Fieldwork Seminar 2025

Fieldwork Seminar i Sverige, Oct. 2025

The Third Fieldwork Seminar in Decolonizing Research Methodologies took place in Uppsala and Gotland, Sweden, from 13 October to 24 October 2025. The Fieldwork Semina aims to combine theoretical and methodological reflections in lectures and workshops on the campuses of Uppsala University (Campus Engelska Parken and Campus Gotland), with joint fieldwork in four parishes on Gotland. The theme of the 2025 Fieldwork Seminar was Rural resilience and resistance, focusing on how local actors adapt to and respond to different challenges (climate change, geopolitics, economic fluctuations, etc.). The consortium hosting the fieldwork seminar consists of the universities of Dar es Salaam, Stockholm and Uppsala, as well as the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, N. BONI University (Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso) and the Institut des Sciences Humaines (Bamako, Mali). The participants were early-career researchers (especially doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows) from Bolivia, Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Guinea, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Sweden, Tanzania and Tunisia.

Conversations, observations, and engagements during fieldwork in Gotland allowed to approach decolonization and decoloniality through social practices, and to experience anthropological team research methodology. On Monday 13 October, a Public Seminar pdf, 265 kB. on Decolonization in Practice started the Fieldwork Seminar. And on Thursday 23 October, an Open Seminar pdf, 161 kB. was organized at Campus Gotland, Uppsala University, where research findings were discussd in dialogue with the hosts of our field sites. The Open Seminar was the closure of the 2025 Fieldwork Seminar in Decolonizing Research Methodologies.

After two weeks of intense work, participants and faculty/coordinators were inspired, energized, tired, and happy! Read more about the VR-funded Decolonizing Research Methodologies programme.

The week after the end of the Fieldwork Seminar (27-31 Oct.), a Coordinators Meeting was organized with the project team to discuss lessons learned and future plans: Head of Project Sten Hagberg (Coordinator, Uppsala University); Baba Coulibaly (Coordinator, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Mali); Thomas Ndaluka (Coordinator, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania); Emil Sandström (Coordinator, Swedish Universoty of Agricultural Sciences); Patrice Toé (Coordinator, Université Nazi BONI, Burkina Faso); Paula Uimonen (Coordinator, Stockholm University); Jennifer Lorin (2025 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator); and Oulia Makkonen (2022, and 2023 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator).

On 28 October 2025, a Coordinators Meeting was organized with the project team to discuss lessons learned and future plans: Head of Project Sten Hagberg (Coordinator, Uppsala University); Baba Coulibaly (Coordinator, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Mali); Thomas Ndaluka (Coordinator, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania); Emil Sandström (Coordinator, Swedish Universoty of Agricultural Sciences); Patrice Toé (Coordinator, Université Nazi BONI, Burkina Faso); Paula Uimonen (Coordinator, Stockholm University); Jennifer Lorin (2025 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator); and Oulia Makkonen (2022, and 2023 Fieldwork Seminar Coordinator).

Here is the invitation pdf, 1 MB.
Here is the programme (version 12 Oct. 2025) pdf, 2 MB.
Here is more info on Decolonizing Research Methdologies programme.