Peter Edelberg
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S, 13B Bygning 13B (Afsnit 2), Building: 13B-2-26
Denmark
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics
Njalsgade 120
2300 2300 København S
Current Research
From 2019 through 2023 I was part of a Scandinavian research group, studying Scandinavian LGBT-history under the headline: 'A Nordic Queer Revolution? Homo- and Trans-Activism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1948-2018'. The project is transnational, and my part dealt with the Scandinavian LGBT associations in the twentieth century.
From 2012 through 2014 I was doing a post.doc. in a larger Nordic project, History of Nordic Historiography beyond Methodological Nationalism - Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives, c. 1850s onwards. In my part I focus on the breakthrough of social history in the 1960s in the Nordic countries and the methodological and theoretical discussions that followed.
Most of my publications are available on ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Edelberg
Other Research Areas
Danish and European History in the twentieth century
gender and sexuality
- homosexuality
- prostitution
- pornography
- paedophilia
- masculinity
the history of the welfare state
- democratization
- crime
- police
- disciplining
- child care
- subjectification
historiography and theory of history
- theories and methods of cultural history
- post-structuralist method and theory
- classical and functional source criticism
- Michel Foucault and his successors
- queer theory
history of the German Occupation of Denmark 1940-45
- the resistance movements
- Special Operations Executive (SOE)
- historiography of the Resistance
Other areas of interest in random order: family history, fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien (and his art languages, especially Quenya and Sindarin), Faroe Islands, religion, mythology, Christianity, theology, history of language, existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard, K. Olesen-Larsen.
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