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A discursive movement in our society was initiated by the COVID pandemic, especially in relation to eldercare. The discourses mainly focused on the increased demands on the employees, while it was also stated that the pandemic was a particularly severe and difficult situation. On this note, we found it interesting to explore whether the discursive practice had an impact on the employees' experience of structure, manageability, and meaningfulness in relation to their work. In this research paper we chose to view the problem from a methodological hermeneutic and social constructivist point of view. We based our viewpoint on Aaron Antonovsky's theory of “sense of coherence” and Michel Foucault in relation to biopolitics, governmentality and general discursive practice. Furthermore, we included relevant points from Edgar Schein concerning organizational psychology. To obtain a concrete dimension of understanding, we conducted semi-structured focus group interviews at two selected nursing homes, respectively a municipal nursing center and a private nursing home. Based on the empirical evidence, we carried out a thematic analysis of the material, focusing on the expression of discourses and how this affected the employees' sense of coherence. The result of the analysis was, among other things, that the sense of coherence and discourses had an impact on the employees' experience of the pandemic and that there were significant differences between the statements of the two focus groups. Therefore, we reach the conclusion, that there is a tendency for discourses and the sense of coherence to influence each other. Corona pandemien har sat en diskursiv bevægelse i gang i samfundet. I ældreplejen har det særligt været diskurser om øgede krav til de ansatte samt at det var en særligt alvorlig og hård situation. På denne baggrund er vi interesseret i, om den diskursive praksis har haft en betydning for de ansattes oplevelse af begribelighed, håndtérbarhed og meningsfuldhed i forbindelse med deres arbejde. Videnskabsteoretisk har vi anskuet problemet fra et metodehermeneutisk og socialkonstruktivist ståsted. Vi har set problemstillingen ud fra Aaron Antonovskys teori om oplevelse af sammenhæng og Michel Foucault i forhold til biopolitik, governmentality og generelt diskursiv praksis. Desuden har vi inddraget nogle relevante pointer fra Edgar Schein omhandlende organisationspsykologi. For at nå frem til at mere konkretiseret forståelse, har vi foretaget semi-strukturerede fokusgruppeinterviews på to udvalgte ældretilbud, henholdsvis et kommunalt plejecenter og et privat friplejehjem. På baggrund af denne empiri foretog vi en tematisk analyse af materialet, med fokus på udtryk for diskurser og hvordan dette påvirkede de ansattes oplevelse af sammenhæng. Resultatet af analysen var blandt andet, at oplevelsen af sammenhæng og diskurser har haft betydning for de ansattes oplevelse af tiden under pandemien og der var væsentlige forskelle mellem de to fokusgruppers udsagn. Vi kan derfor konkludere at der er tendenser til at diskurser og oplevelse af sammenhæng påvirker hinanden.

By applying the comparative case of two Danish media institutions, namely Berlingske Tidende and Jyllands Posten, this study investigates the choice- and utilisation of so-called expert sources among journalists reporting on matters of finance and economics. The case study holds a specific view to the media coverage of the topic ‘inflation’ during November 2022. Building on a quantitative analysis of articles as well as a qualitative study of interviews with two journalists from each media, respectively, the study exemplifies how structural conditions, that are characteristic of the segmentation of the Danish press system, carries an influence on the current work conditions of Danish journalists. It also serves to demonstrate how ideals versus practices of journalists often conflict on the basis of such structural conditions. The study finds that audience segmentation, as well as increasingly tight deadlines, impacts the journalists’ utilisation of sources. The result of the study supports the extant literature’s claim, that privately-hired financialists are increasingly used as expert sources, and while journalists continuously aim to utilise more independent sources, relations between journalists and university scholars are strained by their contrasting aims and professional identities. Conclusively, the study argues that a mutually dependent relation exists between journalists and privately hired financialists, where journalists depend on the availability and statements of financialists, while the financialists seek to be quoted as often as possible, and often have their own agendas when providing statements. While the interviewed journalists experience having a high degree of autonomy as related to their work practice, we conclude that their practices, and not least their choice and utilisation of expert sources, ultimately depend on the structural conditions of the journalistic field. Finally, and by drawing on Bourdieu's Field Theory, we seek to illustrate how the journalists’ experienced autonomy relies on the journalistic doxa and habitus that fundamentally structures the field, which they inhabit.

This project aims to understand how trans- and nonbinary people orient themselves toward parenthood and negotiate gendered parental positions in the context of post-traditional Denmark. Using empirical data from qualitative interviews conducted with one trans woman, one genderfluid trans masculine person and one non-binary person, we pay attention to how their embodied orientations and experiences affect their subjectivation processes.Taking on a social constructionist stance inspired by Søndergaard (2006) as well as incorporating Sara Ahmed’s (2006) attention to embodied experiences of orientation we investigate how they manage to create oblique, queer lines toward parenthood and negotiate and transcend binary gender parental positions. The findings of our paper highlight how despite relative freedom to negotiate gendered and parental identities, subjects are still positioned and given different possibilities of action based on their body-sign.