Erik Hansson
Researcher at Department of Human Geography
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 25 10
- E-mail:
- erik.hansson@kultgeog.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
- Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
Download contact information for Erik Hansson at Department of Human Geography
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-7997-7230
Biography
Research interests: political geography, critique of ideology, racialization, poverty, political economy, continental philosophy, moral geographies, nationalism and identity, psychoanalytic geography, etc.
Research
Current projects:
- (with Martina Calovi and Morten Frisch) The geographical distribution of socio-economically accessible swimming pools in Sweden.
- (with Monica Columbo) Resilience, Social Cohesion and Neoliberal Dynamics in EU Institutional Discourses.
- "Swimming diaries" about swimming pool experiences in Sweden.
- Modern history of swimming pools and bathhouses in Sweden 1945-2024.
Publications
Recent publications
Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
Part of Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2026
- DOI for Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
- Download full text (pdf) of Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
Part of Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, 2025
- DOI for Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
- Download full text (pdf) of Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 145-169, 2024
- DOI for ”Varje timme i bassängen räknas”: Ett tidsrumsligt perspektiv på idrottslärares erfarenheter av simundervisning i grundskolor
- Download full text (pdf) of ”Varje timme i bassängen räknas”: Ett tidsrumsligt perspektiv på idrottslärares erfarenheter av simundervisning i grundskolor
Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
Part of Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 2024
- DOI for Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
Part of ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, p. 263-306, 2023
- DOI for Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
- Download full text (pdf) of Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
All publications
Articles in journal
Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
Part of Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2026
- DOI for Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
- Download full text (pdf) of Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
Part of Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, 2025
- DOI for Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
- Download full text (pdf) of Green eyed sailors: Allegories of authoritarian envy
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 145-169, 2024
- DOI for ”Varje timme i bassängen räknas”: Ett tidsrumsligt perspektiv på idrottslärares erfarenheter av simundervisning i grundskolor
- Download full text (pdf) of ”Varje timme i bassängen räknas”: Ett tidsrumsligt perspektiv på idrottslärares erfarenheter av simundervisning i grundskolor
Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
Part of Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 2024
- DOI for Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden
Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
Part of ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, p. 263-306, 2023
- DOI for Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
- Download full text (pdf) of Tendens till personlighet: Adornos anmärkningar för samtiden
Part of Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, p. 810-821, 2023
Part of ARKIV. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, p. 7-24, 2023
Part of Hjärnstorm, p. 14-19, 2022
Den ojämlika simkunnighetens geografi: En simhallskamp mellan två skärgårdsstäder
Part of Geografiska Notiser, p. 76-91, 2022
Part of Social & Cultural Geography, p. 339-356, 2021
- DOI for Who’s afraid of the 'beggar'?: A psychoanalytic interpretation of the crises triggered by the begging of 'EU migrants' in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Who’s afraid of the 'beggar'?: A psychoanalytic interpretation of the crises triggered by the begging of 'EU migrants' in Sweden
The Exceptional State of “Roma Beggars” in Sweden
Part of European Journal of Homelessness, p. 15-40, 2018
Part of Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, p. 343-351, 2015
Books
The Begging Question: Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute
University of Nebraska Press, 2023
Chapters in book
Varför saknar "EU-migranter" boende i Sverige?
Part of Studier om Rasism, Arx förlag, 2018
Conference papers
Vad är den svenska modellen?: Socialdemokratisk historieskrivning i den samtida "tiggeridebatten"
Part of Creating the City: Identity, Memory and Participation. Conference proceedings, p. 343-362, 2019
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Part of Social & Cultural Geography, p. 288-289, 2020