Marina Svensson
Professor
I studied Chinese, Asian studies, history and other topics at Lund University, where I also received my Ph.D. in Chinese in 1996. I am since 2014 Professor of Modern China Studies and since October 2016 the director of the Centre. I am currently also responsible for the Ph.D. programme.
My research is interdisciplinary in character and focuses on a range of different topics related to contemporary Chinese society.
- Human rights
- Cultural heritage
- Journalism and media
- China’s digital society
- Documentary film and photography
- Digital ethnography
Current research
One of my current research interests concerns the role of photography and documentary films in China. I analyse the role and development of photography and documentary film in Chinese society and its political constraints. I address topics such cultural and identity politics, civic engagement and activism, documentation of pressing social issues, and different platforms and institutions involved in photography and documentary film such as art institutions, photo and film festivals. I have organised several documentary film festivals that involves other countries in the region, including Youth in Asia, Urban Developments in Asia, and Memories and Trauma in Asia and Activism and Documentary Film in Asia. I have also been involved in organising lectures and photo exhibitions.
Another research interest concerns challenges to academic freedom in China and the implications this has for education and research on China.
Publications
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- Marina Svensson
(2020) The Heritage Turn in China : The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2020) China : Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy , p.119-127
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2020) International Journal of Heritage Studies
Journal article - Eva Pils, Marina Svensson
(2019) The Conversation
Journal article - Marina Svensson, Eva Pils
(2019) The Conversation
Journal article - Andreas Johansson, Marina Svensson, Björn Jerdén, Henrik Chetan Aspengren
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article - Marina Svensson
(2019) Handbook on Human Rights in China
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2019) Plattformssamhället : den digitala utvecklingens politik, innovation och reglering , p.230-250
Book chapter - Marina Svensson, Christina Maags
(2018) Asian Heritages , p.11-38
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2018) Asian Heritages , p.269-292
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2018)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3 p.56-61
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3 p.68-71
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3 p.76-79
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2018)
Other - Marina Svensson
(2017) Asiascape: Digital Asia, 4 p.76-102
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2017) Media, Culture and Society, 39 p.440-445
Journal article review - Marina Svensson
(2017) Studies in Documentary Film, 11 p.200-216
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2017) Asiascape: Digital Asia, 4 p.76-102
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2017) Pacific Historical Review, 86 p.582-583
Review - Marina Svensson
(2017)
Conference paper: abstract - Dan Edwards, Marina Svensson
(2017) Studies in Documentary Film, 11 p.161-169
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2016) The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China , p.49-70
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2016) Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia , p.31-46
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2016) Chinese Journal of Communication, 9 p.325-327
Review - Marina Svensson
(2016) Pacific Affairs, 89 p.399-401
Review - Marina Svensson
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2015) Kinarapport , p.6-9
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2015) China’s Contested Internet , p.227-256
Book chapter - Marina Svensson, Eva Pils
(2014) Contemporary Chinese Thought, 45 p.3-17
Journal article - Eva Pils, Marina Svensson
(2014) Contemporary Chinese Thought, 46 p.3-16
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2014) China Information, 28 p.168-188
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2014) Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning , p.168-179
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2014) Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experience of China's Policy and Practice , p.207-235
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2014) ECRAN
Report - Marina Svensson
(2014) Passato e Presente
Review - Marina Svensson
(2013) Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Agency, Autonomy, Voice , p.157-177
Book chapter - Marina Svensson, Haiyan Wang
(2013) Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Agency, Autonomy, Voice , p.91-110
Book chapter - Marina Svensson, Elin Sæther, Zhi'an Zhang
(2013) Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Agency, Autonomy, Voice , p.1-16
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2013)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2012) Kinarapport , p.21-28
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2012) Kinarapport , p.31-41
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2012) Mapping media in China : region, province, locality , p.193-211
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2012) China Perspectives , p.19-28
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2012) Organizing rural China, rural China organizing , p.157-172
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2012) Scoop : tidskrift för grävande journalistik , p.94-101
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2012)
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2012) , p.168-179
Conference paper: abstract - Marina Svensson
(2011) Making Law Work : Chinese Laws in Context
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2011) Handbook of human rights
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2011) Making Law Work : Chinese Laws in Context
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2010) Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2010) Faiths on display : religion, tourism, and the Chinese state
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2009) Utsikt mot utveckling - Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation , p.183-191
Conference paper - Marina Svensson
(2009) Globale medier i verdens brændpunkter : religion, politik og kultur , p.43-59
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2009) Mänskliga rättigheter : ett ofullbordat uppdrag
Book chapter - Hatla Thelle, Karin Buhman, Jonas Grimheden, Marina Svensson
(2008) Politiken
Newspaper article - Marina Svensson
(2008) Tvärsnitt - om humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2008) Kinarapport
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2008) AsiaPortal InFocus Blog
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2008) Xiangtu jianzhu wenhua yichan baohu yu yanjiu [Research on the protection of vernacular heritage]
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2008) China Information, 22 p.158-160
Review - Marina Svensson
(2008) Internationella Studier , p.52-62
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2008) Journal of Asian Studies, 67 p.249-250
Review - Marina Svensson
(2007) Governance globale e diritti dell'uomo
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2007) Kina: 10 röster om mänskliga rättigheter
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2007) The China Quarterly , p.481-482
Review - Marina Svensson
(2006) Working papers in contemporary Asian studies
Working paper - Marina Svensson
(2006) Human Rights in the Pacific Rim: Imagining a new Critical Discourse
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2006) Doing Fieldwork in China
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(2006) Kinarapport
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2006) Kinarapport
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2005) NIAS-Nytt
Journal article - Marina Svensson
(2005) Kinarapport
Journal article - Marina Svensson, Stephen Angle
(2001)
Book - Marina Svensson
(2000) Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(1999) Nonviolence in Asia: The Art of Dying or a Road to Change?
Book chapter - Marina Svensson
(1996)
Dissertation - (2018) Asian Heritages
Book - (2017) Studies in Documentary Film, 11 p.161-261
Editor for a journal - (2011) Cornell East Asia Series, 154
Book - (2011)
Book - (2010) Routledge research in comparative politics, 32
Book - (2009)
Book - (2019)
Exhibition