Papers by Susanne Højlund
International Journal of Food Design
International Journal of Food Design, 2020
International Journal of Food Design
Climate change, food systems and sustainability are nowadays connected themes at many conferences... more Climate change, food systems and sustainability are nowadays connected themes at many conferences. In response to these societal challenges, we arranged the symposium Creative Tastebuds 2021 to qualify questions and studies across disciplines on how we can all eat sustainably for both pleasure and planet. But how can conferences be designed in ways that build up the new knowledge that are needed today? Based on a critique of the traditional concept of conferences we discuss how alternative designs can contribute to new understandings and new answers. With inspiration from design anthropology, we discuss how knowledge production can be stimulated based on three basic elements: conceptual curation of the event, experimental and interdisciplinary collaboration and a sensuous scenography that fits the content of the conference. The symposium was designed to create an ambitious, interdisciplinary and creative atmosphere, where dialogues were facilitated in innovative ways and across virt...
This article outlines what it means to see taste as a social sense, that means as an activity rel... more This article outlines what it means to see taste as a social sense, that means as an activity related to socio-cultural context, rather than as an individual matter of internal reflection. Though culture in the science of taste is recognized as an influential parameter, it is often mentioned as the black box, leaving it open to determine exactly how culture impacts taste, and vice versa, and often representing the taster as a passive recipient of multiple factors related to the local cuisine and culinary traditions. By moving the attention from taste as a physiological stimulus–response of individuals to tasting as a shared cultural activity, it is possible to recognize the taster as a reflexive actor that communicates, performs, manipulates, senses, changes and embodies taste—rather than passively perceives a certain experience of food. The paper unfolds this anthropological approach to taste and outlines some of its methodological implications: to map different strategies of sharing the experience of eating, and to pay attention to the context of these tasting practices. It is proposed that different taste activities can be analysed through the same theoretical lens, namely as sharing practices that generates and maintains a cultural understanding of the meaning of taste.
Introduction for a special issue of Anthropology in Action: The Anthropology of Welfare
The article explores how societal contexts create diff erent possibilities for faring well toward... more The article explores how societal contexts create diff erent possibilities for faring well towards the future for young marginalized people. Based on a comparative project including ethnographies from Brazil, Uganda, Georgia and Denmark the authors discuss well-faring as a time-oriented process based on individual as well as societal conditions. The article argues that in order to understand well-faring it is important to analyse how visions and strategies for the future are shaped in relation to local circumstances. Whether it is possible to envision the future as hopeless or hopeful , as concrete or abstract or as dependent on family or state is a matt er of context. Well-faring is thus neither an individual nor a state project but must be analysed in a double perspective as an interplay between the two.
Outlines Critical Practice Studies, 2001
As we experience and manipulate time—be it as boredom or impatience—it becomes an object: somethi... more As we experience and manipulate time—be it as boredom or impatience—it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to this important new book, Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality, have provided a diverse collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical explorations of youth experiencing time in a variety of contemporary socio-cultural settings. The essays in this volume focus on time as an external and often troubling factor in young people’s lives, and show how emotional unrest and violence but also creativity and hope are responses to troubling times. The chapters discuss notions of time and its “objectification” in diverse locales including the Georgian Republic, Brazil, Denmark, and Uganda. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the essays in Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience.
Social Analysis, 2011
... project; the research group at Aarhus University, managed by Ole Steen Kristensen, for many g... more ... project; the research group at Aarhus University, managed by Ole Steen Kristensen, for many good discussions and seminars during the project; the PhD group at the Danish Research School of Anthropology for organizing stimulating discussions; Jeppe Trolle Linnet and Sally ...
Anthropology in Action, 2011
Abstract: The article explores how societal contexts create different possibilities for faring we... more Abstract: The article explores how societal contexts create different possibilities for faring well towards the future for young marginalized people. Based on a comparative project including ethnographies from Brazil, Uganda, Georgia and Denmark the authors discuss ...
Anthropology in Action, 2011
Barndommens organisering: i et dansk …, 2009
Videnskab og Sygepleje, 1996
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