Karen Asta Arnfred Vallgårda
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20052024

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Current research

My research focuses on political family and childhood history in the 19th and 20th centuries. I am interested in how people have organized their family life, how power is exercised in intimate relationships, and how such relationships have been shaped by shifting social, economic, political and legal circumstances.

Themes: family history, divorce, education, childhood, gender, class, race.

Ongoing projects:

- STAY HOME (co-PI), with Mette Birkedal Bruun (PI). Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation

- Legitimacy Contested - The Past and Future of the Nordic Model (PI w/ Professor Klaus Petersen, SDU) at Nordic Humanities Center


MA & PhD supervision:

  • Cultural and social history in the 19th & 20th centuries
  • Family history & childhood history
  • Colonialism and postcolonial theory
  • History and theory of emotions
  • Theories of power
  • Christian mission history
  • Cultural encounters

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • culture and politics, emotions, colonialism and postcolonial theory, childhood, gender, Christian missions, modern India

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