Barbro Blehr
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Name and title: Barbro Blehr
ORCID0000-0002-2194-0670 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 6
Postal address Institutionen för etnologi religionshistoria och genusvetenskap (ERG)106 91 Stockholm
About me
Research interests: rituals, religion, nationalism, everyday life; the importance of form and small detail. Among my publications are, besides books and papers from my main projects (please see below) also papers on e. g. the politics of identity among descendants of members of the Norwegian Quisling party, contemporary royal weddings, everyday rituals and a special kind of low-key humour.
At Stockholm University, I have held leadership positions in Ethnology and served as Head of Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies (2008-2014), Deputy Head of Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German (2015/2016) and Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities (2018-2023).
I have taught courses on theory and method, the continuity and change of Ethnology in Sweden, and rituals.
My dissertation explored how various kinds of talk about local issues created a sense of community in a small village in Northern Sweden in the 1980s. Shortly after my PhD I was awarded a grant for studying how celebrations of Norwegian Constitution Day articulated and underpinned Norwegian nationalism. Later, I have been interested in mainstream Christianity in the former state church of Sweden and published minor studies of various kinds of rituals. Most recently, I try to figure out how current forms of procedural research ethics may affect qualitative and ethnographic research.