The Swedish Journal of Anthropology – called kritisk etnografi (‘critical ethnography’) – aims to promote critical ethnographic voices and perspectives on the contemporary global situation. Today’s world is characterized by an unprecedented large number of people from different backgrounds on the move; escalating political and social tensions; growing forms of authoritarian backlashes undermining fundamental democratic achievements; and, at the same time, new social and cultural processes of multiculturalism, global development, social change and popular protest. In such contexts, the ambition of kritisk etnografi is to foster responsible scholarship with global scope, local relevance and public engagement.
The journal kritisk etnografi seeks to capture societal transformation and global change from multiple ethnographic voices and perspectives. It promotes new forms of societal and cultural engagements, critical reflections on the craft of ethnography, and collaborative forms of joint authorship.
Open Access and Licensing Terms
kritisk etnografi adheres to the model of Diamond Open Access that is free of any charges: always, everywhere, and for everyone. This means there are no fees for authors, readers, or institutions. All articles are freely available via kritisk etnografi’s website upon publication. It is an independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit, society publication that provides scholarly alternatives to mainstream for-profit academic publishers.Itis owned, run, and published by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG).
From Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2024 onwards, authors retain copyright of their articles without restriction while granting kritisk etnografi right of first publication. Since this issue, all articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means users are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material as long as the license terms are followed. This includes crediting the author and original source, indicating if changes were made, and not using the material for commercial purposes (note: the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) stated in the 2024 pdf files refers to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)).
Between 2018 and 2023, authors transferred copyright of their articles to the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. While not explicitly published at the time under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, articles prior to 2024 adhere to the same licensing terms. This means users can share and adapt the work without prior permission as long as appropriate credit is given, changes made are indicated, and the material is not used commercially (Attribution, Non-commercial Use).
Archiving and Hard Copies
The full content of all issues and every article can be downloaded from the Swedish digital academic archive (DiVA). A record of issues and articles are available at Issues. SSAG members get all issues of the journal by e-mail. The yearly volumes of kritisk etnografi can be acquired as hard copies here.