Anna Nørholm LundinSenior lecturer
About me
I am an associate professor and senior lecturer in educational science at Stockholm University. I am a member of the Adult Learning research group and my areas of research are within sociological-pedagogical perspectives on working life and commitment/activism in civil society. My main areas of research can be summarized as:
1. A working life out of the ordinary? Career- and lifepaths in the gig economy, alternative sectors and elite projects.
2. Why bother getting involved? Learning and identity formation in networks and social movements.
Publications
A selection from Stockholm University publication database
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Maestro! Yrkesmusikers sociala praktik, relativa framgång och habitus
2019. Anna Nørholm Lundin.
ArticleRead more about Maestro! Yrkesmusikers sociala praktik, relativa framgång och habitusMaestro! The social practice, relative success and habitus of professional musicians In art music the Maestro is an important figure. The Maestro is an outstanding musician and teacher at one of the prestigious music colleges in Sweden. To be admitted as a student of a Maestro is to be granted access to the atrium of music. However, this is no guarantee of actually succeeding as a musician. Who is the Maestro? Which social practice is the Maestro part of, and which social practice is he/she maintaining? Who achieves a position as an outstanding musician, and what is required to hold such a position? The empirical material consists of three in-depth interviews with central musicians and teachers at the prestigious music colleges, which is used to reconstruct their positions and dispositions. The relative success of the musicians is understood in relation to the concept of habitus and in relation to a profession in transformation.
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Himmel och helvete
2018. Anna Nørholm Lundin. Praktiske grunde. Tidsskrift for kultur og samfunnsvitenskab (1-2), 21-50
ArticleRead more about Himmel och helveteHeaven and hell – success, ambivalence and habitus among professional musicians. The present article is written from a praxeological perspective treating professional musicians within artmusic. The empirical material consists of two in-depth interviews with two prominent musicians and professors from the prestigious music colleges – two Maestros. These musicians are successful, though not unthreatened in their positions. Their dispositions and modes of being musicians have varying significance over time. This means that their success is relative, understood as a consequence of how their habituses correspond with the changing practice they are a part of. Their success has also had some personal costs. The focus of the article is the relatively strong ambivalence expressed by the musicians. How come such successful musicians experience such strong ambivalence regarding their work? How can this be understood and explained? What role does the Maestro-myth of talent and calling play – in relation to the conditions of the work and the social history and habitus of the musicians? Theoretical perspectives in the article come from sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Francine Muel-Dreyfus and ethnologist Henry Kingsbury among others.
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