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Affectivity and race : studies from Nordic contexts / [edited] by Rikke Andreassen and Kathrine Vitus.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-5349-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-6588-0 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3171-8468-3 (epub) 1. ScandinaviaRace relations. 2. MulticulturalismScandinavia. 3. ScandinaviaPolitics and government. I. Andreassen, Rikke, editor. II. Vitus, Kathrine, editor.
HT1521.A334 2015
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Author Biographies
Sara Ahlstedt is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linkping University. Her research interests include privileged migration; queer migration and migration, sexuality and intimacy; migration and development; critical perspectives on race and whiteness; international education; and feminist methodology. She is currently completing her dissertation on queer partner migration to Sweden and the role of emotions in queer intimate migration processes.
Rikke Andreassen (PhD, University of Toronto, Canada; Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark) is a researcher and teacher working within the fields of media, race, gender and sexuality. She is the leader of the Nordic research network, Re-developing international theories of media and migration in a Nordic context (TheoryNord). She has published three monographs and several articles: recently Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays (Ashgate, 2015); I Can Never be Normal. A Conversation About Race, Daily Life Practices, Food and Power (with Ahmed Andresen) in the European Journal of Womens Studies (vol. 21(1), 2014); The search for the white Nordic: Analysis of the contemporary New Nordic Kitchen and former race science in Social Identity (vol. 20(6), 2014).
Tobias Hbinette (PhD in Korean studies, Stockholm University; Associate Professor, Sdertrn University, Sweden) is a researcher at the Multicultural Centre. His current research concerns critical race and whiteness studies in contemporary Sweden. He has, among other subjects, conducted research on images and representations of Asians in Swedish culture, and on the concept of transraciality and the transracial experience, as seen through the life narratives of transnational adoptees of colour.
Kirsten Hvenegrd-Lassen is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University. She is currently editor of NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Her previous work has concentrated on race, ethnicity, gender and immigration in the Nordic countries.
Paula Mhlck (PhD, University of Ume, Sweden) is a researcher and teacher in the social studies of science, research policy, and higher education, discrimination and equality, addressing racial/ethnic and gender issues. She has published several articles, most recently Academic Women with Migrant Background in the Global Knowledge Economy: Bodies, Hierachies and Resistance in Women Studies International Forum (2013).
Henry Mainsah (PhD, University of Oslo; Associate Professor, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design) is a researcher and teacher in digital media, design, identity, migration, literacy, and youth culture. His current research focuses social media, design, youth and civic life. He also teaches and researches on qualitative research methodologies within contexts of design. He has published in journals such as the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Computers and Composition, and in edited volumes such as Media in Motion, and Youth and Marginalization: Young people from immigrant families in Scandinavia.
Asta Smedegaard Nielsen (PhD, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen) is a teacher and researcher in media studies. Her research interests include news media, terror and affectivity, and critical studies in race and whiteness. She recently defended her PhD thesis on Danish news media and the threat of terror.
Kaarina Nikunen (Dr, Soc, Sc) is University Lecturer at the School of Communication, Media and Theatre at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her research focuses on digital culture, transnational media, multiculturalism, migration, gender and sexuality. She is the editor of Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region (Ashgate, 2011, with co-editor Elisabeth Eide) and Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (Berg, 2007, with Susanna Paasonen and Laura Saarenmaa). She has published several research articles in journals such as Journalism, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Television and New Media and Nordicom Review.
Lin Pritz (PhD, University of Oslo; Guest Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, UiO, Norway) examines how performances of gender, sexuality and race are represented in digital and visual media culture. She has published several articles and book-chapters, recently Male-stream mvil. Un estudio de la esttica y los significados de los anuncios personales masculinos en deiligst.no, In Lasn, Amparo and Elena Casado (eds)
