Elin LinderPhD student

About me

Passionate anthropologist and PhD candidate who makes use of sensuous scholarship to study food, foodways and the socio-cultural-historic-material matters by which olive oil becomes in time and space. I wrote my master thesis about everyday food habits in Stockholm, and my current research tangents this interest in food and the everyday, but through the lens of olive cultivation for the making of olive oil. I am currently writing my thesis, tentatively titled Olive Oil: Cultivating Tradition through Transitions in Southern Italy, where I contextulize and curiously explore for instance the rhythms and the value landscapes by which olive oil from here spatiotemporally comes into being. Some of that which my thesis builds upon can be partaken through my website. As visible there, I am a much photographically situated scholar who enjoys explorations of sorts, and especially those related to foods, creative ethnography, and modes of being, human and beyond.

Keywords: food, everyday life, materiality, environmental issues, sensuous scholarship, photography/visual arts, value, care, boundaries and making