Aimée Ekman
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Aimée Ekman’s main research concerns experiences and socio-cultural perspectives of body size in general, and more specifically fatness. Her theoretical interests revolve around social order, social subordination, social processes and various forms of action and interaction. She has broad methodological experience in qualitative methods with an emphasis on grounded theory, ethnographic approaches and qualitative interviews.
Currently, Aimée is working on several theoretical papers focusing on 1) forms of social ordering of fatness, 2) theorizing pluralistic view of body size, 3) the construction of self-injury as a disorder, 4) processes of fat shaming, 5) fat shame as self‑perpetuating, and 6) self-injury in elite sports. The last four of these projects are developed in collaboration with Nina Gunnarsson. Aimée is also involved in projects analyzing narratives in the Bible under the leadership of Staffan Bengtsson. One project focuses on self-harm in the Bible, and another examines how biblical texts may foster religiously motivated anxiety. Together with colleagues at JU and five other Swedish universities, Aimée also participates in a diverse multidisciplinary research group studying health-promoting factors among higher education students within healthcare and social work.
Aimée has worked strategically with the internationalization of education since 2015 and is currently appointed to coordinate the work with Global and Intercultural Competence (GIK) for education at the School of Health and Welfare.
Aimée Ekman’s teaching focuses on philosophy of science, research methodology, sociological theories, migration, intercultural aspects and communication. She is mainly engaged in teaching within the social work programme but also teaches scientific methods at Master and PhD level.
Biography
Aimée Ekman serves as a senior lecturer in social work at the School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Linköping University. Aimée received her Ph.D. in Health and Society at Linköping University in 2012. In her Ph.D. thesis, she introduces a critically oriented and empirically grounded theorization of “The Weight Order” as a complement to theories of more widely recognized and studied ordering systems. The Weight Order includes everybody, and orders people horizontally and vertically based on body size and weight. People with fat bodies tend to be subordinated within this system.