Anna Hedlund
About Anna Hedlund
My background is in social anthropology and I am interested in understanding the dynamics of violence and conflicts in various ways and expressions. Through ethnographic fieldwork, I have studied violence in rebel groups in the eastern Congo and in criminal environments in Malmö, Sweden. In my latest research project, I am interested in crime and violecne prevention and gun reduction strategies, with a focus on Sweden.
I joined the Department of Global Studies in September 2022. Before that, I was based at Lund University (Department of sociology/divison of social anthropology). I have also been a postdoc at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the Danish Institute against Torture (Denmark).
I am currently finishing the research project "Ceasefire Malmö", funded by Forte. The project focuses on youth crime, gun violence and crime prevention strategies. In the project, I have also been interested in the role of civil society in crime prevention work. In the project I have interviewed gang criminals, young people who are at risk of being recruited to criminal environments, as well as agencies who work with crime prevention in practice (the police, social services, exit services, actors from civil society, etc.).
I am also involved in a larger research project on crime and society (Brottslighet och Samhälle) run by SNS. I contribute to the project by investigating the municipalities' exit-services (avhopparverksamheten) in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The report will be published in the spring of 2023. https://www.sns.se/forskningsprogram/brottslighet-och-samhalle/
Education
I have a PhD in Social Anthropology (Department of Sociology/division of social anthropology, Lund University, 2014)
Teaching
I teach and supervise students at bachelor and master's level. I currently teach courses in human rights, social anthropology, and global studies. I have previously taught cultural criminology and various method and theory courses.
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Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in
Fieldwork
Anna Hedlund , Steven Sampson
The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World - 2023 -
Brottsförebyggande ungdomsarbete i Malmö och Helsingborg:
En utvärdering av Fryshuset preventiva insatser och civilsamhällets roll för unga i
riskzonen
Anna Hedlund
2022 -
Ingen förtjänar att dö: En intervjustudie om hur individer i kriminella miljöer i Malmö ser på skjutvapenvåld och möjligheten att hoppa
av
Anna Hedlund
2021 -
Klanretoriken kan försvåra det brottsförebyggande
arbetet
Anna Hedlund
Sydsvenskan kultur 14 september 2020 - 2020 -
Forskningen ger inga lösningar för att minska
gängkriminaliteteten
Anna Hedlund
Sydsvenskan kultur - 2019 -
Hutu Rebels. Exile Warriors in the Eastern
Congo
Anna Hedlund
2019 -
Simple Soldiers? Blurring the Distinction between Compulsion and Commitment among Rwandan Rebels in the Eastern
Congo
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Africa - 2017 -
Review of Wolf, Sonja (2017) Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El
Salvador
Anna Hedlund
Social Anthropology - 2017 -
We are Not Part of Their War.’ Hutu Women’s Experience of Rebel Life in the Eastern DRC
Conflict
Anna Hedlund
A Gendered Lens for Genocide Prevention - 2017 -
Why Study the bad
Guys?
Anna Hedlund
Open Democracy - 2016 -
Våld och Socialisering: Våldets Organisation bland Huturebeller i
Kongo
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Våldets sociala dimensioner Individ, relation, organisation - 2016 -
Sharp Lines, Blurred Structures: Politics of Sexual Violence in Armed
Conflict
Anna Hedlund
Focaal : European Journal of Anthropology - 2016 -
Review of Spencer, Jonathan, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah, Bart Klem, Benedikt Korf and Kalinga Tudor Silva (2015). Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and
Peace.
Anna Hedlund
Social Anthropology - 2016 -
’There was no Genocide in Rwanda’ History, Politics, and Exile Identity among Rwandan Rebels in the Eastern Congo
Conflict.
Anna Hedlund
Conflict and Society - Advances in Research - 2015 -
Våld i Exil: Kollektiv Identitet och Världsbild bland Rwandiska Huturebeller i Östra
Kongo
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Society of Humanities and Social Sciences, yearbook 2015 - 2015 -
Exile Warriors: Violence and Community among Hutu Rebels in the Eastern
Congo
Anna Hedlund
2014 -
Interdisciplinarity, Group Responsibility and Conflict as a resource for
Learning.
Anna Hedlund , Moa Goysdotter, Peter Bengtsen
Högskolepedagogisk reflektion och praktik: Proceedings från Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteternas pedagogiska inspirationskonferens - 2014