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Åsa Boholm

Social Anthropology
Professor

 

About

  • PhD in social anthropology from University of Gothenburg (1983)
  • Associate professor in social anthropology ("docent" title), University of Gothenburg (1986)
  • Professor of social anthropology at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg (2000)
  • Professor of social anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (2011)
  • Active as a researcher at the multidisciplinary research institute, Centre for Public Sector Research, University of Gothenburg (1996-2011), and director of the research program "Society and Risk" at CEFOS.

Areas of interest

Research fields range from historical anthropology, political symbolism, ritual and religion, to environmental anthropology and risk research, the latter including cultural dimensions and conceptual meanings of risk, and the communication, regulation and management of technological risks in the public domain.

Research focus is on collective beliefs and practices concerning values at stake, organizational and institutional forces and on the collusions and collisions of relative perspectives and rationalities salient in risk debates.

Areas of interest include regulation and policy issues in the public domain, contested localization of large scale facilities, environmentalism and concern for nature, public trust and citizen involvement, communication and rhetoric, and the role of science and technology in public deliberation and decision making. Regional specialization covers Sweden and Italy.

Current Research

Collaborats in the project NanoSphere: Centre for interaction and risk studies in Nano-Bio-Geo-Socio-Techno-sphere interfaces, led by Martin Hassellöv, researcher at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Gothenburg. The goal of this large multidisciplinary project is to achieve better risk assessment of nanotechnology.

The rapid and promising development of nanotechnology necessitates a simultaneous increase in knowledge about the risks of nanotech to human health, ecosystems and society. Evidence indicates that manufactured nanoparticles can have harmful effects, but knowledge about this is fragmented and sometimes contradictory. Various aspects of the development of risk management in society will be studied.

The project is conducted interdisciplinary with Chalmers University of Technology and brings together researchers from three faculties at the University of Gothenburg: natural science, medicine and social sciences.

Teaching and tutoring

 Do not teach at the moment.

 

Publications

2012

  • Max Boholm; Åsa Boholm (2012).
    The many faces of nano in newspaper reporting 1388-0764, GUP 154667

  • Åsa Boholm; Hervé Corvellec; Marianne Karlsson (2012).
    The practice of risk governance: lessons from the field 1366-9877, GUP 154691

2011

  • Åsa Boholm; Hervé Corvellec (2011).
    A relational theory of risk , GUP 139129

  • Åsa Boholm (2011).
    Hyperkomplexitet i järnvägsplanering , GUP 150365

  • Åsa Boholm (2011).
    New Perspectives on Risk Communication: Uncertainty in a Complex Society , GUP 139120

  • Åsa Boholm (2011).
    Path dependence and the ordering of expectations , GUP 139128

  • Åsa Boholm; Hervé Corvellec; Vicki Johansson; Max Boholm; Marianne Karlsson (2011).
    Riskhanteringsbeslut inom transportsektorn: Slutredovisning av forskningsprojektet TRANSAM 2007-2010 , GUP 134462

  • Åsa Boholm (2011).
    The social embedding of infrastructure development , GUP 139127

2010

  • Åsa Boholm (2010).
    La natura culturale del rischio: può esistere un antropologia dell'incertezza? , GUP 139123

  • Åsa Boholm (2010).
    On the organizational practice of expert-based risk management: A case of railway planning 1460-3799, GUP 127538

  • Åsa Boholm (2010).
    Temporality and joint commitment in railway planning , GUP 128818

2009

  • Åsa Boholm (2009).
    Speaking of risk: Matters of context 1752-4032, GUP 101265

  • Ragnar Löfstedt; Åsa Boholm (2009).
    The Earthscan Reader on Risk , GUP 83158

  • Ragnar Löfstedt; Åsa Boholm (2009).
    The study of risk in the 21st century , GUP 83159

2008

  • Åsa Boholm (2008).
    Beslutsfattandets antropologi , GUP 70099

  • Åsa Boholm (2008).
    Editorial - New perspectives on risk communication: Uncertainty in a complex society 1366-9877, GUP 70973

  • Åsa Boholm (2008).
    The public meeting as a theatre of dissent: Risk and hazard in land use and environmental planning 1366-9877, GUP 70974

  • Hervé Corvellec; Åsa Boholm (2008).
    The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden 1354-9839, GUP 83134

  • Hervé Corvellec; Åsa Boholm (2008).
    The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden , GUP 68084

2007

  • Åsa Boholm (2007).
    A sacrifice for the nation: Meanings of Rome in the Risorgimento , GUP 62509

  • Åsa Boholm (2007).
    Risk communication - a pragmatic approach , GUP 150364

2006

  • Sofie Cedstrand; Lisa Nöjd; Åsa Boholm; Vicki Johansson; Mats Bengtsson (2006).
    Miljötillsyn i praktiken , GUP 34763

  • Celio Ferreira; Åsa Boholm; Karin Borkhardt (2006).
    Food Safety Regulation in Sweden , GUP 36325

2005

  • Åsa Boholm (2005).
    "Greater good" in transit: The unwieldy career of a Swedish rail tunnel project , GUP 31277

  • Åsa Boholm (2005).
    Riskbedömningars ontologi och epistemologi: Hallandsåsen och dess vatten , GUP 31278

  • Celio Ferreira; Åsa Boholm (2005).
    A review of institutional arrangements for food safety regulation in Sweden, Safe Foods, Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approach for foods , GUP 150373

  • Lennart Sjöberg; Martin Peterson; Jana Fromm; Åsa Boholm; Sven-Ove Hanson (2005).
    Neglected and overemphasized risks: the opinions of risk professionals 1366-9877, GUP 80643

2004

  • Per Binde; Åsa Boholm (2004).
    Schismogenesis in a Swedish case of railway planning , GUP 31274

  • Åsa Boholm (2004).
    Editorial, Special Issue: New perspectives on Siting Controversy 1366-9877, GUP 31276

  • Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt (2004).
    Facility siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning , GUP 31279

  • Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt (2004).
    Introduction , GUP 150363

2003

  • Åsa Boholm (2003).
    Situated Risk: Objective of this special issue, Introductio , GUP 150336

  • Åsa Boholm (2003).
    The cultural nature of risk: Can there be an anthropology of uncertainty? , GUP 150337

  • Bo Rydén; Erik Ahlgren; Owe Andersson; Åsa Boholm; Erik M. Dugstad; Tomas Ekvall; Bengt Hansson; Mats Höjeberg; David Knutsson; Kristin Munthe; Anna Krook Riekkola; Ted Lindblom; Anders Sandoff; Berit Tennbakk; Lasse Torgersen; Thomas Unger; Sven Werner (2003).
    Nordleden - Slutrapport för etapp 2 , GUP 4627

2002

  • Åsa Boholm (2002).
    Form och innehåll i lokaliseringsbeslut: Lärdomar av dåliga och goda exempel , GUP 150372

  • Åsa Boholm (2002).
    Weneckie widowiska karnawalowe w maskach , GUP 150335

2001

  • Åsa Boholm (2001).
    Konflikter kring lokalisering med särskild tonvikt på Vindkraft , GUP 150371

  • Åsa Boholm (2001).
    Managing the present through the past: Resurrecting Rome for the unification of Italy , GUP 150360

  • Åsa Boholm; S-O Hansson; J. Persson; M. Petersson (2001).
    Osäkerhetens horisonter. Kulturella och etiska perspektiv på samhällets riskfrågor , GUP 150347

  • Åsa Boholm; Celio Ferreira (2001).
    Osäkerhetens representationer , GUP 150362

  • Åsa Boholm (2001).
    Un templo de la humanidad: los significados de Roma en el Risorgimento , GUP 150334

  • Celio Ferreira; Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt (2001).
    From vision to catastrophe: A risk event in search of images , GUP 150359

  • Celio Ferreira; Åsa Boholm (2001).
    Kulturell riskhantering , GUP 150361

2000

  • Åsa Boholm (2000).
    National objectives - local objections: Railway modernization in Sweden , GUP 150346

  • Åsa Boholm (2000).
    Perceived benefits and negative consequences on the new rail , GUP 150358

  • Åsa Boholm (2000).
    Siting the West Coast Rail , GUP 150356

  • Åsa Boholm; Marcia Grimes (2000).
    ’Understanding siting controversy: the case of the West Coast Railway , GUP 150340

  • Annelie Sjölander Lindqvist; Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt (2000).
    ’Understanding aspects of environmental stigma: the case of Hallandsås , GUP 150339

1999

  • Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt (1999).
    Issues of risk, trust and knowledge: The Hallandsås tunnel case , GUP 150332

  • Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt; Urban Strandberg (1999).
    Understanding siting controversy: issues of local identity, trust and stigma , GUP 150369

  • Ragnar Löfstedt; Åsa Boholm (1999).
    Off track in Sweden , GUP 150333

1998

  • Åsa Boholm (1998).
    Comparative studies of risk perception: A review of twenty years of re-search , GUP 150329

  • Åsa Boholm (1998).
    The successor of St. Peter: incorporated meanings and textual symbolism in medieval inaugurations , GUP 150326

  • Åsa Boholm; Ragnar Löfstedt; Urban Strandberg (1998).
    Tunnelbygget genom Hallandsås: Lokalsamhällets dilemman , GUP 150370

  • Åsa Boholm (1998).
    Visual images and risk messages: Commemorating Chernobyl , GUP 150331

1997

  • Åsa Boholm (1997).
    Commemorating Chernobyl: visual images and the cultural construction of risk messages , GUP 150368

  • Åsa Boholm (1997).
    Re-invented histories: medieval Rome as memorial landscape , GUP 150325

1996

  • Åsa Boholm (1996).
    Anthropology in History - History in Anthropology , GUP 150323

  • Åsa Boholm (1996).
    Political ritual as image-making: Medieval Rome and the Charisma of Cola di Rienzo , GUP 150355

  • Åsa Boholm (1996).
    The cultural theory of risk: An anthropological critique , GUP 150324

  • Åsa Boholm (1996).
    The many faces of the cultural theory of risk. An anthropological critique , GUP 150338

1994

  • Åsa Boholm; Göran Aijmer (1994).
    Images and enactments. Possible worlds in dramatic performance , GUP 150344

  • Åsa Boholm (1994).
    Masked performances in the carnival of Venice , GUP 150354

  • Åsa Boholm (1994).
    Våldets semantik. Blodshämnd i renässansens Friuli , GUP 150374

1993

  • Åsa Boholm (1993).
    Venetian worlds. Nobility and the cultural construction of society , GUP 150343

1992

  • Åsa Boholm (1992).
    Caccia di tori. Regeneration in Venetian carnival , GUP 150322

  • Åsa Boholm (1992).
    How to make a stone give birth to itself. Reproduction and auto-reproduction in medieval alchemy , GUP 150353

  • Åsa Boholm (1992).
    The coronation of female death , GUP 150321

  • Åsa Boholm (1992).
    The feast as a conflux of cycles , GUP 150352

1990

  • Åsa Boholm (1990).
    The Doge of Venice. The symbolism of state power in the Renaissance , GUP 150342

1989

  • Åsa Boholm (1989).
    Döden i Venedig. Karnevalen som ritual , GUP 150351

1987

  • Åsa Boholm (1987).
    Symbolism of lights and candles in Renaissance Venice , GUP 150350

1983

  • Åsa Boholm (1983).
    Swedish kinship: An exploration into cultural processes of belonging and continuity , GUP 71292

1981

  • Åsa Boholm; Lennart Sjöberg (1981).
    Försvarsviljans utveckling i åldrarna 14 till 18 år: En intervjustudie , GUP 150367

  • Åsa Boholm; Jan Hultin; Claes Josefsson (1981).
    Släktskap, kontinuitet och identitet i tre samhällen: Oromo (Etiopien), Bakuba (Zaire) och Sverige , GUP 150348

1980

  • Åsa Boholm; Sally Boyd (1980).
    The auction as a language game , GUP 150366

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