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Linda Berg

PhD Ethnology. Docent/Associate professor of gender studies. 

Research qualifications: Docent

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Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 4

I have been working at Umeå University since 2002, conducting research in the field of gender studies and cultural science. I obtained my doctorate 2007 through interdisciplinary collaboration between gender studies and ethnology, and work as a senior lecturer at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies since 2011, holding a docent degree in the field. My research interest can mainly be found within civil society studies, (post)colonial studies and medical humanities.

The doctoral thesis addresses issues about identification and estrangement in Swedish solidarity workers’ narratives from Nicaragua (2007) through a feminist anticolonial perspective, followed by a post doc project where I explored conceptions within self-help literature based on theories of subjectivity, emotions, and emancipation (e.g. 2010, 2011, 2012). Utilizing predominantly poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives, I have also investigated how solidarity is negotiated, and practiced within social movements (e.g. 2007, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2023). Another research area has long been the struggle for sexual and reproductive rights in Nicaragua (e.g. 2010, 2021, 2023). Interest in postcolonial studies has led me to initiate networks, arranging seminars, symposium as well as contributions in introducing and peer-reviewing scholarly works in the field.

As part of a civil society project (2015-2020, funded by the Swedish Research council) with a group if nine scholars (see link), we studied the role of cultural artifacts in the creation of transnational communities that reproduce, resist, or change norms regarding gender, nationality, coloniality, and sexuality. My research particularly focused on issues of religion, secularity, gender, and politics in relation veils and art (e.g. 2016a, 2016b, 2021).

At the moment, I lead a project about hormone narratives (2021-2025, funded by the Swedish Research Council). Together with Anna Sofia Lundgren and Maria Jönsson, we explore how endocrine discourses impact everyday self-perception and notions of normality. The study includes interviews and an examination of media materials and self-help books in the field (e.g. 2022a, 2022b, 2023).

In the project Negotiating the risk of segregation - public and civic responses to growing social inequalities in a "not yet" divided city, together with Hanna Bäckström Olofsson, we are studying civil society and municipal definitions of and efforts against segregation (e.g. 2023, 2024).

While research constitutes a significant portion of my work, I also supervise and teach gender studies at all levels at UCGS for example as course coordinator for doctoral courses in ethnography and for the two master’s courses: Feminist theories and Gender, Nation, and Migration.

NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Routledge 2024, Vol. 32, (3) : 195-208
Berg, Linda; Helander, Disa
Umeå: Umeå University 2024
Bäckström, Hanna; Berg, Linda
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv 2024, Vol. 33
Lauri, Johanna; Berg, Linda
Struggles for reproductive justice in the era of anti-genderism and religious fundamentalism, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2023 : 213-240
Alm, Erika; Berg, Linda
Feminist ethnographies: methodological reflections in gender research, Umeå: Umeå University 2023 : 10-23
Berg, Linda
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); Sea, Sky, and Land: Engaging in Solidarity in Endangered Ecologies, Honolulu, USA, November 8-11, 2023
Berg, Linda
Umeå: Umeå University 2023
Berg, Linda
Feminism och konvivialitet: samexistens, oenighet, hopp, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2023 : 25-35
Berg, Linda; Bäckström, Hanna
Norma, Routledge 2023, Vol. 18, (1) : 5-20
Berg, Linda; Linander, Ida
Formbundet, formbart!: Vänbok till Alf Arvidsson, Umeå: Insitutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, Umeå universitet 2022 : 65-73
Berg, Linda; Lundgren, Anna Sofia
Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, Copenhagen: Københavns Universitet 2022, Vol. 34, (2) : 11-26
Berg, Linda; Lundgren, Anna Sofia; Jönsson, Maria
Book of abstracts
Martinsson, Lena; Berg, Linda; Mulinari, Diana
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2021
Alm, Erika; Berg, Linda; Lundahl Hero, Mikela; et al.
Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality: challenging Swedish exceptionalism, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021 : 299-306
Alm, Erika; Berg, Linda; Lundahl Hero, Mikela; et al.
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Publicera, Kungliga Biblioteket 2021, Vol. 30, (2-3)
Berg, Linda; Erika, Alm
Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality: challenging Swedish exceptionalism, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021 : 49-80
Berg, Linda; Lundgren, Anna Sofia
Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality: challenging Swedish exceptionalism, London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 1-18
Alm, Erika; Berg, Linda; Lundahl Hero, Mikela; et al.
Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality: challenging Swedish exceptionalism, London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 269-297
Berg, Linda; Johansson, Anna; Pia, Laskar; et al.
g19 - Rethinking Knowledge Regimes. Solidarities and Contestations. Gothenburg, Sweden, October 7-9, 2019
Berg, Linda
How to study transnationalism and transformative movements, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 17-18, 2018
Berg, Linda
Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46, (3-4) : 120-136
Berg, Linda; Carbin, Maria
RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, Kungl. Gustav Adolfskademien för svensk folkkultur 2017, Vol. 100, (1) : 38-41
Berg, Linda
Tillämpad kulturteori, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2017 : 273-292
Berg, Linda
Du skall inte tro att du är något: om Jantelagens aktualitet, Umeå: Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur 2017 : 59-86
Berg, Linda
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Linköping University Electronic Press 2016, Vol. 8, (3) : 263-283
Berg, Linda; Lundahl, Mikela
Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, (4) : 7-19
Berg, Linda; Lundahl, Mikela; Martinsson, Lena
g16, Swedish gender research conference - Boundaries, Mobility and Mobilization. Linköping, Sweden, November 23-25, 2016
Berg, Linda; Mikela, Lundahl; Martinsson, Lena
9th European Feminist Research Conference - Sex & Capital, Rovaniemi, Finland, June 3-6, 2015
Berg, Linda
Symposium - Jantelagens Subjekt. Umeå universitet, 23 april, 2015
Berg, Linda
Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang, Göteborg: Daidalos 2015 : 113-130
Berg, Linda; Carbin, Maria
9th European Feminist Research Conference - Sex & Capital, Rovaniemi, Finland, June 3-6, 2015
Berg, Linda; Laskar, Pia
Annals of Sports Medicine and Research, JSciMed Central 2015, Vol. 2, (4)
Ohlsson, Anna; Berg, Linda; Ljungberg, Hanna; et al.
Bang, Stockholm: Föreningen Bang 2013, (4) : 47-51
Berg, Linda; Carbin, Maria
Relational concepts in medicine, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012 : 147-156
Berg, Linda
Bang, Stockholm: Föreningen Bang 2012, (3-4) : 40-47
Berg, Linda; Carbin, Maria
Arbetarhistoria : Meddelande från Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek, Stockholm: Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek 2011, Vol. 1, (137) : 39-43
Berg, Linda
Att känna sig fram: känslor i humanistisk genusforskning, Umeå: h:ström - Text & Kultur 2011 : 102-121
Berg, Linda
Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, Umeå: föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv vid Umeå universitet 2010, Vol. 19, (2) : 2-11
Berg, Linda
Dissident Citizenship: Queer Postcolonial Belonging: Programme Information & Abstracts
Berg, Linda
Umeå: Umeå centrum för genusstudier, Umeå universitet 2009
Berg, Linda
Politics conference: Sixth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory ‘Difference, borders, others’
Berg, Linda
Kulturstudier i Sverige. Nationell forskarkonferens, 13–15 juni, 2005, Norrköping, Sweden
Berg, Linda
Akademisk kultur: Vetenskapliga miljöer i kulturanalytisk belysning, Stockholm: Carlsson 2002 : 75-140
Berg, Linda