Anna Danielsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Danielsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Danielsson |
| SIGNATURE | DANIELSSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish Defence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9438-0240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
Envisioning cities, envisioning peace
The Emergence of a Military Urban in and of War
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: The situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina
In this article, I argue that a ‘situated-portable epistemic nexus’ characterizes postwar urban peacebuilding. The concept captures how knowledge in urban peacebuilding is produced by/productive of discursive and material conditions that are both, and simultaneously, situated in a particular urban environment and transnationally emergent and circulating. I illustrate this argument in an analysis of an urban peacebuilding project in postwar Pristi…
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered
This article explores the question of human agency in military targeting. Targeting is one of the key drivers of war. When studied by academic disciplines, much interest has been devoted to the ethics and effects of military targeting. Less debated, but focused here, is the question of the conditions of human agency within military targeting. In the literature that does exist on this topic, there is a questioning of the traditional conception of …
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations
Urban wars represent one – perhaps the – phenomenon in which war and cities take particular form in and through each other. With the epistemics of this reciprocal relationship being less studied, this article brings together the discourses on urban war and military interoperability respectively. Both discourses emphasise the question of knowledge. A shared geographic knowledge held by the service branches involved in a joint operation is consider…
Knowledge in and of military operations: Enriching the Reflexive Gaze in Critical Research on the Military
This article analyses the recent military 'turn to reflexivity' in relation to current reflexive commitments in critical studies of the military. With reflexivity, military organizations have begun to inquire into its own role as a producer and user of knowledge, and into the constitutive effects of knowledge in and on the world. A reflexive concern with the conditions and effects of knowledge has thus made militaries sensitive to the epistemic d…
Critically engaging the concept of joint operations: Origins, reflexivity and the case of Sweden
The term “joint operations” has a particular cachet in the armed forces of the West. Its ubiquity in military language, formations and education from the 1980s onwards suggests that it forms the ba
The Urbanity of Peacebuilding: Urban Environments as Objects and Sites of Peacebuilding Knowledge Production
This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated processes that unfold in urban environments but that are not constituted by them. To counter this, the article draws on ‘more-than-representational’ thinking to develop a research agenda that reframes the study of urban peacebuilding epistemics. The agenda r…
Transcending binaries in critical peacebuilding scholarship to address ‘inclusivity’ projects
In light of the recent turn to ‘inclusivity’ in peacebuilding practice, this article problematises established ways of ‘doing critique’ in peacebuilding scholarship. Inclusivity refers to the building of peace as a situated and co-constituted process. In the article, I make two arguments. First, the move towards inclusivity places currently dominant modes of scholarly critique at an impasse. Persistent ontological and epistemological binaries pre…
Reconceptualising the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Peacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. Thi…
Programming peacebuilding: Representations, misrepresentations and a shift to the production of interventionary objects
Informal economies and scholastic epistemocentrism: A reflexive rethinking
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine three explanatory perspectives in the academic literature on informal economies that seek to account for agents’ engagement in informal economic practices. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology to interrogate the existing perspectives and to provide a conceptual rethinking of informal economies and informal economic practices. Findings The paper reveals…
A Critique of the Stem Pipeline: Young People’s Identities in Sweden and Science Education Policy
In this article, we develop critiques of the pipeline model which dominates Western science education policy, using discourse analysis of interviews with two Swedish young women focused on ‘identity work’. We argue that it is important to unpack the ways that the pipeline model fails to engage with intersections of gender, ethnicity, social class and nationality, and their impact on science and with debates about science as elitist and implicated…
Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo
The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank’s view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank’s anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s …
Informality and Peacebuilding: Field Notes on the Intrinsic Reproductive Principles of Informal Economic Practices in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Informal economies' relevance for peacebuilding is widely acknowledged. By providing an alternative interpretation in relation to the view that informality emerges in post-conflict environments due to the state's institutional weakness, this article contends that in Kosovo the principles of informality and its reproduction are inherent to informality itself. The article turns to the analytics of Pierre Bourdieu in order to reveal aspects of Kosov…
Knowledge in and of military operations: Enriching the Reflexive Gaze in Critical Research on the Military
This article analyses the recent military 'turn to reflexivity' in relation to current reflexive commitments in critical studies of the military. With reflexivity, military organizations have begun to inquire into its own role as a producer and user of knowledge, and into the constitutive effects of knowledge in and on the world. A reflexive concern with the conditions and effects of knowledge has thus made militaries sensitive to the epistemic d…
The Urbanity of Peacebuilding: Urban Environments as Objects and Sites of Peacebuilding Knowledge Production
This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated processes that unfold in urban environments but that are not constituted by them. To counter this, the article draws on ‘more-than-representational’ thinking to develop a research agenda that reframes the study of urban peacebuilding epistemics. The agenda r…
Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo
The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank’s view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank’s anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s …
Reconceptualising the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Peacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. Thi…
A Critique of the Stem Pipeline: Young People’s Identities in Sweden and Science Education Policy
In this article, we develop critiques of the pipeline model which dominates Western science education policy, using discourse analysis of interviews with two Swedish young women focused on ‘identity work’. We argue that it is important to unpack the ways that the pipeline model fails to engage with intersections of gender, ethnicity, social class and nationality, and their impact on science and with debates about science as elitist and implicated…
Informality and Peacebuilding: Field Notes on the Intrinsic Reproductive Principles of Informal Economic Practices in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Informal economies' relevance for peacebuilding is widely acknowledged. By providing an alternative interpretation in relation to the view that informality emerges in post-conflict environments due to the state's institutional weakness, this article contends that in Kosovo the principles of informality and its reproduction are inherent to informality itself. The article turns to the analytics of Pierre Bourdieu in order to reveal aspects of Kosov…
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: The situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina
In this article, I argue that a ‘situated-portable epistemic nexus’ characterizes postwar urban peacebuilding. The concept captures how knowledge in urban peacebuilding is produced by/productive of discursive and material conditions that are both, and simultaneously, situated in a particular urban environment and transnationally emergent and circulating. I illustrate this argument in an analysis of an urban peacebuilding project in postwar Pristi…
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations
Urban wars represent one – perhaps the – phenomenon in which war and cities take particular form in and through each other. With the epistemics of this reciprocal relationship being less studied, this article brings together the discourses on urban war and military interoperability respectively. Both discourses emphasise the question of knowledge. A shared geographic knowledge held by the service branches involved in a joint operation is consider…
Programming peacebuilding: Representations, misrepresentations and a shift to the production of interventionary objects
The Emergence of a Military Urban in and of War
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered
This article explores the question of human agency in military targeting. Targeting is one of the key drivers of war. When studied by academic disciplines, much interest has been devoted to the ethics and effects of military targeting. Less debated, but focused here, is the question of the conditions of human agency within military targeting. In the literature that does exist on this topic, there is a questioning of the traditional conception of …
Transcending binaries in critical peacebuilding scholarship to address ‘inclusivity’ projects
In light of the recent turn to ‘inclusivity’ in peacebuilding practice, this article problematises established ways of ‘doing critique’ in peacebuilding scholarship. Inclusivity refers to the building of peace as a situated and co-constituted process. In the article, I make two arguments. First, the move towards inclusivity places currently dominant modes of scholarly critique at an impasse. Persistent ontological and epistemological binaries pre…
Informality and Peacebuilding: Field Notes on the Intrinsic Reproductive Principles of Informal Economic Practices in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Informal economies' relevance for peacebuilding is widely acknowledged. By providing an alternative interpretation in relation to the view that informality emerges in post-conflict environments due to the state's institutional weakness, this article contends that in Kosovo the principles of informality and its reproduction are inherent to informality itself. The article turns to the analytics of Pierre Bourdieu in order to reveal aspects of Kosov…
Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo
The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank’s view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank’s anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s …
Programming peacebuilding: Representations, misrepresentations and a shift to the production of interventionary objects
Informal economies and scholastic epistemocentrism: A reflexive rethinking
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine three explanatory perspectives in the academic literature on informal economies that seek to account for agents’ engagement in informal economic practices. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology to interrogate the existing perspectives and to provide a conceptual rethinking of informal economies and informal economic practices. Findings The paper reveals…
A Critique of the Stem Pipeline: Young People’s Identities in Sweden and Science Education Policy
In this article, we develop critiques of the pipeline model which dominates Western science education policy, using discourse analysis of interviews with two Swedish young women focused on ‘identity work’. We argue that it is important to unpack the ways that the pipeline model fails to engage with intersections of gender, ethnicity, social class and nationality, and their impact on science and with debates about science as elitist and implicated…
Reconceptualising the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Peacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. Thi…
The Urbanity of Peacebuilding: Urban Environments as Objects and Sites of Peacebuilding Knowledge Production
This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated processes that unfold in urban environments but that are not constituted by them. To counter this, the article draws on ‘more-than-representational’ thinking to develop a research agenda that reframes the study of urban peacebuilding epistemics. The agenda r…
Transcending binaries in critical peacebuilding scholarship to address ‘inclusivity’ projects
In light of the recent turn to ‘inclusivity’ in peacebuilding practice, this article problematises established ways of ‘doing critique’ in peacebuilding scholarship. Inclusivity refers to the building of peace as a situated and co-constituted process. In the article, I make two arguments. First, the move towards inclusivity places currently dominant modes of scholarly critique at an impasse. Persistent ontological and epistemological binaries pre…
Critically engaging the concept of joint operations: Origins, reflexivity and the case of Sweden
The term “joint operations” has a particular cachet in the armed forces of the West. Its ubiquity in military language, formations and education from the 1980s onwards suggests that it forms the ba
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations
Urban wars represent one – perhaps the – phenomenon in which war and cities take particular form in and through each other. With the epistemics of this reciprocal relationship being less studied, this article brings together the discourses on urban war and military interoperability respectively. Both discourses emphasise the question of knowledge. A shared geographic knowledge held by the service branches involved in a joint operation is consider…
Knowledge in and of military operations: Enriching the Reflexive Gaze in Critical Research on the Military
This article analyses the recent military 'turn to reflexivity' in relation to current reflexive commitments in critical studies of the military. With reflexivity, military organizations have begun to inquire into its own role as a producer and user of knowledge, and into the constitutive effects of knowledge in and on the world. A reflexive concern with the conditions and effects of knowledge has thus made militaries sensitive to the epistemic d…
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: The situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina
In this article, I argue that a ‘situated-portable epistemic nexus’ characterizes postwar urban peacebuilding. The concept captures how knowledge in urban peacebuilding is produced by/productive of discursive and material conditions that are both, and simultaneously, situated in a particular urban environment and transnationally emergent and circulating. I illustrate this argument in an analysis of an urban peacebuilding project in postwar Pristi…
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered
This article explores the question of human agency in military targeting. Targeting is one of the key drivers of war. When studied by academic disciplines, much interest has been devoted to the ethics and effects of military targeting. Less debated, but focused here, is the question of the conditions of human agency within military targeting. In the literature that does exist on this topic, there is a questioning of the traditional conception of …
Envisioning cities, envisioning peace
The Emergence of a Military Urban in and of War
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Peacebuilding (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)