Eeva Berglund
Biographic Data
| ID | 76823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eeva Berglund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eeva |
| FAMILY NAME | Berglund |
| SIGNATURE | BERGLUND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0269-562X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For an inviting anthropology
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork. Having each worked for well over a decade at these crossroads, the authors reflect on a search for anthropological relevance undertaken through collaborative materializations o…
Stoetzer, Bettina 2022. Ruderal City
Stoetzer, Bettina. Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. Duke University Press Books. 2022. 243 p. Part of the book series, Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices, edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit. ISBN 10: 1478018607 (softcover) ISBN 13: 9781478018605 (hardcover)
Dwelling in unsustainability
The paper discusses tourism landscapes in a remote region of Finland where tourism, nature conservation and industrial land-use coexist in tension. It illustrates deep problems with the language of sustainability but suggests that applying the dwelling perspective (Ingold) to analysing tourism landscapes is an illuminating route to appreciating the unsustainable features of modern life generally, like technical infrastructures and the unsustainab…
Conservation and multispecies relations in the making of contemporary European tourism environments
This Editorial and associated collection of articles builds on recent developments in landscape studies and multispecies research to explore how the human and non-human constitute one another in th
On Cherishing a Beautiful Place
Urban-development controversies usually involve complicated struggles over knowledge. One way to analyse them is the framework of epistemic injustice - the feeling of one's knowledge not being acted upon - often experienced by vulnerable groups. The present case shows that middle-class citizens are also affected as the controversy pits different understandings of 'green' against each other. Even activists in well-resourced positions protesting th…
Culture as Rules
Non peer reviewed
Design and Political Dissent
Although it is easy as well as tempting to reduce the politics of designed objects to Manichean binaries – the good versus the bad – this lively and timely volume avoids the temptation. In its page
Les Roberts
Roberts, Les 2020 (2018). Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 318 p. ISBN: 9781786606372 (hardback); ISBN: 9781786615978 (paperback); ISBN: 9781786606389 (E-book
Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations
The lack of trust that the political establishment shows toward higher education in the United Kingdom, like that toward public sector employees more broadly, is not just causing problems of morale but taking up scarce resources and staff energies. They are designed to increase public scrutiny of universities and to help funding bodies allocate public resources in order to encourage productivity. The architects of education policy must know that …
Collaborative Confusion among DIY Makers
Eco-oriented makers and grassroots subcultures experimenting with digital fabrication technologies, and other activists designing sustainable futures, are increasingly the subject of research. As they address problems of environmental sustainability beyond institutional contexts, their work may appear vague, even confused, yet their activities are underpinned by intense and principled commitment. Working through their confusion, many maker commun…
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is concern over the impacts of human activity on the nonhuman world, as manifested in social movements, politics, and in diffuse practices like lifestyle choices. As a way of knowing (epistemology) and a moral discourse (ethics), environmentalism reworks concepts of nature and concepts of the person, both implicitly and through green literature and discourse. Environmentalism both informs and challenges powerful global institutio…
Steering clear of politics
Practical projects around the world are exploring and prefiguring ecologically feasible futures. The ideas informing these initiatives are familiar from degrowth discourses. But particularly where activists hail from the professional middle-classes of wealthy cities - architects, designers and other 'creatives' in Helsinki for example - they risk being dismissed by the media as well as by academics as vacuous life-style experimenters. Looking at …
Cultures of Energy
Energy’ is, in various ways, becoming an increasingly pressing issue of our time. Yet, as the editors of this collection observe, ‘social science engagement with this topic – especially in terms o
Design as Activism in Helsinki
This article sketches out the emergence of an activist mode of design in the Finnish capital, Helsinki—a phenomenon that became particularly apparent during the city's year as World Design Capital in 2012. It gives examples of design activism, paying attention to their different political positionings in the contemporary landscape of urban change-making. It shows that design becomes entangled in problematic ways with official urban policy, even a…
Architecture and Field/Work
Knowledge in a critical mode
Knowledge isn’t what it used to be Critique and new knowledge tend to go together in western conceptualisations. No wonder then that it seems hard to imagine an anthropology, or indeed any research, that is not, however vaguely or implicitly, activist. But could knowledge production also have quite contrasting effects? Changes in knowledge and its uses have inspired careful description and conceptual innovation in a kind of expanded anthropology …
Mélanie van der Hoorn. Indispensable Eyesores
Mélanie van der Hoorn. Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-84545-530-9 (hardback)
Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Market Place
M AHMOOD MAMDANI. Scholars in the Market Place: The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989–2005. Dakar, Senegal: Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 2007. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-2-86978-201-3
Forest, Flows and Identities in Finland's Information Society
Recent social theory has tended to celebrate boundary transgressions and flexibility. At the same time political thought has adopted the view from academic commentary, that the space of flows is no
Ecopolitics through Ethnography
Ethnographies of Conservation
Self-defeating Environmentalism
Drawing on an ethnographic account of toxic waste protest in post-reunification Germany, the article compares three models of environmental activism (by Douglas and Wildavsky, Melucci and Latour respectively) which problematize the production of knowledge. Insights from social studies of science are used to examine the entanglement of language and matter in environmentalism. The article suggests, however, that unless scholars pay due attention to…
Forestry Expertise and National Narratives
Environmentalists, especially old-growth activists, often rely on expert discourses which effectively disempower those whose livelihoods depend on forest products. They are often said to do this by fetishising nature as the other. In Finland, which is perhaps the world's most forestry-dependent country, old-growth activism opposing the forest products industry and sustained-yield forestry clearly expresses both desires to seek connection with sub…
From Iron Curtain to Timber-Belt Territory and Materiality at the Finnish-Russian Border
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Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Self-defeating Environmentalism
Drawing on an ethnographic account of toxic waste protest in post-reunification Germany, the article compares three models of environmental activism (by Douglas and Wildavsky, Melucci and Latour respectively) which problematize the production of knowledge. Insights from social studies of science are used to examine the entanglement of language and matter in environmentalism. The article suggests, however, that unless scholars pay due attention to…
Architecture and Field/Work
Dwelling in unsustainability
The paper discusses tourism landscapes in a remote region of Finland where tourism, nature conservation and industrial land-use coexist in tension. It illustrates deep problems with the language of sustainability but suggests that applying the dwelling perspective (Ingold) to analysing tourism landscapes is an illuminating route to appreciating the unsustainable features of modern life generally, like technical infrastructures and the unsustainab…
Conservation and multispecies relations in the making of contemporary European tourism environments
This Editorial and associated collection of articles builds on recent developments in landscape studies and multispecies research to explore how the human and non-human constitute one another in th
Steering clear of politics
Practical projects around the world are exploring and prefiguring ecologically feasible futures. The ideas informing these initiatives are familiar from degrowth discourses. But particularly where activists hail from the professional middle-classes of wealthy cities - architects, designers and other 'creatives' in Helsinki for example - they risk being dismissed by the media as well as by academics as vacuous life-style experimenters. Looking at …
From Iron Curtain to Timber-Belt Territory and Materiality at the Finnish-Russian Border
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Environmentalism — the view from anthropology
Environmentalism — the view from anthropology
Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science
Environmental protest 1 is often hard work. Among other factors, within a group, the variety of ideas about what local protest and political pressure is aiming for, can made civic action frustrating. Protesters fighting local infrastructure plans often find that value arguments do not always make much of an impression on decision makers. They turn to what they think would be a more authoritative source of support for their case, namely a scientif…
Forestry Expertise and National Narratives
Environmentalists, especially old-growth activists, often rely on expert discourses which effectively disempower those whose livelihoods depend on forest products. They are often said to do this by fetishising nature as the other. In Finland, which is perhaps the world's most forestry-dependent country, old-growth activism opposing the forest products industry and sustained-yield forestry clearly expresses both desires to seek connection with sub…
From Iron Curtain to Timber-Belt Territory and Materiality at the Finnish-Russian Border
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Self-defeating Environmentalism
Drawing on an ethnographic account of toxic waste protest in post-reunification Germany, the article compares three models of environmental activism (by Douglas and Wildavsky, Melucci and Latour respectively) which problematize the production of knowledge. Insights from social studies of science are used to examine the entanglement of language and matter in environmentalism. The article suggests, however, that unless scholars pay due attention to…
Ethnographies of Conservation
Ecopolitics through Ethnography
Forest, Flows and Identities in Finland's Information Society
Recent social theory has tended to celebrate boundary transgressions and flexibility. At the same time political thought has adopted the view from academic commentary, that the space of flows is no
Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Market Place
M AHMOOD MAMDANI. Scholars in the Market Place: The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989–2005. Dakar, Senegal: Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 2007. Pp. 312. ISBN: 978-2-86978-201-3
Mélanie van der Hoorn. Indispensable Eyesores
Mélanie van der Hoorn. Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-1-84545-530-9 (hardback)
Knowledge in a critical mode
Knowledge isn’t what it used to be Critique and new knowledge tend to go together in western conceptualisations. No wonder then that it seems hard to imagine an anthropology, or indeed any research, that is not, however vaguely or implicitly, activist. But could knowledge production also have quite contrasting effects? Changes in knowledge and its uses have inspired careful description and conceptual innovation in a kind of expanded anthropology …
Architecture and Field/Work
Design as Activism in Helsinki
This article sketches out the emergence of an activist mode of design in the Finnish capital, Helsinki—a phenomenon that became particularly apparent during the city's year as World Design Capital in 2012. It gives examples of design activism, paying attention to their different political positionings in the contemporary landscape of urban change-making. It shows that design becomes entangled in problematic ways with official urban policy, even a…
Cultures of Energy
Energy’ is, in various ways, becoming an increasingly pressing issue of our time. Yet, as the editors of this collection observe, ‘social science engagement with this topic – especially in terms o
Steering clear of politics
Practical projects around the world are exploring and prefiguring ecologically feasible futures. The ideas informing these initiatives are familiar from degrowth discourses. But particularly where activists hail from the professional middle-classes of wealthy cities - architects, designers and other 'creatives' in Helsinki for example - they risk being dismissed by the media as well as by academics as vacuous life-style experimenters. Looking at …
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is concern over the impacts of human activity on the nonhuman world, as manifested in social movements, politics, and in diffuse practices like lifestyle choices. As a way of knowing (epistemology) and a moral discourse (ethics), environmentalism reworks concepts of nature and concepts of the person, both implicitly and through green literature and discourse. Environmentalism both informs and challenges powerful global institutio…
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Generating Nontrivial Knowledge in Awkward Situations
The lack of trust that the political establishment shows toward higher education in the United Kingdom, like that toward public sector employees more broadly, is not just causing problems of morale but taking up scarce resources and staff energies. They are designed to increase public scrutiny of universities and to help funding bodies allocate public resources in order to encourage productivity. The architects of education policy must know that …
Collaborative Confusion among DIY Makers
Eco-oriented makers and grassroots subcultures experimenting with digital fabrication technologies, and other activists designing sustainable futures, are increasingly the subject of research. As they address problems of environmental sustainability beyond institutional contexts, their work may appear vague, even confused, yet their activities are underpinned by intense and principled commitment. Working through their confusion, many maker commun…
Design and Political Dissent
Although it is easy as well as tempting to reduce the politics of designed objects to Manichean binaries – the good versus the bad – this lively and timely volume avoids the temptation. In its page
Les Roberts
Roberts, Les 2020 (2018). Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 318 p. ISBN: 9781786606372 (hardback); ISBN: 9781786615978 (paperback); ISBN: 9781786606389 (E-book
On Cherishing a Beautiful Place
Urban-development controversies usually involve complicated struggles over knowledge. One way to analyse them is the framework of epistemic injustice - the feeling of one's knowledge not being acted upon - often experienced by vulnerable groups. The present case shows that middle-class citizens are also affected as the controversy pits different understandings of 'green' against each other. Even activists in well-resourced positions protesting th…
Culture as Rules
Non peer reviewed
Stoetzer, Bettina 2022. Ruderal City
Stoetzer, Bettina. Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. Duke University Press Books. 2022. 243 p. Part of the book series, Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices, edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit. ISBN 10: 1478018607 (softcover) ISBN 13: 9781478018605 (hardcover)
Dwelling in unsustainability
The paper discusses tourism landscapes in a remote region of Finland where tourism, nature conservation and industrial land-use coexist in tension. It illustrates deep problems with the language of sustainability but suggests that applying the dwelling perspective (Ingold) to analysing tourism landscapes is an illuminating route to appreciating the unsustainable features of modern life generally, like technical infrastructures and the unsustainab…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Environmental ethics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)