Arctic Norden: Images from fieldwork
As part of her research, Lisbeth Lewander has visited a number of abandoned research stations and cold war facilities in arctic regions.
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Associate professor in political science and senior lecturer at Gothenburg University. Member of the Arctic Norden project.
Lisbeth Lewander
Associate professor in political science and senior lecturer in gender studies with special interest in polar politics as well as issues of risk and masculinity. The relationship between politics-science-gender has been a theme through several of her publications. Lewander is a teacher, researcher but has also upheld administrative mission such as head of department both for gender studies and the newly established department of cultural sciences at Gothenburg University. She has also worked three years at Karlstad University and has done archive work at Scott Polar research institute, Syracuse University, Churchill Northern Studies Centre as well as in South American countries on their respective Antarctic policies. Lewander furthermore works for the enhancement of the so called third mission of the university, i.e. developing the external relations.
Main publications:
Swedish Polar Policies from the First International Polar Year to the Present” in Making Science Global Conference Publication October 2007 , Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. (in print 2010) Palgrave and McMillan
The Aesthetics of Risk in Polar Exploration. Gender Delight Science, Knowledge, Culture and Writing…for Nina Lykke, The Tema Genus Series of Interdisciplinary Gender Research in Progress and Transformation. No 1 2009 s. 47-61. Linköping.
The Political Dimensions of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Expedition to Antarctica (NBSX) 1949-52. Proceedings of the 1st SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research i Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung Alfred Wegener Institut fur Polarforschung. 560 (2007) s. 123-141
To remember and restore the memory of the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjöld expedition 1901-03. Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego: 100 years of Swedish-Argentine Scientific Cooperation at the End of the World. Proceedings from a symposium in Buenos Aires March 2-7 2003. Taylor & Francis, 2007
”The Swedish Relief Expedition to Antarctica 1903-1904” i Polar Record 39 (209) 97-110, 2003
“The Representations of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-03″ för Polar Record 38 (205):97-114, April 2002
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