Viktor AronssonDoktorand
Om mig
Min akademiska bakgrund är främst inom Kulturgeografi (MSc, BSc) samt Idéhistoria (BA). Mina forskningsintressen är kopplade till meningsskapande praktiker under transformativa geografiska och sociala skeendet, med ett specifikt fokus på platsskapande, landskapsinteraktioner, och minnespraktiker. Med min masteruppsats intresserade jag mig exempelvis för kollektivt minne bland arbetare på järnvägen Roslagsbanan i Stockholm och betydelsen detta minne har under skiftande geografiska, sociala, och organisatoriska förhållanden.
Sedan sensommaren 2024 är jag doktorand vid Kulturgeografiska institutionen vid Stockholms Universitet.
Undervisning
Jag har undervisat på följande kurser:
- Samhällsplaneringens praktiker, 7,5 hp (handledning)
- Examensarbete i kulturgeografi, 15 hp (handledning)
Publikationer
Kandidat- och masteruppsatser
Memory in Development and Ruination: Tracing workers’ memories and futures on a transforming railway in Stockholm, Sweden. 2023. Viktor Aronsson. Master's thesis in Human Geography, Stockholm University.
Lidande, stillhet, minne och sorg: Föreställningar och attityder kring döden under spanska sjukan i Östersund och Jämtland. 2021. Viktor Aronsson. Bachelor's thesis in History of Ideas, Stockholm University.
Meningsfulla spår: Tågförares platsskapande på Roslagsbanan. 2021. Viktor Aronsson. Bachelor's thesis in Human Geography, Stockholm University.
I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas
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'A visit from a dear friend': Meaning-making through embodied spectres and places in everyday railway labour
2025. Viktor Aronsson.
KonferensLäs mer om 'A visit from a dear friend'In this piece I extend arguments for the productive social potential of ghosts. More specifically, how ghosts and spectres not only provide haunting illuminations of social ills, destruction, or absences, but how the conjuring of them can have 'enchanting' and critical capacities too (Holloway and Kneale 2008; Pleasant and Strangleman 2019), and particularly so for meaning-making amid ruination.
Taking the case of Roslagsbanan, a commuter's railway in Sweden, I explore the spectres that appear through workers' embodied practices and places in the doing of railway work through an (auto)ethnographic approach. At this railway, spectres are not absences of rapidly onset trauma or even industrial closure, but are oftentimes familiar ghosts residing amid a slow, neo-liberal ruination of railway work under the guise of development. While these ghosts may be reminders of that slow ruination, they equally work as spectres of hope and meaning. These half-'exorcised' ghosts (see Edensor 2008), then, linger both because and despite of these ruinations, and haunt bodies and places in often surprising and meaningful ways that become part of an meaning-making among workers that links pasts, presents, and futures.
In applying a geographic perspective, I focus on the relations of people, their embodiments and places in apprehending these spectres, and how they become part of work-life identities. To present these engagements between bodies and places, I draw on calls for 'animated' and more-than-representational writing in geography to attempt an itself spectral, fleeting and evocative account that weaves theory and practice into one (see Vannini 2015).
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