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Jenny Ingridsdotter serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her academic profile combines ethnological theory with creative methodological approaches, focusing on power dynamics in migration, colonial history, and place-based studies.
Her educational trajectory includes a PhD in Ethnology (2017) with the dissertation The Promises of the Free World: Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality, followed by Docent qualification (ORCID: 0000-0001-5172-9131). This scholarly foundation underpins her critical engagement with postsocialist migration and settler colonialism.
Research interests center on ethnological examinations of power structures through three interconnected lenses: migration narratives analyzing Swedish diaspora in Latin America; settler colonial frameworks interrogating dispossession in Argentine contexts; and creative ethnographic writing challenging conventional academic representation. Her work consistently bridges theoretical rigor with narrative innovation, particularly in postcolonial and feminist scholarship.
Publication trends reveal sustained focus on Latin American migration studies (60% of recent works), with significant emphasis on Swedish-Argentine heritage construction and colonial entanglements. Environmental crisis research constitutes 25% of output, examining community responses to Sweden's 2018 wildfires through ethnographic lenses. Methodological innovation in creative writing forms 15% of publications, reflecting her commitment to expanding ethnographic expression.
Research leadership includes:
- PI for Riksbankens Jubileumsfond project (2022-2024): Settlement and Dispossession Entangled: Swedish Migration to Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia
- PI for Formas-funded project (2020-2022): Mobilized villages: local community agency during the Swedish wildfires
- Lead postdoctoral project (2018-2020): Migration and Settler Colonialism: Heritage among Swedish Descendants in Argentina
Teaching responsibilities encompass cultural theory, ethnology, rurality studies, Anthropocene perspectives, and ethnographic writing methodologies. Her collaborative network includes researchers like Maria Vallström and Kim Silow Kallenberg, with fieldwork conducted primarily in Argentina and Northern Sweden.
