Lone Grøn
Biographic Data
| ID | 75407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lone Grøn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lone |
| FAMILY NAME | Grøn |
| SIGNATURE | GRØN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8461-9235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages
What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality. Understanding humans as time beings, we argue that attention to connections between large‐scale history, collective temporal registers, and small‐scale singul…
Healthcare seeking for people diagnosed with severe mental illness: Sensations, symptoms and diagnostic work
For people with mental and somatic illnesses, the interpretive process of attending to a multitude of bodily sensations and recognising them as potential symptoms represents daily and 'chronic homework'. Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark, this study explores diagnostic work and healthcare seeking among people with severe mental and somatic illnesses. As multiple studies have shown, the transformation process for a perceived …
No one should die alone: "Just holding hands" among vigil volunteers in Denmark
A wealth of societal concerns about loneliness has surfaced in recent years, raising questions about the negative impacts of increasing social lacks. Exploring a widespread saying among Danish vigil volunteers that "No one should die alone," we ask: What is at stake in this concern with lonely deaths? And how is relationality practiced at life's end? Inspired by Waldenfels' responsive phenomenology, we explore the concerns and actions of the vigi…
Presents in dementia: Groundless temporalities and ethics in a Danish dementia ward
This article explores temporal and ethical presents in a dementia ward in Denmark. Dementia wards are often portrayed and experienced as uncanny places where time stands still or becomes radically distorted. I approach the ward, however, as an encounter or access into experiences of time that are hidden from view in the outside world where common-sense conceptions of time (such as clock time, weekdays, months, and years) have a stronger and more …
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness
Special Issue Introduction: Intimate Belongings—Kinship and State Relatedness in Migrant Families in Denmark
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Ellen and the little one: A critical phenomenology of potentiality in life with dementia
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
Alien Guts? Exploring Lives of and with Irritable Bowels in Denmark
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a health challenge in Denmark, especially among young and middle-aged people. It raises questions about control, alienation, responsiveness, and responsibility in relation to the body in welfare societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young and middle-aged Danes diagnosed with IBS inhabit and relate to their bodies. Previous studies have described how IBS patients experienc…
It Runs in the Family'. Exploring Contagious Kinship Connections
In this introduction we conceptualise phenomena that tend to 'run in the family' as contagious kinship connections arguing that experiences of such contagious connections often resemble experiences of haunting. We propose that enigmas about what family is, and what happens in the sociality and practice of kinship and descent, can be understood as forms of social contagion and affective transmission. The empirical contributions of this issue exami…
Cutting/Belonging. Sameness and Difference in the Lived Experience of Obesity and Kinship in Denmark
The exploration of obesity as a phenomenon that runs in families can provide crucial insights into the lived experience of kinship. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork among Danish families, I argue that kinship terms like 'mutuality of being' and 'the mysterious effectiveness of relationality' characterise their lived experience of obesity and family life. Taking my point of departure in previous work on the lived experience of kinship, I draw on …
Introduction to “Moral (and Other) Laboratories”
The Tipping of the Big Stone—And Life itself. Obesity, Moral Work and Responsive Selves Over Time
In search of the good old life: Ontological breakdown and responsive hope at the margins of life
What might the good life amount to at the margins of life? Taking our point of departure in Jonathan Lear's notions of ontological breakdown and radical hope as well as the phenomenology of lived time, we explore hope within the institutional aging process in Denmark. Drawing on two ethnographic cases, Vagn and Thea, we propose a phenomenological and responsive hope emerging within complex temporalities. This is a relational hope to be included a…
The Institutional Aging Process. Ethnographic Explorations of Aging Processes and Dimensions in Danish Schools and Eldercare Institutions
In this paper, we will present an analysis of the institutional aging process in childhood and old age in contemporary Denmark. We will take as our point of departure Jennifer Johnson-Hanks's observation that aging should be seen both as an experiential and an institutional process, and we will apply Ingold's topographical phenomenology and his notions of maps, landscapes and wayfaring to our ethnographic data. Drawing on field work in Danish sch…
Social Contagion and Cultural Epidemics: Phenomenological and "Experience-Near" Explorations
We open the special issue by asking: how are groups of people affected by similar conditions, even when these are not biologically contagious? This is linked to broader theoretical and empirical questions of how we are influenced by others and by the specific times and places in which we live. We describe the history and etymology of the concepts of epidemics and contagion and argue that we need to reclaim some of the pre-Hippocratic meanings of …
The Weight of the Family: Communicability as Alien Affection in Danish Family Histories and Experiences of Obesity
Can we think of something like communicability or contagion in relation to diseases and conditions that have hitherto been categorized as noncommunicable? In this article, I take my ethnographic point of departure in the lifelong-and transgenerational-experiences of obesity, weight gain, and weight loss of four Danish families in order to show how kinship, relatedness, and dwellings emerge as simultaneously homey and alien contagious connections,…
Old age and vulnerability between first, second and third person perspectives. Ethnographic explorations of aging in contemporary Denmark
Hiding the Plot: Parents’ Moral Dilemmas and Strategies When Helping Their Overweight Children Lose Weight
In this study we investigated the moral dilemmas and strategies of a group of Danish parents who were trying to help their overweight children lose weight. Data were drawn from repeated semistructured interviews carried out over a period of 2 years with 12 families with overweight children. Using a narrative approach, we show the moral dilemmas parents found themselves in when trying to further the two seemingly incompatible goals of helping thei…
Standardising the Lay: Logics of Change in Programs of Disease Self-management
The health political discourse on self-care is dominated by the view that the selfmanaging patient represents a more democratic and patient-centric perspective, as he or she is believed to renegotiate the terms on which patient participation in health care has hitherto taken place. The self-managing patient is intended as a challenge to traditional medical authority by introducing lay methods of knowing disease. Rather than a meeting between auth…
Chronic Homework in Emerging Borderlands of Healthcare
It Runs in the Family'. Exploring Contagious Kinship Connections
In this introduction we conceptualise phenomena that tend to 'run in the family' as contagious kinship connections arguing that experiences of such contagious connections often resemble experiences of haunting. We propose that enigmas about what family is, and what happens in the sociality and practice of kinship and descent, can be understood as forms of social contagion and affective transmission. The empirical contributions of this issue exami…
In search of the good old life: Ontological breakdown and responsive hope at the margins of life
What might the good life amount to at the margins of life? Taking our point of departure in Jonathan Lear's notions of ontological breakdown and radical hope as well as the phenomenology of lived time, we explore hope within the institutional aging process in Denmark. Drawing on two ethnographic cases, Vagn and Thea, we propose a phenomenological and responsive hope emerging within complex temporalities. This is a relational hope to be included a…
Ellen and the little one: A critical phenomenology of potentiality in life with dementia
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
The Weight of the Family: Communicability as Alien Affection in Danish Family Histories and Experiences of Obesity
Can we think of something like communicability or contagion in relation to diseases and conditions that have hitherto been categorized as noncommunicable? In this article, I take my ethnographic point of departure in the lifelong-and transgenerational-experiences of obesity, weight gain, and weight loss of four Danish families in order to show how kinship, relatedness, and dwellings emerge as simultaneously homey and alien contagious connections,…
Social Contagion and Cultural Epidemics: Phenomenological and "Experience-Near" Explorations
We open the special issue by asking: how are groups of people affected by similar conditions, even when these are not biologically contagious? This is linked to broader theoretical and empirical questions of how we are influenced by others and by the specific times and places in which we live. We describe the history and etymology of the concepts of epidemics and contagion and argue that we need to reclaim some of the pre-Hippocratic meanings of …
Old age and vulnerability between first, second and third person perspectives. Ethnographic explorations of aging in contemporary Denmark
Standardising the Lay: Logics of Change in Programs of Disease Self-management
The health political discourse on self-care is dominated by the view that the selfmanaging patient represents a more democratic and patient-centric perspective, as he or she is believed to renegotiate the terms on which patient participation in health care has hitherto taken place. The self-managing patient is intended as a challenge to traditional medical authority by introducing lay methods of knowing disease. Rather than a meeting between auth…
Cutting/Belonging. Sameness and Difference in the Lived Experience of Obesity and Kinship in Denmark
The exploration of obesity as a phenomenon that runs in families can provide crucial insights into the lived experience of kinship. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork among Danish families, I argue that kinship terms like 'mutuality of being' and 'the mysterious effectiveness of relationality' characterise their lived experience of obesity and family life. Taking my point of departure in previous work on the lived experience of kinship, I draw on …
Hiding the Plot: Parents’ Moral Dilemmas and Strategies When Helping Their Overweight Children Lose Weight
In this study we investigated the moral dilemmas and strategies of a group of Danish parents who were trying to help their overweight children lose weight. Data were drawn from repeated semistructured interviews carried out over a period of 2 years with 12 families with overweight children. Using a narrative approach, we show the moral dilemmas parents found themselves in when trying to further the two seemingly incompatible goals of helping thei…
Alien Guts? Exploring Lives of and with Irritable Bowels in Denmark
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a health challenge in Denmark, especially among young and middle-aged people. It raises questions about control, alienation, responsiveness, and responsibility in relation to the body in welfare societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young and middle-aged Danes diagnosed with IBS inhabit and relate to their bodies. Previous studies have described how IBS patients experienc…
The Institutional Aging Process. Ethnographic Explorations of Aging Processes and Dimensions in Danish Schools and Eldercare Institutions
In this paper, we will present an analysis of the institutional aging process in childhood and old age in contemporary Denmark. We will take as our point of departure Jennifer Johnson-Hanks's observation that aging should be seen both as an experiential and an institutional process, and we will apply Ingold's topographical phenomenology and his notions of maps, landscapes and wayfaring to our ethnographic data. Drawing on field work in Danish sch…
Special Issue Introduction: Intimate Belongings—Kinship and State Relatedness in Migrant Families in Denmark
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Chronic Homework in Emerging Borderlands of Healthcare
Standardising the Lay: Logics of Change in Programs of Disease Self-management
The health political discourse on self-care is dominated by the view that the selfmanaging patient represents a more democratic and patient-centric perspective, as he or she is believed to renegotiate the terms on which patient participation in health care has hitherto taken place. The self-managing patient is intended as a challenge to traditional medical authority by introducing lay methods of knowing disease. Rather than a meeting between auth…
Hiding the Plot: Parents’ Moral Dilemmas and Strategies When Helping Their Overweight Children Lose Weight
In this study we investigated the moral dilemmas and strategies of a group of Danish parents who were trying to help their overweight children lose weight. Data were drawn from repeated semistructured interviews carried out over a period of 2 years with 12 families with overweight children. Using a narrative approach, we show the moral dilemmas parents found themselves in when trying to further the two seemingly incompatible goals of helping thei…
Old age and vulnerability between first, second and third person perspectives. Ethnographic explorations of aging in contemporary Denmark
Introduction to “Moral (and Other) Laboratories”
The Tipping of the Big Stone—And Life itself. Obesity, Moral Work and Responsive Selves Over Time
In search of the good old life: Ontological breakdown and responsive hope at the margins of life
What might the good life amount to at the margins of life? Taking our point of departure in Jonathan Lear's notions of ontological breakdown and radical hope as well as the phenomenology of lived time, we explore hope within the institutional aging process in Denmark. Drawing on two ethnographic cases, Vagn and Thea, we propose a phenomenological and responsive hope emerging within complex temporalities. This is a relational hope to be included a…
The Institutional Aging Process. Ethnographic Explorations of Aging Processes and Dimensions in Danish Schools and Eldercare Institutions
In this paper, we will present an analysis of the institutional aging process in childhood and old age in contemporary Denmark. We will take as our point of departure Jennifer Johnson-Hanks's observation that aging should be seen both as an experiential and an institutional process, and we will apply Ingold's topographical phenomenology and his notions of maps, landscapes and wayfaring to our ethnographic data. Drawing on field work in Danish sch…
Social Contagion and Cultural Epidemics: Phenomenological and "Experience-Near" Explorations
We open the special issue by asking: how are groups of people affected by similar conditions, even when these are not biologically contagious? This is linked to broader theoretical and empirical questions of how we are influenced by others and by the specific times and places in which we live. We describe the history and etymology of the concepts of epidemics and contagion and argue that we need to reclaim some of the pre-Hippocratic meanings of …
The Weight of the Family: Communicability as Alien Affection in Danish Family Histories and Experiences of Obesity
Can we think of something like communicability or contagion in relation to diseases and conditions that have hitherto been categorized as noncommunicable? In this article, I take my ethnographic point of departure in the lifelong-and transgenerational-experiences of obesity, weight gain, and weight loss of four Danish families in order to show how kinship, relatedness, and dwellings emerge as simultaneously homey and alien contagious connections,…
It Runs in the Family'. Exploring Contagious Kinship Connections
In this introduction we conceptualise phenomena that tend to 'run in the family' as contagious kinship connections arguing that experiences of such contagious connections often resemble experiences of haunting. We propose that enigmas about what family is, and what happens in the sociality and practice of kinship and descent, can be understood as forms of social contagion and affective transmission. The empirical contributions of this issue exami…
Cutting/Belonging. Sameness and Difference in the Lived Experience of Obesity and Kinship in Denmark
The exploration of obesity as a phenomenon that runs in families can provide crucial insights into the lived experience of kinship. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork among Danish families, I argue that kinship terms like 'mutuality of being' and 'the mysterious effectiveness of relationality' characterise their lived experience of obesity and family life. Taking my point of departure in previous work on the lived experience of kinship, I draw on …
Special Issue Introduction: Intimate Belongings—Kinship and State Relatedness in Migrant Families in Denmark
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Ellen and the little one: A critical phenomenology of potentiality in life with dementia
In this article, we outline a critical phenomenology of potentiality as it emerges in life with dementia. Foregrounding the sources of everyday creativity that are part of life with dementia, we propose a critical counter-argument to that of dementia as a form of living death. Our ethnographic vantage point is an episode we encountered during fieldwork at a dementia unit in Denmark. Here, one of the residents of the unit, Ellen, is interrupted in…
Alien Guts? Exploring Lives of and with Irritable Bowels in Denmark
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a health challenge in Denmark, especially among young and middle-aged people. It raises questions about control, alienation, responsiveness, and responsibility in relation to the body in welfare societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young and middle-aged Danes diagnosed with IBS inhabit and relate to their bodies. Previous studies have described how IBS patients experienc…
Senses of Touch: The Absence and Presence of Touch in Health Care Encounters of Patients with Mental Illness
Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages
What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality. Understanding humans as time beings, we argue that attention to connections between large‐scale history, collective temporal registers, and small‐scale singul…
Healthcare seeking for people diagnosed with severe mental illness: Sensations, symptoms and diagnostic work
For people with mental and somatic illnesses, the interpretive process of attending to a multitude of bodily sensations and recognising them as potential symptoms represents daily and 'chronic homework'. Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark, this study explores diagnostic work and healthcare seeking among people with severe mental and somatic illnesses. As multiple studies have shown, the transformation process for a perceived …
No one should die alone: "Just holding hands" among vigil volunteers in Denmark
A wealth of societal concerns about loneliness has surfaced in recent years, raising questions about the negative impacts of increasing social lacks. Exploring a widespread saying among Danish vigil volunteers that "No one should die alone," we ask: What is at stake in this concern with lonely deaths? And how is relationality practiced at life's end? Inspired by Waldenfels' responsive phenomenology, we explore the concerns and actions of the vigi…
Presents in dementia: Groundless temporalities and ethics in a Danish dementia ward
This article explores temporal and ethical presents in a dementia ward in Denmark. Dementia wards are often portrayed and experienced as uncanny places where time stands still or becomes radically distorted. I approach the ward, however, as an encounter or access into experiences of time that are hidden from view in the outside world where common-sense conceptions of time (such as clock time, weekdays, months, and years) have a stronger and more …
Perplexing nearness: Autism, family life, and interspecies relationality
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (6 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Danish (4 works)