Karin Ekström

Social Anthropology
PhD Student

About

I hold a Degree of Bachelor in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, and since 2004 I am a PhD student at University of Gothenburg. I have presented papers at European gender conferences and Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian anthropology conferences.

I speak and write Swedish, English and Spanish.

Initiating a network for feminist anthropologists in Sweden.

Areas of research

Spain and the Mediterranean region, urban anthropology, feminist theory, gender and change in relation to sexuality, the body, motherhood, globalization and the neo-liberal order, power, political economy, space.

Current research

I write my thesis about gender and cultural change in an urban Spanish area (Valencia). The work is based on fieldwork carried out 2005-2007 and is part of a re-study in collaboration with Professor Britt-Marie Thurén, who conducted the first study in the area 25 years earlier.

Teaching and tutoring

 I teach at undergraduate level in social anthropology and global studies, including an Erasmus-course.

Field experience

One year of fieldwork in Valencia, Spain, divided in four parts, 2005-2007.

Selected conferences & presentations

"Den som har byxorna hemma det är jag" – en studie av lesbisk identitet i en machokontext, Utopier och Dystopier – den andra genusvetenskapliga Stockholmskonferensen, 6-7 oktober 2000.

La diversidad y el discurso 'trabajo de sexo' - liberación o más represión?, konferenspapper publicerat i "Cambios culturales y desigualdades de género en el marco local-global actual", Congreso de Antropología, Sevilla 2005.