Per- Anders Forstorp

MA in Scandinavian Languages, Religious Studies, History of Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1984
PhD in Communication Studies, The Tema Research Institute, Linköping University, Sweden, 1992
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, 1994
American Scandinavian Foundation Visiting Lecturer from Sweden, Department of Communication, University of Iowa, 2003-2004
Associate professor (docent) in Communication at The School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, from 1999.
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Visiting Lecturer in Culture and Media Production (KSM), The Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (ISAK), Linköping University, from 2010.
 

Telefon: 011- 36 30 92

E-post: per-anders.forstorp@liu.se

Research interests
My research and teaching interests covers several areas in social and cultural studies with a particular focus on processes of communication, mediation and translation. I am interested in how mediated processes are conditioned and shaped, including the dimensions of hierarchies and power: who’s voice is heard, how and why? I like to think of my work as an expression of critical perspectives, i.e. Re: the mainstream, the normative and the taken for granted. The areas of application on which my empirical work is based are also eclectic, ranging from facial encounters, everyday talk, to the media and popular culture, science, education and politics.
For the last couple of years I have been busy in the project The Contents and Organization of Cross Boundary Learning which is being reported to the financier, the Swedish Research Council. The project focuses on the ideologies, practices and rhetoric of interdisciplinarity and boundary crossing in learning environments (undergraduate, graduate) in the context of higher education in Sweden.
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My current research is part of the project Globalized Eduscapes: Students, Mobility and Learning in Knowledge Society, financed by the Swedish Research Council (2010-2012). The research team for this project also includes Ulf Mellström, Luleå University of Technology as well as several students in Linköping, Luleå and Stockholm.
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Teaching
Communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, interdisciplinary knowledge studies.
 

Selected Publications

(1998) ”Att rapportera om katastrofen. Hur Expressens förstasida blev omtalad”, i Per-Anders Forstorp och Per Linell (red.) Samtal pågår. Interaktiva innehållsanalyser av mediehändelser. Stockholm: Carlssons (kapitel i bok)
(2005) “Mötet mellan tradition och förnyelse – ett val mellan djup och bredd?” Utvecklingskonferensen för högre utbildning, Karlstads universitet, 16-18 november 2005 (med Jörgen Nissen)
(2005) ”Mot en asymmetrisk social aritmetik: Lévinas och rättens utmaningar”, i JFT. Tidskrift för juridiska föreningen i Finland, nr 6, s. 727-744.
(2005) “The construction of pseudo-science. Science patrolling and knowledge policing by academic prefects and weeders”, i VEST- Journal of Science and Technology Studies, Vol.18, nr 3-4, s.17-69, 2006
(2006) “Gränsdragningar och gränsöverskridanden i högskolevärlden”, i Utbildning & Demokrati Vol. 15, nr 2, s. 7-24, 2006 (med Jörgen Nissen)
(2006) “Quantifying automobility – speed, ‘zero tolerance’ and democracy”, I Böhm, Steffen, Campbell Jones, Chris Land & Matthew Paterson Against Automobility. Oxford: Blackwell, s. 93-112
(2006) George W Reinfeldt. Konsten att göra en politisk extreme makeover. Stockholm: Karneval (med Brian Palmer) (
(2007) ”Who’s colonizing who? The knowledge society thesis and global challenges in higher education”, In Studies in Philosophy and Education
(2007) “Fundraising discourse and the commodification of the Other’, I Business Ethics. A European Review, Vol. 16, nr 3, 286-300
(forthc.) ”Your Words Against Mine: States of Exception in Popular Legal Culture” In Sykes, Geoffrey (ed.) Courting the Media. Contemporary Perspectives on Media and the Law. Nova Science Publishers
 

Sidansvarig: frida.ekman@liu.se
Senast uppdaterad: 2012-03-13