Maria Törnqvist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty
- E-mail:
- maria.tornqvist@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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Keywords
- qualitative methods
- cultural sociology
- feminist theory
- intimacy
- embodiment

Publications
Recent publications
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing
Part of Ethnography, p. 217-233, 2025
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Why Zoom Hurts: A Cultural Sociological Approach
Part of Culture Unbound, 2025
Intimate strangers: Theorizing bodily knowledge in shared housing
Part of American Journal of Cultural Sociology, p. 271-290, 2024
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Kärleken gror bortom begärets murar (Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket)
2023
Den samhällskritiska forskningen lever farligt. Dagens Nyheter.
2023
All publications
Articles in journal
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing
Part of Ethnography, p. 217-233, 2025
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Why Zoom Hurts: A Cultural Sociological Approach
Part of Culture Unbound, 2025
Intimate strangers: Theorizing bodily knowledge in shared housing
Part of American Journal of Cultural Sociology, p. 271-290, 2024
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Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 124-139, 2022
- DOI for Att skriva kroppen: Ett samtal om feministisk fenomenologi, situerad kunskap och citering som motståndspraktik
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Communal Intimacy: Formalization, Egalitarianism, and Exchangeability in Collective Housing
Part of Social Forces, p. 273-292, 2021
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Living Alone Together: Individualized Collectivism in Swedish Communal Housing
Part of Sociology, p. 900-915, 2019
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The making of an egalitarian elite: school ethos and the production of privilege
Part of British Journal of Sociology, p. 551-568, 2019
Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing
Part of Current Sociology, p. 356-372, 2018
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Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 307-315, 2016
Känna text: Översättningens begär och litteraturens intima rum
Part of Med andra ord, 2016
Troubling romance tourism: sex, gender and class inside the Argentinean tango clubs
Part of Feminist Review, p. 21-40, 2012
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Varannan damernas väg till riksdagen: En romantisk historia
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 2007
Rättvisans gränser eller problemet med läkaren som kör taxi
Part of Kvinneforskning, 2004
Att hålla masken: Hemliga subjekt i det politiska rummet
Part of Fronesis, 2003
Part of Häften för Kritiska Studier, 2002
Recension av Pierre Bourdieus Den manliga dominansen
Part of Sociologisk forskning, 2001
Books
Ellerströms förlag, 2020
Liber, 2014
Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions: The Intimate Economy of Tango (Routledge)
Routledge, 2013
Tangoexperimentet (Ruin förlag)
Ruin, 2010
Feministisk teori i rörliga bilder
Liber, 2005
Chapters in book
Part of No3h juin 2015, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, 2015
Erkännandets sociologi: (Om Per Anders Fogelström)
Part of Sociologi genom litteratur, Arkiv förlag & tidskrift, 2015
Varannan damernas eller hela makten?
Part of Könspolitiska nyckeltexter, Makadam Förlag, 2012
Taxi Dancers: TangoLabour and Commercialized Intimacy in Buenos Aires
Part of New Sociologies of Sex Work, Ashgate, 2010
Love Impossible: Troubling Tales of Eroticized Difference in Buenos Aires
Part of Sexuality, Gender and Power, Routledge, 2010
Tangoing Intimacy: A Dance Culture of Fluid Affect and Personal Life Beyond the Family
Part of Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres, Kyoto University Press, 2009
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Kärleken gror bortom begärets murar (Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket)
2023
Den samhällskritiska forskningen lever farligt. Dagens Nyheter.
2023
Den hotfulla förorten var bara en dimridå. Aftonbladet
2022
Litteraturen bär löften om en ny syn på kärlek. Uppsala Nya Tidning
2022
Så hänger gängvåldet ihop med friskolorna. Göteborgs-Posten
2022
Det handlar inte om underlivet – utan om existensen. Uppsala Nya Tidning.
2022
Utan kropparna blir vi spöklika inför varandra: DN Kultur
2020
Isolering som dödar – ett socialt experiment: Aftonbladet kultur
2020
Izolacija, ki ubija – družbeni eksperiment: Kulturartikel i Mladina
2020
Stunder av total sammansmältning: Essä i programboken för teaterföreställningen Ocean
2018
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 132-135, 2016