Publications
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Populating the Future
(2023)
Speculative fiction opens doors for imagining beyond what is possible, conventional or acceptable. Speculative fiction has an acute ear for the social, the scientific and for political developments and change, all of which ...
Bakom stadens kulisser
(2021)
In this book, researchers from different disciplines take the reader on a stroll among forgotten, hidden and exposed rooms in 19th and 20th century’s Stockholm. Confectioneries and kitchen entrances, brothels, shop windows ...
Med tvål, vatten och flit
(2021)
With soap, water, and diligence discusses attitudes and practices around cleanliness and health at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At this time, scientific findings on how diseases spread had rendered ...
Forbidden Literature
(2020)
"Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today just as in the ...
Forbidden Literature
(2020)
"Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today just as in the ...
Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome: Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60
(2016)
"A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes”), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). ...
Antirasismer och antirasister
(2024)
In the book Anti-Racisms and Anti-Racists. Realistic utopias, tensions and everyday experiences, 24 researchers explore how resistance to various forms of racism is pursued and embodied among groups of people who dream ...
“MY DEAR, CLOSE AND DISTANT FRIEND”
(2021)
Nina Berberova (1901–1993) almost appears to have lived several lives. First, she was a young writer in the revolutionary Russia. Then she witnessed the hectic 1920s in Berlin and achieved her literary breakthrough in ...
The Archaeologist In-Between
(2021)
Olov Janse was an archaeologist with a remarkable life. From his birth in Sweden 1892 to his death in the United States 1985, he travelled several times across the world and was present in some of the most important episodes ...
Mamsell Bohmans fall
(2019)
"One summer day in Stockholm in 1747, the carpenter's daughter Lena Cajsa Bohman faces trial for disobedience to her father. Soon, she admits to more serious crimes. A tangle of trafficking of young women is revealed. It ...
DJUR
(2019)
In this volume of studies, Animal: Moments of Affect, Moments of Pain, eight ethnologists apply a cultural perspective to people’s varied and complex relationships with other species. The contributions focus on wild animals, ...
Hälsinglands inredningskultur
(2021)
This anthology is a conclusion of the research results from a four-year VR project called Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland - a holistic study of a World Heritage (2014–2017). Decorative painted interiors and furniture ...
Birgittinerna och deras bilder
(2021)
This study investigates the pictorial world of the medieval Vadstena Abbey church. The interior of the church was filled with altars and images that had the three separated groups of viewers in mind: the 60 nuns, the 25 ...
Tid att städa
(2018)
"Cleaning is central to all societies. It is an experience shared by almost everyone. A clean home is related to both respectability and status. The mere execution of the deed – whether it concerns taking care of other ...
Sveriges avrasifiering
(2023)
The deracialization of Sweden is a research anthology that examines issues of race, racism, anti-racism and whiteness in a Swedish post-war and contemporary context. The anthology consists of 13 studies written by authors ...
Framtidens kvinnor
(2021)
The future woman – what would she be like? And what would be her place in society? These questions were explored through stories about girls’ upbringing and education in nineteenth and early twentieth century literature ...
1800
(2025)
At the turn of the 19th century, Stockholm's cultural life underwent a dramatic transformation. This study explores the tumultuous late Gustavian period through the life and career of actor and illustrator Axel Fredrik ...
Movement of knowledge
(2020)
Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, ...
Att fästa sig vid staten
(2024)
The expression ""to attach oneself to the state"" is a paraphrase for entering into marriage: when a man married, he was also considered to attach himself to the state and become a cog in a larger context. Marriage was ...
Att göra klass
(2022)
How is class depicted in Swedish contemporary literature, and what can it teach us about contemporary society? In Doing Class, literary scholar Åsa Arping tries new pathways into the broad, mainly realistic Swedish novels ...
Crenne, Hélisenne de ([1541] 2023). Les quatre premiers livres des Eneydes du treselegant poete Virgile, Traduictz de Latin en prose Francoyse, par ma dame Helisenne
(2024)
A 16th Century French Version of Virgil’s Aeneid
In 1541, the author and translator known under the name Hélisenne de Crenne published her fourth and last work, a prose adaptation of the first four books of Virgil’s epos ...
I kalla krigets spår
(2023)
Cultural heritage is not just something from the past, but always also reflects contemporary needs and desires. In the Traces of the Cold War describes the making of a diverse and innovative Swedish military heritage. The ...
Under beredskap och krig
(2022)
Military preparedness and war have so far been regarded as the domain of male authors in Swedish literature, especially at the time of the Second World War. But what happens if we turn our attention to the female authors ...
Politiskt aktörskap i en omvandlingstid
(2024)
In the anthology Politiskt aktörskap i en omvandlingstid the reader meets ten people who in one way or another acted politically in the decades around the turn of the last century. Members of Parliament such as Nelly Thüring ...
War Remains
(2018)
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narratives of war deaths and suffering in the era of the world wars. In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million ...
Det villrådiga samhället
(2020)
The Royal Academy of Sciences was an important organization in eighteenth-century Sweden. It brought together scientists and scholars contributing to a wide spectrum of areas, encompassing nature as well as society. But ...
Efter Tegnér
(2018)
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) was for a long time considered not only Sweden’s foremost poet but also a national symbol, an author who defined the characteristics of Swedish culture. Tegnér’s status as the national poet has ...
Medeltidens genus: Kvinnors och mäns roller inom kultur, rätt och samhälle. Norden och Europa ca 300–1500
(2016)
"In discussions relating to their role during the Middle Ages, women are typically assumed to only have been “pawns in a political game dominated by men”, or to have primarily acted as intermediaries of power. In this book, ...
Vetenskapshistorisk hattparad II
(2025)
Why is it important for institutions of higher education to have researchers as teachers? This book aims to answer this question by examining the history of the Swedish system of higher education through a special lens: ...
Romanistiken i Sverige
(2019)
The Romance languages are the Indo-European languages developed from Latin. The term "Romance Languages" also refers to the academic discipline, which studies the Romance languages and literature from the areas where the ...
Vetenskapshistorisk hattparad I
(2025)
Why is it important for institutions of higher education to have researchers as teachers? This book aims to answer this question by examining the history of the Swedish system of higher education through a special lens: ...
Craft Sciences
(2022)
The field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research conducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This anthology aims to expose the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and ...
Renegater
(2019)
"This study focuses on two Swedish politicians, Nils Flyg and Sven Olov Lindholm. During the interwar era, they were both leaders of various Swedish political parties; in the case of Flyg the Swedish Communist Party, and ...
Den nordiska hushållsstaten
(2025)
Martin Luther's concept of society as a household, ruled by parents, established a model of social organisation that would become important in the Nordic countries in the 17th and 18th centuries. With the dismantling of ...
Humaniora i välfärdssamhället
(2023)
This book highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, ...
Samvete i Sverige
(2021)
In recent years, ideas of conscience and the liberty of conscience have become ever more salient in public discourse. Historically, these concepts have been used to mark out a certain scope of freedom and protection in ...
Theodore Metochites’ Sententious Notes
(2018)
"This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai (""Sententious notes"") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332).
The introduction ...
Didactic classroom studies
(2018)
"In the anthology Didactic classroom studies. A potential research direction didactic classroom studies are characterized and discussed in relation to, on the one hand, didactics and, on the other hand, classroom studies. ...
Liv i rörelse
(2022)
During the first half of the twentieth century, the industrialization of Sweden was completed. A substantial proportion of the population resided in cities. What did the life courses of these people actually look like? In ...
Lagerlöfs läsare
(2022)
This book investigates a unique collection of letters: the many thousands of letters to Selma Lagerlöf from the public. During 1891 to 1940 people from all layers of society wrote to the famous author about their lives, ...
Den gröna vändningen
(2021)
The Stockholm Conference 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis. To the inhabitants of Sweden, however, this threat to the planet and to humanity was nothing new. Anyone who regularly read ...
Frihetsretorik och marknadslogik
(2024)
In Frihetretorik och markandslogik Johanna Ringarp investigates the impact that market liberal ideas have had on Swedish universities. The focal point is the political reforms in education during the 1990s, which were put ...
De samhällsbesvärliga
(2019)
"In inter-war Sweden, the psychiatric diagnosis of psychopathy served as a controversial but powerful tool for the management of people who failed to live up to contemporary civic ideals. The diagnosis was based on theories ...