Series
Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences is a book series that publishes monographs, edited volumes and PhD-theses in subjects related to the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University. It aims at offering the department’s researchers a straightforward and professional forum for publishing their works in a high quality scholarly context. An editorial board decides on issues concerning publication and judges whether a work has been vetted in a way recognized and accepted in academic scholarship. This means the work has undergone double blind peer review, seminar review or extensive editorial review. By means of a formalized publication decision the series’ warrants for the books’ scholarly quality.
The editorial board is represented by senior researchers from the department's various divisions. The editorial board consists of Peter Bengtsen (Art history and Visual Studies), Philip Dodds (Musicology), Lisa Engström (Information Studies), Rachel Irwin (Ethnology), Sara Kärrholm (Publishing Studies), Jonas Nordin (Book History), Emma Severinsson (Fashion Sciences) and Sara Tanderup Linkis (Digital Cultures). The main editor is David Dunér (History of Ideas and Sciences).
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ISSN: 2001-7529
TikTok
Gabriella Nilsson, Sara Tanderup Linkis (ed.) | TikTok. Kulturella perspektiv | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 34 | 2024
Under utgivning/In press
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Controlling Destiny
Ingrid Dunér | Controlling Destiny. Julian Huxley's Post-Darwinian Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 33 | 2024
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Health in Negotiation
Talieh Mirsalehi | Health in Negotiation. Cultural Analytical Perspectives on Health and Inequalities in the Swedish Asylum Context | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2024
This dissertation addresses the complex and multifaceted relation between ‘irregular’ migration and the phenomenon of health inequalities. The aim is to provide a cultural analytical account of the ways in which people who undergo the asylum process in Sweden navigate, negotiate, ...
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Pedagogiska problem och lösningar i pandemitid
Jessica Enevold Duncan, Ann-Sofie Klareld, Daniel Persson (ed.) | Pedagogiska problem och lösningar i pandemitid. En samling lärarberättelser | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 32 | 2023
Covid-19-pandemin blev en global kris med konsekvenser för såväl offentliga och kollektiva som privata och individuella vardagspraktiker. Svenska universitet fick med kort varsel lägga om all undervisning så att den kunde utföras på distans. Bidragen i denna antologi består av en ...
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The dynamics of beamline configurations and user communities
Kristofer Rolf Söderström | The dynamics of beamline configurations and user communities. Quantitative studies of Big Science publications | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 31 | 2023
In the evolving landscape of Big Science’s user-centric turn, this thesis provides insights into the role of beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Conceptualising beamlines as unique collaborative spaces, it employs quantitative techniques on scientific ...
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Research communication in the climate crisis
Carin Graminius | Research communication in the climate crisis. Open letters and the mobilization of information | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 30 | 2023
What happens to researchers when the topic they study poses an existential threat to the world as we know it? When communication on the topic is politically polarized, but at the same time institutionally encouraged and existentially needed? By what means do researchers come to ...
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Listening from within a Digital Music Archive
Andreas Helles Pedersen | Listening from within a Digital Music Archive. Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 29 | 2023
Digital technologies and metadata are increasingly intervening in use and consumption of music. This thesis offers an analysis of the role of metadata in contemporary music streaming practices. The study sees a correlation between archival strategies and the presentation of recorded ...
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Two Quests for Unity
Bruno Hamnell | Two Quests for Unity. John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 28 | 2021
Two Quests for Unity investigates the persistence of idealist philosophy in Anglo-America during the first half of the nineteenth century through a study of Robin George Collingwood (1889–1943) and John Dewey (1859–1952). By focusing on an English and an American philosopher, this ...
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Performing search
Cecilia Andersson | Performing search. Search Engines and Mobile Devices in the Everyday Life of Young People | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2021
Search engines have become the gateway to finding information online in contemporary society. Through mobile devices, online search is made possible almost anywhere, anytime, and about any topic. Against this backdrop, this thesis addresses the role of search engines and mobile ...
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The Privilege to Select
Nora Schmidt | The Privilege to Select. Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 26 | 2020
To European social sciences and humanities researchers, substantial parts of potentially relevant literature published in the “Global South” are invisible. This literature is neither indexed in any subject databases nor acquired by European libraries – a gap virtually unacknowledged ...
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Shifting Gears
Christopher Martin | Shifting Gears. Automated Driving on the Eve of Autonomous Drive | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2020
As we encounter the dramatic imagery and predictions about self-driving cars that appear almost daily in the media it can become easy to think of automated driving as being a revolutionary new experience. But is it? Why is it that we can drive to work and arrive realizing that we were ...
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Kultur X
Victoria Höög, Sara Kärrholm, Gabriella Nilsson (ed.) | Kultur X. 10-talet i kulturvetenskaplig belysning | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 24 | 2019
2010-talet går mot sitt slut. Så gör även det första decenniet som storinstitution för Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper vid Lunds universitet. Det får oss att vilja stanna upp och reflektera över hur perioden kan förstås. Finns det något specifikt, en ”kultur X”, för oss ...
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Den biologiska vändningen
Jimmy Jönsson | Den biologiska vändningen. Biologi och skogsvård, 1900-1940 | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 22 | 2019
Inom dagens skogsvård spelar biologi en fundamental roll. För att förbättra planterings-, skötsel- och avverkningstekniker men också skogliga riktlinjer och skogspolitik bidrar biologer med kunskap om sådant som trädarters spridning, skogsjordens mikroorganismer och förhållandet ...
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Cells in Culture, Cells in Suspense
Andréa Wiszmeg | Cells in Culture, Cells in Suspense. Practices of Cultural Production in Foetal Cell Research | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 21 | 2019
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative affliction to which researchers have long striven to find a cure. The human embryo is a source of vital cells used in regenerative medicine, as well as a powerful symbol of life. Using foetal cells from aborted embryos for transplantation to ...
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Lärarstudenters digitala studievardag
Fredrik Hanell | Lärarstudenters digitala studievardag. Informationslitteracitet vid en förskollärarutbildning | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2019
Samhällets förväntningar på utbildningsväsendets digitalisering är höga och lärarutbildningen anses ha stor betydelse för hur digitala redskap används i skolan. I den här avhandlingen studeras mötet mellan förskollärarutbildningen och digitala redskap – i synnerhet den sociala ...
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Folkbildning för delaktighet
Lisa Olsson Dahlquist | Folkbildning för delaktighet. En studie om bibliotekets demokratiska uppdrag i en digital samtid | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2019
Hur kan folkbibliotekets demokratiska uppdrag tolkas och utföras i en komplex, mångfacetterad samtid som utmärks av globaliserings och digitaliseringsprocesser? Hur kan delaktighet förstås och problematiseras i relation till folkbibliotekets lärandeuppdrag? Hur kan mänskliga ...
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Swedish Art History
Ludwig Qvarnström (ed.) | Swedish Art History. A Selection of Introductory Texts | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 18 | 2018
This is the first extensive overview of Swedish art history written in English. The essays by Swedish scholars of art history present a broad and varied collection of texts including periodic overviews that cover prehistorical times to the 21st century, as well as thematic studies ...
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Mitt och ditt
Karin Salomonsson (ed.) | Mitt och ditt. Etnologiska perspektiv på ägandets kulturella betydelse | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 17 | 2018
”Hur svårt kan det vara att skilja på mitt och ditt?” Frågan som färgas av ilska och frustration, dyker titt som tätt upp i tidningsreportage, sociala medier och vardagliga samtal. I den här boken ges svar på varför gränslinjen mellan mitt och ditt upplevs som nödvändig att formulera, ...
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Bild och natur
Peter Bengtsen, Max Liljefors, Moa Petersén (ed.) | Bild och natur. Tio konstvetenskapliga betraktelser | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 16 | 2018
Ordet “natur” sägs vara språkets mest mångtydiga begrepp. Det står för det vilda – skogarna, haven, bergen, djuren. Men det är också genomsyrat av mänsklig historia, en spegelbild av människans föreställningar om sig själv, sitt samhälle och världen utanför samhället. I antologin ...
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"We can make new history here"
Katarzyna Herd | "We can make new history here" Rituals of producing history in Swedish football clubs | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2018
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. These clubs all have long rich histories. They were established more than one hundred years ago and ...
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Politiska projekt, osäkra kulturarv
Lars-Eric Jönsson (ed.) | Politiska projekt, osäkra kulturarv. Kampanjer och förhandlingar i det sena 1900-talets Sverige och Europa | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 14 | 2017
Under 1990-talet kom ordet kulturarv att användas för att beskriva samhällets förmåga, vilja och praktiker för att bevara och använda företeelser ur det förflutna. I Sverige, liksom i Europa, genomfördes under denna tid flera politiskt initierade satsningar och projekt som handlade om ...
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Kulturhistoria
Lars-Eric Jönsson, Fredrik Nilsson (ed.) | Kulturhistoria. En etnologisk metodbok | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 13 | 2017
På bordet ligger ett gulnat brev, eller en tidningsnotis från en sedan länge nedlagd tidning. Kanske sprider en äldre, ärvd skrivbordslampa ett svagt ljus över dessa fragment från en annan tid. Situationen är bekant för de flesta som läser kriminalromaner eller följer tv-serier som ...
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Poesier & kombinationer
Mikael Askander | Poesier & kombinationer. Bruno K. Öijers intermediala poesi | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 12 | 2017
Bruno K. Öijer är ett av de mest centrala namnen i den moderna svenska litteraturen. Alltifrån debuten 1973, med diktsamlingen Sång för anarkismen, till idag har hans dikter nått stora skaror av läsare. Och lyssnare, bör tilläggas, med tanke på att Öijer inte bara har verkat som poet ...
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'May contain traces of'
Meghan Cridland | 'May contain traces of' An ethnographic study of eating communities and the gluten free diet | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2017
Changes to the contemporary food system, including meals and eating patterns, have occurred quickly. One such change over the past 30 years has been the increase of commercially produced foods aimed at food allergies and intolerances and ‘free from’ dieting. The gluten free diet has ...
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New Big Science in Focus
Josephine V. Rekers, Kerstin Sandell (ed.) | New Big Science in Focus. Perspectives on ESS and MAX IV | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 8 | 2016
This anthology is about new big science, approached through perspectives from law, sustainability studies, sociology of science and technology, history, human geography and information studies. In focus are the two large experimental facilities being built in Lund: the European ...
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Ljud tar plats
Åsa Alftberg, Elisabet Apelmo, Kristofer Hansson (ed.) | Ljud tar plats. Funktionshinderperspektiv på ljudmiljöer | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 11 | 2016
Det finns ett stort behov av att bättre förstå de funktions hinder som finns i samhället och som begränsar eller i vissa fall omöjliggör allas aktiva delaktighet i samhällslivet. Den antologi som du nu håller i handen har som målsättning att bidra till att öka förståelsen för de ...
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An Imaginary Musical Road Movie
Mats Arvidson | An Imaginary Musical Road Movie. Transmedial Semiotic Structures in Brad Mehldau's Concept Album "Highway Rider" | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 10 | 2016
An Imaginary Musical Road Movie revolves around two integrated objects: on the one hand, the programmatic and cyclic concept album Highway Rider (2010), which is jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s most complex instrumental work, and on the other hand transmediality, both as a ...
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The Drowning World
Adam Brenthel | The Drowning World. The visual culture of climate change | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2016
A challenging question today is how to understand and act on climate change. Previous analyses of the public outreach of the climate sciences have concluded that the urgent communication of climate is inadequate. It is foremost the invisibility of carbon dioxide and the lack of a ...
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Please Be Patient
Martin Gunnarson | Please Be Patient. A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences | 2016
Please Be Patient examines the practice of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation, the two medical therapies available for persons with kidney failure, from a phenomenological perspective. A basic assumption being made is that contemporary biomedicine is deeply embedded in the ...
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Breathing Life into a Standard
Karolina Lindh | Breathing Life into a Standard. The configuration of resuscitation in practices of informing | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 6 | 2015
Standardisation is commonly thought of as leading to uniformity and order while practices are regarded as dynamic. They evolve and change through repeated enactments. This study explores the meeting of these two apparently con-flicting phenomena by inquiring into how a specific piece ...
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Skratt som fastnar
Fredrik Nilsson, Lars-Eric Jönsson (ed.) | Skratt som fastnar. Kulturella perspektiv på skratt och humor | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 5 | 2014
Att skratta är mänskligt. Skrattets betydelser, funktioner och känslor är emellertid knappast universella. De skiftar över tid, rum och sociala sammanhang. I den här boken undersöks bland annat skrattets relation till makt och motstånd samt humorns betydelse i skapande av ...
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Nordic Seniors on the Move
Anne Leonora Blaakilde, Gabriella Nilsson (ed.) | Nordic Seniors on the Move. Mobility and Migration in Later Life | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 4 | 2013
”I believe that all people need to move about. Actually, some have difficulties in doing so. They stay in their home neighbourhoods where they’ve grown up and feel safe. I can understand that, but my wife and I, we didn’t want that. We are more open to new ideas.” This anthology is ...
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Den nya stadens bibliotek
Hanna Carlsson | Den nya stadens bibliotek. Om teknik, förnuft och känsla i gestaltningen av kunskaps- och upplevelsestadens folkbibliotek | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 3 | 2013
Folkbiblioteket beskrivs ofta som en av våra mest omtyckta och uppskattade samhällsinstitutioner. Trots detta har både besöken och utlåningen av böcker minskat under senare år, filialer läggs ner och på många håll minskar personalstyrkan. I en tid när böcker kan köpas på bensinmacken ...
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Modern Genes
Niclas Hagen | Modern Genes. Body, Rationality and Ambivalence | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 2 | 2013
The main objective of this ethnological compilation thesis is to investigate the linkage between everyday life with a genetic disease and intrinsic patterns of modernity. The thesis is based upon four individual articles each addressing the everyday experience Huntington’s disease. ...
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The return of traditional food
Patricia Lysaght, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Burstedt | The return of traditional food | Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences 1 | 2013
Strongly interdisciplinary in content, the papers in this volume deal with various aspects of the return to popularity of traditional food, from the re-articulation of goat-cheese making in Jämtland, Sweden, to the reinvention of Cinnamon Bread as a commodity under the influence of ...
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