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Curriculum VitaePersonal DetailsÅsa BoholmBorn 1953 in Uppsala, SwedenCentre for Public Sector Research (CEFOS),& School of Public Administration, GothenburgUniversity, SwedenPhone office: +46 (0) 31 786 51 86Phone home: +46(0) 31 82 91 07Cell phone: +46 (0)705 60 84 38Box 720E-mail: asa.boholm@cefos.gu.seSE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden Fax : +46(0)31 786 44 80Current• Professor of Social Anthropology, with an appointment at the School of PublicAdministration, Göteborg University, Sweden.• Director of the research program “Risk and society” at the multidisciplinary Centrefor Public Sector Research (CEFOS) at the same university.• Assistant head of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (GMV), ChalmersUniversity of Technology and Göteborg University, Göteborg• Leader of the multidisciplinary research project “Risk Decision in Transportation”, afour year project starting January 1 st , 2007• Member of the Scientific Board at the Swedish Emergency Management AgencyEducation• BA Göteborg University 1975, (social anthropology, philosophy, and sociology)• BA Göteborg University 1978, (psychology)• PhD in social anthropology 1983, Göteborg University, Sweden. Dissertation entitledSwedish kinship. An exploration into cultural processes of belonging and continuity.ProfileResearch interests range from historical anthropology, political symbolism, religion,environmental anthropology to the technological risks of modern society. A strong focus ison systemic risk issues prominently in the areas of energy, infrastructure, and food. Researchproblems relate to cultural dimensions of risk, organizational and institutional forces and thecollusions and collisions of relative perspectives and rationalities salient in risk debates.Areas of interest include regulation and policy issues in the public domain, contestedlocalization of large scale facilities; environmentalism and concern for nature; public trustand citizen involvement; media communication; the role of science and technology in publicdeliberation and decision making; participatory formats to include affected or concernedgroups in decision processes; and local knowledge, collective identity, agency and situatedunderstanding in the interpretation, communication and management of contested issues.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 1(7)

PublicationsPeer reviewed articlesBoholm, Å. 1992. The coronation of female death. Man n.s. 27: 91-104.Boholm, Å. 1992. Caccia di tori. Regeneration in Venetian carnival. Journal ofMediterranean Studies 3: 46-61.Boholm, Å. 1996. Anthropology in History - History in Anthropology, FOCAAL 26-27: 33-38.Boholm, Å. 1996. The cultural theory of risk: An anthropological critique, Ethnos 61 (1-2):64-84.Boholm, Å. 1997. Re-invented histories: medieval Rome as memorial landscape, Ecumene 4(3): 247- 272.Boholm, Å. 1998. The successor of St. Peter: incorporated meanings and textual symbolismin medieval inaugurations, Social Anthropology, The Journal of the EuropeanAssociation of Social Anthropologists 6 (2): 221-235.Boholm, Å. 1998. Comparative studies of risk perception: A review of twenty years of research,Journal of Risk Research 1 ( 2): 135-161.Boholm, Å. 1998. Visual images and risk messages: Commemorating Chernobyl, RiskDecision and Policy 3 (2): 125-143.Boholm, Å. & Löfstedt, R. 1999. Issues of risk, trust and knowledge: The Hallandsås tunnelcase, AMBIO 28 (6): 556-561.Löfstedt, R. & Boholm, Å. 1999. “Off track in Sweden”, Environment 41, n.4, 16-20, 40-44.Boholm, Å. 2001. Un templo de la humanidad: los significados de Roma en el Risorgimento,Revista de Antropologia Social 10: 29-52.Boholm, Å. 2003. Introduction to Ethnos 68: 3, Special Issue: Situated Risk.Boholm, Å. 2003. The cultural nature of risk: Can there be an anthropology of uncertainty?,Ethnos 68 (3), Special Issue Situated Risk.Boholm, Å. 2004. Editorial: What are the new perspectives on siting controversy? Journal ofrisk research 7 (2) 99-100.Boholm, Å. 2005. “Greater good” in transit: The unwieldy career of a Swedish rail tunnelproject, FOCAAL, European Journal of Anthropology 46: 21-35.Sjöberg, L., Peterson, M., Fromm, J., Boholm, Å. & Hanson, S-O, 2005. Neglected andoveremphasized risks: the opinions of risk professionals, Journal of Risk Research 8(7-8): 599-616.Boholm, Å., 2008. The public meeting as a theatre of dissent: Risk and hazard in land-useplanning, Journal of Risk Research 11(1-2): 119-140.Boholm, Å. 2008. Editorial. What are the new perspectives on risk communication:uncertainty in a complex society, Journal of Risk Research 11(1-2): 1-3.Corvellec, H. & Boholm, Å., 2008. The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impactassessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden, accepted forpublication Local Environment (forthc. 2008)BooksBoholm, Å. 1983. Swedish Kinship: An exploration into cultural processes of belonging andcontinuity, Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology 5, Acta UniversitatisGothoburgensisÅsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 2(7)

Boholm, Å. 1990. The Doge of Venice. The symbolism of state power in the Renaissance.IASSA: GöteborgBoholm, Å. 1993. Venetian worlds. Nobility and the cultural construction of society. IASSA:GöteborgBoholm, Å. & Aijmer, G. eds. 1994. Images and enactments. Possible worlds in dramaticperformance, IASSA: GöteborgBoholm Å. ed. Political Ritual. IASSA: GöteborgBoholm, Å. red. National objectives - local objections: Railway modernization in Sweden,CEFOS, GöteborgBoholm, Å, Hansson, S-O., Persson, J., & Petersson, M. red. 2001. Osäkerhetens horisonter.Kulturella och etiska perspektiv på samhällets riskfrågor, Nya DoxaBoholm, Å. & R. Löfstedt red. 2004. Facility siting: Risk, power and identity in land-useplanning, London: EarthscanLöfstedt; R. & Boholm, Å. eds. 2008 (forthc.) Earthscan Reader in Risk and Modern Society,Volume 2, Earthscan: LondonLöfstedt, R. and Boholm, Å. 2008 (forthc.) The study of risk in the 21st century. InEarthscan Reader in Risk and Modern Society, Volume 2, eds. R. Löfstedt & Å.Boholm, London: EarthscanBook chaptersBoholm, Å. , Hultin, J. & Josefsson, C. 1981. Släktskap, kontinuitet och identitet i tresamhällen: Oromo (Etiopien), Bakuba (Zaire) och Sverige, in Antropologisk ForskningYmer 83, Sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm.Boholm , Å. 1987. Symbolism of lights and candles in Renaissance Venice, in Symbolictextures: Studies in cultural meaning, ed. G. Aijmer, Gothenburg Studies in SocialAnthropology 10, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 1989. Döden i Venedig. Karnevalen som ritual, in Ritual og performance, ed. JÖstergård-Andersen, Kulturstudier 20, Center för Kulturforskning, Århus Universitet.Boholm, Å. 1989. Demonic blessings. Papal syncretism and cultural pragmatics, inSyncretism and the commerce of symbols, ed. G. Aijmer, IASSA: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 1992. The feast as a conflux of cycles, in A reconciliation of powers, ed. G.Aijmer, IASSA: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 1992. How to make a stone give birth to itself. Reproduction and auto-reproductionin medieval alchemy, in Coming into Existence. Birth and Metaphors of Birth,ed. G. Aijmer, IASSA: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 1994. Masked performances in the carnival of Venice, in Images andenactments. Possible worlds in dramatic performance, eds, G. Aijmer & Å. Boholm,IASSA: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 1996. Political ritual as image-making: Medieval Rome and the Charisma ofCola di Rienzo, in Political Ritual, ed. Å. Boholm, IASSA: Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 2000. Siting the West Coast Rail, Ch. 1 in National objectives- localobjections: Railway modernization in Sweden ed. Å. Boholm, CEFOS, Göteborg.Boholm, Å. 2000. Perceived benefits and negative consequences on the new rail, Ch. 8 inNational objectives- local objections: Railway modernization in Sweden ed. Å.Boholm, CEFOS, Göteborg.Ferreira, C., Å. Boholm & R. Löfstedt, 2001. From vision to catastrophe: a risk event insearch of images, J. Flynn, P. Slovic & H. Kunreuther eds. Risk, media and stigma,Earthscan, London.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 3(7)

Boholm, Å. 2001. Managing the present through the past: Resurrecting Rome for theunification of Italy, in B. Czarniawska & R. Solli, Organizing Metropolitan Space andDiscourse. Liber: Stockholm.Ferreira, C. & Boholm, Å. 2001. Kulturell riskhantering. In Osäkerhetens horisonter, Boholm,Å., Hansson S-O., Persson, J. & M. Peterson eds., Nya Doxa.Boholm, Å. & Ferreira, C. 2001. Osäkerhetens representationer. in Osäkerhetens horisontereds. Boholm, Å., Hansson S-O., Persson, J. & M. Peterson, Nya Doxa.Boholm, Å. & Löfstedt R., 2004. Introduction, in Faciltity siting: Risk, power and identity inland-use planning, eds. Boholm, Å. & Löftsedt, R., Earthscan, London.Boholm, Å. & Löfstedt R., eds. 2004. Facility siting: Risk, power and identity in land-useplanning, Earthscan, London.Binde, P. & Å. Boholm, 2004. The discursive amplification of risk in a Swedish case of railtrack planning, in Boholm, Å. & R. Löfstedt eds. 2004. Faciltity siting: Risk, power andidentity in land-use planning, Earthscan, London.Boholm, Å. 2005. Riskbedömningars ontologi och epistemologi: Hallandsåsen och dessvatten. In Risk och det levande mänskliga, eds. Brinck, II., Halldén, S., Maurin A-S.,& Persson, J. Nya DoxaFerreira, C., Boholm, Å., and K. Borkhardt (2007) Food Safety Regulation in Sweden, inEllen Vos & F. Wendler (eds.) Food Safety Regulation in Europe: A ComparativeInstitutional Analysis (Series Ius Commune), Intersentia Publishing.Boholm, Å. 2007. Risk communication: a pragmatic approach. In Communication – action –meaning. A festschrift to Jens Allwood, eds. E. Ahlsen et al. Göteborg: Department ofLinguistics, Gothenburg University.Boholm, Å. 2008. Beslutsfattandets antropologi. In Risk & Risici, eds. J. Persson & N-ESahlin, Nora: Nya DoxaReports and conference papersBoholm, Å. & S. Boyd, 1980. The auction as a language game, Papers in AnthropologicalLinguistics 3, Institutionen för lingvistik, Göteborgs universitet, GöteborgBoholm, Å & L. Sjöberg, 1981. Försvarsviljans utveckling i åldrarna 14 till 18 år: enintervjustudie, FOA Rapport C 5 55047-H1, Stockholm.Boholm, Å. 1997. Commemorating Chernobyl: visual images and the cultural construction ofrisk messages, i Forskning om Europa, eds. P. Cramér & R. Lindahl, Centrum förEuropaforskning, Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg.Boholm, Å., Löfstedt, R. & U. Strandberg, 1999. Understanding siting controversy: issues oflocal identity, trust and stigma, i Alvstam, C.G. och Lindahl, R. eds. Forskning omEuropafrågor vid samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten Göteborgs universitet 1999,Centrum för Europafrågor vid Göteborg University, Skrift nr 6.Boholm, Å. , Löfstedt, R. & U. Strandberg, 1998. Tunnelbygget genom Hallandsås:Lokalsamhällets dilemman, CEFOS report 12, CEFOS, Göteborg University.Boholm, Å. 2001. Konflikter kring lokalisering med särskild tonvikt på Vindkraft (Nordledenreport, December 2001)..Boholm, Å. 2002. Form och innehåll i lokaliseringsbeslut: Lärdomar av dåliga och godaexempel; Nordlededen report 2002:3Boholm, Å. et al. 2003. in eds. B. Ryden Nordleden, slutrapport för etapp 2, Mölndal, RondoGrafisk Kommunikatio ABBoholm, Å. 1996. The many faces of the cultural theory of risk. An anthropological critique,pp. 527-30, in Proceedings, Risk in a Modern Society: Lessons from Europe, 3-5 June1996, University of Surrey, Guildford.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 4(7)

Sjölander-Lindqvist, A. & Å. Boholm & R. Löfstedt. 2000. ’Understanding aspects ofenvironmental stigma: the case of Hallandsås’, Proceedings from the ESREL 2000 andSRA – Europe Annual Conference on Foresight and Precaution, Edinburgh, UK, 14-17MayBoholm, Å. & M. Grimes, 2000. ’Understanding siting controversy: the case of the WestCoast Railway’, Proceedings from the ESREL 2000 and SRA – Europe AnnualConference on Foresight and Precaution, Edinburgh, UK, 14-17 MayBoholm, Å. 2005. Multifarious environmental concern: Communication and conflict in localnatural resource management, 7th Nordic Environmental Social Science ResearchConference (7 th NESS), Göteborg University, June 15-17, 2005.Workshop 3: A NewClimate for Green Social MovementsCedstrand, S., Nöjd, L., Boholm, Å., and Johansson, V., 2006. Miljötillsyn i praktiken.Länsstyrelsernas tillsyn enligt Miljöbalkens 26 kapitel. The Swedish EnvironmentalProtection Agency report 5583.Ferreira, C. & Boholm, Å. 2005. A review of institutional arrangements for food safetyregulation in Sweden, Safe Foods, Promoting food safety through a new integrated riskanalysis approach for foods, EU Food CT-2004-506446.Work history• Teaching assistant in social anthropology, Department for Social Anthropology,Göteborg University, 1979-1981.• Lecturer in social anthropology, Department for Social Anthropology, GöteborgUniversity.• Research assistant in social anthropology, Department for Social Anthropology,Göteborg University, 1986-1989.• Researcher, the Advanced Institute for Social Anthropology, GöteborgUniversity,1989-1996.• Associate professor in social anthropology, Göteborg University, 1986.• Researcher, the Centre for Public Sector Research Göteborg University, 1997-2000.• Professor, School of Public Administration, Göteborg University, 2000 – present.Professional activities• Assistant Head of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (GMV), ChalmersUniversity of Technology and Göteborg University, Sweden, since 1 July, 2006.• Member of the Board of Department at the School of Public Administration,Göteborg University, since October 2004.• Member of the board of Vindforsk, the Swedish Energy Administration board forresearch applications on wind power, 2002.• Member of the scientific board of the Swedish Risk College, since 2002.• Board member of the research program Vastra,“Water Strategic Research Program”,funded by MISTRA, Sweden, 2002 – 2005.• Member of the scientific board of the Swedish Emergency Management Agency,since 2002.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 5(7)

• Scientific adviser on applications for research programs by the SwedishEnvironmental Protection Agency: Adaptive Management, 2003-2004, OutdoorRecreation, 2006.• Scientific adviser on research projects for the Swedish Research Council, the SwedishResearch Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, TheBank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and the Swedish Rescue Services Agency.• Member of the Editorial Board Journal of Risk Research, since 2005.• Advisor for Kings’ College London (UK) regarding a promotion to a position asSenior Lecturer, in 2006• Advisor for University of Newcastle (UK) regarding a promotion to a position asPersonal Chair, in 2006• Member of PhD examination boards, 16 times since 1993.• Faculty opponent PhD dissertation (2004) by Peter Green, Species Aid.Organizational sense making in a preservation project in Albania, (socialanthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden).• Recent teaching experiences include undergraduate courses on regulation, socialscience research design and methodology, and graduate courses within the PhDprogram in public administration (examples of courses: “Social anthropologicalperspectives on modern organizations”, “Society as system: introduction to NiklasLuhmann”).• Recent selected lectures given to practitioners and governmental agencies in 2006-2007 are “Risk decisions in transportation”, “The organisational logic(s) of riskidentification”, “Environmental regulation in practice”, “Risk and security, divergingperspectives”, and “Sustainable development: anthropological viewpoints”.Research Grants• Political ritual in renaissance Venice. The Swedish Council for Research inHumanities and Social Sciences. 1985-1989.• The order of power in renaissance Venice. The Swedish Council for Research inHumanities and Social Sciences.1989-1992.• The commerce of symbols. Integration and parallelism in cultural construction. TheSwedish Council for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. 1993-1996.• Collective memory and identity building. The Swedish Council for Research inHumanities and Social Sciences. 1997-2000.• New uses of old spaces: the gentrification of the inner city and the materialization ofhistory. The Swedish Council for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (withIngrid Holmberg), 1999-2003.• Understanding siting controversy – the case of the west Coast Rail. The SwedishTransport and Communications Research Board and the Swedish National RailAdministration (with Urban Strandberg and Ragnar Löfstedt). 1999-2006.• Neglected Risks. The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, (with LennartSjöberg and Sven-Ove Hansson).1999-2003.• Trust and stigma in risk communication. The Swedish Science Board (FRN, (withRagnar Löfstedt). 2000• New perspectives on risk communication. The Swedish Science Board (with RagnarLöfstedt and Johannes Persson). 2000-2001• Network for research into the construction of environmental risk. European ScienceFoundation, (with Gaspar Mairal Buil). 2000-2001.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 6(7)

• Risks and rationalities. The Swedish Research Council, (with Ragnar Löfstedt, CelioFerreira, S-O Hansson and Johannes Persson). 2001-2004• The symbolism and morality of gambling. The bank of Sweden TercentenaryFoundation, (with Per Binde). 2001-2003• Efficient work place inspections. The Swedish Council for Working Life and SocialResearch, 2002-2005.• Threat or threatened? Implementing the Swedish wolf policy. The SwedishEnvironmental Protection Agency, 2003 – 2007.• Coping with environmental risk: policy implementation and local participation. TheSwedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and SpatialPlanning. 2002-2006.• Siting renewable energy. The Swedish Emergency Management Agency, (with HerveCorvellec). 2003-2006.• Safe Foods. Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approachfor foods, European Union, FOOD-CT-2004-506446 (responsibility for Swedish casestudy), 2004-2006• Supervising in accordance with the 26 th Chapter of the Environmental Code. A focuson regional boards. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, (with VickiJohansson), 2005-2006.• Towards and anthropology of contingency. Risk and uncertainty in a complex society.The Swedish Research Council. 2007-2009.• Risk management decisions in transportation. The Swedish Rescue Services Agencyand others (with Herve Corvellec, Vicki Johansson and Ragnar Löfstedt), 2007-2010HonoursFellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (2007)International conferencesArranged two international multidisciplinary research conferences: on New Perspectives onSiting Controversy, May 2001, and on New Perspectives on Risk Communication:Uncertainty in a Complex Society, August/September 2006.Presented papers on numerous international workshops and research conferences arrangedfor example by the Society for Risk Analysis (Europe), the European Association of SocialAnthropologist, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Association of SocialAnthropologists.Åsa Boholm Curriculum Vitae 7(7)