Helena Holgersson
About Helena Holgersson
Helena Holgersson, post-doc in Cultural Studies. In the spring of 2011 she defended her Ph.D. thesis in Sociology, Icke-medborgarskapets urbana geografi (The Urban Geography of Non-citizenship). In its presentation of the thesis, the publisher Glänta produktion writes:
”Hidden refugees, undocumented, illegals – behind the terms you find people for whom neither the welfare state nor the post-industrial city has room. How does society deal with their presence and how do they themselves navigate through, and organize their lives in, public space? Focusing on Gothenburg, a city characterized by both growth and segregation, a city that is trying to attract certain new residents but not others, Holgersson lets the double exposure of the city mirror a society that is falling apart.”
Ongoing Research Project
Urban Redevelopment as City Branding, Gentrification and Enchantment Engineering. The case of ‘Centrala Älvstaden’ in Gothenburg, Sweden. (Follow the link for a full project description)
Teaching
Helena is the course leader of the unit The Post-industrial City in the course Scandinavian Studies: Cultural and Social Perspectives, and also teaches in the courses Studying Our Time and Culture and Democracy and the City in Culture, Bachelor's programme, in the master degree programme The Practical Field of Culture, and in undergraduate courses in Cultural Studies.
At the Department of Sociology she has previously taught courses such as Social Control in Contemporary Society, Qualitative Methods, Alienation, Exlusion and Modernity: Cultural Sociological Perspectives and Living in Europe: Work, Welfare and Family.
Collaboration
During her time as a Ph.D. student, Helena was part of the interdisciplinary research group Gothenburg Research on Asylum-Seeking Children in Europe (GRACE) at the University of Gothenburg Centre for European Research (CERGU).
In the autumn of 2008–09, she visited the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College in London, a stay that was funded by a scholarship from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). She is one of the editors of the interdisciplinary anthology (Re)searching Gothenburg, which was published in connection with the World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg in 2010.
At the Department of Cultural Sciences, Helena works with FSSK (the Forum for Studies of Contemporary Culture), a series of public seminars which involves co-operation with local cultural institutions such as the Gothenburg City Museum and The Backa Theatre. She is also the editor of the blog London Riots at the webpage of the cultural journal Ord&bild, and there she reflects upon how the riots in the summer of 2011 are being analyzed and the role of academics in these kinds of processes.
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The sociological craft through the lens of theatre A call for imaginative critical
research
Helena Holgersson
Sociologisk Forskning - 2021-01-01 -
Displacement pressure and sense of belonging: Working class experiences of state-led gentrification in
Sweden
Helena Holgersson
British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2021 – Remaking the Future, 13-15 April, virtual conference - 2021-01-01 -
Everyday experiences of discursive
displacement
Helena Holgersson
12th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, 1-3 September, University of Gothenburg - 2021-01-01 -
Att värna den ocoola
staden
Helena Holgersson
Bostadsmanifest: 22 krav för framtidens hem - 2021-01-01 -
Expansion och mångfald - en relationell
forskningsdatabas
Astrid von Rosen, Helena Holgersson, Mikael Strömberg, Fia Adler Sandblad, Sandra Grehn
Expansion och mångfald: Digital kartläggning och analys av den utominstitutionella scenkonsten i Göteborg 1965-2000 - 2021-01-01 -
Corona hotar förvärra svenska bostadskrisen. 108 forskare: Sveriges regering och kommuner måste förhindra en
katastrof.
Abdellah Abarkan, Jimmie Andersén, Björn Andersson, Roger Andersson, Karin Backvall, Guy Baeten, Bo Bengtsson, Bo Borén, Annelie Björkhagen Turesson, Pål Brunnström, Annelie de Cabo, Carl Cassegård, Eric Clark, Carin Cuadra, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Magnus Dahlstedt, Tobias Davidsson, Verner Denvall, Magdalena Elmersjö, Ilia Farahani, Mats Franzén, Catharina Gabrielsson, Wiktoria Glad, Karin Grundström, Jennie Gustafsson, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Tigran Haas, Ali Hajighasemi, Christina Hansen, Erik Hansson, Björn Hellström, Maria Hellström Reimer, Greger Henriksson, Mikaela Herbert, Ståle Holgersen, Helena Holgersson, Lill Hultman, Lovisa Häckner Posse, Define Kadioglu, J-H Kain, Lisa Kings, Pia Kjellbom, Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen, Mattias Kärrholm, Philip Lalander, Ann Legeby, Joshua Levy, Linnea Lindemann, Gunilla Lindholm, Christina Lindkvist, Carina Listerborn, Anders Lund Hansen, Anna Lundberg, Jörgen Lundälv, Jennifer Mack, Jesper Magnusson, Miguel A. Martínez, Helena Mattsson, Jonathan Metzger, Irene Molina, Norma Montesino, Paula Mulinari, Kristina L Nilsson, Marie Nordfeldt, Vanna Nordling, Ola Nylander, Katarina Nylund, Lina Olsson, Alexandru Panican, Peter Parker, Vitor Peiteado Fernández, Maria Persdotter, Dominika V Polanska, Emil Pull, Åse Richard, Max Ritts, Agatino Rizzo, Kim Roelofs, Harald Rohracher, Frida Rosenberg, Tapio Salonen, Ingrid Sahlin, Tove Samzelius, Meike Schalk, Staffan Schmidt, Johanna Sixtensson, Manuela Sjöström, Alicia Smedberg, Erik Stenberg, Jenny Stenberg, Kristina Carlsson Stylianides, Hans Swärd, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Hoai Anh Tran, Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Susanne Urban, Chiara Valli, Karina Villacura, Inga Britt Werner, Ulrika Wernesjö, Stig Westerdahl, María José Zapata Campos, Klara Öberg, Andreas Öjehag, Kerstin Annadotter, Monica Larsson
Aftonbladet - 2020-01-01 -
Debating Diversity - a panel on multiple performing arts histories in a digital
age
Astrid von Rosen, Mikael Strömberg, Helena Holgersson, Sandra Grehn, Fia Adler Sandblad
ANTS, Scan-Aesthetics, Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars Conference 2020 - 2020-01-01 -
Re-vitalizing Dig Where You Stand: Place as agent in participatory performance
history
Astrid von Rosen, Helena Holgersson
ACHS 2020 Futures - 2020-01-01 -
A Deceptive Return to Welfare State Rhetoric in the Marketing Initiatives of
Gothenburg
Helena Holgersson, Erik Florin Persson
Mediapolis - 2018-01-01 -
The Lingering Presence of Richard Florida in Gothenburg’s Future
Vision
Helena Holgersson, Erik Florin Persson
Mediapolis - 2018-01-01 -
Keep walking: Notes on how to research urban pasts and
futures
Helena Holgersson
Walking Through Social Research / edited by Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor. - 2017-01-01 -
Interaktion inom diskursens
ordning
Helena Holgersson
Den motspänstiga akademikern : festskrift till Ingrid Sahlin / redaktörer: Björn Andersson, Frida Petersson, Anette Skårner - 2017-01-01 -
Urbana
medborgarskapsförhandlingar
Helena Holgersson
Irreguljär migration i Sverige: rättigheter, vardagserfarenheter, motstånd och statliga kategoriseringar / Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson och Klara Öberg (red.) - 2016-01-01 -
Introduktion: irreguljär migration i
Sverige
Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson, Klara Öberg
Irreguljär migration i Sverige: rättigheter, vardagserfarenheter, motstånd och statliga kategoriseringar / Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson och Klara Öberg (red.) - 2016-01-01 -
Revisiting the urban frontier through the case of New Kvillebäcken,
Gothenburg
Catharina Thörn, Helena Holgersson
City - 2016-01-01 -
Irreguljär migration i Sverige: Rättigheter, vardagserfarenheter, motstånd och statliga
kategoriseringar
Maja Sager, Helena Holgersson, Klara Öberg
- 2016-01-01 -
Göteborg - den urbana frontlinjen och "nya
Kvillebäcken"
Catharina Thörn, Helena Holgersson
Gentrifering / Catharina Thörn, Helena Holgersson (red.) - 2014-01-01 -
The urban geography of swedish
non-citizenship
Helena Holgersson
Playgrounds and battlefields: Critical perspektives of social engagement, Francisco Martinez & Klemen Slabina (eds) - 2014-01-01 -
Post-political narratives and emotions: Dealing with discursive displacement in everyday
life
Helena Holgersson
Stories of cosmopolitan belonging: Emotion and location, Hannah Jones & Emma Jackson (eds) - 2014-01-01 -
Gentrifiering
Catharina Thörn, Helena Holgersson
- 2014-01-01 -
Gentrifiering - kultur, politik och
ekonomi
Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn
Gentrifiering, Catharina Thörn & Helena Holgersson (red) - 2014-01-01 -
Challenging the hegemonic gaze on foot: Walk-alongs as a useful method in gentrification
research
Helena Holgersson
Walking in the European city: Quotian mobility and urban geography, Timothy Shortell & Everick Brown (eds) - 2014-01-01 -
Medborgarens rätt och nationens
flyktighet
Helena Holgersson
Ord & Bild - 2013-01-01 -
Icke-medborgarskapets urbana
geografi
Helena Holgersson
- 2011-01-01 -
En platskänslig sociologi – go-alongs och "mentala"
kartor
Helena Holgersson
Många möjliga metoder, Katrine Fangen & Ann-Mari Sellerberg (red) - 2011-01-01 -
En stedssensitiv sosiologi – go-alongs og ”mentale”
kart
Helena Holgersson
Mange ulike metoder, Katrine Fangen & Ann-Mari Sellerberg (red) - 2011-01-01 -
(Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing
city
Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Mattias Wahlström
- 2010-01-01 -
Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i
förändring
Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Mattias Wahlström
- 2010-01-01 -
Trettiosju studier av en stad i
förändring
Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Mattias Wahlström
Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring - 2010-01-01 -
"Hidden refugees" as municipal
headache
Helena Holgersson
(Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city - 2010-01-01 -
Sociology as theatre | theatre as
sociology
Helena Holgersson
(Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city - 2010-01-01 -
"Gömda flyktingar" som kommunal
huvudvärk
Helena Holgersson
Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring - 2010-01-01 -
Sociologi som teater | teater som
sociologi
Helena Holgersson
Göteborg utforskat: studier av en stad i förändring - 2010-01-01 -
A critical view of
Gothenburg
Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn, Mattias Wahlström
(Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city - 2010-01-01 -
Where, when & how the lines are drawn: Non-citizenship manifested in space, through
things
Helena Holgersson
Exploding Objects: A New Scholars Symposium, Goldsmiths College, London 10th September - 2009-01-01 -
Book Review: Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst (eds) Ways of Walking. Ethnography and Practice on Foot Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 205
pp
Helena Holgersson
Acta Sociologica - 2009-01-01 -
Staden & medborgarskapet: Att studera "gömda flyktingar" med utgångspunkt i Lefebvres spatiala
triad
Helena Holgersson
Cultural Identities National Borders. Mats Andrén, Thomas Lindqvist, Ingmar Söhrman, Katharina Vajta (red.) - 2009-01-01 -
Working With Mental Maps &
Walk-alongs
Helena Holgersson
Paper submitted to Exploding Methods: A New Scholar Symposium. Goldsmith, University of London, 22nd September - 2007-01-01 -
Staden &
medborgarskapet
Helena Holgersson
Konferensen Kulturella identiteter och nationella gränser, CERGU, Göteborg, 7-8 juni - 2007-01-01 -
Att möta myndigheter i
småstad
Helena Holgersson
Makt, kultur och kontroll över invandrares livsvillkor. Multidimensionella perspektiv på strukturell diskriminering i Sverige - 2007-01-01 -
The Everyday Life of "Hidden Refugees" In the City of Göteborg,
Sweden
Helena Holgersson
11th International Metropolis Conference. Moving People, Changing Places. Lisboa, 2-6 October - 2006-01-01 -
Hemlösa & gömda i
staden
Helena Holgersson
Nordiska seminariet om urban- och bostadsforskning, Gävle, 6-8 september - 2006-01-01