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Per-Anders Svärd

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

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Room: F2243

Research subject

Political Science

About Per-Anders Svärd

Per-Anders Svärd earned his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 2015, with a dissertation on the emergence of the modern animal welfare paradigm in Swedish politics. Since 2018, he is a Senior Lecturer in Social Studies at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Science at Örebro University.

Svärd's research has mainly been within the multidisciplinary field of critical animal studies, where he has studied ideological constructions of the human–animal relationship. His theoretical interests include animal rights philosophy and political theory, along with Marxist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytical social theory.

Since 2007, Svärd has taught many university courses on political theory, theories of democracy, methods in social science, theories of power, textual and discourse-analytical methods, contemporary feminist theory, animal ethics, and critical animal studies. At Örebro University's teacher program, he currently gives the courses Introduction to Social Studies [Introduktion till samhällskunskap]; Political Ideas and Political Participation [Politiska idéer och politiskt deltagande]; Power, equality, and Social Stratification [Makt, jämlikhet och social skiktning]; Challenges in Social Studies Teaching [Samhällskunskapslärarens utmaningar], and Social Studies in the Classroom [Samhällskunskap i klassrummet].

Per-Anders Svärd is also an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, co-founder and Section Editor for the open-access journal Politics and Animals, and a board member of The Centre for Marxist Social Studies [Centrum för marxistiska samhällsstudier].

Publications

Publications

Articles in journals

Svärd, P. & Tinnerholm Ljungberg, H. (2021). Fetal and Animal Research in Sweden: The Construction of Viable Lives in Regulatory Policy Debates, 1970–1980. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 89, 248-256.
Svärd, P. (2017). Djur, samhälle och kritisk teori. Fronesis (56–57), 8-19.
Svärd, P. (2017). Normative Dilemmas in Sweden's Ethical Review Policy for Animal Experiments. Global Journal of Animal Law, 5 (2), 102-134.
Svärd, P. (2017). Speciesism och ideologiskt herravälde. Fronesis (56–57), 96-106.
Svärd, P. (2016). Den könade landsbygdens globala mening: Introduktion till Seema Arora-Jonsson. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 37 (1), 63-66.
Fridolfsson, C. , Isaksson, E. , Strand, D. , Svärd, P. & Örestig, J. (2015). Ideologi i makt och motstånd. Fronesis (52–53), 8-21.
Boyer, K. , Scotton, G. , Svärd, P. & Wayne, K. (2015). Politics and Animals: Editors' Introduction. Politics and Animals, 1, 1-5.
Svärd, P. & Tinnerholm Ljungberg, H. (2013). Njutning och dödsdrift: Introduktion till Stavrakakis och Edelman. Fronesis (44–45), 166-174.
Svärd, P. (2013). När den Andre dödar: Slakt, speciesism och djurskyddsnationalism i svenska riksdagsdebatter 1887–1937. Sosiologi i dag, 43 (2), 37-60.
Hylmö, A. , Tornhill, S. & Svärd, P. (2013). Psyke, samhälle och kritisk teori. Fronesis (44–45), 8-19.
Svärd, P. (2012). Kast, klass, kamp. Fronesis (40-41), 210-218.
Svärd, P. (2011). Att känna sin (fantasi)fiende. Arena (1), 30-32.
Svärd, P. (2011). Beyond Walfarist Morality: An Abolitionist Reply to Fetissenko. Journal of Animal Ethics, 1 (2), 176-186.
Svärd, P. (2011). Det är aldrig en jävel som frågar "varför då?": Om ideologikritikens psykologi och psykoanalysens ideologikritik. Fronesis (36-37), 230-236.
Svärd, P. (2011). Fienden i fantasin: psykoanalytiska bidrag till ideologikritiken. Fronesis (36-37), 258-271.

Articles, book reviews

Svärd, P. (2022). Book review: Should Animals Have Political Rights? By Alasdair Cochrane. Journal of Animal Ethics, 12 (2), 210-212.
Svärd, P. (2020). Review of: Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane. Journal of Animal Ethics, 11 (1), 108-110.
Svärd, P. (2017). Book review: Political Theory and the Animal/Human Relationship. Journal of Animal Ethics, 7 (2), 231-233.
Svärd, P. (2017). För korkade för demokrati. Arbetaren (15).
Svärd, P. (2016). Book review: Interspecies Ethics. Journal of Animal Ethics, 6 (1), 114-116.
Svärd, P. (2013). Animal National Liberation?. Journal of Animal Ethics, 3 (2), 188-200.

Chapters in books

Björkvall, A. , Boréus, K. , Svärd, P. & Bergström, G. (2024). Analysing text and discourse in the social sciences. In: Anders Björkvall; Kristina Boréus; Per-Anders Svärd, Analyzing Text and Discourse: Nine Approaches for the Social Sciences (pp. 1-23). . Sage Publications.
Mukhtar-Landgren, D. & Svärd, P. (2022). Diskursteori. In: Linda Alamaa; Stina Melander; Ylva Stubbergaard, Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken (pp. 143-168). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Bergström, G. & Svärd, P. (2018). Idé- och ideologianalys. In: Kristina Boréus, Göran Bergström, Textens mening och makt: metodbok i samhällsvetenskaplig text- och diskursanalys (pp. 125-168). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Mukhtar-Landgren, D. & Svärd, P. (2016). Radikal demokrati: Hegemoni, antagonism och liberalismens gränser: Introduktion till Chantal Mouffe. In: Chantal Mouffe, Agonistik: texter om att tänka världen politiskt. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Atlas.
Svärd, P. (2014). Slaughter and Animal Welfarism in Sweden 1900–1944. In: Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg, Political Animals and Animal Politics (pp. 135-149). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Svärd, P. (2012). The ideological fantasy of animal welfare: a Lacanian perspective on the reproduction of speciesism. In: Rune Ellefsen, Ragnhild Sollund, Guri Larsen, Eco-global crimes: contemporary problems and future challenges (pp. 115-132). Farnham: Ashgate.

Collections (editor)

Björkvall, A. (ed.) , Boréus, K. (ed.) & Svärd, P. (ed.) (2024). Analyzing Text and Discourse: Nine Approaches for the Social Sciences.. Sage Publications.

Conference papers

Svärd, P. (2010). "I do not want to speak here of the educated classes...": The construction of animal cruelty in Swedish politics 1844-1858. In: Økologisk og global kriminologi Aktuel forskning. Paper presented at Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, Research Seminar No 52, Hønefoss, Norway, 2010. (pp. 49-64). Reykjavik: University of Iceland, Faculty of Law.

Daily newspapers

Svärd, P. (2014). Köttsamhällets egen ideologi. Arbetaren (38), 10-11.

Doctoral theses, monographs

Svärd, P. (2015). Problem Animals: A Critical Genealogy of Animal Cruelty and Animal Welfare in Swedish Politics 1844–1944. (Doctoral dissertation). Stockholm: Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.