Research
Main research directions:
- Social, ecological and interdisciplinary approaches to forested landscapes in a long term perspective, with focus on Viking Age, Medieval Times and Early Modern times.
- Subaltern environment- and lifescapes miljö- och livsvillkor in the 18th - 20th centuries.
- Heritage and development in forested, sparsely populated areas.
- Wicked problems regarding the Environment, and how historical perspectives can contribute to learning for new ways of managing these.
Bio
Selected Publications 2008-2013
Monographies
Nilsson, P., Hansson, M. & Svensson, E. 2020. De obesuttnas arkeologi – människor, metoder och möjligheter. (print on demand-bok & pdf). Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet.
Svensson, E. 2010. Kulturarv, natur och utveckling. Problem och möjligheter i skoglig glesbygd (print on demand-book). Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet.
Svensson, E. 2008. The medieval household. Daily life in castles and farmsteads. Turnhout: Brepols.
Papers
Svensson, E., Dahlström, M., Amundsen, H. R. & Kjønsberg, M. 2023. Reproducing biocultural heritage landscapes through alternative and retroinnovative food production. Landscape Research, 48:6, 741-757.
Svensson, E., Dögg Eddudóttir, S., Kåreskog, I., Johansson, A. & Sundqvist, A. 2023. Conservation or Development? Challenging the Heritagization of Shielings in Transitional Times, for Climate Mitigation and (Post-)Pandemic Development. Heritage & Society, doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2023.2228184
Svensson, E., Nilsson, S., Pettersson, S. & Johansson, A. 2022. Moving up the hill? Peasant strategies in times of plague and climate change. Journal of migration history 8:2, 313-330.
Lindholm, K-J.; Ersmark, E.; Hennius, A.; Lindgren, S.; Loftsgarden, K. & Svensson, E. 2021. Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Middle Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside. (The global north: spaces, connections, and networks before 1600) The Medieval Globe, vol. 7, no. 1, s. 9-34.
Svensson, E., Haas, J. & Eckstein, R. L. 2021. Integrating Nature and Heritage in the Boreal Forests of Scandinavia? Exploration of a Low-Budget Method. Landscapes, DOI: 10.1080/14662035.2020.1905202
Dögg Eddudóttir, S., Svensson, E., Nilsson, S., Ekblom, A., Lindholm, K-J. & Johansson, A. 2021. The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00829-y
Svensson, E., Hansson, M & Nilsson, P. 2020 ‘As far below as you can come’? Historical archaeology on vulnerability and marginalization of life at the bottom of the social ladder, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 54:2, 165-185,
Hansson, M., Nilsson, P. & Svensson, E. 2020. Invisible and Ignored: The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Subalterns in Sweden. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 24, 1-24.
Svensson, E. 2018. The Scandinavian shieling - between innovation and tradition. I: Costello, E. & Svensson, E. (red). Historical archaeologies of transhumance across Europe. Oxon: Routledge, sid. 15-27.
Costello, E. & Svensson, E. 2018. Transhumant pastoralism in historic landscapes. Beginning a European perspective. I: Costello, E. & Svensson, E. (red). Historical archaeologies of transhumance across Europe. Oxon: Routledge, sid. 1-13.
Svensson, E. Amundsen, H. R., Holm, I., Hulling, H., Johansson, A., Löfgren,J., Nilsson, P., Nilsson, S., Pettersson, S. & Stensby, V. 2017. Empowering marginal lifescapes: The heritage of crofters in between the past and the present. International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Svensson, E. 2015. Innovations in the rural edge. Inventions and smart organisations in the Scandinavian outland use. I: Gaidukov, P. G. et al. (red). Towns and villages in medieval Rus. Archaeology, history, culture. To mark the 60th birthday of the academician Nikolai Makarov. Moskva: Russian Academy of sciences, Institute of archaeology.
Svensson, E. 2015. Upland living. The Scandinavian shielings and their European sisters. I: Baug, I., Larsen, J. & Samset Mygland, S. (red.). Nordic Middle Ages - Artefacts, Landscapes and Society. Essays in honor of Ingvild Øye on her 70th birthday. UBAS 8. Bergen: University of Bergen.
Svensson, E. 2015. Heritage and development outside the metropolis; discussing issues of attractiveness, growth, participation and sustainable development. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 4-13.
Svensson, E. & Bentz. E. 2014. Rural medieval settlements in Sweden. The history of the emergence and development of a field of research. I: Boháčová, I. & Sommer, P. (red.). Medieval Europe in motion. In honor of Jan Klápštĕ. Archeologický ústav AV ČR. Prag.
Svensson, E., Pettersson, S., Nilsson, S., Boss, L. & Johansson, A. 2013. Resilience and Medieval Crises at Five Rural Settlements in Sweden and Norway. Lund Archaeological Review 18 (2012).
Speed, J., Austrheim, G., Birks, H. J. B., Johnson, S., Kvamme, M., Nagy, L., Sjögren, P., Skar, B., Stone, D., Svensson, E. & Thompson, D. B.A.. 2012. Natural and cultural heritage in mountain landscapes: towards an integrated valuation. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, vol. 8, no. 4.
Svensson, Eva. 2012. Achieving sustainable lifestyles? Sociocultural dispositions, collective action and material culture as problems and possibilities. Local environment. The international journal of justice and sustainability, vol. 17, no.3. (12)
Svensson, Eva & Peter Skoglund. 2010. Discourses of nature conservation and heritage management in the past, present and future. Discussing heritage and sustainable development from Swedish experiences. European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 13, no 3.
Svensson, E., Sara Bodin, Hans Hulling & Susanne Pettersson. 2009. The crofter and the iron works. The material culture of structural crisis, identity and making a living on the edge. International Journal of Historical Archaeology (2009) 13.
Svensson, E. 2009. Consuming nature – producing heritage. Aspects on conservation, economical growth and community participation in a forested sparsely populated area in Sweden. International Journal of Heritage Studies 15:6. (Also published in ”Supporting World Environment Day 2011 and the International Year of Forests” utg. Routledge och Taylor & Francis).
Anthologies
Ingunn Holm, Kathrine Stene & Eva Svensson (red). 2009. Liminal landscapes. Beyond the concepts of ’marginality’ and ’periphery’. Oslo.
Costello, E. & Svensson, E. (red). 2018. Historical archaeologies of transhumance across Europe. Oxon: Routledge.
Conference publications
Svensson, E. 2014. The rural home. Local or ‘European’ style? In: Kristiansen, M. S. & Giles, K. (eds.). Dwellings, identities and homes. European housing culture from the Viking Age to the Renaissance. Jutland Archeological Society Publications vol. 84. Aarhus.
Svensson, E. & Mark Gardiner, 2009. Introduction: Marginality in the preindustrial European countryside. In: Medieval rural settlement in marginal landscapes. Ruralia VII. Brepols, Turnhout.
Svensson, E. 2009. Marginality in our hearts. Consuming the exotics of poverty and hard work. In: Medieval rural settlement in marginal landscapes. Ruralia VII. Brepols, Turnhout.
Assigments
Svensson, Eva & Sofia Andersson. 2011. Skramle – a deserted medieval hamlet in the Scandinavian forest. : Carver, M & Klapste, J. (red) The Archaeology of Medieval Europe, vol. 2. Twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Århus: Aarhus University Press
Jonsson, BeGe & Eva Svensson. 2011. Effektiv natur- och kulturmiljövård i skogen. I: Almstedt Jansson, M., Ebenhard, T. & de Jong, J (red). Naturvårdskedjan – för en effektiv naturvård. CBM:s skriftserie 48. Centrum för biologisk mångfald, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala.
Svensson, E. 2009. Historisk arkeologi i skogen. I: Mogren, M., Roslund, M., Sundner, B. & Wienberg, J. (red). Triangulering. Historisk arkeologi vidgar fälten. Lund Studies in Historical Archaeology 11. Lund: Lunds universitet.
Nilsson, B., Skoglund, P. & Svensson, E. 2008. Mötesplatser – på väg mot en samlad natur- och kulturmiljövård. Archaeology@Lund, vol. 3:2008, University of Lund, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Other
Member of JPI CH scientific advisory board
Lead Module 6, Swedigarch
Member of Editorial Board for Brepols “new monograph series in the environmental history”.
Fellow of SKÅNK
Research projects Contesting Marginality and BIOKUMA