Research at Uppsala University

• Anomalous Aryans? Western Scientific Racism and the Ainu as a “Lost White Race,” 1868-1941

  Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2022-12-31

  At the height of Western imperialism, scientific racism was integral to the execution and justification of the colonial project around the globe. For many Europeans and Americans, military superiority ...

• Give me my perspective - Traces of the race biologists into the Sámi people´s home

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  This is an artistic research project focusing on the Institute of Racial Biology in Sweden, a state funded institute 1922-1958 - and its effects on the Indigenous Sámi people. The overall objective is ...

• Changing Climate Histories: Institutionalising Swedish Transnational Climate Knowledge 1950–2000

  Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  This project historicises institutions studying climate change during the second half of the twentieth century and their role in reinterpreting and politicising the concept of ‘climate’. I focus on the ...

• Co-Constituting Indigenous/Academic/Artistic Knowledges and Understandings of Land-, Water-, Body-, and Lab-scapes

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

  Co-Constituting Indigenous/Academic/Artistic Knowledges and Understandings of Land-, Water-, Body- and Lab-scapes?, Uppsala Oct. 10-12, 2012, 50-60 participants. The workshop is related to the VR financed ...

• Cycles of Cycling: Practices and Socio-Technical Transitions in Urban Transport

  Research project from 2013-07-01 to 2016-06-30

  Contemporary discussions about technology and sustainability often focus on innovation as the exclusive realm of new technology. The proposed project will instead examine the rise, decline, and partial ...

• The Swedish Patent Database, 1746-1975

  Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  The purpose of this research project is to build a fully searchable, publicly accessible database for all Swedish patents covering the period 1746-1974 (ca. 400,000 patents). No such database exists today ...

• Economic history of the senses: The economization of smells, sounds, tastes, colors, and tactilities during the industrial breakthrough in Sweden

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  Inspired by the expanding field of sensory history the project sets out to study the role of sensoric perceptions in industrial product development in Sweden in the era of industrialization. Many of the ...

• Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenous Expertise meets Western Technological Design and Innovation

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  Overall aim of this supra- and crossdisciplinary project is to analyze sociotechnical aspects of human security and sustainability in regard to climate change as well as to make an contribution to the ...

• Káfastallat

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31

• Living without oil?! Rethinking relations with lands and waters with Indigenous Land Based Expertise for a transition towards a fossil free welfare society

  Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31

  The project aims at bringing forth Indigenous peoples’ Land Based expertise and innovation along with discussions on visions of a welfare society independent of fossil fuels, while respecting and promoting ...

• Masters of flavour: Food invention in high-industrial Sweden

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The aim of the project is examine how science and engineering transformed food flavour in Sweden from the 1930s to the 1970s, the so-called "high-industrial" period in which the food industry developed ...

• RE-Claimings, Empowerings, Inspirings: Researching and exploring by, for and with indigenous peoples, minorities and local communities

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31

  The symposium will focus on discussing the cultural heritage and culture which is commonly denominated as ?Sámi culture/ cultural heritage?, often considered to be of importance to a very limited number ...

• The Reform Technocrats: The Strategists of the Strong State, 1930-1980

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

  Skapandet av välfärdsstaten intar en central roll i den gängse bilden av efterkrigstidens Sverige. Genom att betona den roll som en särskild grupp av "strateger" kom att spela i planeringen och uppbyggnaden ...

• Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other indigenous peoples? territories

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  Overall aim of this supradisciplinary research project is to analyze the sociotechnical aspects of human security, sustainability for, resistance and resilience of indigenous peoples in (post)colonial ...

• Safe and Sustainable Energy Futures in Sápmi: Assumptions and Actions - Visions and Decisions

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Overall aim of this supradisciplinary research project is to analyze socio-technical aspects of climate change mitigation policies, human security, safety and sustainability in regard to Indigenous peoples ...

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