Open access books
Here you can find all the Open Access books published in the publication series at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology.
2026
Att skriva idéhistoria
| Bruno Hamnell, Frits Gåvertsson (ed.) | Att skriva idéhistoria | | | 2026 |
Hur formulerar man ett idéhistoriskt problem? Vilken betydelse kan plats ha i idéhistoriska undersökningar? Vilka digitala verktyg kan en idéhistoriker arbeta med? Hur skiljer sig idéhistoriska undersökningar inriktade mot medicinens, filosofins, politikens och vetenskapens historia ...
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Det stängda landskapet
Sarah Vorminder | | Det stängda landskapet. Stängselskyldighet och organiseringen av jordbruket i Sverige under 1700- och 1800-talen | | | 2026 |
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Earthenware Change in Southern Scandinavia
Erik Johansson | | Earthenware Change in Southern Scandinavia. The Case of Lund, 1150–1350 | | | 2026 |
This doctoral thesis investigates mediaeval earthenware production, distribution and consumption based on material from Lund, Sweden, moving beyond simple technological shifts to explore the interplay of material factors, social practices, and economic influences. It presents a ...
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Foodscapes of Civil Society
Gina Song Lopez | | Foodscapes of Civil Society. Veg*n advocacy and sustainability transitions in the Sino-cultural sphere | | | 2026 |
This dissertation is about social change ‘and’, ‘with’, as well as ‘through’ food. It examines the rise and expansion of novel approaches to veganism and plant-based lifestyles in the Sino-cultural sphere by foregrounding the assemblage of actors (human and nonhuman) at the forefront ...
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Knowing Nuclear Weapons Tests
Anton Öhman | | Knowing Nuclear Weapons Tests. Witness Activism and Oppositional Knowledge in the Cold War Colonial Pacific | | | 2026 |
This dissertation examines how actors in the Pacific produced, mobilized, and circulated oppositional knowledge about nuclear weapons testing from the 1950s to the early 2000s, with French Polynesia as its primary focus. At its core is witness activism: coordinated practices of ...
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Livets idéhistoria
| Jimmy Jönsson, Frits Gåvertsson, Adam Furbring, David Dunér (ed.) | Livets idéhistoria. Livsbegrepp, livsformer och livshållningar från forntiden till i dag | | Makadam förlag | 2026 |
Livet genomsyrar dagens debatter. Livets gränser utmanas av landvinningar inom genteknologi, AI-teknik och sökandet efter liv i rymden. Vår livsstil orsakar klimatförändringar och minskad biologisk mångfald, något som i sin tur försämrar villkoren för livet på jorden. Vi kämpar för ...
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Monarchy in the Age of Liberty
Jonas Nordin | | Monarchy in the Age of Liberty. Royal power and public life in eighteenth-century Sweden | | | 2026 |
This book is about the role of monarchy as an institution when the king has no power. During the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), absolutism was abolished in Sweden and the king reduced to a mere figurehead. Even so, the monarchy continued to be an indispensable part of the form of ...
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Parchment: demand and supply in medieval Scandinavia
Lena Strid | | Parchment: demand and supply in medieval Scandinavia | | | 2026 |
In medieval society, parchment was the backbone upon which state bureaucracy, merchant and estate records, and the religious life of priests, monks, nuns and the laity rested. Whether a gold leaf-decorated bible or a plain account book, their pages all began as animals in the ...
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Skärvor ur det förflutna
| Martin Hansson, Torbjörn Ahlström, Johanna Bergqvist Rydén, Peter Carelli, Ingrid Gustin, Anders Håkansson, Jonas Monié Nordin (ed.) | Skärvor ur det förflutna. En vänbok till Mats Roslund | | | 2026 |
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The first ordained women in the Church of Sweden
Frida Mannerfelt, Alexander Maurits | | The first ordained women in the Church of Sweden. Narratives of vocation and recognition | | | 2026 |
On Palm Sunday 1960, three women knelt in front of an altar to be ordained as the first female priests in the Church of Sweden. During the 1960s, 54 women were admitted into the priesthood. This book tells the story of these pioneers through an analysis of their own personal ...
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Trösklar och knutar inom grammatiken
Erik Bandh | | Trösklar och knutar inom grammatiken. Teori och praktik | | | 2026 |
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Undersökningar på Bulverket 2025
Peter d'Agnan | | Undersökningar på Bulverket 2025. Arkeologisk forskningsundersökning 2025 | | | 2026 |
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Wäggia – en medeltida gård under förvandling
Hans Andersson, Pär Connelid | | Wäggia – en medeltida gård under förvandling | | | 2026 |
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2025
A grammar of Baniwa classifiers
Sandra Cronhamn | | A grammar of Baniwa classifiers | Non-serial books – Languages and Literature | | 2025 |
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Affordances and Limitations of Translanguaging and Writing Tools
Tina Gunnarsson | | Affordances and Limitations of Translanguaging and Writing Tools. A Study of Emergent Multilingual Students' Writing in EFL | | | 2025 |
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Ambiguous Human Existence and the Ethics of Authenticity
Anette Svane | | Ambiguous Human Existence and the Ethics of Authenticity. Exploring Tensions of Freedom and Solidarity in Contemporary Scandinavian Art Film and Beyond | Non-serial books – Languages and Literature | | 2025 |
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Att avlyssna folkviljan
Eskil Vesterlund | | Att avlyssna folkviljan. Gallupundersökningen som ett nytt medium mellan press, politik, reklam och vetenskap, 1941–1955 | | | 2025 |
Att avlyssna folkviljan handlar om Gallupundersökningen och hur denna nya teknologi för att undersöka samhället gjorde sitt intåg i Sverige under 1900-talets mitt. Det är en mediehistoria om hur en rikstäckande infrastruktur av hålkort, frågeformulär och intervjuare transformerade ...
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Att skola entreprenörer
Evelina Kallträsk | | Att skola entreprenörer. Ung Företagsamhet och den svenska skolans omvandling 1980–2011 | | | 2025 |
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Bebyggelse och landskap - en undersökning av tre gårdar på Bjärehalvön
Sara Williamsson Lind | | Bebyggelse och landskap - en undersökning av tre gårdar på Bjärehalvön. Rapport över landskapsarkeologiska undersökningar av Båstad Ingelstorp 8:7, Hovs socken, Båstads kommun, Skåne län | | | 2025 |
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Creativity and illness
Philip Sandblom | Marianne Thormählen (ed.) | Creativity and illness. How suffering affects literature, art, and music | | | 2025 |
A pioneering work in the field of Medical Humanities, first published as Creativity and disease in 1982, Creativity and illness now appears in a fresh, extended version based on the definitive Swedish edition published in 2022. A renowned surgeon, Philip Sandblom was also a ...
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