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Mats Widgren
Professor
i Geografi, särskilt Kulturgeografi
E-post: mats.widgren@humangeo.su.se
Telefon: 08-16 48 52
Besöksadress: Rum X316,
Geovetenskapens hus, Frescati
Postadress: Stockholms
universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 106 91 Stockholm
Blog:
Händelser, tankar, reflektioner, åsikter
Links
Historisk
geografi och landskapsstudier vid SU
Projekt/Projects
Mapping global
agricultural history
Session at AAAS 2011: Global Agricultural History: Mapping the
Past for Modeling the Future
Exploring
precolonial agriculture and intensification: the
case of Bokoni, South Africa (Swedish Research Links, Univ of
Pretoria)
People, Land and
Time in Africa
Northeast
Tanzania 1850-2000: The political ecology of trade networks, food
production and land cover change (with Lowe Börjeson
and Thomas Håkansson.
Landscape history in a global perspective
Power, Land, and Materiality: Global
Studies in Historical-Political Ecology as a Framework for Assessing
Policies for ”Sustainable Development (led by Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology, Lund University)
Avslutade project/Recently completed
projects
Geography
research in Norway: an evaluation
(chair of panel)
CREATING (FP7) (led by Bernard Charlery,
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail)
New Perspectives
on Landscapes: A COST-ESF “Network of Networks” (member of steering
group)
Islands of agricultural
intensification: The social, ecological and historical contexts
Conference presentations
Senaste publikationer/Recent
publications
In press
Widgren, Mats (submitted) Climate
and causation in the Swedish Iron Age. Submitted to Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish
Journal of Geography
Widgren, Mats (2012). Resilience thinking vs. political
ecology: Understanding the dynamics of small-scale labour-intensive
farming landscapes. Ch 5 in Plieninger, T. & Bieling, C. (eds.) (2012): Resilience
and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in
Human-Shaped Environments. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
2012
Widgren, Mats
(2012) Slaves: Inequality and sustainable agriculture in pre-colonial West
Africa. In Ecology and
Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and
Future (eds. Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark
& Kenneth Hermele.). Routledge,
pp. 97-107
Widgren,
Mats (2012).
Landscape research in a world of domesticated landscapes: the role of
values, theory, and concepts. Quaternary
International 251, 117-124 (Preprint version here)
2011
Widgren,
M. (2011). Biståndsmiljoner till nytt markrofferi. Expressen. 11 december 2011, s. 4 English version: Swedish
development-assistance millions to new landgrab.
Widgren, M. (2011). Swedfunds investering i Sierra Leone bör granskas. Second Opinion. 12 december 2011.
Widgren, M. (2011).
Forskarna är inte ovilliga föra ut sina resultat. Second Opinion. 27 November 2011.
Widgren, M. (2011) A World of Domesticated
Landscapes. – Peil, T., Lang, V. & Kull, K. (eds) The Space of Culture – The Place
of Nature: Approaches to Culture Theory I. Tartu Universtity
Publishers, Tartu. 181-185
Widgren,
M. (2011). Maciej Zaremba slarvar med fakta. Geografiska Notiser Vol. 69, nr 2, s.55-56. Även på Second Opinion.
Pedersen,
Ellen Anne & Widgren, Mats (2011). Agriculture in Sweden 800 BC – AD
1000, in Myrdal, Janken & Morell,
Mats (eds) The
agrarian history of Sweden: 4000 BC to 2000 AD. Lund: Nordic Academic
press, 46-71, 273-274 + bibliog.
2010
Widgren, Mats (2010). Mapping Global Agricultural History. In Kinda, A., Komeie, T. Mnamide, S., Mizoguchi, T.
& Uesugi, K. (eds) Proceedings of the 14th International
Conference of Historical Geographers, Kyoto 2009. Kyoto University Press
2010. 211-212. Link to manuscript.
Widgren, Mats (2010) 'Besieged Palaeonegritics or Innovative Farmers: Historical
Political Ecology of Intensive and Terraced Agriculture in West Africa and
Sudan', African Studies, 69: 2, 323
— 343 Link to manuscript
Widgren, M. (2010). Reading the prehistoric
landscape. Ymer 130, 69-86
Destouni, G., Forsberg, G., Fridfeldt.
A., Grundström, A., Helldén. U., Holmgren,
K., Kuylenstierna, J., Molin, L., Rosqvist,
G., Olsson. L., Sjöström. L., Stroeven.
A., Torbjörnsson. T., Widgren. M., Öhman. J., (2010). Björklund kör över
experterna om geografi. Svenska Dagbladet, 11
november 2010.
Widgren, Mats (2010). Grundskolegeografi. www.ne.se november 2010
2009
Widgren, M. (2009) Agrarhistoria och
klimat – nya samband och nya utmaningar. I Agrarhistoria på många sätt. 28 studier om människan och jorden.
Festskrift till Janken Myrdal. Stockholm: KSLA ,
s. 17-22
Benjaminsen, T.A.,
Bryceson, I. Dahlberg, A., Holmgren, K. , Johansson,
L., Widgren, M. Östberg, W. (2009) Svenskt bistånd ska rädda miljöfarligt
etanolprojekt. Dagens Nyheter 14
april 2009. English translation
2008
Holmgren,
K., Börjeson, L., Dahlberg. A.,
Muzuka, A., Norström
E., Öberg. H. Risberg, J., Ryner,
M., Sitoe, S., Westerberg,
L.O. Widgren, M., Yanda, P. (2008) The Vulnerable
Continent (PLATINA): Historical perspectives on Africa´s Climate,
Environment and Societies. In
Meeting global challenges in research cooperation. Proceedings of a
conference and workshop in Uppsala, May 27-29, 2008. Uppsala:
Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University. pp. 585-596.
Widgren,
M., N. Thomas Håkansson & Lowe Börjeson (guest editors): Special issue of International Journal of African
Historical Studies, 41/3, 2008:
The Political Ecology of Trade, Food
Production and, Landscape Transformations in Northeast Tanzania: 1850-2000
Håkansson,
T., Widgren, M. Börjeson. L.
(2008) Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape
Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania 1850-2000. International Journal of African Historical Studies):41/3, 369-382.
2003-2007
Widgren, M. 2007. Review of Sing
C. Chew ‘The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes and
Systems Transformation. Environment
and History 13, 503-506.
Håkansson, T. & Widgren, M. (2007) Labour and landscapes: The political economy of landesque capital in 19th century Tanganyika. Geografiska Annaler 89B
(3) 233-248).
Widgren, M (2007) Pre-colonial landesque
capital: a global perspective. In Hornborg, A.,
Martinez-Alier, J. and Mcneill,
J.R. (eds), Rethinking Environmental
History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. AltaMira Press, Walnut
Creek. Manuscript
Widgren,
M. (2006). Reading property in the landscape. Norsk Geografisk Tidskrift
– Norwegian Journal of Geography Vol. 60, 57-64.
Widgren, M.
& Sutton, J. (eds) (2004) Islands of intensive agriculture
in Eastern Africa. Oxford:
James Currey publishers. BUY
(Read reviews
by Kenneth Lynch, Chris Conte, James Giblin, Jamie Monson, Bob Munson, Michael Sheridan and Stephanie Wynne-Jones.)
Widgren
M. (2005) Fimbulvintern - fanns den? I Arkeologi
och naturvetenskap (red. Carin Bunte, Björn E.
Berglund, Lars Larsson] Nyhamnsläge: Gyllenstiernska
Krapperupstift., 2005, s. 62- 70. Manuskript
Widgren, M.
(2004) bin Laden and the irrigation tunnels – two perspectives on
sustainable social development. Fredrik Lundmark
(ed) Culture, security and sustainable social
development. Stockholm: Gidlund. p.
207-220. Manuscript in Swedish More
info
on the book
Widgren, M. (2004)
Can landscapes be read? In H. Palang, H. Sooväli, M. Antrop, G. Setten (eds) European rural landscapes
: persistence and change in a globalising
environment. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 455-465. Read Buy the book
Widgren,
M. (red) 2003. Röjningsröseområden på sydsvenska höglandet.
Arkeologiska, kulturgeografiska och vegetationshistoriska undersökningar.
Meddelanden nr 117, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Stockholms
Universitet). 216 s.
Widgren,
M. (2003) Historisk geografi i Afrika: utmaningar och lärdomar.
Inträdesföredrag den 4 juni 2002). Kungl.
Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademiens årsbok 2003, s. 86-96.
Widgren, Mats (2003) Sjutton år av historisk
geografisk forskning i Stockholm. I Ulf Jansson (red) Med
landskapet i centrum. Meddelande 119, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Stockholms
Universitet, s. 19-34.
Previous publications on separate webpage
Senast uppdaterad: 5
maj 2012
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