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Emma Engdahl
Professor
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Emma Engdahl
Emma Engdahl is a professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. She started her employment at the University of Gothenburg in 2014 and has since been responsible for the development of education and research in the field of microsociology / social psychology. The work is conducted at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, but also at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the Department of Psychology, where she was part of the working group that designed the new psychology program launched in 2018. Her work is also conducted internationally through networks such as the International Association of Sociology (ISA). RC 36 Alienation Theory and Research, Society for Studies in Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and European Society of Studies in Symbolic Interaction (ESSSI). Engdahl was the main organizer of The Fifth Conference of European Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2014) and is a member of the board of both ESSSI and ISA, RC 36. She is also a member of the international advisory board for Interpretative Lenses in Sociology, Bristol University press.
Since Engdahl defended her doctoral dissertation A Theory of the Emotional Self (2004), she has published around 50 books, articles, book chapters and essays. Among others, her books The Art of the Self (2009) and Depressive Love: A Social Pathology (2018). She has been employed at several different universities both in Sweden and abroad and has solid and documented experience of teaching, supervision, research, academic leadership, and collaboration / innovation. She has also worked in the business world as a responsible publisher in the areas of sociology, social work and psychology at Liber AB.
Engdahl has good experience of interdisciplinary work and has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University, Department of Political Science; University of Chicago, Department of Social Thought; Waterloo University, Department of Philosophy and has several ongoing international research collaborations.
Engdahl's research is conducted mainly in the tradition of symbolic interactionism and in areas such as the sociology of emotions: identity development and self-realization, intimate relationships, social pathologies, cyber-activism and communicative democracy.
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Att leva med en världsomfattande pandemi: En studie om människors oro kopplat till covid-19 i
Sverige
T Yukkala, S Ferlander, O Aytar, Emma Engdahl, A Hristova, M Hopstadius, A Blasko, V Misheva
Sociologisk forskning - 2021 -
#Metoo. En kamp för socialt erkännande och
rättvisa
Emma Engdahl, Maria Nyman, Hans Ekbrand
Sociologisk forskning - 2021 -
Capitalist society as an analysand: an interview with Eva
Ilouz
Emma Engdahl
Emotions and Society - 2020 -
The Disappearance of the Other: A Note on the Distortion of
Love
Emma Engdahl
Qualitative Sociology Review - 2020 -
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 -
Vanskliga typer – vad personlighetstesten gör med våra
liv
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2019 -
Depressive Love: A Social
Pathology
Emma Engdahl
2018 -
Kan vi läsa oss
friska?
Emma Engdahl
Arena Essä, Dagens Arena - 2018 -
Det ligger en hel människa i
sjukhussängen
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2018 -
Jag är en annan: Johan Asplunds teorier om
människan
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2018 -
Främling i sitt eget land, del
II
KAPITALISM.
Emma Engdahl
Opulens.se: 26 september 2017 - 2017 -
Främling i sitt eget land, del
I
EGENDOM
Emma Engdahl
Opulens.se: 25 september - 2017 -
Egenintresset kan vara vår
frälsning
Emma Engdahl
OBS-essäer, SR P1 - 2017 -
Depressive Love: A Social
Pathology
Emma Engdahl
Gross R. & West D. (eds) The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives - 2017 -
Recension av Eva Illouz (2014) Därför gör kärleken ont: En Sociologisk
förklaring
Emma Engdahl
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap - 2016 -
Djupt oroande när människor kallas
råttor
Emma Engdahl
Dagens Nyheter - 2016 -
Depressiv kärlek: En social
patologi
Emma Engdahl
2016 -
Allt fler föredrar sex som
vara
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2016 -
Kärlek med
förhinder
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2015 -
Kärlek och
depression
Emma Engdahl
Ordfront Magasin - 2015 -
The European Contribution to Symbolic
Interactionism
Emma Engdahl, T Müller
Symbolic interaction - 2015 -
Kærlighed: En væsentlig risiko i
moderniteten
Emma Engdahl, Inger Glavind Bo
I. G. Bo & M. H. Jacobsen (red.). Hverdagslivets følelser: tilstande, relationer, strukturer - 2015 -
Kärlek och depression flyter ihop till nytt fenomen: depressiv
kärlek
Emma Engdahl
Sveriges Radio, OBS Essäer - 2015 -
Depressive
Kjærlighed
Emma Engdahl
Samtiden - 2014 -
Emotionssociologi: Hverdagslivets
følelser
Emma Engdahl, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Hviid Jacobsen, M. & Kristiansen, S. (red.). Hverdagslivet – sociologier om det upåagtede - 2014 -
Risk, communication and trust: Towards an emotional understanding of
trust
Emma Engdahl, Rolf Lidskog
Public Understanding of Science - 2014 -
Kärlek i det (post)moderna västerlänska samhället: En polyfoni(sk
framställning)
Emma Engdahl
Fronesis - 2013 -
Kapitalismens anda och det moderna
identitetsskapandet
Emma Engdahl
Fronesis - 2013 -
The rhetoric of store-window
mannequins
Emma Engdahl
OSSA - 2011 -
Konsten att vara sig
själv
Emma Engdahl
2009