Katarina Friberg
Presently my work focuses on the conditions for voluntary aid organizations engaged in post-war relief after the Second World War; the challenges and opportunities of state coordination and how need is measured and determined. I am also interested in issues related to how voluntary organizations raise resources and decide how to allocate their funds. This interest has led to studies of accounts and the practices, procedures and ethics of accounting.
At SCCSS I am engaged in a cross-disciplinary study examining the evaluations of projects funded by Allm盲nna arvsfonden. The project group of four is guided by Filip Wijkstr枚m as project leader.
As researcher, I have been affiliated to academic institutions in Sweden and Britain: The Institute of Contemporary History at S枚dert枚rn University in Stockholm, Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and as Leverhulme Visiting Scholar at Teesside University, Middlesbrough.
As a lecturer, I work in higher eduction, compulsory school, upper secondary school and popular education contexts. Besides teaching regular courses in history I have also taught courses in human rights and environmentalism. Since 2012 I have been engaged in academic course on organisation and management in co-operative organizations for employees and elected member of Riksbyggen, Folksam and Kooperativa F枚rbundet, via the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University.
Selected Publications
Workings of Co-operation: A Comparative Study of Consumer Co-operative Organisation in Britain and Sweden, 1860 to 1970. V盲xj枚: V盲xj枚 University Press, 2005. 508 pp. (thesis). Open access
鈥滱 Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade鈥, in A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850. Hilson m fl. (reds). 2017. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04336-54-4
Friberg Katarina och Bengt U. Str枚mberg. 鈥滽onsumentkooperationens resa 枚ver tid och rum鈥, in Civilsamh盲llet i det transnationella rummet. Eds. Wijkstr枚m et al. 2017. Stockholm: European Civil Society Press, s. 281-312. ISBN 978-91-86641-08-5
鈥淎ccounts along the aid chain: administering a moral economy.鈥 Journal of Global Ethics 11 (2015) no.2. Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2015.1054563
鈥淣egotiating Consumer and Producer Interests: A Challenge for the Co-op and Fair Trade.鈥 鈥楾he Hidden Alternative鈥? Co-operative Values: Past, Present and Future. Anthony Webster et al. (Eds). Manchester: Manchester University Press 2012, and New York: United Nations University Press, 2012. 115鈥136.
鈥淰isions and Organisation: Kooperativa F枚rbundet and the Social Question.鈥 Co-operatives and the Social Question: The Co-operative Movement in Northern and Eastern Europe, c. 1880鈥1950. Mary Hilson, Pirjo Markkola, and Ann-Catrin 脰stman (eds). Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2012. 57鈥71.
Friberg, Katarina, Hilson, Mary och Vall Natasha. (2007) 鈥漅eflections on trans-national comparative history from an Anglo-Swedish perspective鈥, Historisk Tidskrift (127):4, s. 717-737.