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Division Manager
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Division of Publishing Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Senior Lecturer
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Division of Ethnology
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail jessica.enevoldkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 04 19
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a researcher, supervisor and teacher in the Section for Ethnology & the Section for ABM & Digital Culture. As researcher I study digital and analogue popular cultures, gaming, health, mobility, love, Reality TV and everyday life. Currently I am interested in the power of creativity - for change management, leadership development, competence development, and health/care. I mainly teach on the LU Master of Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA) (Fiedwork& Project Management, Thesis Writing, and Work Placement). I also teach on the BA in Digital Cultures .I am Managing Editor and Deputy Ed-in-Chief of Game Studies and Initiator and Co-Founder of the Game Studies Foundation.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Game Studies - Journal Grant from Vetenskapsrådet (research leader)
- Biggest Loser USA: A Fat World in Media and Local Practices - preparatory field studies (research leader)
- Gaming Moms: Juggling Time, Play and Family Life
- Nordic Research Perspectives on Problem Gaming - anthology and symposium (research leader)
- Games and Play - For Better, For worse (research leader)
- MACS - Man, the Automobile, Culture, Society
My current research interest concerns Real Estate in consumer culture, by way of studying real estate ads and their connections to contemporary trends in Tv-shows as well as everyday life focused on the "dream house". That is, the common pursuit of obtaining, building and renovating one's "dream house" or flat. In focus are interrelations, interests and conflicts between ideas of the home, the folkhem, the modern, the market, sustainability and the position of power of the real estate agent in weaving them all together. I am gathering data focusing on image, language, history and cultural conceptions of concepts involved in these discourses. Hemnet is one of my study sites.
I am Project Manager & Editor for the journal Game Studies, the running of which 2021-2021 is funded by by grants from VR and NOS-H awarded me as project manager of the Game Studies Foundation. I founded the GSF in 2011 together with Espen Aarseth and Susana Tosca to find adequate much needed funding to run the journal platform gamestudies.se.
2017 and 2018 I was on a leave of absence, but we managed to publish some work still: The Anthology "What's the Problem in Problem Gaming", co-edited with Anne-Mette Thorhauge and Andreas Gregersen was published April 2018, as an outcome of our research panels and seminars on the topic in 2016 and 2017 held in Lund and Germany. It takes a broad perspective on what usually is called game addiction, and promotes the concept of "problematic gaming" to connote the complexity and nuance of the topic. Our "Engaged Ethnography"-methods article also came out in Cultural Analysis in Dec 2019, but they must have had a back-log. It has the date 2017!
Past projects include "Gaming Moms" focused on gaming and play in everyday life; the significance of reality TV outside the realm of the screen and the living room, outreach activities organized under the name of Reality-TV Gameshow The Biggest Loser, such as runs and walks and Gaming for Better and Worse (Program K).
All my research is feminist in nature and interested in the mobilization (in all its manifestations: social, political, economical, cultural etc...) of female-identified subjects. I particularly enjoy finding food for research in popular cultural phenomena like game culture, movies, books, media, tv etc. Health, sustainability, food, recycling and collective transport are also topics close to my heart. I have a pre-academic background in alternative health and am a Certified Physical Therapist and in 2016 I became a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher and Coach to be able to facilitate personal and professional change in people, groups and organizations, using painting as a significant tool.
When I teach here at LU, I usually do so on the Master's Program in Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA) and the Bachelor's of Digital Culture (DIKA). I mainly supervise and coordinate. My work as supervisor has given me the opportunity to become engaged in many different topics over the years from organizational culture, refugee reception, health-branding, trams, chocolate, a lot of these topics overlap with research on sustainablity - waste managment, collective transport, urban planning- food management.
Since 2020 I co-lead the Digital Cultures Research Node with Robert Willim and am a member of the (now not so active but super-exciting) HEX-Humanities Experimental Research Group at the Faculties of Humanities and Theology. I used to coordinate its Digital Cultures and Games seminar series with labs 2009-2014. The seminars were open to all and held in English. Info on HEX past seminars and lectures: http://www.hex.lu.se/
Since 2008 I am Mg Editor, Deputy-Editor-in-Chief (2017) and Reviewer for the international journal of computer games research Game Studies, which you can find here: http://www.gamestudies.org/. I am also the Initiator and Co-Founder of the not-for-profit Game Studies Foundation, which works to provide funding for scientific publishing of academic scholarship on games, primarily through the Journal Game Studies.
My anthology "Game Love: Essays on Play and Affection", co-edited with Dr Esther macCallum-Stewart, UK, was published in January 2015, on McFarland.
I am happy to collaborate and network with people and organizations at other institutions, universities, as well as businesses and industry outside the academic realm. I have worked as supervisor and examiner at the IT-University in Copenhagen, as Examiner at the School of Education at University of South-Easten Norway, and the Master in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. I have collaborated with a Home for Elderly with Dementia with an art project on wheel chairs (2014). In In 2010, The Swedish National Institue of Public Health and I organized a big conference on gaming and gambling with focus on women and youth at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. Working with Project Management on DIKA and MACA always entails working together with industry as well as NGOs and public managment. In April 2015 I was at the Technical Museum in Stockholm to talk about Game Love. You can find my talk on Youtube, as the whole event was filmed.
Books (1)
Editorships (2)
- Enevold, J., Thorhauge, A.-M. & Gregersen, A. (2018). (Eds.) What's the Problem in Problem Gaming. Nordicom.
- Enevold, J. & MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2015). (Eds.) Game Love : Essays on Play and Affection. McFarland.
Articles (7)
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2017). Coming out of the Gaming Closet : Engaged Cultural Analysis and the Life-Line as Interview Method and Consciousness-Raiser. Cultural Analysis, 16, 20-44. University of California.
- Enevold, J. (2014). Digital Materialities and Family Practices. The gendered, practical, aesthetical and technological domestication of play. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association - ToDigra, 1. Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2009). Mothers, Play and Everyday Life: Ethnology Meets Game Studies. Ethnologia Scandinavica, 39, 27-41. Folklivsarkivet.
- Enevold, J. (2008). Mina cykelnycklar. ETN: HOJ, 8-12. Etnologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet.
- Enevold, J. (2004). Regendered Narratives of Mobility: ‘A Vroom With a View’. Kvinder, køn og forskning, 31-42. København : Center for kvindeforskning, Københavns universitet.
- Enevold, J. (2000). Men and Women on the Move: Dramas of the Road. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, 403-420. SAGE Publications.
- Enevold, J. (1998). Vägen ut eller Att resa är en konst. Aktuellt om Kvinnoforskning (Current Gender Research), 16-19. Kvinnovetenskapligt forum, Lunds universitet.
Book chapters (8)
- Enevold, J. & MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2015). Introduction. In Enevold, J. & MacCallum-Stewart, E. (Eds.) Game Love : Essays on Play and Affection (pp. 1-10). McFarland.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2014). Datorspel som vardagslek : en kultur i utveckling. In Waldetoft, D. (Ed.) Lek och spel : Nordiska museets och Skansens årsbok 2014 (pp. 51-55), 2014. Nordiska museets förlag.
- Enevold, J. (2013). En sprucken verklighet. Den ludiska vägen från kris till hälsa i The Biggest Loser. In Arvidsson, M., Geisler, U. & Hansson, K. (Eds.) Kris och kultur : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på kunskap, estetik och historia (pp. 129-152). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Enevold, J. (2012). Datorspel som pedagogisk resurs. In Ehriander, H. & Nilsson, M. (Eds.) Ett trollspö på katedern : att arbeta med Fantasy i skolan. BTJ Förlag.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2008). My Momma Shoots Better Than You: Who is the Female Gamer?. In Leino, O., Mosberg Iversen, S. & Calleja, G. (Eds.) Proceedings - the [player] conference (pp. 144-167). IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
- Enevold, J. (2004). The Daughters of Thelma and Louise: New? Aesthetics of the Road. In Siegel, K. (Ed.) Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women’s Travel Writing (pp. 73-95). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Enevold, J. (2003). The Motherhood of the Road: From Paradise Lost to Paradise. In Höpfl, H. & Kostera, M. (Eds.) Interpreting the Maternal Organisation (pp. 79-103). Routledge.
- Enevold, J. (2002). Men and Women on the Move: Dramas of the Road. In Shands, K. (Ed.) Women Writing in English (pp. 156-173). Almqvist & Wiksell.
Conference contributions (35)
- Enevold, J. (2016). Mama Ludens Ex Domo : Using Feminist Methods to Diversify Game Culture.
- Enevold, J. (2015). Spelkärlek: en teknokulturell historia om vad och hur mycket spel och spelande kan betyda. Digitala spel och spelkulturer: då, nu och imorgon. Tekniska museet i Stockholm.
- Enevold, J. (2015). The Passionate, the Prosaic, and the Pathological : A Replay of the Domestication of Gaming.
- Enevold, J., Thorhauge, A. M., Gregersen Lindegaard, A., Karlsen, F. & Lundedal Nielsen, R. K. (2015). Problem Gaming in an everyday perspective (Research Panel). Proceedings of DiGRA 2015: Diversity of Play: Games-Cultures- Identities. Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA.
- Enevold, J. (2013). Gaming health on Reality TV : Ludic emotions, counter culture and covert spirituality in The Biggest Loser show.
- Enevold, J. (2013). Gull-stolen och andra makt-sitt-uationer : Ett konstprojekt för ett äldreboende.
- Enevold, J. (2012). Domesticating Play, Designing Everyday Life: The Practice and Performance of Family, Gender and Gaming. Digra, DiGRA Nordic '12: Proceedings of 2012 International DiGRA Nordic Conference, 10. Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2012). What’s the Use of Gaming? Mothers, Computer Games and Everyday Life.
- Enevold, J., Brown, A., Flynn-Jones, E., Lamerics, N., MacCallum-Stewart, E. & Sturrock, I. (2012). Where is the love? Show me the love! : Design Workshop and panel discussion on Game Love Culture & Aesthetics.
- Enevold, J. (2011). Spelet om Hälsan: Lek och Allvar i The Biggest Loser. Forum för humanistisk-samhällsvetenskaplig hälsoforskning: Forskarkonferens kring temat Program och praktik, 12-13. Lund University.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2010). Datorspelandets Materialitet: om organisering och reglering av skärmtid och skärmrum.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2010). Modifying the Methods: Player Research Reconsidered.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2010). None of Your Business?! Mature Female Gamers' Playing Habits.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2010). Spel, Kvinnor och Vardagskultur - a keynote.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2010). The Way You Make Me Feel: Play as Ludic Sins and Mixed Emotions.
- Enevold, J. (2009). Mama Ludens Goes All-In : Gaming Mothers, Fun and the Ludic Revolution.
- Enevold, J. (2009). Playing Productive: Pragmatic Uses of Gaming.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2009). Frustrated Mom Kills Dragon: Motherhood, Emotions and Computer Games.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2009). Time to Play: Ethnographic Perspectives on Mothers’ Digital Gaming.
- Enevold, J. (2008). ’Oh, I Like My Horse, but I Love My Flying Mount!’ Joys of Mobility in the On-line Game World of Warcraft.
- Enevold, J. (2008). Games: What’s love gotta do with them?.
- Enevold, J. & Aarseth, E. (2008). Homo Ludens Viator – Mobilizing Game Studies.
- Enevold, J. & Hagström, C. (2008). From Grief to Play: Researching Online.
- Enevold, J., Aarseth, E. & Hagström, C. (2008). Mama Ludens: Interviews with Women who Play.
- Enevold, J. (2007). Mobility in World of Warcraft: some assumptions and observations.
- Enevold, J. & Pettersson, I. (2005). Kulturer i rörelse. Ett forskningsprojekt om populärkulturens latiniseringstrender i USA och Sverige.
- Enevold, J. & Pettersson, I. (2005). Why Do We Want to Be Latino in Sweden? Latinization as Featured in Swedish Popular Culture.
- Enevold, J. (2002). From Diaspora to Automobility: Travel and Female Mobile Subjectivity.
- Enevold, J. & Pettersson, I. (2002). From Rita Hayworth to Ricky Martin: The Latinization of American Culture.
- Enevold, J. & Pettersson, I. (2002). Goodnight Hollywood Hayworths, Goodmorning Aztlàn: A Chapter from the Projected Study: The Latinization of American Culture.
- Enevold, J. (2000). New? Aesthetics of the Road: The Daughters of Thelma and Louise.
- Enevold, J. (2000). New? Aesthetics of the Road: The Daughters of Thelma and Louise (Revised version).
- Enevold, J. (1999). A Voice from the Other Side: A Very Brief Reflection on an American Studies Graduate Course.
- Enevold, J. (1999). New Feminisms: New Mobile Women and Millennial Girl Power.
- Enevold, J. (1998). Women on the Road: Appropriating Space Between Violence and Desire.
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Division Manager
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Division of Publishing Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Senior Lecturer
- Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Division of Ethnology
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail jessica.enevoldkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 04 19
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Phone hours
+46462220419