Anna Lydia Svalastog

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Professor

Contact

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anna.l.svalastog@hiof.no

Study place

Fredrikstad

Office nr.

A-205

Associated researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University. Homepage.

Member of the Cross-Cultural Working Group of the International Brain Initiative (IBI).

Member of the expert advisory board for the H2020 project Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT. Homepage.

Chair of the research group for psychosocial work. Homepage.

Chair of the European based research network Navigating Knowledge Landscapes (NKL). Homepage. NKL focuses on different aspects of health and the digital society.

With Ulf Carmesund, co-responsible, for the working group Good neighbours-good neighbourhoods.

Member of COST Action IS1001 Bio-objects and their boundaries: governing matters at the intersection of society, politics, and science. (2010-2014)

Substantial parts of my research are available at Researchgate.

Research and international collaboration

Ongoing:

Associated research at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB) Uppsala University, and member of the the International Brain Initiative (IBI) Crosscultural Working Group
Head of the psychosocial work research group at Østfold University College.
Chair of the international research network Navigating Knowledge Landscapes (NKL).
Co-responsible for the Goda grannar - godt naboskap.
Member of the Redelighetsutvalget (RUT) at Østfold University College.
Review tasks for referee journals and founding bodies

Former:

Member of the Expert Advisory Board for the H2020 PANELFIT, Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT (2018-2022).
Member of the COST Action 1001 IS1001 Bio-objects and their boundaries: governing matters at the intersection of society, politics, and science, the COST Action 1001 work group II governance, and the Science Communication task force. (2010-2014).
Chair of the Culture Health and Bioethics research network, CRB Uppsala University (2011-2014).
Co-ordinator of RIEKKIS, network about and for Sámi research and culture (2003-2015) Umeå University.
Chair of the Synpraxia Interdisciplinary Forum research network (2001-2004) Umeå Universitet.

Editorial work:

Articles are mostly published in open access journals, and organized and presented on my Researchgate profile.

Teaching

My professorship is tied to the MA program of psychosocial work, as are my main obligations. I have main responsibility for the ongoing master seminar for MA-students writing their MA-thesis (Emne 6, 7, 8). The MA program have produced +70 MA thesis.

Supervisor for PhD-students.

Background

Full Professor at Østfold University College autumn of 2014-still.

Associated Researcher at CRB Uppsala University 2000; 2007-2016; 2021-still.

Associate Professor (docent) at the Faculty of Humanities, Umeå University May 2005.

Associate professor and head of study program 2000-2007, Umeå University.

2 year Post doc from Knut & Alice Wallenberg, Uppsala University 1998-2000.

PhD Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University 1994-1998.

MA Uppsala University 1994.

2 years Nordpluss scholarship (scholarship from the Council of Nordic Ministers) at Uppsala University 1989-1991.

BA-studies in the humanities, Oslo University 1986-1989.

Ex phil Lillehammer College 1985.

Research groups

The psychosocial work research group

Svensson, Ann; Nardoni, Maruška; Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Vidmar, Matjaž; Machado, Helena & Kopilaš, Vanja [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2025). Vaccine Hesitancy in Public Healthcare During Pandemics: An International Study to Inform Management Learning. Health Science Reports. 8(8). doi: 10.1002/hsr2.71190. Full text in Research Archive
Foss, Espen Marius; Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Dahl, Ulf Peter & Lepp, Margret (2025). The Use of Drama for Exploring Research Questions Within Master Theses in Psychosocial Work—A Qualitative Study of a Pedagogical Intervention in Health and Welfare Education. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. ISSN 0283-9318. 39(3). doi: 10.1111/scs.70116. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Background: In this study, we have used drama as a pedagogical strategy to facilitate students work with their research questions related to their master thesis in psychosocial work. This strategy creates and promotes a transdisciplinary team approach, as the group of students represents a variety of professions with different perspectives and creates an interdisciplinary discussion. Aim: To describe and analyse the use of drama and Enhanced Forum Theatre (EFT) as a teaching strategy to activate the student's practice-based knowledge when exploring challenges in various psychosocial fields to identify and define research questions for their master theses. Method: A qualitative approach is used, consisting of the researchers' participatory and field observations of a one-day drama workshop. Three role plays were prepared and performed as EFT. Results: The staging of EFT from real life experiences made professional knowledge available for group discussion and analysis. The process induced a transdisciplinary exploration of identified challenges together with possible research questions being elaborated upon. Issues of power, marginalisation, vulnerability and empowerment in the psychosocial fields became visible and tangible in a direct and relevant way across the plays. Value: To our knowledge, EFT has not been applied before with the objective to develop research questions for master's theses in health and welfare studies/psychosocial work.
Illes, J.; Perreault, M.L.; Bassil, K.; Bjaalie, Jan G.; Taylor-Bragge, R.L. & Chneiweiss, H. [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2025). Two-Eyed Seeing and other Indigenous perspectives for neuroscience. Nature. ISSN 0028-0836. 638(8049), p. 58–68. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08437-2. Full text in Research Archive
Wilson, Shawn; Hansen, Ketil Lenert & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2025). How is the Land linked to the brain? Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. ISSN 2589-2959. doi: 10.1016/bs.dnb.2025.02.005. Full text in Research Archive
Kopilaš, Vanja; Nasadiuk, Khrystyna; Martinelli, Lucia; Lhotska, Lenka; Todorovic, Zoran & Vidmar, Matjaz [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2024). Perspectives on the COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout in 17 Countries: Reflexive Thematic and Frequency Analysis Based on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Framework. JMIR Human Factors. 11(1). doi: 10.2196/44258. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Jenkins, Ian & Müller, Dieter K. (2022). Chapter 1. Introduction: A Resource Approach to Tourism. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Müller, Dieter K. & Jenkins, Ian (Ed.), Tourism As A Resource-Based Industry Based on the Work of Sondre Svalastog. CABI Publishing. ISSN 9781800621466. p. 1–8. doi: 10.1079/9781800621480.0000. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Wilson, Shawn Stanley & Hansen, Ketil Lenert (2021). Knowledge versus education in the margins: An indigenous and feminist critique of education. Education Sciences. 11(10). doi: 10.3390/educsci11100627. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This article highlights the perceptions and expectations of knowledge that many people, including educators and policy makers, take for granted. Our focus of understanding is Indigenous studies and gender studies. Our aim is to show how modern education undermines these fields of studies. We use an autoethnographic method, reflecting more than 75 years as pupils/students and more than 90 years as educators. We have carefully chosen narratives of exposure to knowledge outside the educational system, as well as narratives of limitations posed upon us by the educational system. This narrative approach makes it possible for us to investigate and discuss our grief about areas of knowledge that society cries for, but the educational system continuously finds ways to resist. Our conclusion is that crucial knowledge is located outside the educational system, where individuals, groups, and communities cherish, protect, and guard knowledge that the educational system marginalises or excludes. As this knowledge is fundamental for life, our message is that the educational system needs to re-evaluate its strategies to stay relevant.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Wilson, Shawn; Gaski, Harald; Senior, Kate & Chenhall, Richard (2021). Double perspective in the colonial present. Social Theory & Health. ISSN 1477-8211. p. 1–22. doi: 10.1057/s41285-020-00156-8. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This paper will explain the concept of double perspective and the impact that this cultural understanding may have on the health of the Indigenous peoples of Scandinavia. In inter-cultural communication, one set of meanings may be discernible to the outsider while a whole extra set of restricted or underlying meanings are only accessible for those people who have the cultural knowledge to discern them. These different sets of meanings embody a double perspective. It is not dual perspectives on the same reality but rather seeing two separate but overlapping realities. We will discuss the layers of meaning which are involved in the interactions between public healthcare institutions, clinicians and staff, and Indigenous people including the Sámi. These interactions are influenced by the impact of colonization and the ongoing epistemicide of Indigenous thought. By realising the improved resilience that a double perspective brings to Indigenous peoples, an awareness of the inclusion and exclusion of Indigenous persons, cultures and histories should become established in public institutions and in everyday life. A double perspective carries Sámi resilience, and should be understood as a key to support individual health, and also the collective wellbeing of a people living on their traditional yet colonized land.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Blaakilde, Anna Leonora; Ringstad, Øystein & Lamerichs, Joyce (2020). Narrative Genre and Health in the Digital Society. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gajović, Srećko & Webster, Andrew (Ed.), Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9789811582059. p. 15–42. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-8206-6_2. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2020). Interpreting gene myths in a globalized world. Marburg Journal of Religion. 22(2), p. 1–34. doi: 10.17192/mjr.2020.22.2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This essay critically examines Peter Beyer’s system-theoretical definition of religion, his concept of the function of religion in global society, and his definition of global core values. The empirical examples used for this critique illustrate how religion serves as a resource in public debate, and how academics use religion to explain public opinions and attitudes. They focus on genetic science and technology, noting references to myths and religious heritage The concept of myth as an analytical tool in analyses of the European barometer surveys is also examined, while tracing the history of ideas behind public opinion on genetic science and gene technology in Europe and the USA. In contrast to Beyer’s analysis, the core values at stake are not the (neo-)liberal values which he claims represent global society, i.e. equality, progress, justice, but rather sustainability, the relation between past, present and future life, and concerns about the undisputable framework of life and death, which overlap with classical theological projects. When references to myth and religion are made, they appear useful in the context of modern genetic science and gene technology because they are not about belief. Instead, such references appear closely tied to memories of recent history, to modern wartime science and modern big science failure. Since the empirical examples represent interpretative processes, system theories are unsuited to my analysis. To understand how references to religious texts and heritage work I use a classical hermeneutical stance rooted in philosophy and religious studies. My methodological conclusion is that hermeneutics offers a relevant perspective for the analysis of how religion works in discussions of science and new technology in the globalized world.
Wilson, Shawn Stanley; Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gaski, Harald; Senior, Kate & Chenhall, Richard (2020). Double perspective narrating time, life and health. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. ISSN 1177-1801. 16(2), p. 137–145. doi: 10.1177/1177180120920774. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The goal of this article is to explain the concept of double perspective and the impact this may be having on the health of Indigenous people. In inter-cultural communication, there are sets of meanings that are discernible to anyone, and an extra set of underlying meanings that are only accessible for people who have the cultural knowledge to discern them. These different sets of meanings embody a double perspective. We will discuss the double perspective involved in the interactions between public healthcare institutions, the clinicians and staff of these institutions, and Indigenous people. By realising the potential for improved resilience that a double perspective brings to Indigenous people, an awareness of the inclusion and exclusion of Indigenous persons, cultures and histories should become established in healthcare institutions and health research. A double perspective carries resilience, and as such it should be understood as a key to support individual health and the collective well-being of Indigenous people.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Kristoffersen, Nina M. J. & Lile, Hadi Strømmen (2019). Introduksjon til psykososialt arbeid. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Kristoffersen, Nina M. J. & Lile, Hadi Strømmen (Ed.), Psykososialt arbeid: Kunnskap, verdier og samfunn. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205512443. p. 17–39. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2019). Om religion og flerkulturelt psykososialt arbeid. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Kristoffersen, Nina M. J. & Lile, Hadi Strømmen (Ed.), Psykososialt arbeid: Kunnskap, verdier og samfunn. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205512443. p. 80–100. Full text in Research Archive
Toreld, Eva Marie; Haugli, Kristin Opaas & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2018). Maintaining normality when serving a prison sentence in the digital society. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 59(6), p. 335–339. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2018.59.335. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Allgaier, Joachim & Gajovic, Srecko (2018). Navigating Knowledge Landscapes in the digital society: a look back and visions for the future. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 59(5), p. 274–278. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2018.59.274. Full text in Research Archive
Hansen, Heidi Aarum; Björktomta, Siv-Britt & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Digital society generates new challenges on child welfare services. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 58(1), p. 80–83. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2017.58.80. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Donev, Doncho; Kristoffersen, Nina M. J. & Gajovic, Srecko (2017). Concepts and definitions of health and health-related values in the knowledge landscapes of the digital society. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 58(6), p. 431–435. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2017.58.431. Full text in Research Archive
Gajovic, Srecko & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). When communicating health-related knowledge, beware of the black holes of the knowledge landscapes geography. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 57(5), p. 504–509. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2016.57.504. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Allgaier, Joachim (2016). Hollywood heroes in high tech risk societies: modern fairy tales and emerging technologies. JCOM - Journal of Science Communication. 15(2), p. 1–9. doi: 10.22323/2.15020305. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Science, research and emerging technologies often play a key role in many modern action movies. In this contribution we suggest to use genre analysis of folk narratives as an innovative and useful tool for understanding science and technology in action movies. In this contribution we outline our approach using illustrative examples and detail how understanding action movies as modern fairy tales can benefit the study of science, research and technology in popular culture.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2015). Mapping Sámi Life and Culture. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (Ed.), Visions of Sápmi. ArtHub. ISSN 9788282210119. p. 17–45. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Maps of Sámi land, life and history.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (2015). Introduction. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (Ed.), Visions of Sápmi. ArtHub. ISSN 9788282210119. p. 9–15. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Presentation of key concepts,theoretical frame and book chapter.
Allgaier, Joachim & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2015). The communication aspects of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Western Africa – do we need to counter one, two, or many epidemics? Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 56(5), p. 496–499. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2015.56.496. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Damjanovicova, Maria (2015). Epigenetics, society, and bioobjects. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 56(2), p. 166–168. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2015.56.166. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Allgaier, Joachim & Gajovic, Srecko (2015). Navigating knowledge landscapes: on health, science, communication, media, and society. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. p. 321–323. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2015.56.321. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2015). Treacherous narratives & seductive theories. On methodological challenges in psychosocial academic work. Inaugural lecture as Full Professor of Psychosocial Work at Østfold University College, February 13, 2015. New Zealand Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 1(3), p. 13–36. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2014). The value of bio-objects and policy discourses in Europe. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 55(2), p. 167–170. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.167. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Allgaier, Joachim; Martinelli, Lucia & Gajovic, Srecko (2014). Distortion, confusion, and impasses: could a public dialogue within Knowledge Landscapes contribute to better communication and understanding of innovative knowledge? Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 55(1), p. 54–60. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.54. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Chenall, Richard; Martinelli, Lucia; McLaughlin, Janice; Paulsen, Berit Smestad & Senior, Kate [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2014). Culture, science and bioethics: Interdisciplinary understandings of practices in science, culture and ethics. New Zealand Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 1(2). Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This paper presents insights from four years of interdisciplinary discussions and analysis focusing on the complex and multidimensional character of the relationship between culture and ethics. Our approach to culture is one which seeks to understand how values we know as cultural – that is embedded in and emergent from particular locations and groupings of people who develop shared understandings over time – are part of how groups are recognised (or denied), how knowledge is produced and understood, how people understand their position in the world and how history and change influence the boundaries between cultures and the differential valuing of cultures. Our overall claim is that cultural dynamics are embedded in all areas of cultural analysis and bioethical or ethical debate. What the paper produces is a case for seeing culture as a vital component to how we debate science and ethics and indicates several ways this can be done analytically and methodologically. The value of the interdisciplinary analyses captured in the domains we discuss is that they draw out the interrelated nature of the practices associated with „culture‟, „ethics‟ and „science‟. Drawing out such interrelationships is an important stage in thinking through the questions of justice, rights and power, that each of us in our different fields see as vital to our research practice. We share a conviction of the need for inter-/trans-disciplinary evaluations of our own disciplines, in order to make visible the culture of Dominant research that resist forms of analysis that question how things are done and why. We also recognise the need to constantly question our own cultural positionings within our disciplines and our society and how we are located within power relations from which we may receive benefit.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2013). Making it transparent. On naming, framing and administrating biobank research on native peoples. New genetics and society (Print). ISSN 1463-6778. 32(3), p. 209–242. doi: 10.1080/14636778.2012.760265. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Martinelli, Lucia (2013). Representing life as opposed to being: the bio-objectification process of the HeLa cells and its relation to personalized medicine. Croatian Medical Journal. ISSN 0353-9504. 54(4), p. 397–402. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2013.54.397. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2012). Gene myth in public perceptions. Public Understanding of Science. ISSN 0963-6625. 21(4), p. 478–494. doi: 10.1177/0963662510376284. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Eriksson, Stefan (2010). You can use my name; you don't have to steal my story: A critique of anonymity in indigenous studies. Developing World Bioethics. ISSN 1471-8731. 10(2), p. 104–110. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2010.00276.x. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2009). Att analysera och teoretisera kön och religion: Förslag till nytt religionsbegrepp. Marburg Journal of Religion. 14(1), p. 1–17. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gustafsson, Petter & Jansson, Stefan (2006). Comparative analysis of the risk-handling procedures for gene technology applications in medical and plant science. Science and Engineering Ethics. ISSN 1353-3452. 12(3), p. 465–479. doi: 10.1007/s11948-006-0045-4. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2004). Sammanhangets betydelse och kontexternas dynamik: om riskhantering av genmodifierade växter i Sverige. In Nordlund, Christer (Eds.), Livsföreställningar : kultur, samhälle och biovetenskap. Kungl. skytteanska samfundet. ISSN 9789186438265. p. 107–130. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2002). Rituelle övergrepp - vår kulturs hemliga hjärta?: Om rit, modernitet, kultur och kontextualitet. In Stausberg, Michael; Sundqvist, Olof & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (Ed.), Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa. ISSN 9789157803887. p. 41–83. Full text in Research Archive
Lundgren, Eva & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2001). Subjektet - individuelt og relasjonelt. In Lundgren, Eva (Eds.), Ekte kvinne?: identitet på kryss og tvers. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253022697. p. 278–314. Full text in Research Archive
Lundgren, Eva & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2001). Moderne identitet: betvingende begjær i kroppen. In Lundgren, Eva (Eds.), Ekte kvinne?: identitet på kryss og tvers. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253022697. p. 239–277. Full text in Research Archive
Lundgren, Eva & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2001). Den kontekstuelle kroppen. In Lundgren, Eva (Eds.), Ekte kvinne?: identitet på kryss og tvers. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253022697. p. 212–238. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1998). Reproduktion och könsdikotomisering: En problematisering av feminstiska teoretiska antaganden rörande kopplingen mellan kroppslig reproduktion och könsskillnader. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift. ISSN 0348-8365. 19(1), p. 65–72. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1997). Feministisk myteteori - en kulturanalytisk utfordring. In Sundquist, Olof & Svalastog, Anna-Lydia (Ed.), Myter och mytteorier: religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. Swedish Science Press, Uppsala. ISSN 9789197213646. p. 21–54. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1993). Seksualitet som nytelse og seksualitet som reproduksjon: Om kjønnsdikotomisering og mannlig maktpotensiale. Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. ISSN 0008-1345. 50, p. 30–42. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1991). "Paraplytrille med parasoll": Om kontekstuell forståelse. Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. ISSN 0008-1345. 44, p. 107–112. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1990). Abort og kjønnsidentitet. Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. ISSN 0008-1345. p. 24–36. Full text in Research Archive

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Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2026). Integrering som fungerer: En antologi fra nettverket Gode grannar – godt naboskap. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215067452. 356 p. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2026). Integrering som fungerer. En antologi fra nettverket Gode grannar - godt naboskap. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215067452. 356 p. doi: https:/www.universitetsforlaget.no/integrering-som-fungerer. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Integrering er alles ansvar. I denne boken viser vi til konkrete måter å gjøre integreringsarbeid på, og til kunnskapsfelt og perspektiv som er til hjelp i dette arbeidet. Du får - konkrete verktøy og metoder som kan brukes direkte i praksis - inspirasjon fra vellykkede tiltak - og historiene bak dem - forskningsbasert innsikt som gjør det enklere å ta gode valg - perspektiver på lokal tilpasning - hva fungerer hvor, og hvorfor? Noen ganger dukker det opp et tiltak som fungerer usedvanlig godt. Et slikt tiltak er gjerne drevet av en sentral ildsjel, og når denne sentrale skikkelsen omsider forsvinner, forsvinner ofte både tiltaket og kunnskapen om hva som gjorde at det fungerte. Denne antologien ønsker å samle eksempler på godt integreringsarbeid slik at kunnskapen blir tatt vare på og gjort tilgjengelig, både for forskere og for neste ildsjel. Kapitlene i boken er skrevet av personer med tilknytning til nettverket Gode grannar − godt naboskap. Dette er personer som over tid har arbeidet med integrering, og som på ulike måter har fått anerkjennelse for dette arbeidet. Boken kombinerer praksiserfaringer med forskning og viser hvorfor integrering må forstås bredt. Den løfter fram betydningen av offentlige, private og frivillige arenaer og understreker behovet både for solid kunnskap og for lokal tilpasning. For å lykkes må man forstå de lokale forutsetningene - samfunn, natur og kultur - når man identifiserer ressurser og utvikler tiltak. Integrering som fungerer er skrevet for studenter og fagpersoner innen helse- og sosialfag, migrasjon, integreringsforvaltning, utviklingsstudier og lærerutdanning. Den er også et verdifullt verktøy for frivillige organisasjoner, samt ledere og beslutningstakere i kommuner og fylker som ønsker å styrke integreringsarbeidet sitt.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Müller, Dieter K. & Jenkins, Ian (2022). Tourism As A Resource-Based Industry Based on the Work of Sondre Svalastog. CABI Publishing. ISBN 9781800621466. 176 p. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gajović, Srećko & Webster, Andrew (2020). Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9789811582059. 319 p. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Allgaier, Joachim & Webster, Andrew (2020). Mapping New Digital Landscapes - Information, Communication & Society. Taylor & Francis. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Kristoffersen, Nina M. J. & Lile, Hadi Strømmen (2019). Psykososialt arbeid: Kunnskap, verdier og samfunn. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 9788205512443. 394 p. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Gajovic, Srecko (2018). Navigating Knowledge Landscapes. Medicinska Naklada. ISBN 9789531768856. 246 p. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (2015). Visions of Sápmi. ArtHub. ISBN 9788282210119. 200 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
English, summary in Northern Sámi
Stausberg, Michael; Sundqvist, Olof & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2002). Riter och ritteorier. Religionshistoriska diskussioner och teoretiska ansatser. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa. ISBN 9789157803887. 278 p. Full text in Research Archive

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Foss, Espen Marius; Lepp, Margret; Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Dahl, Ulf Peter (2023). The use of drama for exploring research questions in master thesis´s in psychosocial work, in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
Allgaier, Joachim; Damnjanović, Ivana; Mali, Franc & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2023). The Dark Side of Food and Nutrition in the Digital Society? Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2023). How may Folklore contribute to brain research and neuroscience? Full text in Research Archive Show summary
How Folklore May Contribute to Brain Research and Neuroscience? The International Brain Initiative (IBI) has established a new cross-cultural working group (WG). The overall aim of the WG is to bring in non-westernized strategies and ways of knowing and learning to ensure inclusive and global neuroscience. To include or merge specific institutions, communities and traditions that are themselves subject to organic processes is productive. Though merging the fields of medicine, in particular brain research, with culture, has a well-known and controversial past. This presentation discusses the questions why and how to approach culture as an empirical field, analytical strategy, and theoretical perspective relevant for present neuroscience.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2023). Doble perspektiv, mytopoeter og samisk kulturlandskap. En homage til Louise Bäckman, Sverre Fjellheim, Nils Aslak Valkeapää og Ailo Gaup. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Doble perspektiv, mytopoeter og samisk kulturlandskap. En homage til Louise Bäckman, Sverre Fjellheim, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää og Ailo Gaup. Vi lever våre liv mellom det faktiske og det mulige. For at noe skal bli til må det skapes. For at noe skal bli til for oss må det erfares, eller bli vist oss av noen. Språk og fortellinger hører sammen med levd liv. Språk og fortellinger finnes på et sted og hører til en sosial sammenheng i en tid. Det som er utenfor det man har satt ord på og utviklet begreper for er enda ikke erkjent. I språket og fortellingene finns også det og de som er fordømt, forvist til bakgater, eller glemt. I språket finns også dyrebare skatter som er skjult, eller enda ikke allment kjent. Dobbelt perspektiv handler om parallelle fortellinger og språk knyttet til urfolk. De samiske forskerne Louise Bäckman og Sverre Fjellheim har i sine arbeider med samisk historie jobbet fram begrepene mytopoet (Bäckman) og samisk kulturlandskap (Fjellheim). Begrepene er utviklet mot bakgrunn av samisk liv og historie. Begrepene fremmer perspektiver på religion og natur som har betydning for oss alle. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää var den første samiske forfatteren som fikk Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris (1991). Ailo Gaup er forfatteren som gjennom boken Sjamansonen ble den offentlige (ny-)sjamanismens forfatter i Norden. Begge har betydelse for både et samisk og et ikke samisk publikum. Begge har hatt betydning for individers hverdag, glede og helse, og for en offentlig samtale om forfatterskapenes innehold. De to forfatterne utgår fra myter, levevis og erfaringer som er stedegne, bundet til språk og begreper i det samiske folkets historie. Fortellingene deres utgår fra livet selv og de liv og muligheter som de stedegne kunnskapene og erfaringene gjør tilgjengelig. Foredraget er en refleksjon over fire samiske kultur- og kunnskapsformidleres betydning for festivalens tema.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Carmesund, Ulf Arvid (2022). When democracies die – how may ethics assist? Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2021). Just a point of view? On disregard of information and warnings from COVID-19 field doctors, and the general scientific disbelief of knowledge based on qualitative texts. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gajović, Srećko & Webster, Andrew (2020). Introduction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Digital Landscape. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gajović, Srećko & Webster, Andrew (Ed.), Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9789811582059. p. 1–11. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-8206-6_1. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Webster, Andrew & Allgaier, Joachim (2020). Introduction. Mapping new digital landscapes. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. 23(8), p. 1100–1105. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1784507. Full text in Research Archive
Beriain, Inigo De Miguel & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2020). Some reflections on the idea of immunity certificates. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2019). DNA as my heritage? On socio-technical systemic ignorance imbedded in the direct to consumer genetic testing. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Blaakilde, Anne Leonora (2018). Personal health narratives as a risk management strategy in the digital society. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2018). Culture and agency in the digital society. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Konferansen ble gjennomført i samarbeid med NKL-nettverket.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2018). Health in the digital society: The juxtaposition of knowledge and culture Arrangør: Navigating Knowledge Landscapes Network; Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Centre of Excellence in Basic, Clinical, and Translational Neuroscience; University of Zagreb; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatian Institute for Brain Research. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Psychosocial work in the digital society. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Gajovic, Srecko (2017). Knowledge Landscapes – Linear and Non-Linear Knowledge Communication in the Digital Society / Krajolici znanja – linearni i nelinearni prijenos znanja u digitalnom društvu. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Abstract: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LDB-2017-publ.pdf Program: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LDB-2017-program.pdf
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Navigating Knowledge Landscapes and Ethics / Snalaženje u krajolicima znanja i etika http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LDB-2017-program.pdf. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Abstract: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LDB-2017-publ.pdf Program: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LDB-2017-program.pdf
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Presentation: Health and knowledge in digital society, on navigating Knowledge Landscapes. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Abstract: http://www.fag.hiof.no/~kok/NKL-Preliminary-program-v-2.pdf
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Med brukeren i sentrum, utenfor helselovgivningen og i en tverrfaglig sammenheng. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Program 10.15-15.30: - Med brukeren i sentrum, utenfor helselovgivningen og i en tverrfaglig sammenheng Anna Lydia Svalastog, Professor, Høgskolen i Østfold - Sårbarhet; hvilke etiske spørsmål akualiseres? Lillian Lillemoen, Forsker, Dr.polit, Senter for medisinsk etikk, Institutt for helse- og samfunn,Universitetet i Oslo - Hvorfor trenger vi forskningsetikk? Berge Solberg, Professor medisinsk etikk, NTNU Trondheim, Nestleder, Den nasjonale forskningsetiske komité for medisin og helsefag (NEM) - Forskningsetiske retningslinjer Vidar Enebakk , Sekretariatsleder, Den nasjonale forskningsetiske komité for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora (NESH) - Panel m. spørsmål fra salen Lillian Lillemoen, Berge Solberg, Vidar Enebakk http://www2.hiof.no/nor/avdeling-for-helse_-og-sosialfag/fou-ved-avdeling-hs/psykososialt-arbeid-i-helse--og-sosialfaglig-praksis/aktivitet?lang=nor
Lile, Hadi Strømmen & Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Sannhetskommisjon eller fortielse? Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2017). Personal narratives & health. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Symposium on cross-disciplinary research in the health humanities and beyond: perspectives and knowledge landscapes in the digital society. Hosted by the Department of Language, Literature & Communication Vrije University, in collaboration with the Navigating Knowledge Landscape Network, and sponsored by the Network Institute and CLUE+ The interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage. Location: VU Main Building entrance via De Boelelaan (main entrance). Contact: Joyce Lamerichs and Antske Fokkens
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). How to organize and produce a COST Action applicatin. Experiences and suggested strategies. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Globalized communication and local contexts. On meaning misunderstandings and the reinforcement of social categories. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). - Sammenheng og oppdrag: Invitert foredragsholder til Human Centred Computing Group Workshop, November 30th 2016, Oxford E-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/find-centre - Mitt foredrag: 12.00-12.55 Anna Lydia Svalastog (Professor of Psycho-Social work, Østfold University College, Norway) Psychosocial narratives in digital society. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Human Centred Computing group workshop November 30th 2016 Oxford E-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/find-centre Morning session – room 277 10.00 - 10.10 Introductions 10.10 - 10.45 Norbert Nthala (Doctoral student, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) Home Data Security Decisions 10.45 - 11.00 Break 11.00 – 11.55 Laurie Pycroft (Doctoral Candidate in surgical sciences, University of Oxford) Brainjacking - cybersecurity risk in neurological implants 12.00 -12.55 Anna Lydia Svalastog (Professor of Psycho-Social work, Østfold University College Norway) Psychosocial narratives in digital society 12.55 – 2.05 Lunch Afternoon session – room 278 2.05 – 2.15 Room set up and introductions 2.15 – 3.10 Michael Veale (Doctoral Researcher, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL) How do public sector values enter public sector machine learning systems, if at all? 3.10 – 3.25 Break 3.25 – 4.15 Stuart Reeves (Senior Researcher, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham) Embeddedness and Sequentiality in Social Media 4.15 – 4.45 General discussion and HCC group update
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Fortellinger om samisk kultur og historie. http://litthusfred.no/events/fortellinger-om-samisk-kultur-og-historie/. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Presentation: Navigating Knowledge Landscapes. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Presentation of Knowledge Landscapes. Frame for the presentation: The Building Interdisciplinary Analysis and Capacity: The UoYSTS Roundtable Workshop held on developing interdisciplinary research in STS This Workshop, which was supported by the University of York’s Research Office, brought together members of the University of York Science, Technology and Society (UoYSTS) Roundtable which was established in 2015, with doctoral students and staff on the White Rose Science and Technology Studies Pathway. In addition, members of a European network, ‘Navigating Knowledge Landscapes’ related to the use of social media attended. Guests from senior university staff were also invited, as were regional members of the Association for Studies In Innovation Science and Technology (AsSIST-UK http://assist-uk.com/). Stakeholders from the York region attended as potential user-collaborators. A report on the meeting can be found here UoYSTS workshop report 2016 (PDF , 201kb). https://www.york.ac.uk/satsu/news-events/news/6julyassistlaunch/
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Presentation: Ida Marie. On personal narratives in digital society. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Presentation: The on-line web as an arena for individual strong voices. On personal narratives, addiction and resistance. The presentation was part of: 16:00 – 17:00 Parallel Session I: Change and obstruction in the web of on-line health information (The Navigating Knowledge Landscapes network) MODERATOR Anna Lydia Svalastog. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Presentation: The on-line web as an arena for individual strong voices. On personal narratives, addiction and resistance This presentation focuses on personal psychosocial narratives told by known and unknown individuals, under their full name and in traditional news media with, i.e. an editorial policy and investigating journalism as its prime brand. The presentation start of by introduce this particular genre and relate it to the CMJ discussion on Knowledge Landscapes (KL). In this presentation it has been of interest that the theme discussed varies immensely, and can focus on for example addiction, or depression, or suicide attempts, or suicide committed by someone close to the narrator. Some of these stories will be presented and the argument is that they, as a whole, constitute a specific genre in present digital society. The aim of the presentation is to further discuss the personal narrative as an agent, how it is transported on-line and of-line, and its relation, or lack of relation, to established KL fields. This part will be presented in the form of suggested communication models, meant to generate discussion and thus further conceptual clarification. An underlying ambition is to elaborate on two theoretically argued for understandings of narratives and texts in present society. In part, discourse analysis will be discussed, and the discussion is pushed by the question “is discourse analysis the best way to understand these particular psychosocial narratives?” In part phenomenology will be discussed, though for a different reason. Phenomenology is a key theoretical starting point in health research using qualitative methodologies (interviews in particular). Thus narratives/interviews analysed from a phenomenological point of view will usually limit its explanatory ambition to the individual’s feelings and subjective perspective. This as if the narrative told does not carry knowledge. Thus three things will be interrelated in the presentation and discussed in relation to concrete examples of personal psychosocial narratives presented in traditional news media: • Is it analytically helpful and theoretically motivated to define personal psychosocial narratives in traditional news media a genre? • How to we include these particular personal health narratives in models of communication in present digital society? • How do our theoretical understanding and use of discourse analysis and phenomenology affect our understanding of the content and function of these particular health narratives? Key words: Health narratives and digital society; bio-psychosocial ; discourse analysis, phenomenology, knowledge landscapes
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). The Sami people. Framing, shaping and challenging research practice and ethics in medical and health related research. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Jeg var gjesteforsker en uke ved Zagreb Universitetet knyttet til et forskningssamarbeid. Bakgrunn for oppdraget var den nylig utgivelse av boken Visions of Sápmi, samt mine tidligere arbeider om biobanksforskning på det samiske folket i Sverige, etikk og urfolksforskning, samisk kultur og historie.
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). Re-Novasjoner. Åpningsforedrag knyttet til oppdraget å åpne Litteraturfestival-kunstutstiller Esther Maria Bjørneboes utstilling Re-Novasjoner på Galleri Zink. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). "Visions of sápmi". Anna Lydia Svalastog: En antologi som är annorlunda. [Radio]. SVT Sameradion & SVT Sapmi. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Enberg, Runar & Svonni, Mikael (2016). Visions of Sápmi. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2016). 3 min reportage about Svalastog's research on the Sami people, who they are and why they are important for the research and for the end which are the main conclusions of the research. Interviewer: Nikolina Dragošević. [TV]. Kroatisk TV. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (2015). Preface. In Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Fur, Gunlög (Ed.), Visions of Sápmi. ArtHub. ISSN 9788282210119. p. 7–7. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
English, summary in Northern Sámi
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2015). Knowledge Landscapes, presentasjon og paneldebatt http://glowbrain.hiim.hr/index.php/en/home/10-en/frontpage-articles/178-gb-knowledge-lanscapes. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2015). Conference presentation: Modern fairytales and new technologies: Hollywood heroes in high tech risk societies. https://sciencetechnologysociety.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/conference-programme/. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (2011). Wenger, Tisa, We have a Religion. The 1920s Peublo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom. Marburg Journal of Religion. 16(1), p. 1–4. Full text in Research Archive
Svalastog, Anna Lydia (1998). Det var ikke meningen...: Om konstruksjon av kjønn ved abortinngrep, et feministteoretisk bidrag. Uppsala universitet. Full text in Research Archive

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