive Technological Work

Media Culture & Society

Digital Creativity

International Journal of Technology Management

Technology Studies of Western Europe

Anthropology

European Urban Regional Studies (2)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (3)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Journal of Southern African Studies

Bulletin of Latin American research

Occupational science

Journal of Occupational Science

Sociology

Current Sociology

Social Science and Medicine (2)

Sociologia Ruralis (3)

Ethnicities

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Social politik

Arbetsliv i Norden

Humaniora

Economy & Society

History

Slagmark

Historie

Kvan

Education

Journal of Educational Work

Youth

Journal of Youth Studies

Geography

Antipode

Geografiska Annaler Series B - Human geography (2)

Health/disease

Critical Public Health

European Planning studies

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Drugs

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Administrative work

Public Administration

Food

International Journal of Food Science and Technology

Appetite

Gender

Kvinnovetenskaplig Tidskrift

Housing

Journal of Housing and Built Environment

Leisure

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Norway:

Transportation

Transport Reviews

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Health/disease

Advances in Nursing Science

Appetite (2)

Psychology

Acta Psychologica

Drugs

Addiction

Youth

Young

Childhood – A Global Journal of Child Research

Leisure

Leisure Studies

Society and Leisure

Journal of EcoTourism

Occupational science

Management Decisions

Media

Computers in Entertainment

Annals of Telecommunications

New Media and Society

European Journal of Communication

Environment

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Energy Policy

Geography

GeoForum

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Sociology

Tidskrift for Samfunnsforskning (2)

Sociologia Ruralis (2)

Acta Sociologica

Gender

European Journal of Womens Studies

Womens Studies International Forum

Anthropology/Ethnology

American Ethnologist

Culture

Journal of Popular Culture

Philosophy

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

History

Historisk Tidskrift

Iceland:

Media

Information Research – An International Electronic Journal

Internet Research – Electronic Networking Applications and Policy

Health/disease

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology Venereology

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Psycho-oncology

Occupational therapy

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Psychology

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