Elin LinderPhD

About me

Passionate, academically creative, and committed PhD who uses sensuous scholarship and multimodal methodologies. I recently defended my PhD-thesis, Caring for Olive Oil: Cultivating Flows, Crafts & Traditions. It curiously explores and critically contextualizes the rhythms, values, and spatiotemporal matters by which olive oils are made, crafted, and cared about by oliviculturalists in Puglia, Italy. The research builds on over 1,5 years of fieldwork and some of the material from it can be partaken through my website. 

I am keen to continue researching, but now with a focus on lived realities of women's health issues. I have a specific interest in the female biology as related to the menstrual cycle, cultural emphases, medical gaslighting, hormonal contraceptives, holistic medicine, foodways, the circadian rhythm of daily life, and lived experiences of women. Of concern is to make cross-cultural case studies regarding, for intstance, western and eastern approaches to and perspectives on the infradian rhythm of living with a menstrual cycle. Intergenerational dynamics and perspectives are of interest, too.

Research interests: women's health, fertility awareness, medical gaslighting, menstrual cycle, food, everyday life, practice, craftsmanship, materiality, environmental issues, sensuous scholarship, multimodal methodologies, photography/visual arts, value, care, boundaries, and making.