Previous research projects
Intercultural Film and Swedish Education: Aesthetics, Equality and Alterity
Andreas Jacobsson,聽Daniel Brod茅n. (University of Gothenburg). Internal funding (2019-2021)
This project aimed to develop critical perspectives on how so-called non-Western World Cinema can be used in Swedish schools, as a source for understanding different cultural, social and historical contexts and intercultural relations in contemporary (global) societies.
Training and Educating Teachers for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality
Andreas Jacobsson,聽Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki). Internal funding (2019-2021)
The research project focused on a critical examination of interculturality in teacher education in Europe. The fundamental idea was to problematise simplified concepts and models such as intercultural competence and to make room for new perspectives on interculturality in teacher education.
Engaging Art: Paths towards the Unexpected in Science and Society
Staffan L枚fving, Anna Linzie, Cecilia Parsberg. Funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 果冻传媒 (2020)
In this collaboration across disciplines and departments at 果冻传媒 university, participants explored how and with what results artistic methods are employed in research projects within the humanities and social sciences. The point of departure was their own experiences from performative social practices in literature, anthropology and fine arts. They studied the movement within design and fine arts of recent years towards interactive social engagements and activism, and the alleged knowledge-producing capacity and scientific value of an emergent 鈥渕ethodology of the unexpected鈥.
Photography and the Method of Art
Staffan L枚fving.聽Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 果冻传媒 Municipality, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 果冻传媒 (2019)
This initiative gathered PhD students and leading scholars from the UK, South Africa, Colombia, Austria and Sweden in a conference and meetings with students and the public in 果冻传媒. The purpose was to establish an international network for visual, intercultural research and collaboration. Participants focused on digitisation and emergent forms and practices of image sharing and manipulation, and the assumption that digital technology is challenging photography鈥檚 documentary value and its relation to truth and the real. Individually and collaboratively, all participants are employing artistic methods in their efforts at developing an understanding of photography as straddling the divide between scientific method and social practice.
Racializing Sweden: Narrative constructions of a new Swedishness聽
Tobias H眉binette.听(2017-2019)
This project aims at analyzing Swedish non-white migrant and minority narratives in the form of published novels and autobiographies as a way of studying how the authors write about and relate to race, whiteness and Swedishness in the form of new perspectives on and constructions of Swedishness. The overarching research questions are: How are white Swedes portrayed and represented in the texts? What is told and how is it told when it comes to Sweden and Swedishness from the perspective of being a non-white author? Do the authors write about themselves as Swedes, and if so, how do they construct their Swedishness?