A curated list of books and articles by our participants. Click section heading to view recording of the roundtable.
Readings & Recordings
NORDIC DATAFICATION
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ARTS + THE ARCTIC
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REACHING OUT IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
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MIGRATION, BORDERS + THE NORDIC WELFARE STATES
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Funahashi, Daena. 2013. “Wrapped in Plastic: Transformation and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy.” Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 1-21.
Garsten, Christina, Jessica Lindvert, and Renita Thedvall, eds. 2015. Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market: The Swedish Model in the Post-Financial Crisis Era. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Kronenfeld, David B. and Halvard Vike. 2002. “Collective Representations and Social Praxis: Local Politics in the Norwegian Welfare State.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8(4): 621-643.
McKowen, Kelly. 2018. “A Welfare ‘Regime of Goodness’? Self-interest, Reciprocity, and the Moral Sustainability of the Nordic Model.” In Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond, edited by Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun, 119-138. London and New York: Routledge.
McKowen, Kelly. 2020. “Productive Values: Activating Labor and Finding Selves in Norwegian Job-seeker Courses.” Anthropology of Work Review 41(1): 3-13.
McKowen, Kelly. 2020. “Substantive Commitments: Reconciling Work Ethics and the Welfare State in Norway.” Economic Anthropology 7(1): 120-133.
Murphy, Keith M. 2013. “A Cultural Geometry: Designing Political Things in Sweden.” American Ethnologist 40(1): 118-131.
Murphy, Keith M. 2015. Swedish Design: An Ethnography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Thedvall, Renita. “Managing Preschool the Lean Way: Evaluating Work Processes by Numbers and Colours.” Social Anthropology 23(1): 42-52.
Vike, Halvard. 2013. “Egalitarianisme og byråkratisk individualisme.” Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 24(3-4): 181-193.
Vike, Halvard. 2018. Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State: An Anthropological Perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Boyer, Dominic. 2019. Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press. [A duograph with Howe’s Ecologics]
Dalsgaard, Steffen. 2013. “The Commensurability of Carbon: Making Value and Money of Climate Change.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1): 80-98.
Dalsgaard, Steffen. 2014. “Carbon Value between Equivalence and Differentiation.” Environment and Society 5(1): 86-102
Dalsgaard, Steffen. 2016. “Carbon Valuation: Alternatives, Alternations and Lateral Measures?” Valuation Studies 4(1): 67-91.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2016. Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change. London: Pluto Press.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland and Elisabeth Schober. 2017. “Waste and the Superfluous: An Introduction.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale25(3): 282-287.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2018. “Cooling Down the Overheated Anthropocene: Lessons from Anthropology and Cultural History.” Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo Working Papers 1/2018.
Gausset, Quentin. 2020. “Strong Together: How Danish Environmental Communities Influence Behavioral and Societal Changes.” In The Role of Non-state Actors in the Green Transition: Building Sustainable Future, edited by Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset, and Simon Lex, 52-70. New York: Routledge.
Howe, Cymene. 2019. Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press. [Part of a duograph with Boyer’s Energopolitics]
Howe, Cymene. 2020. “Hydrological Globalization.” Environmental Media Lab.
Howe, Cymene and Dominic Boyer. 2020. “Death of a Glacier.” Anthropology News.
Howe, Cymene and Anand Pandian, eds. 2019. Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon. Brooklyn: Punctum Books.
Tjørring, Lise and Quentin Gausset. 2019. “Drivers for Retrofit: A Sociocultural Approach to Houses and Inhabitants.” Building Research and Information. 47(4): 394-403.
Cool, Alison. 2016. “Detaching Data from the State: Biobanking and Building Big Data in Sweden.” Biosocieties 11 (3): 277-295.
Cool, Alison. 2019. “Impossible, Unknowable, Accountable: Dramas and Dilemmas of Data Law.” Social Studies of Science 49 (4): 503-530.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2001. Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age. New York: Pluto Press.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2007. “Nationalism and the Internet.” Nations and Nationalism 13 (1): 1-17.
Johnson, Alix. 2019. “Data Centers as Infrastructural In-betweens: Expanding Connections and Enduring Marginalities in Iceland.” American Ethnologist 46 (1): 75-88.
Johnson, Alix. 2019. “Emplacing Data within Imperial Histories: Imagining Iceland as Data Centers’ ‘Natural’ Home.” Culture Machine.
Middleton, Alexandra. 2020. “The Datafication of Pain: Trials and Tribulations in Measuring Phantom Limb Pain.” Biosocieties.
Uimonen, Paula. 2020. “#MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality.” Ethnos 85 (5): 920-927.
Bendixsen, Synnøve K. N. 2020. “Existential Displacement: Health Care and Embodied Un/Belonging of Irregular Migrants in Norway.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 44: 479-500.
Bendixsen, Synnøve and Hilde Danielsen. 2020. “Hierarchical Forms of Belonging in an Egalitarian Society.” In Digesting Difference: Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe, edited by Kelly McKowen and John Borneman, 129-147. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hedlund, Anna. 2021. Ingen förtjänar att dö": En intervjustudie om hur individer i kriminella miljöer i Malmö ser på skjutvapenvåld och möjligheten att hoppa av. Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet
Frykman, Maja Povrzanović. 2012. “Struggle for Recognition: Bosnian Refugees’ Employment Experiences in Sweden.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 31(1): 54-79.
Frykman, Maja Povrzanović and Fanny Mäkelä. 2020. “Post-2015 Refugees Welcome Initiatives in Sweden: Cosmopolitan Underpinnings.” In Conviviality at the Crossroads: The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters, edited by Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, and Per-Markku Ristilammi, 165-188. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mack, Jennifer. 2017. The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mack, Jennifer. 2019. “An Awkward Technocracy: Mosques, Churches, and Urban Planners in Neoliberal Sweden.” American Ethnologist 46(1): 89-104.
Wulff, Helena. 2018. “Diversifying from Within: Diaspora Writings in Sweden.” In The Composition of Anthropology: How Anthropological Texts are Written, edited by Morten Nielsen and Nigel Rapport, 122-136. London Routledge.
Wulff, Helena. 2019. “Writing Truth to Power: Jonas Khemiri’s Work in Stockholm and New York.” Anthropology and Humanism 44(1): 7-19.