Anna-Karin Eriksson
About Anna-Karin Eriksson
Presentation
Anna-Karin Eriksson is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science.
She holds a PhD in Political Science from Linnaeus University, "Global history or inter | nationalist discourse!? Unsettling the 'comfort women' issue" (2022).
Eriksson previously held lectureships at Linnaeus University and Umeå University, Sweden.
She is interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning and, in addition to basic qualifications, has studied didactics, problem-based learning and case methodology.
Research interests
· International politics
· Japanese studies
· Historiography
Teaching
Eriksson teaches the common core in teacher’s education (in Swedish).
Links
Japans tröstekvinnor (popular summary of my doctoral dissertation in ”Historiskan” – Sweden’s first women’s history journal, 1/2023) [in Swedish]
https://historiskan.se/webshop/historiskan-1-2023/
Antifeministiska bakslag i tröstekvinne-kontroversen (20-minute lecture that was broadcast on Swedish national television and now is available online) [in Swedish]
Global history or inter | nationalist discourse!? Unsettling the ’comfort women’ issue (Doctoral dissertation from 2022 about the politics of the ’comfort women’ issue)
Representing the ’Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan (Book chapter published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023 – Google Books)
Challenging ’Comfort Women’ Discourse: Rethinking Intersections of Historical Justice and History Education (Book chapter published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021 – Google Books)