RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SKILLS
Cultural memory and memorialisation:
Politics of memory and memorialisation; Public memory and the role of museums and monuments in national memory; Everyday memorialisation; Anzac Memory and War Commemoration; Genealogies of memory and post-memory
Identity, multiculturalism, cultural diversity:
Politics of identity; Nationalism; Everyday multiculturalism; Cultural infrastructure
Migration and Mobility:
Treechange and seachange migration; Youth migration; Regional demographics
Parenting and Caring:
Parenting in academia; Gender and Geography
Methodological and analytical approaches:
Mixed methodologies; Semi-structured and unstructured interviews; Social surveying; Discourse and text analysis; Archival research; Landscape observation and participation observation; Ethnography (visual, sound) and auto-ethnography; Qualitative data analysis programs (NVIVO) & Quantitative data analysis programs (SPSS, Microsoft Excel).
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications
Berengueres, J.O.L. and Drozdzewski, D., (2024) Mobile mapping, User Journeys & Collaborative Interviews with QualNotes App: Make your own Map!, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp 1-4
Drozdzewski, D., (2024) How memory embeds in the city: Everyday cultural memory in Kraków, Poland, Miscellanea Geographica, doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0043.
Drozdzewski, D., (2024) Mobile Mapping, Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research, Video Resource, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529696295.
Drozdzewski, D., and Berengueres, J.O.L. (2024) Developing QualNotes: A Collaborative and Cross-Disciplinary Ethnography, Digital Geography and Society, 6, 100086.
Drozdzewski, D. (2024 forthcoming) Migration and Memory, in L Bietti & M Pogacar (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies, Palgrave, accepted 14 December, 2023.
Doughty, K., and Drozdzewski, D. (2022) Sonic Methods, Sonic Affects, Emotion, Space & Society, 42: 100867.
Drozdzewski, D. and Dominey-Howes, D., (2022) Researcher Trauma: Considering the Ethics, Impacts and Outcomes of Research on Researchers, in S Henn, J Miggelbrink & K Hörschelmann (eds) Research Ethics in Human Geography, Abingdon: Routledge, 168-181.
Drozdzewski, D. and Webster, N.A., (2021) (Re)visiting the Neighbourhood, Geography Compass, Geography Compass, e12597. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12597.
Ratnam, C. & Drozdzewski, D. (2021) Research ethics with vulnerable groups: Ethics in practice and procedure, Gender, Place & Culture, accepted 22 September, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.1994932.
Drozdzewski, D., Sumartojo, S., and Waterton, E., (2021) Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World: Anzac @ 100, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan.
Robinson, D.F., Drozdzewski, D., and Kaewmahanin Enright, J, (2021) Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand, in Bartel, R., and Carter, J. (eds) Handbook on Space, Place and Law, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, pp. 156-169
Drozdzewski, D., and Matusz, P., (2021) Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland, Political Geography, Vol 86, April 2021, 102366.
Drozdzewski, D., (2021) The ‘post’ as specific powerful vocabulary, Dialogues in Human Geography, accepted 9/1/2021.
Drozdzewski, D., (2021) The role of a politics of memory and the digital, in reframing the commemoration of Polish independence, in Sumartojo, S., (ed) Experiencing 11 November 2018: Commemoration and the First World War Centenary, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 57-70.
Drozdzewski, D., (2021) Locating the embodied interconnections in performative geopolitics, Invited Book Panel Response to ‘The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia’, Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 134-137.
Ratnam, C., and Drozdzewski, D., (2020) Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home, Mobilities, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 757-775.
Drozdzewski, D., and Monk, J., (2020) Representing Women and Gender in Memory Landscapes, in Datta, A., Hopkins, P., Johnston, L., Olson, E., and Silva, J.M., (eds) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, Routledge, pp. 254-270.
Drozdzewski, D., Waterton, E., and Sumartojo, S. (2019) Cultural Memory and Identity in the Context of War: Experiential, Place-based and Political Concerns, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 101, No. 910, pp. 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1816383119000110
Drozdzewski, D., and Klocker, N. (2019) ‘Pregnancy, Gender and Career Progression: The Visible Mother in the Workplace’ in Johnson, J.L., and Johnston, K. (eds) Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of Place, Ontario: Demeter Press, pp 117-134.
Broadbent, G., Metternicht, G., & Drozdzewski, D. (2019) An analysis of consumer incentives in support of electric vehicle uptake: an Australian case study, World Electric Vehicle Journal, 10 (11), doi:10.3390/wevj10010011.
Drozdzewski, D., and Birdsall, C.J. (2019) ‘Advancing Memory Methods’, in Drozdzewski, D., and Birdsall, C.J (Eds) Doing Memory Research: New Methods and Approaches, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1-20.
Drozdzewski, D., and Birdsall, C.J. (2019) ‘Using Emplaced Ethnography, Mobility, and Listening to Research Memory’, in Drozdzewski, D., and Birdsall, C.J (Eds) Doing Memory Research: New Methods and Approaches, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 39-61.
Drozdzewski, D., and Birdsall, C.J. (2019) Doing Memory Research: New Methods and Approaches, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
De Nardi, S., and Drozdzewski, D., (2019) ‘Landscape and Memory’, in P Howard, I Thompson, E Waterton, and M Atha (eds) The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, 2nd Edition, United Kingdom: Routledge, pp 429-439.
Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Memory, Movement, Mobility: Affect-full Encounters with Memory in Singapore, Special Issue: Geospatial Memory, Media Theory, Vol 2, No. 1, pp. 245-265.
Buckle, C., and Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Urban perceptions of tree-change migration, Rural Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 192-207.
Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Stolpersteine and memory in the streetscape, in Muzaini, H., and Minca, C., (eds) After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below, Edward Elgar: Great Britain, pp. 130-147.
Carretta, M.A, Drozdzewski, D., Jokinen, J. C., and Falconer, E., (2018) “Who can play this game?” The lived experiences of doctoral candidates and early career women in the neoliberal university, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 261-275.
Drozdzewski, D., (2018) ‘Less-than-fluent’ and culturally connected: Language learning and cultural fluency as research methodology, AREA, Vol. 50. No. 1, pp 109-116.
Broadbent, G., Drozdzewski, D., and Metternicht, G., (2018) Electric vehicle adoption: an analysis of best practice and pitfalls for policy making from experiences of Europe and the USA, Geography Compass, Vol .12, No. 2, e12358.
Birdsall, C.J. and Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Capturing commemoration: Using mobile recordings within memory research, Mobile Media & Communication, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 266-284.
Ratnam., C., and Drozdzewski, D., (2017) Assembling attachments to homes under bushfire risk, Geographical Research, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp 42-53.
Drozdzewski, D., (2017) Locating the Geopolitics of Memory in the Polish Streetscape, in Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D., and Azaryahu, M. (eds) The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes Naming, Politics, and Place, Abingdon: Routledge, pp 114-131.
Norquay, M., and Drozdzewski, D., (2017) Stereotyping the Shire: Assigning white privilege to place and identity, Journal of Intercultural Studies¸ Vol. 38, No. 1, pp 88-107.
Wolifson, P., and Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Co-opting the night: the entrepreneurial shift and economic imperative in NTE planning, Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 486-504.
Drozdzewski, D., De Nardi, S., and Waterton, E. (2016) Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict, Geography Compass, Vol. 10, No. 11, pp 447-456.
Ratnam., C., Drozdzewski, D., and Chappell, R., (2016) ‘Can place attachment mediate perceptions of bushfire risk? A case study of the Blue Mountains, NSW’, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp 67-71.
Drozdzewski, D., De Nardi, S., and Waterton, E., (2016) Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict, Abingdon: Routledge.
Drozdzewski, D., De Nardi, S., and Waterton, E., (2016) The Significance of Memory in the Present, in Drozdzewski, D, De Nardi, S., and Waterton, E., (eds) 'Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict', Abingdon: Routledge, pp 1-26.
Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Encountering memory in the everyday city, in Drozdzewski, D, De Nardi, S., and Waterton, E., (eds) 'Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict', Abingdon: Routledge, pp 27-57.
Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Can Anzac sit comfortably within Australia's multiculturalism?, Australian Geographer, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp 3-10.
Robinson, D., and Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Hybrid Identities: juxtaposing multiple identities against the ‘authentic’ Moken, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp 536-554.
Drozdzewski, D., and Dominey-Howes, D., (2015) Research and trauma: understanding the impact of traumatic content and places on the researcher, Emotions, Space and Society, Special Issue on Researcher Trauma, Vol. 17, pp 17-21.
Drozdzewski, D., (2015) 'Retrospective reflexivity: The residual and subliminal repercussions of researching war', Emotions, Space and Society, Special Issue on Researcher Trauma, Vol. 17, pp 30-36.
Drozdzewski, D., and Robinson, D.F., (2015) ‘Care-work on fieldwork: taking your own children into the field’, Children’s Geographies, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp 372-378.
Drozdzewski, D., (2015) ‘Knowing (or not) about Katyń: the silencing and surfacing of public memory’, in Jones, R.D., Robinson, J., and Turner, J., (eds) The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence: Between Absence and Presence, Routledge: London, pp 47-62.
Drozdzewski., D., Roberts, A., Dominey-Howes, D., and Brander, R., (2015) The experiences of weak and non-swimmers caught in rip currents at Australian beaches, Australian Geographer, Vol 46, No. 1, pp 15-32.
Bradstreet, A., Brander, R, McCarroll, J., Brighton, B., Dominey-Howes, D., Drozdzewski, D., Sherker, S., Turner, I., and Roberts, A., (2014) Rip Current Survival Principles: Towards Consistency, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue Vol. 72, pp 85-92.
Drozdzewski, D., (2014) Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory, Political Geography, Vol. 42, pp 66-78.
Brander, R., Drozdzewski., D., and Dominey-Howes, D., (2014) "'Dye in the Water' : a visual approach to communicating the rip current hazard', Science Communication, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp 802-810.
Robinson, D. F, Drozdzewski, D., and Kiddell, L., (2014) “’You can’t change our ancestors without our permission’: Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy”, in Fredriksson, M and Arvanitakis, J., (eds) Piracy: Leakages of Modernity Litwin, pp 55-74.
Drozdzewski, D., (2014) '‘They have no concept of what a farm is’: Exploring Rural Change through Tree Change Migration, in Dufty-Jones, R. and Connell, J., Rural Change in Australia, Great Britain, Ashgate, pp 83-102.
Drozdzewski, D., (2014) ‘When the everyday and the sacred collide: Positioning Plaszów in the Kraków landscape’, Landscape Research, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp 255-266.
Klocker, N. and Drozdzewski, D., (2012) Survival and Subversion in the Neoliberal University, Invited Response to AntipodeFoundation.org Symposium on the Participatory Geographies Research Group's 'Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security', http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/klocker-and-drozdzewski-response.pdf.
Drozdzewski, D., (2012) ‘Knowing (or not) about Katyń: the silencing and surfacing of public memory’, Space and Polity, Special Issue 'Between Absence and Presence', Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 303-319.
Klocker, N., and Drozdzewski, D., (2012) Career progress relative to opportunity: how many papers is a baby ‘worth’? Environment and Planning A, Vol. 44, pp 1271 – 1277.
Drozdzewski, D., Shaw, W., Dominey-Howes, D., Brander, R., Walton, T., Gero, A., Sherker, S., Goff, J., and Edwick, B., (2012) ‘Surveying rip current survivors: preliminary insights into the experiences of being caught in rip currents’, Natural Hazards Earth Systems Science, Vol. 12, pp 1-11.
Drozdzewski, D., (2011) ‘Waves of Migration Exclusion and Inclusion: the experiences of Polish Australians’, in Lobo, M., and Mansouri, F., Migration, citizenship and intercultural relations: looking through the lens of social inclusion, Ashgate, pp 59-74.
Drozdzewski, D., (2011) Language Tourism in Poland, Tourism Geographies, Vol .3, No. 2, pp 165-186.
Drozdzewski, D., (2008) ‘‘We’re moving out’ – Youth Movements Out of Coastal Non-Metropolitan New South Wales’, Geographical Research, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp 153-161.
Drozdzewski, D., (2007) ‘A place called ‘Bielany’: Negotiating a diasporic Polish place in Sydney’, Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp 853-869.
Gibson, C., Dufty, R., and Drozdzewski, D., (2005) ‘Resident attitudes to farmland protection measures in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales’, Australian Geographer, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp 369-383.
Non-refereed reports and reviews
Drozdzewski, D., and Robinson, D.F., (2021) The hazard of ascribing and spatialising identity narratives, Identities Journal Blog (invited), 28 July, https://www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collection/the-hazard-of-ascribing-and-spatialising-identity-narratives.
RJ Project Media Release. (2020) How polarized is Sweden? New research project on segregation, neighbourhoods and life courses, 21 January, https://www.humangeo.su.se/english/research/research-news/how-polarized-is-sweden-new-research-project-on-segregation-neighboorhoods-and-life-courses-1.479296
Birdsall, C.J., Drozdzewski, D., and Osborne, T., (2019) Memory Research. New Questions and Approaches to Understanding Memory, SPUI25 with University of Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), 27 February, http://www.spui25.nl/spui25-en/events/events/2019/02/doing-memory-research.html
Metternicht, G., Drozdzewski, D., and Broadbent, G. (2017) Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars? The Conversation, Nov 9, https://theconversation.com/negative-charge-why-is-australia-so-slow-at-adopting-electric-cars-86478#comment_1451904
Sumartojo, S., Drozdzewski, D., Graves, M., Kesteloot, C., Vanneste, D., Vanraepenbusch, K., Van Ypersele, L., Wallis, J., Winter, C., and Wouters, N., (2017) Commemoration reframed: conceptualising commemoration from the perspective of experience, Working Paper from the Commemoration Reframed Workshop, CegesSoma, Brussels, 7 September 2017, https://www.commemorationreframed.com/.
Shaw, W.S., Drozdzewski, D., Cross, R., and Wolifson, P., (2012) A historical geography of cotton farming in NSW and Qld: adaptation and adoption, Report to CRC Cotton Catchment Communities, Project ID 3.02.11.
Drozdzewski, D., (2011) ‘Book Review – “Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia” Connell, J., & Gibson C (eds) 2011’, Australian Geographer, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp 455-457.
Drozdzewski, D., Shaw, W.S., and Godfrey, N., (2011) Treechange Migration to the NSW Southern Highlands: Motivations and outcomes of urban to rural migration, Report to the Dept. of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government.
Drozdzewski, D., Shaw., W.S., Brander, R., Dominey-Howes, D., Goff, J., Walton, T., and Gero, A., (2011) Demographics, surf knowledge and behavioural response of rip current rescue victims, Report to Surf Life Saving Australia, Project ID RM08258.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
VOLVO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: Biosocial Walking: Investigating the emotions of urban walking for migrants from the Global South, 2023, 500 000 SEK
Project Lead: Dr Tess Osborne, University of Leciester
Project Researchers: Associate Professor Danielle Drozdzewski
QualNotesis digital research tool for the social sciences and humanities.
QualNotes offers an integrated research tool with three key research portals: (1) mobile mapping, (2) interviews and focus groups, and, (3) participant observation and auto- ethnography. Each portal combines and integrates the materials necessary for undertaking common qualitative research methods into one platform.
Functionality includes: image capture; video and audio recording; file repositories for research documentation including ethics consent forms; collaboration and sharing capability; sketch and doodle options; and, GPS-based mobile mapping.
The mobile mapping tool (currently available) tracks your route while walking and allows you to add different media (photos, audio, text notes and documents) at different points along the route. It can be used for walking interviews, go-alongs, mapping transects and for sensory mobile methods.
QualNotes is a collaboration by Danielle Drozdzewski and Jose Berengueres (KTH); it currently has VFT funding through SU Holdings, 2022-23, 295 000 SEK.
FORTE: Is there consistency in evaluation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity asylum seeker cases? (Konsekvent asylprövning av asylsökande som åberopar sexuell läggning och könsidentitet som asylskäl?), 2022-2024, 4 900 000 SEK.
Project Lead: Associate Professor Thomas Wimark, Uppsala University
Project Researchers: Associate Professor Danielle Drozdzewski (Stockholm University) and Professor Rebecca Stern (Uppsala University).
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Program Grant:2019-2024, 40 240 000 SEK.
Lyckliga gatan? Geografisk polarisering och social sammanhållning i dagens Sverige
The Neighbourhood Revisited: Spatial polarization and social cohesion in contemporary Sweden.
Program Lead: Professor Bo Malmberg
Subproject 1 Lead: Professor Gunnar Andersson
Subproject 2 Lead: Dr Danielle Drozdzewski
Subproject 3 Lead: Professor Eva Andersson
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Digital Human Sciences Grant:2019-2020, 150 000 SEK.
Exploring and writing ‘the digital’ into memory research, Danielle Drozdzewski (Sole CI). Included in this project are the following case studies:
'Poland: How does a politics of Polish memory frame (re)productions cultural memory?'
Dr Danielle Drozdzewski as part of the 'Commemoration Reframed' network: https://www.commemorationreframed.com/projects/
This project explores the historical and contemporary geopolitics of Polish memory. It considers how Polish cultural memory has been operationalised, with political purpose, to ensure the continuance of Polish cultural memories that (re)affirm certain narratives about the nation. To do so it draws on field data generated on November 11, 2018, in Poland. On this day, Armistice Day, Allied countries commemorate the end of the First World War (WWI). In Poland, this day has extra significance as it marks the (re)creation and restoration of the Second Polish Republic, post-WWI following 123 year-long partition by the Russian, Austrian and Prussian empires. Narodowe Święto Niepodległości (National Independence Day) as a calendar ritual, has both commemorative and celebratory characteristics – its solemnity marks war dead, but it also specifies the triumphant return of the Polish state. This research examines contested sentiments about November 11 in Poland, placing the happenings of that day amid contexts of remembrance and nation building.
Other Continuing Research
Migration, memory and national identity - Berlin and Wroclaw
This project will consider what happens post-settlement, shifting focus to the outcomes of migrations on host societies and to the migrants. By adopting a dual focus on both migrants and host communities, this project seeks to provide insights into whether successful settlement can be predicated on greater understandings and appreciation of the linkages between memory and identity by both migrants and the communities they settle in.
This project has two aims:
1. It will articulate the post-settlement outcomes of migrants in Poland and Germany with an explicit focus on how new identities are negotiated in the host countries and how cultural memories of the homeland are maintained.
2. It will investigate the views of the people in the places where migrants settle – Polish and German. As such, this second aim will address how and what integration looks like from the point of view of the host community.
