Education

Oct. 97 – Apr. 02 Doctoral Programme in Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex.
Ph.D. dissertation: ‘Hegel after Habermas – Reflections on Hegel’s Conception of and the Scope of the Critical Thrust to the Speculative Dialectics’.

Sept. 96 – Jun. 97 Exam. art. in European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen.

Oct. 95 – Sept. 96 MA in Political Discourse Analysis, Department of Government, University of Essex.

Sept. 91 – Jun. 94. BA in European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen (minor in Philosophy and Minority Studies).


Career

Jan. 07 – Aug. 07 Post.doc at the International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School (the project was sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation and finished in the Department of Border Region Studies in Soenderborg, January 2008).

Mar. 02 – Jun. 07 Part-time lecturer in European Ethnology, Saxo Institute, Department of Ethnology, University of Copenhagen.

Sept. 06 – Dec. 06 Researcher in the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, employed by the research priority area ‘Europe in transition’ to develop a research project on regional identity-formation and knowledge-based economic development in Europe.

Feb. 05 – Jan. 06. Adjunct professor in European Studies, Department of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus.

Sept. 05 – Feb. 06. Researcher in the Department of Ethnology, University of Copenhagen, on the project ‘Regional identity-formation and European Integration’, sponsored by the research priority area ‘Europe in Transition’.

Sept. 04 – Jan . 05 Part-time lecturer in European Studies, Department of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus.

Feb. 04 – Jan. 05. Part-time lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

Nov. 01 - Feb. 02. Research visit in the Department of Philosophy, Potsdam University. Supported by DAAD.

Oct. 99 – Jun. 00 Research visit in the Department of Philosophy, Potsdam University.

Oct. 98 – May. 99 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex.


Related professional activities

Jan. 06 – Jun. 07 Coordinator of research seminars in the Department of European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen.

Jun. 05 – Jan. 07 Coordinator for the network-group ‘State, nation, region and city’ under the research priority area ‘Europe in Transition’, University of Copenhagen.

Jan. 05 – Jan. 06 Coordinator of the integration-project ‘Football and Integration at Street Level’ in co-operation between the Institute of Sports Analysis, the Danish Sports Association and European Studies, University of Aarhus (the report is available on IDANs website www.idan.dk).

May 03 Coordinator of the session ‘EU – unity in diversity’ at the Nordic Ethnologist and Folklorist Congress, Helsingør.

European Identity

Regional Idenitity-formation

European Knowledge-based Economic Development 

European Integration

Poststructuralism/psychoanalysis

My research is concerned with the relation between regional identity-formation and recent economic developments in Europe (mainly after the end of the Cold War). My research show how knowledge-based economic developments in general and cluster-formation at regional level depend upon and result in the sedimentation of regional identities. The identity-forming processes are highly dependent on policy-implementation at European level supporting knowledge-based developments and cluster-initiatives at regional level. The processes become important for economic growth-patterns when the field of policy-making is powerful enough to build up consensus among actors in a local area that it is necessary to anchor a specific technological development in the local area. Biotechnological development in Catalonia and mechatronics in and around Soenderborg are examples of this kind of regional activism. In my approach to identity-formation, I am inspired by poststructuralist psychoanalysis, and I thus focus on how linguistic practises generate power-relations and determine available spaces of action. Methodologically my research is mainly qualitative, and I collect data in textual analysis, in conversation with local actors, and by way of participant observation in local areas.