Mattias Frihammar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattias Frihammar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattias |
| FAMILY NAME | Frihammar |
| SIGNATURE | FRIHAMMAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2904-9708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Regulating an Unruly Nature. Invasive Alien Species, Monstrosity and the Law
This article explores how invasive alien species are imagined, represented, and regulated in contemporary Sweden, focusing on the entanglement between biological threat, cultural fear, and bureaucratic control. Drawing on ethnographic material, policy analysis, and consultation documents, it examines how plants and animals such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, and the “killer slug” are framed through tropes of monstrosity in media, legislatio…
Recension av Kungar, sex & skandaler. En studie av skvaller och journalestik, av Min-Marie Hammarlin och Lars-Eric Jönsson
The Great Lupine Combat day. The traditionalization of eradication in times of crisis
During the Garden Lupine’s two centuries of presence in Sweden, its apprehension has been marked by cultural reconfigurations – from an appreciated garden plant, through being a token for Swedish midsummer to being deemed an invasive alien species and ecological threat. With the purpose of deepening the understanding of how environmental management works as a nexus of nature and culture, this article analyzes ‘The Great Lupine Combat Day’, to sho…
Breaking the Seal, Keeping it Real: On Authenticity and Masculinity in Engaging with Bunkers
As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden
In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopte…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. On Photographs, Talking Contexts and Visual Silences
This paper's point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting qualities. In this essay, photographs from three occasions have been studied in detail in order to elucidate different kinds of visual silences. The occasions are i) a funeral where it is the photogra…
Introduction: Archive and Method(s)
No abstract available
Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice
Vanlighet som väcker begär
In this article I examine meetings between ordinary people and royals in contemporary Sweden, particularly focusing on the process that makes the royal encounter a special occurrence. Accordingly, I will show how encounters between royals and ordinary people are surrounded by an extraordinary frame, which is established by the ordinary participants, more or less consciously. This frame is then contrasted with assumptions, and experiences, of the …
As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden
In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopte…
Vanlighet som väcker begär
In this article I examine meetings between ordinary people and royals in contemporary Sweden, particularly focusing on the process that makes the royal encounter a special occurrence. Accordingly, I will show how encounters between royals and ordinary people are surrounded by an extraordinary frame, which is established by the ordinary participants, more or less consciously. This frame is then contrasted with assumptions, and experiences, of the …
Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. On Photographs, Talking Contexts and Visual Silences
This paper's point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting qualities. In this essay, photographs from three occasions have been studied in detail in order to elucidate different kinds of visual silences. The occasions are i) a funeral where it is the photogra…
Introduction: Archive and Method(s)
No abstract available
Breaking the Seal, Keeping it Real: On Authenticity and Masculinity in Engaging with Bunkers
As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden
In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopte…
Recension av Kungar, sex & skandaler. En studie av skvaller och journalestik, av Min-Marie Hammarlin och Lars-Eric Jönsson
The Great Lupine Combat day. The traditionalization of eradication in times of crisis
During the Garden Lupine’s two centuries of presence in Sweden, its apprehension has been marked by cultural reconfigurations – from an appreciated garden plant, through being a token for Swedish midsummer to being deemed an invasive alien species and ecological threat. With the purpose of deepening the understanding of how environmental management works as a nexus of nature and culture, this article analyzes ‘The Great Lupine Combat Day’, to sho…
Regulating an Unruly Nature. Invasive Alien Species, Monstrosity and the Law
This article explores how invasive alien species are imagined, represented, and regulated in contemporary Sweden, focusing on the entanglement between biological threat, cultural fear, and bureaucratic control. Drawing on ethnographic material, policy analysis, and consultation documents, it examines how plants and animals such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, and the “killer slug” are framed through tropes of monstrosity in media, legislatio…
History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Alien (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)