Åsa Trulsson

Senior lecturer

Department of Cultural Sciences Faculty of Arts and Humanities

asa.trulsson@lnu.se

+46 470-70 86 67

I am a senior lecturer in cultural sociology at the Department of Cultural Sciences. I have a background in religious studies, but my contemporary research field concerns the intersection between migration studies, cultural sociology and educational science.

Teaching

I am the programme coordinator for PIMS (programmet för integration och mångfaldstudier) and my teaching often concern inclusion and exclusion processes as well as so called intercultural perspectives in teacher education and other fields.

Research

I am the principle investigator in a project exploring the connection between intimacy, migration and schooling for the perspectives of young people with migratory experiences as well as professionals within the educational system. I work primarily with ethnographic methods, but also so-called participatory and creative methods.

I am a member of LnuC Concurrences in Postcolonial and Colonial Studies

My research groups

My ongoing research projects

My completed research projects

Project: A worthy reception? Social work with of refugees and migrants. Asylum reception is characterized by rapidly changing conditions as well as by a complex structure of receiving actors and…

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Trulsson, Å. (2020). Women on the Path of the Goddess : Sacred Technologies of the Everyday. Culture Unbound : Journal of Current Cultural Research. 12 (2). 293-310.
Status: Published
Trulsson, Å. (2014). Liberating Movements : Sensing and Managing Emotions in the Dance of the Spider. Journal of Ritual Studies. 28 (2). 51-64.
Status: Published

Article, book review (Other academic)

Trulsson, Å. (2014). [ Review of ] Kaarina Aitamurto ooch Scott Simpson (red). Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe : Durham: Acumen Publishing, 2013. Nordisk Østforum. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget. 28 (2). 178-181.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Trulsson, Å. (2021). Priestesses of Avalon : Fantasy Fiction and Contemporary Goddess Worship. The Enduring Fantastic : Essays on Imagination and Western Culture. McFarland. 88-104.
Trulsson, Å. (2020). "Different from the Eyes of Others" : Negotiating Faith in a Non-denominational Educational System. Immigrant Incorporation, Education, and the Boundaries of Belonging. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. 65-90.
Nilsson, H., Trulsson, Å. (2019). "You Can't Liberate the Free" : Gender, Work and Swedish Hijabis. The Nordic Civil Sphere. Cambridge, Polity Press. 95-123.
Trulsson, Å. (2018). Religiös ungdom i en sekulär vardag. Levd religion : Det heliga i vardagen. Lund, Nordic Academic Press. 151-166.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Trulsson, Å. (2024). Sexualitet, samtycke och relationer i klassrum präglade av mångfaldtill följd av global migration. Mångfaldens möten : Interkulturalitet, utbildning och lärande. Växjö, Linneaus University Press. 85-102.
Trulsson, Å., Nilsson, H. (2024). Inledning: Mångfald, flerspråkighet och interkulturella perspektiv : möjligheter och utmaningar. Mångfaldens möten : Interkulturalitet, utbildning och lärande. Växjö, Linneaus University Press. 3-20.
Trulsson, Å. (2015). Reflektioner kring musik och ljud som didaktiska resurser. Religionsdidaktiska studier. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 119-131.
Trulsson, Å. (2013). Postsekulär mystik? : Makt och genus i samtida andlighet. Mystik och andlighet : kritiska perspektiv. Stockholm, Dialogos Förlag. 174-198.
Trulsson, Å. (2013). Cultivating the Sacred : Gender, Power and Ritualization in Goddess-oriented groups. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality : Ethnographic Approaches. Routledge. 28-45.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Trulsson, Å. (2020). ”Visa vad som är bra med oss” : Unga muslimska tjejers rörelse genom vardagens meningslandskap. Existentiella frågor i barns och ungas liv. Malmö, Föreningen Lärare i religionskunskap. 94-112.
Trulsson, Å. (2017). Återförtrolla det kvinnliga : Gudinnefeministisk praktik, kön och vardagsliv. Feminism och jämställdhetssträvanden i religioner i världen. Malmö, Föreningen Lärare i Religionskunskap FLR. 75-85.