Lina Eklund
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lina Eklund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lina |
| FAMILY NAME | Eklund |
| SIGNATURE | EKLUND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4801-7704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Radical Softness as a Tool to Dismantle and Rebuild our Human-AI Future
This article presents P, a speculative chatbot experienced as an interactive installation that explores how radical softness can reframe human–AI relations. Challenging techno-utopian narratives of AI as objective, efficient, and solution-oriented, P foregrounds AI’s situated weaknesses, including bias, error, partiality, and environmental cost. Encountered through a physical booth and a soft, heart-shaped controller, users engage an AI that open…
‘I wish there was a f*** it app’: Creative strategies of digital un-use in family settings
Families creatively negotiate many different types of digitally mediated communication to do social family work – sometimes playfully and sometimes due to urgent need. This negotiation can manifest in numerous ways, reflecting the dynamic nature of modern family life. Such creative acts are performed across a multitude of interfaces and media forms and serve to maintain family intimacy and cohesion. In this study, we combine the concept of creati…
The doom loop of conflict and unsustainability: Exploring cause and effect
Syrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: The causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration
The prevailing narrative on the Syrian Civil War attributes it to climate-induced migration resulting from a severe drought, which serves as a central link connecting climate change with the 2011 protests. However, limited research has involved interviews with Syrians, with most studies focusing on drought's meteorological aspects and estimated migrant numbers. Our interdisciplinary study we conduct surveys with 82 former Syrian farmers in Turkey…
Cropland abandonment in the context of drought, economic restructuring, and migration in northeast Syria
Farmland abandonment is often associated with biophysical, political, or socio-economic changes, like droughts, economic reforms, rural-urban migration, or armed conflicts. Syria has seen several such changes in the period between 2000–2011, however, few assessments of how these factors have interacted with land abandonment have been carried out. In this study we investigate land abandonment patterns in northeast Syria, using a land use classific…
Fires as collateral or means of war: Challenges of environmental peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Environmental peacebuilding broadly refers to how sustainable management of natural resources can support prevention, mitigation, and resolution of conflict, as well as recovery after conflict. Shared natural resources constitute a common environmental challenge around which cooperation may be fostered. Environmentally damaging fires in conflict areas have received little attention from the peacebuilding field, especially compared to conflict rel…
Reproductive Health Apps and Empowerment – A Contradiction
FemTech apps have billions of users globally. Yet, despite their popularity, we know little about these apps, often developed outside controlled and regulated healthcare. While these apps have been criticised for lacking privacy and for enforcing normative ideals on women, they are often marketed in terms of female empowerment. In this presentation, we present our analysis of the empowering potential of menstruation and pregnancy apps. We ask: Ho…
Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: The Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey
Environmental destruction has long been used as a military strategy in times of conflict. A long-term example of environmental destruction in a conflict zone can be found in Dersim/Tunceli province, located in Eastern Turkey. In the last century, at least two military operations negatively impacted Dersim’s population and environment: 1937–38 and 1993–94. Both conflict and environmental destruction in the region continued after the 1990s. Particu…
The crowd in crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing as a pragmatic research method
Crowdsourcing, as a digital process employed to obtain information, ideas, and solicit contributions of work, creativity, etc., from large online crowds stems from business, yet is increasingly used in research. Engaging with previous literature and a symposium on academic crowdsourcing this study explores the underlying assumptions about crowdsourcing as a potential academic research method and how these affect the knowledge produced. Results id…
More like an Arcade' - The Limitations of Playable Games in Museum Exhibitions
This study investigated the relationship between playable, interactive games on original hardware and the representation of game culture using the case of the exhibition Game On 2.0, often considered to be the largest exhibition of digital games in the West so far. Our results suggest that play as a way of engaging with games as museum objects has limitations which make it necessary to add other means of contextualization in order to afford criti…
Digital Gaming and Young People’s Friendships: A Mixed Methods Study of Time Use and Gaming in School
In this mixed methods study, we investigate the impact of digital gaming on school social life among young people (17–19 year old) by combining over-time data investigating friendships as they form, with subjective experiences of friendships. We draw on one full cohort of Swedish pupils surveyed on three occasions during their first year in upper-secondary school ( n = 115) and one interview sample of 10 game users. Results indicate that how much…
How conflict affects land use: Agricultural activity in areas seized by the Islamic State
Socio-economic shocks, technogenic catastrophes, and armed conflicts often have drastic impacts on local and regional food security through disruption of agricultural production and food trade, reduced investments, and deterioration of land and infrastructure. Recently, more research has focused on the effects of armed conflict on land systems, but still little is known about the processes and outcomes of such events. Here we use the case of Syri…
Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Eklund, L., and D. Thompson. 2017. Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Ecology and Society 22(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09179-220409
The interface envelope: Gaming, technology, power
"The interface envelope: gaming, technology, power." Information, Communication & Society, 19(12), pp. 1766–1767
Cropland changes in times of conflict, reconstruction, and economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan
The destruction of land and forced migration during the Anfal attacks against the Kurds in Iraq in the late 1980s has been reported to have severe consequences for agricultural development. A reconstruction program to aid people in returning to their lands was launched in 1991. To assess the agricultural situation in the Duhok governorate during the pre-Anfal (A), post-Anfal (B), reconstruction (C), and present (D) periods, we mapped winter crops…
Cropland changes in times of conflict, reconstruction, and economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan
The destruction of land and forced migration during the Anfal attacks against the Kurds in Iraq in the late 1980s has been reported to have severe consequences for agricultural development. A reconstruction program to aid people in returning to their lands was launched in 1991. To assess the agricultural situation in the Duhok governorate during the pre-Anfal (A), post-Anfal (B), reconstruction (C), and present (D) periods, we mapped winter crops…
Digital Gaming and Young People’s Friendships: A Mixed Methods Study of Time Use and Gaming in School
In this mixed methods study, we investigate the impact of digital gaming on school social life among young people (17–19 year old) by combining over-time data investigating friendships as they form, with subjective experiences of friendships. We draw on one full cohort of Swedish pupils surveyed on three occasions during their first year in upper-secondary school ( n = 115) and one interview sample of 10 game users. Results indicate that how much…
Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Eklund, L., and D. Thompson. 2017. Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Ecology and Society 22(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09179-220409
The interface envelope: Gaming, technology, power
"The interface envelope: gaming, technology, power." Information, Communication & Society, 19(12), pp. 1766–1767
Cropland changes in times of conflict, reconstruction, and economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan
The destruction of land and forced migration during the Anfal attacks against the Kurds in Iraq in the late 1980s has been reported to have severe consequences for agricultural development. A reconstruction program to aid people in returning to their lands was launched in 1991. To assess the agricultural situation in the Duhok governorate during the pre-Anfal (A), post-Anfal (B), reconstruction (C), and present (D) periods, we mapped winter crops…
How conflict affects land use: Agricultural activity in areas seized by the Islamic State
Socio-economic shocks, technogenic catastrophes, and armed conflicts often have drastic impacts on local and regional food security through disruption of agricultural production and food trade, reduced investments, and deterioration of land and infrastructure. Recently, more research has focused on the effects of armed conflict on land systems, but still little is known about the processes and outcomes of such events. Here we use the case of Syri…
Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Eklund, L., and D. Thompson. 2017. Differences in resource management affects drought vulnerability across the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Ecology and Society 22(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09179-220409
Digital Gaming and Young People’s Friendships: A Mixed Methods Study of Time Use and Gaming in School
In this mixed methods study, we investigate the impact of digital gaming on school social life among young people (17–19 year old) by combining over-time data investigating friendships as they form, with subjective experiences of friendships. We draw on one full cohort of Swedish pupils surveyed on three occasions during their first year in upper-secondary school ( n = 115) and one interview sample of 10 game users. Results indicate that how much…
The crowd in crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing as a pragmatic research method
Crowdsourcing, as a digital process employed to obtain information, ideas, and solicit contributions of work, creativity, etc., from large online crowds stems from business, yet is increasingly used in research. Engaging with previous literature and a symposium on academic crowdsourcing this study explores the underlying assumptions about crowdsourcing as a potential academic research method and how these affect the knowledge produced. Results id…
More like an Arcade' - The Limitations of Playable Games in Museum Exhibitions
This study investigated the relationship between playable, interactive games on original hardware and the representation of game culture using the case of the exhibition Game On 2.0, often considered to be the largest exhibition of digital games in the West so far. Our results suggest that play as a way of engaging with games as museum objects has limitations which make it necessary to add other means of contextualization in order to afford criti…
Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: The Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey
Environmental destruction has long been used as a military strategy in times of conflict. A long-term example of environmental destruction in a conflict zone can be found in Dersim/Tunceli province, located in Eastern Turkey. In the last century, at least two military operations negatively impacted Dersim’s population and environment: 1937–38 and 1993–94. Both conflict and environmental destruction in the region continued after the 1990s. Particu…
Reproductive Health Apps and Empowerment – A Contradiction
FemTech apps have billions of users globally. Yet, despite their popularity, we know little about these apps, often developed outside controlled and regulated healthcare. While these apps have been criticised for lacking privacy and for enforcing normative ideals on women, they are often marketed in terms of female empowerment. In this presentation, we present our analysis of the empowering potential of menstruation and pregnancy apps. We ask: Ho…
Syrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: The causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration
The prevailing narrative on the Syrian Civil War attributes it to climate-induced migration resulting from a severe drought, which serves as a central link connecting climate change with the 2011 protests. However, limited research has involved interviews with Syrians, with most studies focusing on drought's meteorological aspects and estimated migrant numbers. Our interdisciplinary study we conduct surveys with 82 former Syrian farmers in Turkey…
Cropland abandonment in the context of drought, economic restructuring, and migration in northeast Syria
Farmland abandonment is often associated with biophysical, political, or socio-economic changes, like droughts, economic reforms, rural-urban migration, or armed conflicts. Syria has seen several such changes in the period between 2000–2011, however, few assessments of how these factors have interacted with land abandonment have been carried out. In this study we investigate land abandonment patterns in northeast Syria, using a land use classific…
Fires as collateral or means of war: Challenges of environmental peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Environmental peacebuilding broadly refers to how sustainable management of natural resources can support prevention, mitigation, and resolution of conflict, as well as recovery after conflict. Shared natural resources constitute a common environmental challenge around which cooperation may be fostered. Environmentally damaging fires in conflict areas have received little attention from the peacebuilding field, especially compared to conflict rel…
The doom loop of conflict and unsustainability: Exploring cause and effect
Radical Softness as a Tool to Dismantle and Rebuild our Human-AI Future
This article presents P, a speculative chatbot experienced as an interactive installation that explores how radical softness can reframe human–AI relations. Challenging techno-utopian narratives of AI as objective, efficient, and solution-oriented, P foregrounds AI’s situated weaknesses, including bias, error, partiality, and environmental cost. Encountered through a physical booth and a soft, heart-shaped controller, users engage an AI that open…
‘I wish there was a f*** it app’: Creative strategies of digital un-use in family settings
Families creatively negotiate many different types of digitally mediated communication to do social family work – sometimes playfully and sometimes due to urgent need. This negotiation can manifest in numerous ways, reflecting the dynamic nature of modern family life. Such creative acts are performed across a multitude of interfaces and media forms and serve to maintain family intimacy and cohesion. In this study, we combine the concept of creati…
Transboundary Water Resource Management (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)