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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book has been written by four authors in a collective fashion, with Johan Fornäs
bringing it all together at the end. All the other co-researchers who in various periods
and functions worked with the Passages project have delivered invaluable material,
ideas and other inputs: Åsa Bäckström, Göran Bolin, Leonor Camauër, Lena
Gemzöe, Nanna Gillberg, Anette Göthlund, Martin Gustavsson, Hasse Huss, Lars
Kaijser, Sonia Kalmering, Martina Ladendorf, Karin Lövgren and Love Nordenmark.
A reference group has been in support with important feedback: Bosse Bergman, Dag
Björkegren, Ulf Boëthius, Peter Dahlgren, Kirsten Drotner, Pierre Guillet de
Monthoux, Orsi Husz, André Jansson, Lisbeth Larsson, Marianne Liliequist, Ulf
Lindberg, Orvar Löfgren, Bo Reimer and Ove Sernhede. We are grateful to them all,
as well as to the scholars and institutions who have shown an interest in our work at
different universities in Sweden and internationally, including colleagues at the
Department of Culture Studies, Linköping University; Orvar Löfgren, Tom O’Dell
and other ethnologists at Lund University; Jonathan Schroeder at the School of
Business and Economics, University of Exeter; Magnus Mörck and his crew at the
Centre for Consumer Science, Göteborg University; Roger Odin et al. at Nouvelle
Sorbonne in Paris, France; Sonia Livingstone, Nick Couldry, Don Slater et al. at the
London School of Economics, UK; Daniel Miller at University of Central London,
UK; Mica Nava and colleagues at the University of East London, UK; David Morley
et al. at Goldsmiths College, London University, UK; Ien Ang and her team at the
University of Western Sydney, Australia; Meaghan Morris and her colleagues at
Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China; Kuan-Hsing Chen and others at three
universities in and near Taipeh, Taiwan. We also send warm thanks to all our helpers
in the ethnographic work, including visitors, customers, salespersons, civil servants
and managers at all levels. The project as well as the publication of this book were
generously funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. It was hosted
first by the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm
University, and then by the National Institute of Working Life in Norrköping,
Sweden. Its first four volumes are published in Swedish by the publisher Nya Doxa,
and this volume makes free use of elements from these previous ones. Finally,
through their encouragement and support, Tristan Palmer and his colleagues at Berg
Publishers have made this last Passages book become reality in a most wonderful way.