Peter Edelberg
Associate Professor
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S, 13B Bygning 13B (Afsnit 2), Building: 13B-2-26
Denmark
Current Research
From Feb. 1., 2019, I will be 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 will deal 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.
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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