Elin LinderPhD student

About me

Passionate and academically creative 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, the heel of Italy. The research builds on 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 women's health issues. I have a specific interest in the female biology as related to the menstrual cycle, cultural emphases, foodways, rhythms, medical gaslighting, hormonal contraceptives, and more. It is of concern to make cross-cultural case studies regarding western and eastern ways of approaching the infradian rhythm (as related to the circadian). Of concern is also to study everyday experiences of women in different settings regarding to live with (or not to live with) the flows of their menstrual cycle. While I aim for a postdoc, it is of considerate concern to work practically with these questions, such as to make the issues visible not as women’s health issues but as societal phenomena.

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.