Adam Grydehøj
@grydehoj.com
Geography, Folklore, Island Studies.
Professor, South China University of Technology.
Currently studying spatialisations of deity worship in Guangdong, which is absolutely a real job.
Editor of 'Folk, Knowledge, Place'.
https://grydehoj.com
Professor, South China University of Technology.
Currently studying spatialisations of deity worship in Guangdong, which is absolutely a real job.
Editor of 'Folk, Knowledge, Place'.
https://grydehoj.com
I have a new article out with Ping Su in the British journal 'Folklore' on 'An experience-centred approach to animal folklore in Denmark: Challenging rationalistic interpretations of supernatural animal narratives'. doi.org/10.1080/0015...
An Experience-Centred Approach to Animal Folklore in Denmark: Challenging Rationalistic Interpretations of Supernatural Animal Narratives
Encounters with supernatural animals are common to folklore around the world. Narratives of first-person encounters with strange animals tend to be rationalistically ascribed natural explanations, ...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I have a new article out with Ping Su in the British journal 'Folklore' on 'An experience-centred approach to animal folklore in Denmark: Challenging rationalistic interpretations of supernatural animal narratives'. doi.org/10.1080/0015...
New article: 'Ritual labour and maintenance of tradition in a village temple: An occupational folklore approach to Chinese religion', published with Qi Pan in 'Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore'.
#folklore #China
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#folklore #China
folklore.ee/folklore/vol...
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New article: 'Ritual labour and maintenance of tradition in a village temple: An occupational folklore approach to Chinese religion', published with Qi Pan in 'Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore'.
#folklore #China
folklore.ee/folklore/vol...
#folklore #China
folklore.ee/folklore/vol...
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Conference call for papers: 'Knowing place through film and audiovisual media', 9-12 February 2026, Alta, Norway
Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home.
folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...
Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home.
folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Conference call for papers: 'Knowing place through film and audiovisual media', 9-12 February 2026, Alta, Norway
Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home.
folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...
Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home.
folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...
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New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies'
By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602
'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies'
By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602
May 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies'
By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602
'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies'
By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602
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Island Studies Journal celebrates its first two decades with the publication of Volume 20, Issue 1. This issue consists of 13 articles on islands in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Atlantic, including a special section on 'Islands in speculative fiction'. islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/12263
May 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Island Studies Journal celebrates its first two decades with the publication of Volume 20, Issue 1. This issue consists of 13 articles on islands in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Atlantic, including a special section on 'Islands in speculative fiction'. islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/12263
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this is amazing. just came across the Xinsheng project, an initiative by 1.5 gen Chinese Americans and college students to counter right-wing misinformation rampant on WeChat.
www.xinshengproject.org/about
www.xinshengproject.org/about
March 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
this is amazing. just came across the Xinsheng project, an initiative by 1.5 gen Chinese Americans and college students to counter right-wing misinformation rampant on WeChat.
www.xinshengproject.org/about
www.xinshengproject.org/about
Blue Humanities has just launched: bluehumanitiesjournal.org. Studies of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other aquatic spaces. This peer reviewed, non-fee charging open access journal has its intellectual roots in Asia’s long tradition of thinking with water and has its editorial office is in Hangzhou.
March 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Blue Humanities has just launched: bluehumanitiesjournal.org. Studies of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other aquatic spaces. This peer reviewed, non-fee charging open access journal has its intellectual roots in Asia’s long tradition of thinking with water and has its editorial office is in Hangzhou.
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I'm teaching a class on Jews and the problems of racialization next year, and I'm realizing that I'm going to have to teach these two Elon Musk tweets juxtaposed to each other.
Elon Musk, 2023: "Jews push 'hatred against whites.'"
Elon Musk yesterday, 2025: "Jews are 'peak white.'"
For a white nationalist like Musk, Jews are both the most and the least white, depending on what political purpose you need them to serve.
Elon Musk yesterday, 2025: "Jews are 'peak white.'"
For a white nationalist like Musk, Jews are both the most and the least white, depending on what political purpose you need them to serve.
February 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm teaching a class on Jews and the problems of racialization next year, and I'm realizing that I'm going to have to teach these two Elon Musk tweets juxtaposed to each other.
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New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands'
By Mei-Huan Chen
doi.org/10.24043/001...
'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands'
By Mei-Huan Chen
doi.org/10.24043/001...
February 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands'
By Mei-Huan Chen
doi.org/10.24043/001...
'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands'
By Mei-Huan Chen
doi.org/10.24043/001...
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New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis'
By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...
'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis'
By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...
February 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis'
By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...
'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis'
By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir
islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...
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Beewolf Press is launching the diamond open access journal 'Blue Humanities' in 2026. With its roots in Asia and its editorial office in Hangzhou, the journal is dedicated to critical studies of marine, river, lake, wetland, and other water-related environments.
More information coming soon!
More information coming soon!
January 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Beewolf Press is launching the diamond open access journal 'Blue Humanities' in 2026. With its roots in Asia and its editorial office in Hangzhou, the journal is dedicated to critical studies of marine, river, lake, wetland, and other water-related environments.
More information coming soon!
More information coming soon!
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Reviewing academic texts, I find myself repeating a mantra.
So here is for everyone, what my (PhD) students get to hear:
1) think of your reader
2) demonstrate first, then declare
3) use active language
4) write short sentences
4) treat humans - including yourself - not as actors
#anthropology
So here is for everyone, what my (PhD) students get to hear:
1) think of your reader
2) demonstrate first, then declare
3) use active language
4) write short sentences
4) treat humans - including yourself - not as actors
#anthropology
January 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reviewing academic texts, I find myself repeating a mantra.
So here is for everyone, what my (PhD) students get to hear:
1) think of your reader
2) demonstrate first, then declare
3) use active language
4) write short sentences
4) treat humans - including yourself - not as actors
#anthropology
So here is for everyone, what my (PhD) students get to hear:
1) think of your reader
2) demonstrate first, then declare
3) use active language
4) write short sentences
4) treat humans - including yourself - not as actors
#anthropology
'Hao Dong Xi' (2024), a comedy about being a middle class, divorced mother (and other forms of womanhood) in urban China. Society sets women impossible standards, and knowing this doesn't mean knowing how to fix it. The lesson: You don't need to be perfect to be OK. www.imdb.com/title/tt3180...
Her Story (2024) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
2h 3m
www.imdb.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
'Hao Dong Xi' (2024), a comedy about being a middle class, divorced mother (and other forms of womanhood) in urban China. Society sets women impossible standards, and knowing this doesn't mean knowing how to fix it. The lesson: You don't need to be perfect to be OK. www.imdb.com/title/tt3180...
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New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place':
'"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop'
By Xihuan Hu
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
'"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop'
By Xihuan Hu
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 AM
New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place':
'"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop'
By Xihuan Hu
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
'"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop'
By Xihuan Hu
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
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New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article:
'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland'
By Chiara Mastronardo
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland'
By Chiara Mastronardo
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
December 14, 2024 at 4:05 AM
New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article:
'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland'
By Chiara Mastronardo
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland'
By Chiara Mastronardo
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...
In 'Encountering folk, knowledge, and place', Yaso Nadarajah and I introduce our motivations for and the background of this new, and radically open, journal project: seeking new ways of knowing in the pluriverse. doi.org/10.24043/001...
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
In 'Encountering folk, knowledge, and place', Yaso Nadarajah and I introduce our motivations for and the background of this new, and radically open, journal project: seeking new ways of knowing in the pluriverse. doi.org/10.24043/001...
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December 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place':
'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place'
By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...
'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place'
By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...
December 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place':
'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place'
By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...
'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place'
By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson
folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...
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'Island Studies Journal', Volume 19, Issue 2 has just been published: islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/11123
15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.
15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.
November 27, 2024 at 9:25 AM
'Island Studies Journal', Volume 19, Issue 2 has just been published: islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/11123
15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.
15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.
I have visited similar places, including one very grim example in Pingtan. This kind of speculative tourism development continues, and it points to deep flaws in project conceptualisation and financial management. We need research-led tourism policy.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016241
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016241
They Built an Entire ‘Ancient Town.’ Practically Nobody Came.
The vast Dayong Town complex cost over $300 million to build, but only receives about 20 visitors per day.
www.sixthtone.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
I have visited similar places, including one very grim example in Pingtan. This kind of speculative tourism development continues, and it points to deep flaws in project conceptualisation and financial management. We need research-led tourism policy.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016241
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016241
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New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas'
By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín
doi.org/10.24043/001...
Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands
'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas'
By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín
doi.org/10.24043/001...
Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands
November 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM
New 'Island Studies Journal' article:
'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas'
By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín
doi.org/10.24043/001...
Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands
'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas'
By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín
doi.org/10.24043/001...
Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands
A few years late, I have come across Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa's great article 'Decolonizing seascapes: Imaginaries and absences on an island hub', published in 'Postcolonial Interventions' in 2021. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
Decolonizing Seascapes: Imaginaries and Absences on an Island Hub
This paper calls for the need to go beyond an understanding of oceans, seas and littoral spaces as merely territories that feature in post/colonial imaginaries of exploration, trade and conquest. In g...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:30 AM
A few years late, I have come across Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa's great article 'Decolonizing seascapes: Imaginaries and absences on an island hub', published in 'Postcolonial Interventions' in 2021. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
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More context for the Flann O'Brien quote from The Third Policeman (1967) that I've been using as a metaphor for how we can perceive the heinous attacks on trans rights, and how cis folks and others might not understand how not only will their rights also be violated, *it's already happening*
November 9, 2024 at 1:38 PM
More context for the Flann O'Brien quote from The Third Policeman (1967) that I've been using as a metaphor for how we can perceive the heinous attacks on trans rights, and how cis folks and others might not understand how not only will their rights also be violated, *it's already happening*
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Hey folklorists, help me add to this folklorist starter pack. Suggest accounts and I’ll try to add them: go.bsky.app/HnHejQX
November 17, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Hey folklorists, help me add to this folklorist starter pack. Suggest accounts and I’ll try to add them: go.bsky.app/HnHejQX