Academic Positions
2008 Research fellow Institute for Housing and Urban Research,Uppsala University
2002 – 2008 Doctoral fellowship, Department of Social & Economic Geography, Uppsala University
Visiting Positions (selected)
2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia Vancouver.
2007 Oxford University Centre for the Environment, School of Geography.
2004 – 2005 Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley.
Principal Areas of Research
My broad research interests are primarily in the intersection between cultural geography, philosophy, intellectual history and social and political theory. My current ambition is to develop some of the insights gained in my thesis through a number of projects. In some sense these projects are interrelated, at least in the questions they are asking about the problematic connections between practice and theory. These projects reflect my strong and on-going interest with the intersections of art, philosophy and science. In particular focus is the question of how these intersections can generate productive knowledge about the concepts of time and space in social, cultural and political theory.
Current Projects
- Spaces of Experimentation
- Limits of Sovereignty
- Mathematics and Space
- Book Series: Classics in Human Geography
Education
2002-2008 PhD in Geography, Department of Social & Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Title: Topoi/graphein,
Advisors
Irene Molina and Gunnar Olsson
2001-2002
Masters thesis (Magister uppsats) Department of Social & Economic Geography, Uppsala University – 1 year program
1998-2001
Bachelor Degree (Kandidat uppsats) Department of Social & Economic Geography, Uppsala University – 3 year program
Publications (selected)
Refereed Journals
2008 ”Maktens vinkel/vinkelns makt”, [Inclination of Power] in Glänta 1-2. 08: 126-129.
2007 “Paradoxal or a grin without a cat”, in Geografiska Annaler: Series B vol. 89(4): 381-383, Wiley-Blackwell.
2007 “In Conversation with the Body Conveniently Known as Stelarc”, in Cultural Geographies 14(2): 293-308, Sage. (co-authored with Sebastian Abrahamsson).
2005 “Harvey, kapitalismen och staden”, [Harvey, Capitalism and the City] in Fronesis nr 18: 52-56. (co-authored with Frida Andersson).
2005 ”De tropiska ländernas praktfulla yppighet – En studie av svenska reseskildringar från Afrika 1910 – 1940”, [The Sensuous Nature of the Tropics: Swedish Travel Writing from Africa 1910-1940] in Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidsskrift nr 39: 1-25.
Monographs
2008 Topoi/graphein PhD thesis published at Uppsala University, Uppsala, 200 pages.
Edited Books and sections of journals
2009 (in press) Sociologik – tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande. [Sociologic – Essays on Sociality and Thought] Santérus förlag, Stockholm (Co-editor with Sverre Wide & Fredrik Palm).
2008 Guest editor for a section on the Rwandan genocide, in Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 26(4): 736-757, Pion.
2007 Invited guest editor on a section in Geografiska Annaler: Series B vol. 89(4): 381-397, Wiley-Blackwell, on Gunnar Olsson’s Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2005 Invited member of the editorial board Fronesis on the special issue “Staden” [The City], 219 pages. Contributions and translations of texts by among others Mike Davis, Neil Smith, Saskia Sassen and David Harvey.
Books chapters
2009 (in press) “Intensitet och affekt: Kroppen och bilden i Henri Bergsons filosofi” [“Intensity and Affect: The body and the Image in Henri Bergon's Philosophy”] (co-authored with Sebastian Abrahamsson) in Affekt och medier, eds. Ann Werner & Ingrid Rydberg, Gidlunds.
2009 (in press) ”Introduktion”, [Introduction] (with Sverre Wide & Fredrik Palm) in Sociologik – tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande, Santérus förlag, Stockholm, 15 pages.
2009 (in press) ”Prepositioner, parasiter och virvlar: Michel Serres och passagen”, [Prepositions, Parasites and Swerves: Michel Serres and the Passage] in Sociologik – tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande, Santérus förlag, Stockholm.
2007 “Kreativiteten och socialisationen” [Creativity and Socialisation] in Reclaim the Science! En stridsskrift [ed.] Sharon Rider, Anders Jörnesten, Gidlunds, Hedemora, 81-97. (co-authored with Sebastian Abrahamsson).
Translations
2009 (in press) Translation into Swedish of Olli Pyhtinen’s”The Social as Being-With: Georg Simmel’s sociology of associations” for Sociologik – tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande, Santérus förlag, Stockholm.
2005 Translation into Swedish of David Harvey’s “Money, Time, Space, and the City”, for the Swedish journal Fronesis, special issue on Cities, 57-83 (with Frida Andersson).
Editorials and reviews
2008 “Review Section Vision”, in Environment & Planning D: Society & Space vol. 26(2): 192-194. (co-authored with Mary Thomas).
2008 “Acts of Genocide”, in Environment & Planning D: Society & Space vol. 26(4): 736-739, Pion.
2008 Review of Anne Buttimer & Tom Mels “By Northern Lights: On the Making of Geography in Sweden”, in Area vol 40(1): 137-138.
2007 Review of Doreen Massey’s “For Space” in Geografiska Annaler: Series B vol. 89(1): 83-85.
Forthcoming
Edited Books
2010 (forthcoming) GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson. Aldershot, Ashgate, (co-editor with Martin Gren).
Book chapters
2010 (forthcoming) “GO – from there and then to here and now” (co-authored with Martin Gren) in GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson. Aldershot, Ashgate.
2010 (forthcoming) “Ruptured Maps” in GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Work-in-progress (selected)
Articles
“Morphogenesis: Stelarc and the Arts of Invention”, (co-authored with Sebastian Abrahamsson).
“Systema Naturae”, in preparation, photo essay on Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala.
“Connections and Graphs: On Leonard Euler’s Bridges of Köningsberg”
“’Among Pygmies and Gorillas’: Notes from a Swedish Hunting Expedition in East Africa 1919-1921”
Books
Translation of Topoi/graphein into English
Edited books and special issues
Guest editor for a special issue of Environment and Planning D: Society & Space on the relation between mathematics and space.
Conferences, Symposiums and Seminars (selected)
2009 “Spaces of Experimentation” presentation at the School of Geography, Oxford University
2008 “Experimental aspects in the thought of John Dewey” presentation at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.
2008 “Images, Screens, Bodies”, paper with Sebastian Abrahamsson at the session Non-representational Geographies at the Association of American Geographers annual conference, Boston.
2008 “Passages”, invited presentation at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University.
2006 “Towards a Different Concept of Geography”, introduction at the symposium The Present State of Exception.
2006 Organizer of the one-day symposium (with Irene Molina) The Present State of Exception in Uppsala.
Fellowships, research grants and stipends
Personal – total SEK 384 700
- Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship for a 5-month research visit at University of California, Berkeley
- Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
- Wallenberg travel grant from the Vice-chancellors office Uppsala University
- Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens jubelfest stipendium [from the faculty of Social Sciences Uppsala University]
- Swedish-America Foundation post-doctoral scholarship
- Lars Hiertas Minne
- Sven och Dagmar Saléns Stiftelse
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities,
Collective – total SEK 1 600 000
- Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, for editing the book Sociologic – Essays on Sociality and Thought
- Major research grant “The ‘Staging’ of Urban Space: Cinematic Geographies and the Construction of Youth Identities in the Segregated City”, funded by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
- “Geographies of Transgression” International symposium in Uppsala, funded by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
Professional Services (selected)
- 2008 – Present: co-review editor for Environment and Planning D: Society & Space
Memberships
Member of the American Association of Geographers
Swedish-America Foundation life-time member
Languages
- Fluent level of spoken and written English
- Good level of spoken and written Spanish
- Native Swedish speaker
- Proficient in spoken and written Norwegian and Danish
- Proficiency in written French, German and Italian.
