Johanna Adolfsson

About me

Cultural geographer with an interest in politics, nature, ecology and national identities. Zionism, settler colonialism and contemporary Israel and Palestine have been major research interests that are now combined with a great interest in changing contemporary cemeteries and other burial grounds.

I am currently working on a research project that examines Muslim burial in Sweden in relation to environmentalism and I have recently completed a research project on the new cemetery in Järva. I am represented in several research networks, including SWEMENA and the Cemetery Research Group and am a recurring writer in, among others, Flamman and Dagens Nyheter.

In my dissertation A new storm over the Naqab: the temporality of space in Israeli settler colonialism (2023), I investigated contemporary settler colonialism and how the Zionist settler project advances in southern Israel through Jewish settlements but also through the regulation of animal husbandry. Animal husbandry is in turn intimately linked to the forest plantations that were part of the creation of the state of Israel. I work primarily with qualitative methods but am also interested in satellite image analysis in qualitative social science research.

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Academic publications
Adolfsson, J. (2024). Settler suburbia in the Negev/Naqab: the Start-Up pioneer in the desert. Geographical Review, 114(2), 180-205.
Adolfsson, J. (2023) A new storm over the Naqab: the temporality of space in Israeli settler colonialism. Doctoral dissertation. Stockholm University.

Other publications
Adolfsson, J. (2024) Why is horror trending? Geografier (December 2024)
Adolfsson, J. (2022) Israel's southern front: about forests and lawns. OEI Geografier (March 2022)
Adolfsson, J. (2021) Imaginary geometry. Part of the exhibition Imaginary geometry at Haninge konsthall June to September 2021.
Adolfsson, J. (2020) The leading line as a boundary between seeing and understanding. Part of the exhibition Fieldwork at Kalmar Art Museum, September to November 2020.

Editorial assignments
Geographier no. 8, Mörkret (2024)
Brainstorm no. 150, Alkemi. Guest editor. (2023)
Rural Landscapes: Environment, Society and Space, Editorial Assistant, (2018 - 2023 )
Geographies No. 1-4, Travel, the Sea, Landscape, the Map (2015-2017)

Moderator assignments

Cemeteries: Spiritual, Therapeutic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives, 30 October 2024, Edinburgh Center for Spirituality and Peace, Scotland.

Art assignements

Imaginary Geometry. Haninge Art Gallery. June 2021.
The Foreline as a Boundary Between Seeing and Understanding. Kalmar Art Museum. September 2020.

Editorial assignments
Editor of the cultural magazine Geografier no. 8 Mörkret, 2024.
Editor of the cultural magazine Hjärnstorm no. 150 ”Alchemy”, 2023.
Editor of the cultural magazine Geografier no. 1-4, 2014-207.