Ethnology
The research in ethnology which is conducted in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences has two primary orientations, both of which work with historical as well as contemporary perspectives. The first orientation focuses on practices of everyday life – that is to say the study of what people do in their daily lives and how such activities constitute the grounds for different cultural patters of thought and societal values. Ethnological research in this area of study problematizes the manner in which we can understand daily life in Sweden, in the past as well as presently. How do people organize their lives? What types of daily routines do we have, and how do such routines help us create order in our lives? Research in this area of study draws attention to ordinary phenomena and events which we take for granted, and perhaps perceive as “normal”. Ethnology investigates how such phenomena are anchored in deeper and more complex cultural patterns. In so doing, it draws awareness to just how fragile perceptions of “normality” can be in different contexts. But it also highlights how hard it can be to change such patterns of daily life in other contexts. This research addresses everything from the question of what people daydream about, and the ideas people have about the food they eat to what it is that affects people’s choices of names for their children and the way in which they celebrate special occasions with friends and family. In other words, research on the practices of everyday life demonstrate that much of that which we take for granted in daily life is of extreme importance to us. And the research that we conduct in ethnology thereby aims to highlight and increase our understanding of the dynamics that are embedded in daily life.
The other primary orientation which we ethnologists in Lund work with focuses on the study of different forms of cultural meetings and encounters, and what it is that happens in the meeting of different people, groups, and culturally bound trends. This research is partially oriented towards phenomena associated with national or ethnic belonging, socioeconomic background, age, and gender which affect how people perceive the world around them, their place in that world, and their own potential to change the conditions of their daily lives. How can we understand the development of new arenas of the cultural economy, as an aspect of the post-industrial society? How can we understand violence as a cultural phenomenon? In what ways have our understandings of physical and psychological well-being changed over time, and how do they affect our perception of the body and soul today?
The ethnological research conducted in Lund within these two orientations (the practices of everyday life and cultural meetings and encounters) is divided into four thematic areas.
- Culture, Body and Health:
Within this theme one finds research on organ trafficking, xenotransplantation, children’s diabetes, stroke and degenerative sicknesses, child obesity, psychological ailment as well as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. - The Cultural Economy:
This includes research on tourism, travel, computer games, cultural heritage, spas, and food and meals. - Cultural Heritage and the Use of History:
This includes studies of how cultural heritage is produced, politicized and used in the creation of collective identities. - Cultural Identity:
This includes research on names, gender, ethnicity, national identity and violence.
Paul Agnidakis, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Elzbieta Drazkiewicz, Researcher
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Researcher
Jessica Enevold, Senior Lecturer
Jonas Frykman, Professor Emeritus
Denys Gorbach, Postdoctoral Fellow
Lizette Gradén, Senior Lecturer
Charlotte Hagström, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Katarzyna Herd, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Rachel Irwin, Researcher, Associate Professor
William Jones, Researcher
Håkan Jönsson, Associate Professor, Researcher, Senior Lecturer
Lars-Eric Jönsson, Professor
Rui Liu, Researcher
Susanne Lundin, Professor Emerita
Jakob Löfgren, Researcher
Orvar Löfgren, Professor Emeritus
Inger Lövkrona, Professor Emerita
Talieh Mirsalehi, Researcher
Eleonora Narvselius, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Charlotte Nilsson, Postdoctoral Fellow
Gabriella Nilsson, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Thomas O'dell, Professor
Robert Willim, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Lynn Åkesson, Professor Emerita
- Biomedicine at the borders. Ethnography as a model to investigate biomedicine’s moral and legal grey areas and to provide a basis for international actions (http://www.rj.se) (Susanne Lundin)
- Clinical experiments for Huntington's disease. Recommendations to medical researchers regarding how to inform potential participants Swedish Research Council (Susanne Lundin, Marsanna Petersen)
- Conflicts Over Conspiracy Theories (Elzbieta Drazkiewicz)
- Controlling the crisis: A study of civil society’s role in management of health inequalities and integration
- Det mjuka kulturarvet
- Diagnostiska samspel: Hur familjer, forskning och fosterdiagnostik konstruerar varandra (Alma Aspeborg)
- Disrupted Temporalities (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- FIRE (financial independence, retire early) and the history of financial self-help: CUltures of capitalism c. 1875-2025
- Future Society and Democracy in Europe
- House Dreams. From Folkhem to Property Development
- Illegal drugs - gathering information from the public and doctors. A preliminary evaluation of the implementation of knowledge in society. LUinnovation/VINNOVA (Projekt ID: 2014-1006) (Rui Liu, Susanne Lundin)
- Modern Swedish Ghostlote
- Musical Colonization: Scots and Swedes in Southern Africa, 1770–1850
- Paths, Strategies and Struggles: Museums in the Contemporary Cultural Economy of Hybrid Markets. (Thomas O'dell)
- Practising Alternative Futures: Mobilising through Permaculture in times of ecological crises
- Recreational walking practices: orchestrations, experiences and perceptions of "going for a walk"
- Sleepless Land, Fossil People
- Social Life of Truth: Conflicts over Conspiracy Theories in Germany (Angelina Uhl)
- Society at crossroads between animals and humans: where do we go with Xenotransplantation
- Strategic solidarity: Scandinavian countries' COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy
- The internet of things - challenges and opportunities to counter violence in close relationship
- The Nordic Disinformation Resilience Network (Elzbieta Drazkiewicz)
- Traditioner i Sverige 2.0 (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Tradwives in Sweden and Finland: an ethnographic study (Rachel Irwin)
- Travel and Interstitial Identity: Transnational Trajectories and New Junctures of Community. (Thomas O'dell)
- Truthers and Truth Defenders in Sweden – An Ethnographic Study of Conspiracy Theories and Conflicts over Truths
- Vems kulturarv räknas när budgeten är tajt? Etnologisk studie av museers prioriteringar i dagens kulturekonomi
- Witnessing the War Against Ukraine: European Challenges of Configuring the Crisis in Literature, Theatre and Museums (WIWAR-U) (Eleonora Narvselius)
- Witnessing the War Against Ukraine: European Challenges of Configuring the Crisis in Literature, Theatre and Museums (WIWAR-U) (Eleonora Narvselius)
- Active, healthy and wealthy? On life as a pensioner in Simrishamn (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Antologi med fokus på praktisk pedagogisk utveckling i pandemitider
- Bagadilico – a joint initiative for the development of novel therapies for basal ganglia disorders (Max Liljefors, Susanne Lundin)
- Being moved: the patterns and disjunctures of mobility and flow (Thomas O'dell)
- Bicycle Freedom (pilot project) (Charlotte Hagström)
- Bicycle Freedom: Transgressing physical, spatial and cultural borders. (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Biggest Loser USA: A Fat World in Media and Local Practices - preparatory field studies (Jessica Enevold)
- Breakfast as cultural phenomenon and societal intervention. An analysis of the Breakfast Club at two schools in Malmö (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Butiken som mötesplats - - en central konkurrensfördel i en digitaliserad värld
- Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation (Robert Willim)
- Corona och livet över 70 år
- cultural science and criminology (Susanne Lundin)
- Cultural science research on RNA editing for treatment of Huntington’s disease (Susanne Lundin)
- Cultures of lending and borrowing; an ethnological study of money, power and trust (Karin Salomonsson)
- "Det blev dålig stämning" - Vardagsritualer, konflikter och motsägelser i mångnationellt svenskt kontorsliv
- "Det hade ju aldrig hänt annars" Om kvinnor, klass och droger
- DigiTrust: Privacy, Identity and Legitimacy in the Digital Society
- Educating the European Public for Biotechnology (2000 – 2002) (Susanne Lundin)
- Fair Game, The Colloquium, Game Jam and Lectures (Jessica Enevold)
- Falsified medicines in a multi cultural society. Importance of knowledge exchange between the public and expertise.
- Falsified medicines in a multicultural society. Importance of knowledge exchange between the public and expertise (Susanne Lundin)
- Falsified Medicines. What the public says and professionals know – knowledge exchange providing a basis for actions.
- Fat and the digital space: A study of mediated body shapes
- Food culture and restaurants (Anna Burstedt)
- Four year Research Assistant (Forskarassistent tjänst) from The Swedish Research Council (Thomas O'dell)
- Frisk, aktiv och välbärgad? En etnologisk studie av livet som pensionär på Viktoria Park (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Future Bodies. Preventing organ trafficking – focusing on solutions to the organ shortage. (Susanne Lundin)
- Games and Play - For Better, For worse (Jessica Enevold)
- Game Studies - Journal Grant (Jessica Enevold)
- Gaming Moms: Juggling Time, Play and Family Life (Charlotte Hagström)
- Gender and violence - historical and cultural perspectives (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Global Junctures in the Local. (Thomas O'dell)
- Health in Negotiation: Cultural Analytical Perspective on Health and Inequalities in The Swedish Asylum Context
- Heritage on the Move in the name of Democracy
- History, language and football. The position of Swedish-speaking football clubs in Finland
- Home-made: The cultural dynamics of the inconspicuous.
- Horizon2020. Enhancing Social Cohesion through Sharing the Cultural Heritage of Forced Migrations
- HOTT Actions against organ trafficking (Susanne Lundin)
- Humanities and Medicine (HuMe) (Merle Horne)
- Imagining and Living the Global: Transnational Trajectories and New Junctures of Community (Thomas O'dell)
- Impact of Citizen Participation on Decision Making in a Knowledge Intensive Policy Field (Susanne Lundin)
- Implementation of Hospital Based Home Care for Children newly diagnosed with diabetes.
- Influencer lifeworlds. New work in a changing time (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Infrastructure Imaginaries-A cultural Exploration of Emerging and Decaying Technological Systems (Robert Willim)
- Investigations of the swedish peasant society in the 1920's (Karin Gustavsson)
- I utkanten av Svensk stad (Karin Gustavsson)
- Journal Grant for Game Studies - from Vetenskapsrådet (Jessica Enevold)
- Knäred from above and below - a cultural study about collective self-images and shared values in a swedish countryside community. (Helena Larsson)
- Knowledge development and translation in implemented CCC
- Kontanternas död? En etnologisk studie av det kontantlösa samhället och dess sociala och kulturella konsekvenser i Sverige
- Kulturarvens ekonomiska förutsättningar på Kulturen och Fredriksdal (Lizette Gradén)
- Kulturarv, migration och mobilitet i ett öppet demokratiskt samhälle (Lizette Gradén, Thomas O'dell)
- Kungar, sex och skandaler (Mia-Marie Hammarlin)
- Lån, makt och moral. En etnologisk studie av lånandets sociala och kulturella betydelser i delningsekonomin och kreditsanhället (Karin Salomonsson)
- Liv i kyrkan: Hur kan man skapa ett mer levande, demokratisk och välkomnande kyrkorum?
- LUC3 - Lund University Child Centered Care
- Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration -MaHoMe
- Making Life in the Museum: The Curators, Critters and other Creators (Lizette Gradén)
- Management of overflow (Orvar Löfgren)
- Mandelgren i Danmark (Karin Gustavsson)
- Mat, hälsa och oregelbunden arbetstid
- Meals in the Experience Economy - a study of the meal order in Swedish households (Håkan Jönsson)
- NextFood
- NEXTFOOD (Håkan Jönsson)
- Nils Månsson Mandelgren och kampen om kulturens framtid
- Nordic Research Perspectives on Problem Gaming - anthology and symposium (Jessica Enevold)
- Nordic spaces in the North and North America: Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic Places (Lizette Gradén)
- Pastoral Perceptions of Development: How pastoralist perceptions of society and the environment affect external development initiatives in Northern Kenya's Drylands and how to integrate them
- Patients of the New Psychiatry. Cultural Perspectives on Psychiatry and Patienthood in Sweden 1960–2000 (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Pensioner camps as a phenomena, operational implications for older people’s health and quality of life and the doing of age
- Personal Packaging. An Ethnological Study of the New Professional Categories of the Transformation Economy (Karin Salomonsson)
- Political projects, uncertain cultural heritage (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Program K. (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Rape in Sweden 1990-2013. Historical and intersectional perspectives on rape in different genres
- Rekonstruktion och inlevelse i bebyggelsehistorisk forskning (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Ritualernas marknad. En studie av livscykelrit och upplevelseindustri.
- Rituals of global health: a history of the World Health Assembly (Rachel Irwin)
- Rumours, gossip and scandals: A study of royal concubines and journalistic methods (Lars-Eric Jönsson)
- Runaway Methods: Ethnography and Its Transformations (Thomas O'dell)
- Scandinavian Women as Culture builders and museum makers in the United States
- Single women and assisted reproduction
- Sorting things out. Considering cultural categories of waste. (Lynn Åkesson)
- Spurious and falsified medicines - a danger to public and personal health (Susanne Lundin)
- Svensk hågkomst av Förintelsen - museer, politik och materialitet
- Sweden's engagement in global health (Rachel Irwin)
- Sweden's relationship with the World Health Organization (Rachel Irwin)
- "Thanks for the loan!" A culture-historical study of social and cultural meanings of lending and borrowing in rural and working class environments during the 1900s in Skåne (Karin Salomonsson)
- The Archaeology of Time Travel
- The body as a gift, resource and commodity: Organ transplantation in the Baltic and East Europe region (Susanne Lundin)
- The gastronomic revolution in Sweden since 1980 (Håkan Jönsson)
- The Human Stem Cell: Health, Hope, Bioeconomy. (Susanne Lundin)
- The new normal? Global narratives of violence against healthcare in conflict
- The politics of expertise during Covid-19
- The relationship between socio-economic determinants of ill-health and child obesity. A qualitative, cultural analytical study. (Gabriella Nilsson)
- TRANSEURO: Focup group interviews on Parkinson's disease
- Transfer Patterns in Swedish Football
- Trygghetens variationer (finansierat av Försäkringskassan/financed by the Swedish NHS) (Jonas Frykman)
- Two Nations for the Price of One: Tourism and the Experience Economy in the Øresund Region. (Thomas O'dell)
- Understanding the Conditions Facing Heritage in a Hybrid Market (Thomas O'dell)
- Unga och sexuellt våld. Främjande av ett kunskapsbaserat bemötande av brottsoffer.
- Utredning av huvudmannaskap för Rörelsernas museum (Lizette Gradén)
- Vad ska vi med alla dessa kyrkor till?
- Vägra döda, vägra värnplikt! - en studie av värnpliktsvägrarfrågan i kultur- och samhällsdebatten och inom fredsrörelsen i Sverige ca 1965-91
- Waterfront heritage and waterfront renewal
- "We can make new history here". Rituals of producing history in Swedish football clubs. (Katarzyna Herd)
- When is food worth a trip? A study of culinary tourism in Sweden (Håkan Jönsson)
- When the Budget is Tight Whose Heritage Counts Most? An Ethnological Study of Museums in the Cultural Economy
- Why do we choose the Internet instead of the doctor next door? The Internet as a site for medicines in grey zones. (Susanne Lundin)