Helle Rydström
Professor
- Positions: e.g. Associate Professor in Social Anthropology, Linköping University; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University; Assistant Professor in Thematic Research, Linköping University (position funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond; i.e. ‘forskningsmedel för extra insats i forskningsrekryterande syfte’).
- Education: ‘Docent’ (2003) and Ph.D. (1999) Institute of Thematic Research (Social Anthropology/Child Studies), Linköping University; MA (1991) International Development Studies, Roskilde University; BA (1987) Political Science, Roskilde University.
- Visiting/Affiliated Scholar: e.g. The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University; Department of Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute, Halle/Leipzig; Asian-American Studies Department, UCLA; Institute of Family and Gender Studies, Vietnam; Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences; York Center for Asian Research; Department of Anthropology, Hanoi University; Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS).
Research
The Anthropology of Gender in Asia with a special focus on Vietnam. Long-term anthropological fieldwork conducted in Vietnam, but even in Nepal and India, to study the phenomenology of experiences, politics, and practices in times of postcolonialism, colonialism, war, peace, transnationalism, disasters, and climate change.
- Gendered Violences, Crises Modalities, Precariousness, Agency.
- Masculinities, Kinship Hierarchies, Privileges, Power, Movements.
- Episte-Ontologies, Bodies, Sexualities, Socialization, Emotions, Moralities.
- Lifeworld-System Reciprocities, Inequalities, Anthropocene, Sustainable Change.
Current Research Projects
- PI of research project on Climate Disasters and Gendered Violences in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam (with C. Kinnvall and H. Nguyen).
- Funder: Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
- PI of research project on Precariousness at Work: Women Employees in Nordic Companies Outsourced to China, India, and Vietnam (with C. Kinnvall, L. Eklund, and M. Tonini).
- Funder: Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
- Coordinator of CRISIS Theme, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (including 10 colleagues).
- Funder: Pufendorf Institute: https://www.pi.lu.se/en/what-we-do/theme-crisis
Administrative Tasks
- Vice Chair, Tenure & Promotion Committee (Lärarförslagsnämnden), Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Research Committee (Forskningsråd), Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Rights Hub, Raoul Wallenberg Institute.
- Global Gender Matters, Department of Gender Studies.
- Advisory Board, South Asian Studies Network (SASNET).
- Organizing Committee, Nordic Southeast Asian Studies Network.
Teaching
- International Faculty Ph.D. Course; Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences (SAVS001).
- International Faculty MA Course; Gender, Development, and Postcolonialism (SIMS39).
- International Faculty MA Course; Fieldwork (SIMS25).
Publikationer
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Publikationer
- 2019
- 171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Tidningsartikel - Changing Families in late Đổi Mới Vietnam: Gendered Constellations, Crises Temporalities, and Expanded Horizons
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
(2019) Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Bok - Conclusions: Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Crises, Ruination, and Slow Harm: Masculinized Livelihoods and Gendered Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam.
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Disasters, Ruins, and Crises: Masculinity and Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam
(2019) Ethnos
Artikel i tidskrift - Feminism in Vietnam: Women's Studies, Gender Research, and Intersections
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Introduction: Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - LGBT in Vietnam: Challenges and Resistance
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Masculinity and Violence in Vietnam
(2019)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Reshaping Boundaries: Family Politics and GLBTQ Resistance in Urban Vietnam
(2019) Journal of GLBT Family Studies
Artikel i tidskrift - Space, Time, and Destruction: Men’s Violence against Girls and Women in Asia
(2019) Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - The Machinery of Male Violence, Embodied Properties, and Chronic Crisis: The Realities and Perils of Harm amongst Partners in Vietnam
(2019) Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Artikel i tidskrift
- 171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
- 2018
- Climate Disaster, Gender, and Violence: Men’s Infliction of Harm upon Women in the Philippines and Vietnam
(2018) Women's Studies International Forum
Artikel i tidskrift
- Climate Disaster, Gender, and Violence: Men’s Infliction of Harm upon Women in the Philippines and Vietnam
- 2017
- A Zone of Exception: Gendered Violences of Family 'Happiness' in Vietnam
(2017) Gender, Place and Culture
Artikel i tidskrift - Masculinity Studies and the Conundrum of 'Gex': An Interview with Jeff Hearn by Helle Rydstrom
(2017) NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Artikel i tidskrift - Masculinity, Femininity, and Violence between Partners in Vietnam: Gendered Asymmetries and Privileges
(2017)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - The Indian Guest House
(2017)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- A Zone of Exception: Gendered Violences of Family 'Happiness' in Vietnam
- 2016
- 'Disaster, Violence, and Crisis: Gendered Social Injustices in The Philippines and Vietnam'
(2016) National University of Singapore, Asian Research Institute
Artikel i tidskrift - 'Excacerbated Masculinity: Assymmetries and Violences in Vietnamese Society’
(2016) Men and Masculinities
Artikel i tidskrift - Gendered Insecurities: Violence against Women and Girls in Asia
(2016) Violence Against Women
Artikel i tidskrift - Introduction: Decolonizing Fieldwork by Transgressing Borders and Boundaries
(2016)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Keeping a Straight Face: LGBT and the Familial Politics of Pressure
(2016)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Keeping a Straight Face: Resisting Familial Politics of Pressure in Urban Vietnam
(2016)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Portray, Helle Rydström: “Important to Go Global”
(2016)
Övrigt - Porträttet, Helle Rydström: “Viktigt att följa det globala spåret"
(2016)
Övrigt - Vietnam Women’s Union and the Politics of Representation: A Narrative of Hegemonic Solidarity
(2016)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- 'Disaster, Violence, and Crisis: Gendered Social Injustices in The Philippines and Vietnam'
- 2015
- Constructions of Differentiated Citizenship: Hegemonic Narratives and Sexuality in India and Vietnam
(2015)
Konferensbidrag - Contesting heteronormativity: the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recognition in India and Vietnam.
(2015) Culture, Health and Sexuality
Artikel i tidskrift - Expert Assessment of MA Program on Gender and Development, University of Bergen, Norway
(2015)
Rapport - Feministisk utrikespolitik, klimat och genus
(2015) Helsingborgs Dagblad
Tidningsartikel - Gendered Ruination in the Philippines and Vietnam: Climate Change, (In)Security, and Violence in a Cross-Southeast Asian Perspective
(2015)
Konferensbidrag - Genusvetenskapliga institutionen: Genus, utveckling och postkolonialism
(2015)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Klimat och genus: feministisk utrikespolitik?
(2015) Sydsvenskan, 26 oktober
Tidningsartikel - Masculinity and Heterosexuality in Vietnam
(2015) Journal of Gender and Family Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam
Artikel i tidskrift - Politics of Colonial Violence: Gendered Atrocities in French Occupied Vietnam
(2015) European Journal of Women's Studies
Artikel i tidskrift - Politics of Representation: Vietnam Women's Union, Hegemonic Solidarity, and a Heterosexual Family Regime
(2015)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Vietnam's Socialist Servants: Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity
(2015) Sojourn, Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, November
Bokrecension - Vietnams Franske Forbindelse
(2015) Vietnam a Jour, 40(4)
Tidningsartikel
- Constructions of Differentiated Citizenship: Hegemonic Narratives and Sexuality in India and Vietnam
- 2014
- 'Displaced' Female Citizens: Male-to-Female Violence, the Family, and Civil Society
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Citizenship Outside Europe
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Civil Society, The State, and Organization in Vietnam
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Civil Society, the State, and Gendered Organization in Vietnam
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Civil Society, the State, and the Women's Union in Vietnam
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Climate Disasters and Gendered Violence in Asia: A Study on the Vulnerability and Insecurity of Women and Girls in the Aftermath of Recent Catastrophes in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam
(2014)
Övrigt - Discussing the 'Centering Southeast Asia from the Outside In'
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Gendered Insecurity: Violence in Time and Space
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Gendered Memories
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Jeopardizing the Security of Women and Children: Gendered Violence in Public and Private Spaces in India and Beyond
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Necropolitics and the Gender of Colonial Violences
(2014)
Konferensbidrag - Nordic Gender Studies Conferences: Windows to a Global and Postcolonial World?
(2014) Nora: nordic journal of feminist and gender research
Artikel i tidskrift - Report to Högskolverket on Linnaeus-Palme Exchange Program on Gender and Space in a Global World, Delhi University and Lund University
(2014)
Rapport - The Challenges of Representation: Vietnam Women's Union, Civil Society, and the Family
(2014)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- 'Displaced' Female Citizens: Male-to-Female Violence, the Family, and Civil Society
- 2013
- Civil Society Responses to Violence in the Family
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Displaced’ Female Citizens: Male-to-Female Violence, the Family, and Civil Society
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Doc Lounge: It’s a Girl
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Gendered Developments: Imaginings, Politics, and Practices
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Gendered War and Spaces of Exception
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Jeopardizing the Welfare, Security, and Rights of Women and Children: Violence in India
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Maneuvering with Relative Autonomy: The Vietnam Women's Union
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Remembering Destruction: Gender Specific Atrocities and Sovereign Power in Colonial Vietnam
(2013)
Konferensbidrag - Report for the Swedish Research Council: Preliminary Results for Research Project on Dreaming Change: Women and the Creation of Civil Societies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America
(2013)
Rapport - The Politics of Violence: Gendered Destruction in Colonial Indochina
(2013)
Konferensbidrag
- Civil Society Responses to Violence in the Family
- 2012
- Comparing Homosexuality in India and Vietnam
(2012)
Konferensbidrag - Gender, Conflict, and Violence in Vietnam
(2012)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Gendered Corporeality and Bare Lives: Sacrifices and Sufferings during the Vietnam War
(2012) Signs
Artikel i tidskrift - Gendered Sacrifices and Sufferings: The Vietnam War/American War and its Aftermath
(2012)
Konferensbidrag - Gendered and Sexualized Violence in Colonial Vietnam
(2012)
Konferensbidrag - Kommentar till nationella genusforskningskonferensen, Göteborg 2012
(2012)
Övrigt - Taboos and Realities: Rape in Present-Day Vietnam
(2012)
Förord - Women’s Movement in Vietnam in War and Peace’
(2012)
Konferensbidrag - Wrought Corporeality: Encountering French Colonial Violence in Vietnam
(2012)
Konferensbidrag
- Comparing Homosexuality in India and Vietnam
- 2011
- "Var är maktanalysen, Mikael Nordenmark?"
(2011) Dagens nyheter
Tidningsartikel - An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Social Science Research
(2011)
Konferensbidrag - Completion Report: Rural Families in Transitional Vietnam
(2011)
Rapport - Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam: Privileges, Pleasures, and Protests
(2011) Men and Masculinities
Artikel i tidskrift - Introduction: Studying Rural Families in Late-Doi Moi Vietnam
(2011)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Looking Back: Evaluation of Rural Families in Transitional Vietnam Project
(2011)
Konferensbidrag - Taboos and Realities: Rapes in Present-day Vietnam
(2011)
Förord - Youth, Risk, and Sexuality in India and Vietnam
(2011)
Rapport
- "Var är maktanalysen, Mikael Nordenmark?"
- 2010
- Compromised Ideals: Family Life and the Recognition of Women in Vietnam
(2010)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Having 'Learning Difficulties': The Education of Disabled Girls and Boys in Vietnam
(2010) Improving Schools
Artikel i tidskrift - Introduction on Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting, and Recognizing Women and Men
(2010)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - The Insecure Life of Women in Vietnam
(2010)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Compromised Ideals: Family Life and the Recognition of Women in Vietnam
- 2009
- Heterosexual Masculinities in Vietnam: Pleasures, Possibilities, Protests, and Power
(2009)
Konferensbidrag - Moralizing Sexuality: Young Women in Rural Vietnam
(2009)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Power and Passion: Heterosexual Masculinities in Vietnam
(2009)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Heterosexual Masculinities in Vietnam: Pleasures, Possibilities, Protests, and Power
- 2008
- Review of ‘Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones’ (2004), W. Giles and J. Hyndman (eds.)
(2008) Transforming Anthropology
Artikel i tidskrift - Rural Families in Transitional Vietnam
(2008)
Bok - The French Occupation of Vietnam: Remembering Colonial Violence
(2008)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Review of ‘Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones’ (2004), W. Giles and J. Hyndman (eds.)
- 2007
- Facing ‘the Other’: Recognition, Gender, and Inclusive Education in Contemporary Vietnam
(2007) Contemporary Studies on Southeast Asia
Artikel i tidskrift - Gendered Violences
(2007)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Proximity and Distance: Vietnamese Memories of the War against the USA
(2007) Anthropological Forum
Artikel i tidskrift - The Intersections between Desires and Violences, Interview with LUM
(2007) LUM: Lunds Universitets Magasin
Tidningsartikel
- Facing ‘the Other’: Recognition, Gender, and Inclusive Education in Contemporary Vietnam
- 2006
- Bridging Pedagogical Traditions: Educational Traditions in Vietnam and Sweden
(2006) Pacific Asian Education Journal
Artikel i tidskrift - Masculinity and Punishment: Men's Upbringing of Boys in Rural Vietnam
(2006) Childhood
Artikel i tidskrift - Sexual desires and 'social evils': Young women in rural Vietnam
(2006) Gender, Place and Culture
Artikel i tidskrift
- Bridging Pedagogical Traditions: Educational Traditions in Vietnam and Sweden
- 2005
- Bringing Up Boys in Rural Vietnam: Punishment and the Production of Masculinity
(2005)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Facing the ‘Other’: Recognition and Inclusive Education in Vietnam
(2005)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - From War to Reconciliation: Vulnerable Post-War Vietnam-USA Relations
(2005)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Moral og ‘Normalisering’: Funktionshindrede Elever i Vietnamesiske Skoler (Morality and ‘Normalization’: Disabled Students in Vietnamese Schools)
(2005) Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift
Artikel i tidskrift - Recognition, Disability, and Gender in Contemporary Vietnam
(2005)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Vietnams Urbane Unge—og ABBA
(2005) Information
Tidningsartikel
- Bringing Up Boys in Rural Vietnam: Punishment and the Production of Masculinity
- 2004
- Adolescents, Sexual Desires, and ‘Social Evils’ in Contemporary Vietnam
(2004)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Female and Male ‘Characters’: Images of Identification and Self-Identification for Rural Vietnamese Children and Adolescents
(2004)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Genus och funktionshinder i Vietnam. Interview
(2004) Lite Nytt från Universitetet i Linköping
Tidningsartikel - Introduction
(2004)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - LiU forskning om Vietnam. Interview
(2004) Vimmerby Tidning
Tidningsartikel - Reconciliation with and Forgiveness of the USA: Rural Vietnamese Understandings of the American War
(2004)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Adolescents, Sexual Desires, and ‘Social Evils’ in Contemporary Vietnam
- 2003
- Embodying Morality: Growing Up in Rural Northern Vietnam
(2003)
Bok - Encountering Hot Anger: Domestic Violence in Contemporary Vietnam
(2003) Violence Against Women
Artikel i tidskrift - Identities and Strategies in Vietnam: Historical Perpectives
(2003)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Embodying Morality: Growing Up in Rural Northern Vietnam
- 2002
- Bridging Pedagogical Traditions: Learning in Vietnam and Sweden
(2002)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Incorporating the Logics of Violence and Power: Addressing Rural Vietnam through the Lenses of Foucault and Bourdieu
(2002)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Sexed Bodies/Gendered Bodies: Children and the Body in Vietnam
(2002) Women's Studies International Forum
Artikel i tidskrift - The Production of Masculine Identities in Local Rural Vietnam
(2002)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Transgressing Boundaries: Violent Interaction between Boys/Male Adolescents and their Fathers/Grandfathers
(2002)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - When the Rice Boils: Domestic Violence in Rural Vietnam
(2002)
Konferensbidrag
- Bridging Pedagogical Traditions: Learning in Vietnam and Sweden
- 2001
- Dealing with a Collective Past of Warfare Violence and Contemporary Bodily Changes: The Configurations of Identities in Rural Vietnamese Adolescents
(2001)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Incorporated Warfare Memories and Sexuality: Vietnamese Adolescents’ Construction of Identities
(2001)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Like a White Piece of Paper: Embodiment and the Moral Upbringing of Vietnamese Children
(2001) Ethnos
Artikel i tidskrift - Review of Liljeström, Lindskog Nguyen & Vuong, 1998, Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
(2001) Ethnos
Artikel i tidskrift - When the Rice Boils’: Domestic Violence in Local Rural Vietnam
(2001)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Dealing with a Collective Past of Warfare Violence and Contemporary Bodily Changes: The Configurations of Identities in Rural Vietnamese Adolescents
- 2000
- At ville glemme krigen med USA
(2000) Information (Köbenhavn : A/S Dagbladet Information)
Tidningsartikel - Dealing with Identity in Urban Vietnamese Female and Male Youth
(2000)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Guida din bödel
(2000) Dagens nyheter
Tidningsartikel - Report on Rädda Barnen/Save the Children Sweden Workshop Discussions
(2000)
Rapport
- At ville glemme krigen med USA
- 1999
- A Swedish Save the Children Report on Rural Vietnamese Girls’ Gender Socialization
(1999)
Rapport - Bao cao cua to chuc cuu tro tre em Thuy Dien ve xa hoi hoa ve gioi cua tre em gai nong thon Viet Nam. (A Swedish Save the Children Report on Rural Vietnamese Girls’ Gender Socialization)
(1999)
Rapport - Body and Morality in Contemporary Vietnam
(1999)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- A Swedish Save the Children Report on Rural Vietnamese Girls’ Gender Socialization
- 1998
- Embodying Morality: Girl's Socialization in a North Vietnamese Commune
(1998) Linköping studies in arts and science
Doktorsavhandling - Kropslig differens: pigers socialisering i Vietnam (Bodily Differences: Girls’ Socialization in Vietnam
(1998) Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift (Nordic Journal of Anthropology)
Artikel i tidskrift - The Invisibility of Children: Introduction
(1998)
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Embodying Morality: Girl's Socialization in a North Vietnamese Commune
- 1997
- Learning to Become a Female or Male: Vietnamese Children and Processes of Gender Socialization
(1997)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Practicing Femininity and Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam
(1997)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Learning to Become a Female or Male: Vietnamese Children and Processes of Gender Socialization
- 1996
- Børnene i antropologien: Vietnamesiske pigers kønssocialisering
(1996) Working Papers on Children and Anthropology
Working paper - Gender, Sex og Habitus i Vietnam (Gender, Sex, and Habitus in Vietnam).
(1996) Working Papers on Childhood and the Study of Children
Working paper - Pligternes glæder—og sorger (The Sorrow and Pleasure of Chores)
(1996) Vietnam a jour
Tidningsartikel
- Børnene i antropologien: Vietnamesiske pigers kønssocialisering
- 1993
- Sidder det i kroppen? En bourdieusk indgang til studiet af piger i Vietnam
(1993) Jordens Folk
Artikel i tidskrift
- Sidder det i kroppen? En bourdieusk indgang til studiet af piger i Vietnam
- 1988
Redaktör
- 2016
- 2015
- 2011
- Rural Families in Late-Doi Moi Vietnam
(2011)
Bok - Security and the Protection of Women, Children, and Marginalized Groups against Violence, 2
(2011)
Konferensbidrag - Youth, Risk, and Sexuality in Vietnam and India: Educational Concerns
(2011)
Konferensbidrag
- Rural Families in Late-Doi Moi Vietnam
- 2010
- Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting, and Recognizing Women and Men
(2010) Gendering Asia
Bok - Security and the Protection of Women, Children, and Marginalized Groups against Violence, 1
(2010)
Konferensbidrag
- Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting, and Recognizing Women and Men
- 2008
- 2004
- Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam
(2004)
Bok
- Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam
- 1998
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