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Funding and projects
All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.
Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.
Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.
Project database
2017
A Sunken War: The Baltic during the Second World War
Atlantic, allies against German forces – portrayed as good against evil. But when you turn your gaze to the Baltic the sit...
Academia in the midst of ethnic controversy. The ‘politics of belonging’ in respect to Latvians and Baltic Germans in interwar Latvia, 1919-1939.
During the interwar period, 1919-1939, many states in Central and Eastern Europe faced the dilemma of developing new states m...
Anti-racist contentions in the Baltic Sea region – a study of anti-racist activists’ interplay with politicians and civil servants.
The on-going refugee crisis and recent years’ electoral successes for right-wing parties with anti-migration stances have i...
Co-construction and recontextualisation of migrants’ narratives in the asylum process.
In this study, we examine narratives the way they are constructed in the interpreter mediated situation of asylum interviews ...
Collective Phronesis. A survey of collectivity, decision making and professional considerations in the welfare professions in Sweden and Germany.
The project examines whether, and if so how, Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) could be understood as a collective capability, an...
In the Services of the of the SMEs? The Patent Systems and the SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region.
Innovation is pivotal to economic growth and societal transformation. The concern then is to determine the means to uphold a...
Medical boundaries contested: Sweden, Germany and the exchange of medical knowledge 1952-1989
The project will explore the exchange of medical knowledge between Sweden and Germany during the post-war period, focusing o...
Politics by Other Means: Policy Professionals in Comparative Perspective.
The project analyses the work and life-worlds of policy professionals – people who are employed to affect politics and polic...
Religion and Politics in Ukraine: The Influence of Churches and Religious Traditions in Formation of Collective Memory
Religious and political spheres in Ukraine are tightly connected. One of the fields where such deep connection can be observ...
The (dis)connected refugee: The role of communication technologies in trust-building in Sweden and Germany.
The general public is currently witnessing large numbers of people fleeing from war and misery in their home countries. For ...
The Baltic economies: Catalysts for the internationalization of Swedish SMEs?.
Decades of globalization have fundamentally reshaped global trade. Deeper economic integration has not only led to increased...
The relocation of transcendence: The sacred of the seculars around the Baltic sea.
The peoples of Denmark, Estonia and Sweden stand out when it comes to their views of religion and nature. When asked whether...
Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions.
This is a transnational multidisciplinary study of art and cultural heritage in states around the Baltic Sea and transregion...
2016
A New Region of the World?
From company towns to fishing towns, international cities to closed cities, military towns to Sámi settlements, confined b...
Activism, civilizing mission and national project. Sweden and the Finnish Civil war 1918 in a transnational perspective.
It is often claimed that the Scandinavian countries during the twentieth century were pioneers in democratic development, pea...
Art, culture, conflict: transformations of museums and memory culture in the Baltic Sea region after 1989.
This project aims to map, analyze and interpret transformations of exhibitions of culture and art at museum institutions, art...
Between East and West: Ideology, aesthetics and politics in the musical relations between Sweden and the GDR 1949–1989.
Germany has since the 19th century been an important country of interest for musicians and composers from Sweden, both as a ...
Brands resonating co-authors.
Brands are mediators. It means that brands intercede the demand and supply of products through the organisation, co-ordinati...
Collaboration, Synthesis, Spatiality – On the Ideas and Ideals in some Post-War Artist Groups.
My aim in this research project is to discuss a development that abstract art and modernist architecture took in Europe durin...
Decolonizing Phenomenologies
The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of sub...
Funding and projects
All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.
Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.
Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.