Tag: ethnology
Public defence of doctoral thesis | “We can make new history here”: Rituals of producing history in Swedish football clubs | Katarzyna Herd, Lund University
This dissertation investigates how history is produced, what roles it plays, and what forms it takes in four Swedish football clubs – AIK, Djurgårdens IF, Helsingborgs IF and Malmö FF. The overreaching aim is to describe and analyse how history is produced and performed in football clubs, and the implications this development has for football and for the understanding of history.
Forskarprofil | Karin S. Lindelöf, Uppsala universitet
Karin S. Lindelöf är etnolog och har bl a forskat om kvinnor i Polen och om abortfrågan i svensk debatt. Hon driver också ett forskningsföretag med genus- och jämställdhetsinriktning. Hennes pågående forskningsprojekt handlar om så kallade tjejlopp, och hon planerar en studie om kvinnliga äventyrare.
Call for Papers | Ephemera 35 – Ephemera of the “Sporting Life”, New York 2015
Sports, games, play – they represent a major part of our lives.
Some activities have been around in various forms for centuries, some for just a few years. The ephemera of “The Sporting Life” tells us about how our lives and our passions have evolved over time, what has consumed us and what has been a passing fancy. Sports, games...