Demands and Challenges of Internationalization in the Swedish Humanities in the Era of Academic Capitalism

• Authors: Magnus Öhlander , Katarzyna Wolanik-Boström , Helena Pettersson

Abstracts

EN

This article analyzes strategies and practices among Swedish Humanities scholars in relation to the demands of “internationalization” and in a framework of academic capitalism. The article is based on 30 qualitative interviews with scholars in philosophy, Romance languages and history. There are signs of cognitive dissonance, with conflicting set of norms. Benefits for the academic CV, along with a discipline’s ideals, traditions and its perceived role in society are the main context in which internationalization is understood, implemented and contested, with individual variations in international practices as e.g. international mobility, networking or publication strategies.

Keywords

EN

Humanities; Sweden; internationalization; international practices; academic capitalism

• Publisher: Collegium Civitas
• Journal: Zoon Politikon
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 232-256

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Magnus Öhlander

• Stockholm University

author

Katarzyna Wolanik-Boström

• Umeå University

author

Helena Pettersson

• Umeå University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/2543408XZOP.20.008.13065

Biblioteka Nauki

2041532