Category: #oabooks

Reimagining Dance Education for a Complex World

19 December, 2025

How can dance education respond to our time? Dance Education and Pedagogies in Contemporary Contexts reimagines dance education as a site for critical inquiry, artistic innovation, and social change. This volume explores the practices of dance educators active in glocal, contemporary contexts to promote critical change, work for the decolonisation of higher dance education, and challenge ableism … More Reimagining Dance Education for a Complex World

How the Indo-European peoples imagined death – Language, myth and archaeology in a new book

11 November, 2025

 By interweaving philological analysis, archaeological evidence and mythological narratives, Indo-European Afterlives offers new perspectives on how notions of death and the beyond were embedded in early Indo-European belief systems. From poetic visions of the afterlife to the ritual logic of cremation and the etymology of mourning, Indo-European Afterlives examines how the transition from life to death was conceptualized … More How the Indo-European peoples imagined death – Language, myth and archaeology in a new book

New book explores the ecological worldview of the early Indo-European communities

18 August, 2025

How did the early Indo-European communities understand and mythologise their natural and social environments? The edited volume Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk – Snakes and Water introduces ecological perspectives into the study of Indo-European traditions. The main focus is on the early Indo-European beliefs surrounding the most important elements of the household, above all cattle … More New book explores the ecological worldview of the early Indo-European communities

New book explores the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West

10 June, 2025

This edited volume, Passages francophones du Maghreb et transfert culturel, brings together six researchers from the University of Rabat and the University of Stockholm to explore the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West. The chapters examine Maghrebi travellers’ perspectives on the West, representations of francophone Maghrebi literatures in Sweden, the … More New book explores the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West

Ny bok utforskar litteraturens och känslornas roll i undervisning

9 January, 2025

Skönlitteraturens betydelse i undervisningen har blivit en viktig fråga i skoldebatten. Vad händer om vi aktualiserar känslornas betydelse i relation till de didaktiska frågorna vad, vem, hur, när och varför? I antologin Litteraturdidaktik och känslor: Litteraturdidaktisk nätverkskonferens 2021 presenteras nya insikter kring litteraturdidaktisk forskning. Boken bygger på Litteraturdidaktiskt nätverks (LDN) konferens 2021 som anordnades av … More Ny bok utforskar litteraturens och känslornas roll i undervisning

New Book: Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic

6 September, 2024

The book Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic grew out of interdisciplinary network with the aim to compare the effects of the pandemic on political discourse and practice. The editors of this book, Christophe Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele and Michel Perottino, brought together contributions from researchers on the … More New Book: Comparing the place of experts during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic

Nordic collaboration for open publishing

5 September, 2024

The collaboration between Stockholm University, UiT The Artic University of Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is a researcher-led and non-commercial initiative for open publishing, initiated in May 2023. For several years, both nationally and internationally, there has been a shift towards open science. The goal for Swedish universities is to … More Nordic collaboration for open publishing

New book about Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th Century Zoology

20 June, 2024

Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi (1705–1735) has been recognized as the father of the modern science of ichthyology but his work has not received the attention it deserves until now. This volume, Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th Century Zoology, Vol. I: Peter Artedi’s Life and Works, is presented here in English for the first time. Far … More New book about Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th Century Zoology