Kyrre Kverndokk

Professor, Cultural Studies

Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

E-mailKyrre.Kverndokk@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 88 5893890729
Visitor Address
Øysteins gate 3

5007 Bergen

Room
201
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

I am a folklorist by training and have studied quite different topics within folkloristics, cultural history and cultural studies. I started my career in memory studies, with an emphasis on memory production, memory practices and memory policy. I hold a from Linköping University (2007), where I wrote my dissertation on Norwegian school trips to the memorial sites Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. I have also worked with collective grief and memory practices in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on July 22, 2011.

After I defended my dissertation, I started a project on the reception of natural disasters in a historical perspective (funded by FRIHUM and SAMKUL, NFR 2010-2014). The project got me interested in climate change and imaginaries of a disastrous futures. From 2017 to 2019, I was the PI of the project The future is now: Temporality and exemplarity in climate change discourses (KLIMAFORSK, NFR). I am currently the PI of the follow-up project Gardening the Globe: Historicizing the Anthropocene through the production of socio-nature in Scandinavia, 1750-2020 (2021-2025, SAMKUL, NFR). What connects my work on memory policy, natural disasters and climate change is not only an interest in crises and disasters, but also an interest in temporality and historicity.

I have a great interest in tradition archives and the history of folkloristics. I am currently part of the leadership group of the digitization project SAMLA: National Infrastructure for Cultural History and Tradition Archives (INFRASTRUCTURE, NFR, 2020-2027).

Show author(s) (2023). From Risk Semantics to Embodied Practice. 18 pages.

Show author(s) (2022). Sjanger. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 3-13.
Show author(s) (2022). SAMLA: Nå digitaliserer vi norske tradisjonsarkiver. Folkeminner, tidsskrift for Norsk Folkeminnelag. 44-56.
Show author(s) (2022). Fremtiden er nå: Klimaendringenes tider.

Show author(s) (2021). The Extreme Summer of 2018: Norwegian Weather News and the Politics of Weatherlore. 18 pages.
Show author(s) (2021). Our World is dew: Tor Åge Bringsværd's fable Prose as a Chthulucenic Experience. 14 pages.
Show author(s) (2021). Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Genres, and Tropes. 12 pages.
Show author(s) (2021). Climate Change Temporalities. Explorations in Vernacular, Popular and Scientific Discourse. Routledge.

Show author(s) (2020). «Je suis sick of this shit»: Terrorangrep, memetisk kultur og digitale sorgriter. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 45-66.
Show author(s) (2020). The Age of Climate Change: Cultural Change Temporalities and Crisis Awareness. Journal of Northern Studies. 53-66.
Show author(s) (2020). Talking about your generation: “Our children” as a trope in climate change discourse. Ethnologia Europaea. 145-158.
Show author(s) (2020). Portrait of a climate city: How climate change is emerging as a risk in Bergen, Norway. Climate Risk Management.
Show author(s) (2020). Natural Disasters and Modernity. 17 pages.
Show author(s) (2020). Klimatförändringarnas tid: Kulturella perspektiv på krismedvetande. 164-181.
Show author(s) (2020). Catarina Harjunen, Att dansa med de(t) skeva. Erotiska möten mellan människa och naturväsen i finlandssvenska folksägner. Rec. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv. 243-249.

Show author(s) (2019). Tradisjonsdominant. Folkeminner, tidsskrift for Norsk Folkeminnelag. 42-42.
Show author(s) (2019). The past as a mirror: Deep time climate change exemplarity in the anthropocene. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 330-352.
Show author(s) (2019). The End of the World: From the Lisbon Earthquake to the Last Days. 14 pages.
Show author(s) (2019). Sammen i sorgen: Spontane minnesteder, sosiale medier og minnefellesskap. 90-97. In:
- Show author(s) (2019). Dona eis requiem. Gje dei kvile.
Show author(s) (2019). Rykter. Folkeminner, tidsskrift for Norsk Folkeminnelag. 48-49.
Show author(s) (2019). Risk Perception through Exemplarity: Hurricanes as Climate Change Examples and Counterexamples in Norwegian News Media . Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 306-329.
Show author(s) (2019). Barnet og ungdomsopprøret: Om Greta Thunsbergs retorikk i anledning Fritt Ords pris 2019. Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie. 6 pages.

Show author(s) (2018). Kollaps: På randen av fremtiden. 9 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). Kollaps. På randen av fremtiden. Dreyer Forlag A/S.
Show author(s) (2018). Discipining the Polyphony of the Herbarium: The order of Folklore in the Norwegian Folklore Archives. 19 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). Da Superdome ble Thunderdome: Katastrofeforestillinger og postapokalyptiske fantasier. 13 pages.

Show author(s) (2017). Traditional folk beliefs on epilepsy in Norway and Sweden. Epilepsy & Behavior. 104-107.
Show author(s) (2017). Sosiale medier og kjærlighetsfortellingen om 22. juli.
Show author(s) (2017). Maryam Adjam: Minnespår: Hågkomstens rum och rörelse i skuggan av flykt. Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, Höör 2017, 304 s., ill. RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift. 220-223.
Show author(s) (2017). Klimakrisens tid. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. 33-36, 38-47.
Show author(s) (2017). Androids, cyborgs and connectivity. Cultural Analysis. 134-139.

Show author(s) (2016). Telemarken revisited - om immarteriell kulturarv i 1890 og i dag. Folkeminner, tidsskrift for Norsk Folkeminnelag. 10-19.
Show author(s) (2016). Metodikkens skål! Moltke Moe som feltforsker. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 83-102.
Show author(s) (2016). Jordskjelv - 1700-tallets ekstremvær. Årbok / Romsdalsmuseet. 166-187.

Show author(s) (2015). Naturkatastrofer: En kulturhistorie.

Show author(s) (2014). Troen på trolldom og magiske krefter. Aftenposten Historie. 74-79.
Show author(s) (2014). Mediating the Morals of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina in Norwegian News Media. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. 78-87.
Show author(s) (2014). Affected. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 205-207.

Show author(s) (2013). Nästa stopp Auschwitz: Bussen som omkopplingsstation på norska skolresor till Förintelsens minnesplatser. 23 pages.
Show author(s) (2013). Norsk Folkeminnesamling. 14 pages.
Show author(s) (2013). Negotiating Terror, Negotiating Love. Commemorative Convergence in Norway after the Terrorist Attack on 22 July 2011. 24 pages.
Show author(s) (2013). Monumentalt og usynlig. Minnesmerkers vei inn og ut av glemselen. 21 pages.
Show author(s) (2013). Et nettverk av sorg. Sosiale medier og minnekultur etter 22. juli. 21 pages.

Show author(s) (2012). Trolldom i Norge.
Show author(s) (2012). "I kveld er gatene fylt av kjærlighet": Om spontane minnesteder, communitas og rituell renselse ette 22. juli 2011. 7 pages.

Show author(s) (2011). «De sidste Dages Nærmelse» : Jordskjelvet i Lisboa som fokalpunkt for fremtidsforestillinger. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. 18-31.
Show author(s) (2011). Tegn i tiden. naturkatastrofer som kulturhistorie. 24 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). Or gamalt - nye perspektiver på folkeminner. Norsk Folkeminnelag.
Show author(s) (2011). Krigens helter og ofre. Akershus festning som krigsminnelandskap. 25 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). Kapittel 1: Innleiing. 5 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). Historieskriving som minnekultur. Anmeldelse av Synne Corell: Krigens ettertid. Okkupasjonshistorien i norske historiebøker. Scandinavian Academic Press, 2011. Salongen : Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
Show author(s) (2011). "Han ligner litt på nissen igrunn". Folkloristiske forestillinger om folketro. 26 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). "Eg veit eg burde grine, alle dei andre grin jo". På skoletur til Auschwitz. 18 pages.

Show author(s) (2010). ”Ach! Hvilken Domme-Dag, min GUD! Ach! Hvilken Dag!” – om eksemplaritet og jærtegn i dansk-norsk resepsjon av Lisboa-jordskjelvet i 1755 55. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 55-71.
Show author(s) (2010). Living with Burnout. - Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Att leva som utbränd. Ethnologia Scandinavica. A Journal for Nordic Ethnology. 112-113.
Show author(s) (2010). Andreas Hellerstedt: Ödets teater: Ödesföreställningar i Sverige vid 1700-talets början. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 657-662.

Show author(s) (2009). Resan till ondskan. Skolelever på bussresa till Auschwitz. 45 pages.
Show author(s) (2009). Negotiatin Holocaust Memory in School-trip Reports. 26 pages.

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I am currently leading the project The Future is Now.