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Staffan Löfving is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He holds a visiting position as Visiting Associate Professor at the SARChI Chair in South African Art & Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on visual anthropology, displacement studies, and economic anthropology, with fieldwork in Colombia, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sweden. Löfving’s work bridges academic research with curatorial projects, collaborating with museums such as Ethnografiska Museet and the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has exhibited photographs documenting conflicts in Central America and the Balkans, emphasizing the socio-political dimensions of visual culture.
Research Interests:
- Photography as social memory technology
- Displacement and emplacement in migration contexts
- Economic precarity and affective labor
- Visual representation of conflict and post-war societies
Collaborations:
- EUNICE framework collaborations with Universities of Mons (Belgium) and Cantabria (Spain)
- Curation of the 2016 'Imperfect Shots' exhibition in Sarajevo
- Curated retrospective of Hugo Löfving’s work at Ölands Museum (2023)
Teaching: Courses include Intercultural Communication, Urbanity and Migration, and Conflict and Communication.
