Currently on-going projects

Navigating the Shifting Scales of Food Preparedness: Societal and Farmers Resistance to Crises

https://www.su.se/english/research/research-catalogue/research-projects/8/navigating-the-shifting-scales-of-food-preparedness-societal-and-farmer-resistance-to-crises

Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transportoriented communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Oriented Developments (PODs).

PLUS Change: Participatory Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a changing world. EU Horizon.

Working papers

Wästfelt, A.  Local soils global food – dilemmas of relativity in farming the common Earth. Book manuscript.

Wästfelt, A. Futures agricultural environment.

Wästfelt, A. Jansson, U. Re-claiming farming for the futures co-evolution of biodiversity production and agriculture. 

Jupiter, K & Wästfelt, A. Function and spatiality; adaptation in open field farming

Wästfelt, A. Archipelago geography - A multicentred landscape concept.   

Primdahl, J. et.al. Re-coupling agricultural and rural development – towards new governance approaches to agrarian landscapes.

In review

CV 

Fellow of Academies

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities 2022-
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry 2015-

Education and degrees

• Professor of Human geography, Stockholm University 2020-
• Associate Professor (Docent) in Human Geography 2012-2020
• PhD, Continuous Landscapes in Finite Space. Making sense of satellite images in Social Science. Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University. 2004.
• Master Thesis Stockholm University 1997
• Bachelor Degree in Urban and Regional planning. Stockholm University 1993.

Postdoctoral positions, work abroad

• 2015-2016. Fulbright visiting scholar at University California Santa Barbara.
• 2009-2013 Assistant professor. Section for Agrarian history. Swedish University of Agriculture Science.
• Stint scholarship Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Univ, UK vt-03 2003

Supervison

Eriksson Camilla (2013) The Summer Farm as a Political Space: Being a Summer Farmer in the Common Agricultural Policy, defended May 24th 2013. SLU department for Rural development. (deputy supervisor).

Malm Charlotta (2013) A place apart? Debating landscapes and identities in the Shetland Islands, defended Dec 12th 2013. Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2013. Supervisor in final stage 2013.

Michael Nielsen (2014) Infering Land Use from Remote Sensing Imagery, defended June 11th, 2014. (deputy supervisor).

Brian Kuns (2017) Peasants and Stock Markets, Pathways from Collective Farming in the Post-Soviet Grain-Belt. Defended Oct 27th 2017 (Main supervisor)

Kristofer Jupiter (2020) (Section of Agrarian history, SLU). An efficient farming system – open field systems in 17th century. Defended sept 11 2020 (Main Supervisor).

Li Ma Visiting PhD student 2020-2021 from North East normal Univeristy China.

Johanna Adolfsson, PhD-student in Human geography at SU. A frontier landscape: Judaization of the Naqab. (Main Supervisor).

Oskar Jakobsson PhD-student in Human geography at SU. The sum of all streams - floodplain land use in Southern Sweden 1000-1900 AD. (Main Supervisor).

Vincenza Ferarra PhD-student in Archeology at UU. Long term biocultural heritage in olive growing at Sicily. (deputy supervisor)