Karl Malmqvist
About Karl Malmqvist
KARL MALMQVIST (PhD in sociology) teaches at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. His dissertation, Boundaries of the Public Sphere: Five Cultural Sociological Case Studies of Controversies over Literary Autobiographies in Sweden from 1976 to 2008 (2012), investigated debates about literary autobiographies that took place in the culture sections of major Swedish newspapers during the period mentioned in the title. The dissertation analyzed how participants in these debates fought over boundaries of moral appropriateness in literary practices of self-disclosure and disclosure of others, and identified shifts in these boundaries during the period under scrutiny. These shifts indicated that a process of informalization had taken place in the Swedish literary public sphere during the period – a process that, in turn, was linked to changes in media technology and media culture that brought about a destabilization of the status of established actors in the literary public sphere.
More recently, Malmqvist’s research interests have turned increasingly towards emotion sociology. As a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (2014–2015), Malmqvist carried out a research project called Aggressive Emotions in Converging Media Spaces (VR 437-2013-326). Investigating far-right affective-discursive practices in Swedish online discussion threads about begging migrants from eastern EU countries, the project analyzed how participants in these forums jointly try to establish new rules about what emotions one ought to feel and display in relation to whom – feeling rules that differ strongly from those of mainstream public life.
Malmqvist is an active member of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network in the Sociology of Emotions (RN 11), and he is also involved in the Emotion Sociology Seminar at the University of Gothenburg (Emogu).
At the Department of Sociology and Work Science, Malmqvist teaches social psychology, emotion sociology, cultural sociology, and criminology. He also teaches various courses in the teacher-training program at the University of Gothenburg.
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On the Use and Abuse of Anger in History and Politics: A Review
Essay
Karl Malmqvist
Emotions and Society - 2021-01-01 -
Fina och fula känslor? Historiska essäer: Eva
Österberg
Karl Malmqvist
Sociologisk forskning - 2020-01-01 -
Theatrical manipulation and seductive sentimentality: constructions of empathy in Swedish online far-right discourse about
EU-migrants
Karl Malmqvist
Emotions and society - 2019-01-01 -
Edling, Christofer & Rydgren, Jens
(red.), 2016. Sociologi genom litteratur.
Skönlitteraturens möjligheter
och samhällsvetenskapens begränsningar.
Lund: Arkiv
förlag.
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Statsvetenskaplig Tidsskrift - 2017-01-01 -
Metaphorical highlighting and hiding of emotions in online racist
discourse
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12th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination,”. Prague, Czech Republic: 25–28 August - 2015-01-01 -
Satire, racist humour and the power of (un)laughter: On the restrained nature of Swedish online racist discourse targeting EU-migrants begging for
money
Karl Malmqvist
Discourse & Society - 2015-01-01 -
Racist satire and unlaughter: Orderly expressions of hatred and the making of a racist affective/emotional order in an online discussion forum about migrant panhandlers in SwedenIrony as articulation of aversive emotion in online hateful
discourse
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Exploring blind spots: The 27th conference of the Nordic Sociological Association. Lund, Sweden: 14–16 August - 2014-01-01 -
Repressing empathy, expressing contempt, enjoying superiority. On the orderliness of emotional articulation in online racist discourse targeting migrant panhandlers in
Sweden
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6th midterm conference of the ESA RN11 Sociology of Emotions Network. Rhodes, Greece: 25–27 September - 2014-01-01 -
Offentlighetens gränser: Fem kultursociologiska studier av kontroverser kring litterära självframställningar i Sverige,
1976-2008
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- 2012-01-01 -
Normative and Contextual Boundaries in the Literary Public Sphere: Quarrels over autobiographies in major Swedish
newspapers
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Conference Proceedings ESA RN02, "Great Expectations: Arts and the Future", 1-3 Sept 2010, Guildford, UK - 2010-01-01 -
Litteraturdebatt som fältstrid eller som offentlighet? Bourdieu, kulturell autonomi och den svenska litterära
offentligheten
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Sveriges Sociologförbunds Årsmöte, 11–12 mars 2010, Halmstad - 2010-01-01 -
Från fiktiv maskering till flertydig sanning: offentlighetens gränser i två kontroverser kring svenska litterära
självframställningar
Karl Malmqvist
Kultursociologisk konferens, Växjö universitet 2009-09-14 till 2009-09-15 - 2009-01-01 -
Book Review: Wendy Griswold Regionalism and the Reading Class Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008, 213
pp
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Acta Sociologica - 2009-01-01 -
Re-imagining the (Post-) Industrial
Periphery
Karl Malmqvist
Perspectives from the Periphery: ISA RCHS Interim Conference, Umeå University, Sweden, August 21–24, 2008 - 2008-01-01