Carl-Johan Svensson

Research

Carl-Johan Svensson conducts research within the framework of the Communication, Culture Diversity (CCD) research group. During recent years has concepts as place, identity and learning been central in his research.

Svensson has recently finished a project about the balloonist S.A. Andrée’s nine test flights between 1893 and 1895, before his polar expedition. The project explores how the test flights have been memorialised at the landing sites. The book from this project is called Provflygningarna - platserna Andrée lämnade efter sig(2021, Carlsson förlag).
 

Carl-Johan has also worked on the "High Chaparral, Communication of History and Formal/Informal Education" project, funded by the Swedish National Heritage Board. The project is a study of visitors at High Chaparral, a Wild West theme park.

Svensson's research addresses how people come into contact with—and are influenced by—history in a number of arenas in society. His dissertation examines the public debate about The Swedish History Museum in Stockholm between 1992 and 2011. What should be displayed at the museum? For whom? How? Why? The various voices in the debate have answered these questions in divergent ways. However, it is possible to see patterns in the answers that reflect the processes of change occurring in the broader landscape of cultural policy. It appears that museums have opened up to wider audiences, to new perspectives, to greater involvement and to elements that borrow from the entertainment industry. These changes have been praised by some in the debate, but not by all. The changes also come at a price.

In their 2011 book Öronbrosk önskas, Svensson and co-author Oscar Svensson write about how historical changes are reflected in seemingly banal advertisements.

In early 2019, Svensson published a book on art forgeries.

Right now, Svensson is studying teletext.