Emma Engdahl
PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Emma Engdahl
Emma Engdahl is professor of sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science. Among other things, she is responsible for the development of education and research in the field of social psychology. The work is conducted both at her home institution and at other institutions, including Department of Psychology and Sahlgrenska University Hospital.
Her work is carried out nationally and internationally through networks such as Workshop on Sociological Social Psychology (WoSSP); the Society for Studies of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI); and the European Society of Studies of Symbolic Interaction (EU SSSI). Engdahl was the main organizer for the Fifth Conference of European Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2014) and board member of the European SSSI.
Since her defense of the dissertation A Theory of the Emotional Self (2004) Engdahl has published numerous books, articles and book chapters. For example, Konsten att vara sig själv (The art of the self,) first published in 2009, and Depressive Love: A Social Pathology (2018). Engdahl has worked on a couple of different universities both in Sweden and abroad, and has a solid and proven experience in teaching, supervision on all levels, including doctoral level, research, academic leadership, and innovation. She is continuously hired as an opponent and member of the Examination Board for doctoral dissertations, as well as peer-reviewer for several national and international journals and publishing houses. She is also engaged as an expert for the granting of research funds. Furthermore she has worked in the industry as responsible publisher in the fields of sociology, social work and psychology at Liber AB.
Engdahl has good experiences of interdisciplinary work. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Political Science; University of Chicago, Department of Social Thought; Waterloo University, Department of Philosophy. She has an ongoing collaboration with Stanford University, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, as well as University of Oslo, the Department of Human Geography. Engdahl conducts research in the areas of the sociology of the body and emotions; identity development; non-verbal communication; social change and social pathologies; and social theory.
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Capitalist society as an analysand: an interview with Eva
Ilouz
Emma Engdahl
Emotions and Society - 2020-01-01 -
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of
Love
Emma Engdahl
Qualitative Sociology Review - 2020-01-01 -
Vanskliga typer – vad personlighetstesten gör med våra
liv
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2019-01-01 -
The changing ethos and personae of shop-window mannequins within consumer culture: Expressions of gendered
embodiment
Emma Engdahl, Marie Gelang
Journal of Consumer Culture - 2019-01-01 -
Kan vi läsa oss
friska?
Emma Engdahl
Arena Essä, Dagens Arena - 2018-01-01 -
Det ligger en hel människa i
sjukhussängen
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2018-01-01 -
Jag är en annan: Johan Asplunds teorier om
människan
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2018-01-01 -
Depressive Love: A Social
Pathology
Emma Engdahl
- 2018-01-01 -
Främling i sitt eget land, del
II KAPITALISM.
Emma Engdahl
Opulens.se: 26 september 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
Främling i sitt eget land, del
I EGENDOM
Emma Engdahl
Opulens.se: 25 september - 2017-01-01 -
Egenintresset kan vara vår
frälsning
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2017-01-01 -
Depressive Love: A Social
Pathology
Emma Engdahl
Gross R. & West D. (eds) The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives - 2017-01-01 -
Djupt oroande när människor kallas
råttor
Emma Engdahl
Dagens Nyheter - 2016-01-01 -
Depressiv kärlek: En social
patologi
Emma Engdahl
- 2016-01-01 -
Allt fler föredrar sex som
vara
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2016-01-01 -
Recension av Eva Illouz (2014) Därför gör kärleken ont: En Sociologisk
förklaring
Emma Engdahl
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap - 2016-01-01 -
Kärlek med
förhinder
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2015-01-01 -
Kärlek och
depression
Emma Engdahl
Ordfront Magasin - 2015-01-01 -
The European Contribution to Symbolic
Interactionism
Emma Engdahl, T Müller
Symbolic interaction - 2015-01-01 -
Kærlighed: En væsentlig risiko i
moderniteten
Emma Engdahl, Inger Glavind Bo
I. G. Bo & M. H. Jacobsen (red.). Hverdagslivets følelser: tilstande, relationer, strukturer - 2015-01-01 -
Kärlek och depression flyter ihop till nytt fenomen: depressiv
kärlek
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2015-01-01 -
Depressive
Kjærlighed
Emma Engdahl
Samtiden - 2014-01-01 -
Emotionssociologi: Hverdagslivets
følelser
Emma Engdahl, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Hviid Jacobsen, M. & Kristiansen, S. (red.). Hverdagslivet – sociologier om det upåagtede - 2014-01-01 -
Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of
trust
Emma Engdahl, Rolf Lidskog
Public Understanding of Science - 2014-01-01 -
Kärlek i det (post)moderna västerlänska samhället: En polyfoni(sk
framställning)
Emma Engdahl
Fronesis - 2013-01-01 -
Kapitalismens anda och det moderna
identitetsskapandet
Emma Engdahl
Fronesis - 2013-01-01 -
The rhetoric of store-window
mannequins
Emma Engdahl
OSSA - 2011-01-01 -
Konsten att vara sig
själv
Emma Engdahl
- 2009-01-01