Annual Report 2014 Department of Social Anthropology
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Stockholm Visual Anthropology Competition In late spring 2014 the Department launched the Stockholm Visual Anthropology Competition. Students and staff were invited to participate in this initiative by contributing photos bringing out the potential of photography in anthropology. The winning photos were taken by Natalie Feldman, Lina Samuelsson and Sandra Ă…hman. Their photos capture the occupation of the Gezi Park in Istanbul, the Tibetan diaspora, and women working on a tea plantation in India. Our sincerest congratulations to Natalie, Lina and Sandra for their ideas and visual creativity. Several of the winning photos are featured in this report.
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10 Graduate report
4 Head of Department’s
11 Undergraduate report
Review of the Year
5 Research news
12 Stockholm Visual Anthropology Competition
6 Research news
13 Organisation
7 Publications and research
14 Stockholm Visual
funding
Anthropology Competition
8 Visitors and events
15 Contact us
9 Postgraduate study report
This is Phunchung. Phunchung attended one of the Tibetan boarding schools in the area and was studying twenty-four seven in order to get into university and become a doctor. Photo: Lina Samuelsson
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Head of Department’s Review of the Year
During the last year, the Department has been as active as ever, if not more so as a visit to our website will show. Looking back over 2014 there is much that could be mentioned and it’s difficult to choose what to include but I’ll stay with few of the highlights, all of which you can read about in more detail in the following pages. First I’d like to welcome three new members of staff to the Department, Ivana Maček, Heidi Moksnes and Paula Uimonen, who joined us as senior lectures in 2014. And to thank Beppe Karlsson who stepped down as Head after three years of service. I took over as Head of Department from Beppe Karlsson in July. Building on what Beppe has done I’ve worked for closer ties between teaching and research, mapping out the ideas that exist among colleagues and especially homing in on ideas that are still in their infancy. And there is no shortage of ideas, as is evident in the range of publications that appeared in 2014. These include both single-authored monographs and edited volumes. The topics are as diverse as migration, sexuality, and transnationalism, all of which reflect current and ongoing research, as well as new topics, such as violence, trauma and memory, and the impact of therapeutic discourses on the Swedish workplace. In 2014, the department was successful in the pursuit of research grants in the fields of immigrant careers and disadvantaged youth. There are several project applications in the pipeline and we are hopeful that 2015 will repeat the successes of 2014. There was a steady stream of foreign and domestic guests to the Department in 2014 who contributed with their insights from research in among other places Pakistan and Burma, and the anthropology of museums. Our annual Roundtable discussion was held in September and attracted guests from around the world to discuss the topic of Social Responsibility. We also hosted a workshop dealing with waiting as a dimension of immigrant experience. As always, department members have taken an active part in conferences around the world ensuring a Swedish and specifically Stockholm presence at key events in Europe, North America and Australasia. Like all other university departments, we are faced with increased scrutiny and assessment of the teaching we offer. After having done very well in the 2014 national evaluation exercise, thanks to strenuous efforts by our teachers, not to mention the excellent performance of our students, we are building on our success with plans and ongoing initiatives to improve courses and teaching methods at all levels. Striking an effective and interesting balance between classic anthropology and the latest ideas and trends within
the discipline presents a challenge that our Directors of Study and teachers are constantly working to achieve. The work will continue into 2015 and 2016 with plans for new course programmes at the Masters level and an overview of our BA programme. On the horizon we can already see the approach of a national evaluation of doctoral programmes. The Department is already well placed to meet its challenges. The high standard of our doctoral students was confirmed with the award from Högskoleföreningen for best dissertation in 2014 in the social sciences to Susann Ullberg. The Department continues to increase and develop its presence in digital media, including the expansion of our visual lab, which is used by staff and increasingly students, and, thanks in no small part to the efforts of our MA and doctoral students in the development of pod casts, and blogs which will bear fruit in 2015. Looking back on 2014, it’s easy to see how we can move forward with confidence in all areas and to develop and improve. But it’s also important to look back and remember where we came from. Professor Karin Norman, who retired in the spring of 2014, has authored a chapter about the Department in the Faculty of Social Science’s fiftieth anniversary volume. You can read more about it here in the report. Prior to writing the chapter she organised meetings at which members of staff recalled the Department’s history, in some cases stretching back over several decades. To record and organise our thoughts, we wrote up all the key dates, names, intellectual currents and events that have helped make the Department what it is on a several very large sheets of paper which we taped together. It was a fascinating process to fill in the blank spaces and watch the history emerge. It brought home to me what a rich heritage we have here in Stockholm to draw upon as we move forward from a successful year into 2015 and beyond.
Mark Graham, Head of Department
Research news
An ethnographic look at the Department interested students and researchers, based on their own experiences. The seminar as such has not survived, but the interest in and the significance of ‘fieldwork’ with its participant observation and various methodological issues have, both for students and researchers. Reading the various documents and especially talking to current and former colleagues about their experiences and memories of the last 50 odd years has been a specific and quite enjoyable kind of ‘anthropology at home’. And as the past appears through stories and anecdotes, one may well wonder what stories Professor Karin Norman wrote the chapter about the Department of and anecdotes will be told about the next Social Anthropology for the Faculty of Social Science’s 50th anniversary 50 years. book: Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University: 1964-2014, edited by Gudrun Dahl and Mats Danielson. The book is published open access Professor Karin Norman and available at Stockholm University Library’s website.
‘One is born an anthropologist, it is nothing you really can learn’. Such a bold, romantic statement could hardly be uttered today. It stems instead from the first Professor of Social Anthropology in Stockholm (Karl Eric Knutsson, 1970-75). Nonetheless, teaching and learning, as well as discussing what anthropology is have been part of an ongoing endeavor since the early 1970s, giving rise to ever-more intruiguing conceptual and practical queries and research problems. How can you know that you know? And who, after all, is the native, who is the anthropologist? For many students, and young teachers, of the 1960s and 70s, anthropology was felt to be a means to change the world to a better place. Students of today may be more sceptical towards such happy optimism, although still concerned with putting anthropology to good use. Throughout the years there has been a particular interest in how you go about ‘doing anthropology’. In the mid1970s a year long series of weekly seminars on fieldwork, called Life in the field, was launched. It was open to all
Research on the ‘wordless’ creates methodological challenges During 2014 I have been working on two interrelated and still ongoing projects: one is writing a methodological book for fieldworkers, focusing on how the knowledge is gained through ‘participant observation’, using psychodynamic theory and experiences to conceptualize what all successful anthropologists know, and do, but very often have difficulties to understand and put into words. The second project, Intergenerational Transmission of Experiences of War among Bosnians in Sweden – A Study in Psychological Anthropology (financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), is in the fieldwork phase. It focuses on intergenerational transmission of experiences of war-induced violence between Bosnians who came to Sweden in 1990s, and their children who today are young adults. We know that children, also the ones born and living in peace, are influenced by parents’ experiences of mass political violence. We know also that no matter whether parents talk a lot about their experiences or are completely silent, it is the way that they do it that is most decisive for children.
In other words, the meaningful transmission of experiences happens wordlessly - through affects, attitudes, and parents’ general ontological and epistemological positions. This creates a methodological challenge that I am addressing through a combination of anthropological and psychodynamic methods. Visual methods are also well suited for the ‘wordless’ material, and as we have an advanced visual lab at the Department, I am hoping to get some extra time towards the end of the project to do video recordings. As most of the research on the effects of violence on the second generation comes from the Holocaust research, to gain the knowledge of the transmission of experiences from a very different political conflict, will open the doors to better understand which phenomena are general, independent of the political and cultural context, and which are more context bound. Associate Professor Ivana Ma ček
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Research news
Infrastructure and land conflicts in the Peruvian Andes
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, Minister of Transport and Communications José Gallardo, representatives of the consortium Kuntur Wasi and local authorities signing the concession for the airport in July 2014. Photo: Daniel Escobar Lopez
Several infrastructure projects have over the years triggered old and new land conflicts in Peru. During my fieldwork (between July 2013 and July 2014) in a small Quechua-speaking Peruvian Andean village in the district of Chinchero, the construction of an international airport (re)created, among other things, new conflicts over land and territory. When I arrived in the district, the Peruvian government had already managed to force the inhabitants of Yanacona, a village in Chinchero, to sell their plots to the state. Land conflicts continued and expanded to the whole district throughout my stay. The inevitable speculations meant that land prices skyrocketed. As a result, people in the district are now in the process of receiving property deeds, enabling them to sell their land plots. This has caused people to feel anxious about the future: a future with the presence of the airport, something both desired and feared for. Additionally, many people are concerned that the communal assembly and its traditional authority might disappear, thus potentially losing an institution that has defended villagers’ interests for many decades. Perhaps one of the few communal terrains that will
remain in the village is El Mirador (viewpoint); a hill from which a female handicraft association sells its products to tourists, which is also the focus for my doctoral study. The association was formed in 2000 by the village in order to defend its territory. Ever since, El Mirador has been a source of conflict between the association’s members (all women) and the village authorities (all men). The women have refused to accept new members and pay the necessary fees needed for doing business on communal land. Recently, tempted by the aforementioned increase of land prices in Chinchero, a family tried to reclaim possession over El Mirador, putting even more pressure on the association’s members. Such conflicts and negotiations have encouraged women from the association to enter the local political arena in order to defend their right to control El Mirador. These are some of the themes for my current research on land, territory and gender. The construction of the airport not only reveals the current situation but is also a strategic point from which to pursue my research questions. Daniel Escobar Lopez, PhD student
Publications and funding The Department welcomed a number of new publications in 2014: Research grants/funding Alireza Behtoui, Associate Professor, received funding from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) for a three-year project about the impact of civil society organisations on student performance (Civila samhället, organiserad och utbildningsresultat för ungdomar i marginaliserade bostadsområden).
Formationen des Politischen. Anthropologie politischer Felder Edited by Jens Adam and Asta Vonderau
Illegality, Inc. Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe Ruben Andersson
Erik Olsson, Professor, received funding from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for a four-year project: Pathways to Success: the upcoming elite among descendants of migrants in Sweden.
Anthropology Now and Next. Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria
Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory Mark Graham
Engaging Violence: Trauma, memory and representation Edited by Ivana Maček
Ombudskapitalisterna. Institutionella ägares röst och roll Anette Nyqvist
Transnationalität und Öffentlichkeit. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Edited by Caroline Schmitt and Asta Vonderau
The Therapeutization of Work: The Psychological Toolbox as Rationalization Device during the Third Industrial Revolution in Sweden Hans Tunestad
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Visitors and events
Guest researchers and teachers The Department was pleased to invite Mark Johnson, Reader in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull. On April 7 and 8 he gave two seminars, ‘Masculine Domination within Colonial Fields of Power: Bourdieu, Feminism and the Limits of Reflexivity’; and ‘Migration, Surveillance and Embodied Infrastructures of Care’. During the autumn term, Mark Johnson made several short-term visits to the Department as a guest researcher. Ward Keeler, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, and a cultural anthropologist specializing in expressive culture, language, and gender studies was a visiting researcher in May and June. Whilst in the Department Ward Keeler held a guest lecture on the undergraduate course ‘Gender and sexuality’ and gave the seminar ‘Why is Burmese pop music so bland and so popular?’. Matthew Hull, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, visited the Department in October. On October 15, a workshop was held with Matthew Hull during which his book Government of Paper. The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan was discussed. Matthew Hull also presented the seminar ‘Incorporations: Capitalism and the Translation of Social Forms’. The visits by Mark Johnson, Ward Keeler and Matthew
Events Ruben Andersson and Shahram Khosravi organised the workshop ‘Waiting: temporalities of migration’ on September 16. It focused on the ethnography on time, waiting, and temporalities in relation to irregular migrations and asylum. The annual Stockholm Anthropology Roundtable was organised by Erik Olsson, Johan Lindquist, and Annika Rabo. It was entitled ‘Social Responsibility at a Distance: Caring, Parenting and Generation in Transnational Social Spaces’. It was organized into three panels that turned the spotlight on how self-imposed or assigned responsibilities are altered in the context of transnational migration or mobility, particularly in relation to different types of role divisions, such as parenthood or other close kinship social relationships within networks or local communities. Participants discussed, from an anthropological perspective, how different forms and practices of social responsibility are developed and
Hull were made possible thanks to a grant from the Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm University. Between June 2 and 5, the Department offered the intensive advanced level course ‘Anthropology, Collecting, and Museification’. Guest lecturer was Paul van der Grijp, Professor of Anthropology, University Lyon 2, France. The course was part of the Department’s Creole exchange programme. Nydia A. Swaby, PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London and a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the Marie Curie Initial Training Network CoHaB (Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging) visited the Department in December as Workshop in India part of the CoHaB exchange scheme. The Department and other faculties around the world arranged the methodological workshop ‘Roots and Bridges: Practicing Interdisciplinarity in Research on Northeast India’. reproduced. The workshop was held in Erik Olsson Guwahati, India, December together with 15-19. The researchers in the Charlotta Hedberg, project The Indian Underbelly: Department of Marginalisation, Migration Human Geography, and State Intervention in the Stockholm University Periphery participated in the organised the workdiscussions. The project is led shop ‘Transnational by Professor Bengt G. Karlsson migration and global and is a collaboration project work’ on May 6-7. It between the Department and emphasized how varTata Institute of Social Sciencious forms of global es, Guwahati (TISS). work are closely linked to transnational migration processes. Webs of networks tie countries together, constituting a transnational social space, facilitating migration flows. The everyday practices of individual migrants are affected by these networks – and the simultaneous events taking place in the sending and receiving countries – and at the same time contribute to their continuation. Keynote speakers were Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Professor, National University of Singapore; and Johan Lindquist, Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University.
Postgraduate study report
Prize for best PhD awarded to Susann Ullberg
Diary from Detroit
On November 17, Susann Ullberg received ‘Högskoleföreningens pris’ for best PhD thesis (completed in 2013) in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Watermarks: Urban flooding and Memory Cape in Argentina examines how past flooding is remembered by flood victims in the middle- and low-income districts and by activists of the protest movement that emerged in the wake of the 2003 flood.
Fellowship to Darcy Pan The Sweden-America Foundation announced its fellowships for 2014/2015 in March. PhD student Darcy Pan received one of the fellowships which enabled her spend one year as a visiting assistant in research at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Darcy Pan is doing research on international development work in South China.
RESA raises collaboration Through cooperation between several departments the Research School for Swedish Anthropology, RESA, offers advanced opportunities for PhD students with diverse interests in anthropology. RESA courses enable PhD students to form networks, both with nationally and internationally qualified researchers. RESA member anthropology departments are found at Stockholm University, Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg and Lund University. There are also affiliated departments at Malmö University and Linköping University. In 2014 two courses were offered: ‘Bateson Applied’ at Uppsala University and ‘Politics and Morality’ at Lund University.
Simon Johansson began his yearlong fieldwork in Detroit in August. His research investigates how the physical and conceptual forms of urban life is reimagined when a whiter and wealthier population returns to the black inner city of Detroit. Upon arriving in Detroit he set up his own blog anthronotes.svbtle.com.
People kept asking me: do you have a blog? And I kept answering: no, not yet. That’s how it started – peer pressure – and eventually I got tired of hearing myself say those words and just started to write stuff on the Internet. I read somewhere that our closest solar system, Alpha Centauri, is about 4 light-years away. If the Department would send me there and back, it would take 8 years before I could communicate whatever I learned over there. I don’t know what the average time frame is between fieldwork and a finished dissertation, but it takes a while and it is perhaps, in that regard, similar to waiting for a call from outer space. The monograph was a brilliant invention when it came around, but it drew on a long history of printing technologies that are now complemented by other means of communication that facilitate new ways of writing and reading and new relationships between reader and writer. I write the blog in Swedish because I think in Swedish and because
I would like to write what I think. That’s harder than it sounds. Much of my written English is academic English and to a lot of people that sort of language is difficult to understand and sustain an interest in. The blog is in that sense a way to experiment, get feedback and improve. And, since plain language and shorter sentences makes for better Google translations, I get comments from many non-Swedish speakers. Friction is always possible when I am writing about people who also read what I am writing, especially if the texts are easily accessible to them. Sometimes people will challenge my understanding of things and these instances have been quite insightful. Also, since the city is steeped in polemics and contrasts, I have realized that friction is okay because friction means that there is movement. If there is no friction there is no movement. And so I keep on writing. Simon Johansson, PhD student
Public defence of PhD thesis On May 8 Hans Tunestad successfully defended his thesis The Therapeutization of Work: The Psychological Toolbox as Rationalization Device during the Third Industrial Revolution in Sweden. Opponent was Dr A. Jamie Saris, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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Graduate report
Bringing students and researches together In autumn, Anette Nyqvist initiated the ‘Writing This was the when that the Department tied its eduAnthropology Workshop Series’ for first year master’s cation closer to the Department’s ongoing research. In students. During the monthly meetings focus was on strucspring, researchers and master’s students were invited to ture and style of anthropological texts. Students shared a meeting allowing students to establish contacts with the and read each other’s writings in a variety of exercises. Department’s researchers. The researchers presented their The workshops, illustrated and exemplified with literature current projects and explained how interested students from the advanced level courses, offered the students an could take part in them. extra learning activity different from the standard lecture/ As a result, two students travelled to northeast India to seminar format. do fieldwork for their theses as part of – The practice of writing holds a particular central Professor Bengt G. Karlsson’s research on marginalisation, migration and state position within anthropology and is a perennial topic for reflexive discussion and recurring debate, says Anette intervention in the region. Nyqvist. – Of course, the students carry out their work completely independently, says Anette Nyqvist, director of studies, advanced level. – The purOn January 29, the results of the national evaluation of pose is to enable researchers and Social Anthropology from the Swedish Higher Education students to benefit from each other. Authority (UKÄ) was announced. The master’s programme The current core strategies for in Social Anthropology was assessed as having ‘very high Stockholm University, in effect quality’. The evaluation was based on students’ theses, a until 2018, stress the importance of self-evaluation and interviews with representatives from the research-based education. The Uniprogramme. versity should focus on education with strong ties Associate Professor Anette Nyqvist, to research, the director of studies, advanced level strategy document states.
In April, former master’s student Daniela Lazoroska was awarded the Stockholmia prize by Samfundet S:t Erik for her thesis on a youth organisation in Husby. Daniela graduated from the master’s programme in Social Anthropology in spring 2013 and is now a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Talk about anthropology! become part of the podcast team. While waiting for a response from Cultural Anthropology, we began to discuss how we could create a podcast channel accessible on the Department’s website. Basically, the idea was to make more out of the great guests that visit the Department and enable meetings to take place between students and researchers. The Department liked the initiative and the first episodes have now been published with several more in the pipeline. An aim with the podcast is to make anthropologists’ research available to a broader, non-academic public. We Master’s students Nora Schröter and Jenny also try to connect the Lindblad began their final year in autumn content of the interviews 2014. Nora studies the master’s programme in to current debates. The podSocial Anthropology, and Jenny the exchange cast group includes around master’s programme Creole. ten first year master’s
There are few anthropological podcasts out there and we were happy to find one initiated by Cultural Anthropology. Their podcast, Anthropod, features interviews with anthropologists about their research and fieldwork experiences. We find the podcast format to be intriguing in the way it allows for the exploration of anthropology in a conversational manner. In the end of one of the episodes that we listened to, the editors announced they were looking for contributors. We decided to apply to
students at the moment. In addition to being a space for inspiring meetings between researchers and students, the podcast strengthens the common ground between students coming from various places to study anthropology. It is important as students to have platforms where we can meet and explore our anthropological engagements together. Eventually, the journal replied. We had been accepted to the podcast team and are now Contributing Editors at Cultural Anthropology! Nora Schröter and Jenny Lindblad
Undergraduate report
Creating good conditions for great studies At the beginning of the year, the Department received the results of the national evaluation of Social Anthropology from the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ). Our bachelor’s programme in Social Anthropology was assessed as having ‘high quality’, on the basis of how well the programme fulfil the requirements laid down in the Higher Education Act. We were indeed very pleased with the good review! It was satisfying that the good work performed by the supervising Faculty and the thesis writing students was highlighted in this manner. At the Department, we strive continuously to improve our education. Irrespective of the results of the evaluation we had already taken steps towards enabling more students to produce good quality theses by: expanding the number of contact hours for students writing their bachelor’s thesis; and by reducing the number of students each supervisor is assigned. Such measures were taken to allow more students to finish their theses on time, before the end of term. Writing the self-evaluation that we submitted to the UKÄ had brought this problem to our attention. With more contact hours, both in terms of individual and group supervision, students should be more encouraged to continuously keep writing and not fall behind. During the course of the year we also introduced a methods section in all the modules in the course Social
Anthropology II. This was by suggestion from the Student Council. The students had expressed their wish to learn more about ethnographic methods in order to be better prepared for writing their bachelor’s thesis. This made it possible for the teachers to much clearer make the connection between the methods discussions in relation to the subject of the module and methods in general. Altogether, these changes will facilitate for our students, when faced with the daunting task of writing their final thesis, to produce interesting texts and thereafter graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology. Associate Professor Renita Thedvall, Director of Studies, undergraduate level
A student’s view Global development is a complex field of study since almost everything can somehow be related to global processes of changes. In times of increasing international migration flows, rapid urbanization processes, financial crisis and international conflicts there is a need for a university programme that gathers these different developments under one umbrella. This is what the programme in Global development has initiated. For example, in our first year we were introduced to the discourse of human rights, theories of democratization, urban neoliberal development as well as global resistance movements. Given that the courses have spanned such a wide field of research
The undergraduate programme in Global development accepted its first students in the autumn of 2012. The programme is a collaboration between the Department of Economic History, the Department of Human Geography, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Social Anthropology, which coordinates and hosts the programme. Kristofer Lindh is one of the students who in September 2014 began his final year in the programme.
and debates, we (the first batch of students to graduate from the programme) have thus been given a great deal of freedom to choose which themes and subjects to specialize in. Inevitably this has also meant that we have shaped the programme from scratch. Personally, in my second year I opted for courses in social anthropology since I believe anthropology provides different perspectives on development than mainstream development research does, which proved to be a correct assumption. For example, social anthropology contributed to my critical understanding of development by offering theoretical frameworks on boundaries, ethnicity, eurocentrism, culture and binarities, thus giving me tools to pay attention to structural
simplifications of complex realities on the ground. Social anthropology has therefore, in an excellent way, complemented global development. The third (and last) year of the programme has so far been quite similar to the first, except for the preparations for the final essays. The essays will give us yet another possibility to specialize and use our freedom to shape the programme further. Kristofer Lindh
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Stockholm Visual Anthropology Competition
With these pictures I want to share my experience of my fieldwork about the Istanbul ”Occupy Gezi Park” movement, which was initiated in May 2013 in an urban park next to Taksim Square, in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district. The initially calm and friendly protest aimed at rescuing Istanbul’s Gezi Park from being demolished as part of a large scale renewal project, but it soon escalated into a nationwide protest. Natalie Feldman, undergraduate student
Organisation
Head of Department Bengt G. Karlsson (until July 2014) Mark Graham (from August 2014)
Deputy Head of Department Helena Wulff
Director of Studies, advanced level Anette Nyqvist
Director of Studies, undergraduate level Renita Thedvall
Student counsellor Christer Norström
Administration Eva Eyton—Acting Head of administration Lina Lorentz—Communications officer Elisabeth Müller—Personnel administrator Annelore Ploum—Head of administration Peter Skoglund—Student administrator
Professors Gunilla Bjerén—Professor emerita of Gender Studies Gudrun Dahl—Professor of Social Anthropology, especially development research Christina Garsten—Professor of Social Anthropology, especially organisational anthropology
Ulf Hannerz—Professor emeritus of Social Anthropology Bengt G. Karlsson—Professor of Social Anthropology Karin Norman—Professor emerita of Social Anthropology Erik Olsson—Professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations Annika Rabo—Professor of Social Anthropology Helena Wulff—Professor of Social Anthropology
Senior lecturers/Associate professors Alireza Behtoui Mark Graham Shahram Khosravi Johan Lindquist Ivana Maček Heidi Moksnes Paula Uimonen
Adjunct teachers and research fellows Ruben Andersson Raoul Galli Anna Gustafsson Sadia Hassanen Dolly Kikon Anna Laine Marie Larsson Staffan Löfving Erik Nilsson Christer Norström Anette Nyqvist Titti Schmidt Jelena Spasenić Renita Thedvall
Susann Ullberg Asta Vonderau Mark R. Westmoreland
Doctoral studentships Tekalign Ayalew Daniel Escobar Lopez Mia Forrest Tania González Jannete Hentati Hege Høyer Leivestad Ulrik Jennische Simon Johansson Arvid Lundberg Andrew Mitchell Darcy Pan Kajsa Rudberg Degla Salim Siri Agnete Schwabe
Other doctoral students Laila Abdallah Gladis Aguirre Victor Alneng Per Drougge Johanna Gullberg Sigrun Helmfrid Hasse Huss Eva Kodrou Paulina Mihailova Ioannis Tsoukalas Hans Tunestad (defended his doctoral thesis in May)
Research assistant Isabella Strömberg
Administrative assistants Josefine Berg Rasmus Canbäck
McLeod Ganj, northern India. Photo: Lina Samuelsson
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Stockholm Visual Anthropology Competition
For my bachelor’s thesis I went to McLeod Ganj in northern India in order to meet with Tibetan exiles and understand their thoughts on home, identity and belonging. Upon my arrival I got a volunteer position as an English teacher at a local school for young Tibetans and much of my work thus came to be centred on the young people and their life stories. Lina Samuelsson, undergraduate student
This is Jangchup. She is from the Tibetan province of Kham and had gone to McLeod Ganj in order to get closer to the Dalai Lama; now she wanted to return as she saw no future in India but she did not know how to. Photo: Lina Samuelsson
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Along the gravel roads kilometers of tea plants are stretching out, collaborating with the 2000 people who grow up to work there. My ambition is to portray the women I met on the tea plantation in Siliguri, in the north of India. I want to share their faces and stories with you. These two women are from Nepal and crossed the border to India to get married. In one day they pick around 20 kilos of tea leafs which they carry in big bags on their backs. Photo: Sandra Ă…hman, undergraduate student