bio & CV
Bio
My name is Johanna and I am a folklorist. This means that I work with intangible culture that is used in different ways to communicate what we humans hold important in our lives. Among other sources, folklorists work with texts and interviews, music and handicraft. Folklorists are in general interested in traditions, but we also work with present-day culture.
One of my areas of special interest is intangible cultural heritage (ICH). I am very interested in why certain cultural expressions are conceived as especially valuable and how one goes about to try and safeguard such that cannot physically be touched. I also work with UNESCO's 2003 convention on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Finland ratified this convention in 2013.
Would you be interested in engaging me or to be in contact for some other reason, you can reach me through the form on the "contact" page.
Johanna Björkholm
Education
2011
PhD in Nordic Folkloristics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Including: University Pedagogics and Tutoring
2003
MA in Nordic Folkloristics,Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Minors: Musicology, Anthropology
Research
Current
On approaches to safeguarding traditional knowledge.
Post doc project financed by The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the Committee of Traditions and The Swedish-Ostrobothnian Society.
2010 - 2013
The history of the Swedish-speaking Finns according to school books.
Part of "Pieces of the same jigsaw puzzel. Intersectional Perspectives on the Swedish in Finland". Post doc project financed by The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
- 2011
Intangible cultural heritage as concept and process.
Postgraduate project resulting in PhD thesis.
Appointments
2015 -
Member of the board of tradition scholarship. The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
2014 - 2018
Member of the expert group on intangible cultural heritage of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland
2012 –
Member of the board of the Traditional Music Society, Finland
2009 –
Member of the ditorial committee of the e-journal Elore. www.elore.fi