Linnéa Lindsköld

Linnéa Lindsköld, Associate Professor (Docent) in Library and Information Science, senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University of Borås. Together with Sofia LIndström Sol she is director for The Centre for Cultural Policy Research. Lindsköld specialises in the governing of culture and literature, historically and today. Her research interests include the concept of quality in cultural policy, literature policy, the politics of reading and Scandinavian radical right parties’ cultural policy. She is currently editor for The Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy. Lindsköld is a member of the scientific committee for the International conference on cultural policy research (ICCPR).

Lindsköld is currently working in the research project Instructions for reading at home: The shaping of domestic reading practices in the Swedish welfare state, together with Åse Hedemark (PI), Uppsala University and Anna Lundh, SSLIS. The project is financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond 2023–2026.

Earlier externally funded research projects

The Welfare Regime of Literature. The Function of Literature in Sweden 1937–1976, together with Jon Helgason and Erik Erlanson, Linnaeus University,  and Peter Henning, Umeå University. Financed by The Swedish Research Council 2019–2021. Publications in the project are found here.

The making of the reading citizen. Public debate and policy 1945-2017, together with Åse Hedemark, Uppsala university and Anna Lundh, University of Borås. Financed by The Swedish Research Council 2018-2020. Publications in the project are found here.

During 2015-16 Lindsköld participated in the research project Knowledge in a Digital World at Lund University.

Publications in English (selected)

Lindsköld, L., & Frenander, A. (2024). Diversity in Swedish cultural policy. In The impact of UNESCO on states’ cultural policies : 2005 Convention on diversity of cultural expressions (pp. 132–154).

Lindsköld, L., & Hedemark, Å. (2023). Changes in the governance of the reading subject : Swedish reading policy, c.1949–1984. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2187052

Lundh, A., Hedemark, Å., & Lindsköld, L. (2022). Critical studies of reading : consolidating an emerging field of research. Information Research Vol. 27 No. Special Issue, October, 2022, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, May 29 – June 1, 2022, 27. https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2232

Erlanson, E., Helgason, J., Henning, P. & Lindsköld, L. (eds.) (2020), Forbidden literature: Case studies on censorship, Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Freely available through Kriterium.

Lindsköld, L. (2020), “So Bad it should be Banned. Judging the Aesthetic of Comics”, i E. Erlanson, J. Helgason, P. Henning, L. Lindsköld (red.), Forbidden Literature: Case Studies on Censorship,
Nordic Academic Press, 89–109, DOI: 10.21525/kriterium.22.e.

Lindsköld, L., Dolatkhah, M., & Lundh, A. (2020). ”Aesthetic reading as a problem in mid-20th century Swedish educational policy”, Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift, 23(1), 48-64. doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2000-8325/-2020-01-04.

Lindsköld, L., Hedemark, Å. and Lundh, A. (2020) ‘Constructing the Desirable Reader in Swedish Contemporary Literature Policy’, Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. doi: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.20200527c.

Linnéa Lindsköld, (2018) ”Google as a political subject: the right to be forgotten debate 2014-2016”, Online Information Review, Vol. 42 Issue: 6, pp.768-783, https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-06-2017-0198

Lindsköld, L. (2016). Understanding cultural taste: sensation, skill and sensibility, International Journal of Cultural Policy. (book review). http://dx.doi.org.lib.costello.pub.hb.se/10.1080/10286632.2016.1248953.

Lindsköld, L. (2015). Contradicting Cultural Policy: A comparative study of the cultural policy of the Scandinavian radical right. Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift 2015:1, (Link to article).