From Province to Periphery in Tønder

In the research project 'From Province to Periphery in Tønder. Spaces of Welfare, Spaces of the Outskirt', Kirsten Marie Raahauge investigates welfare transformations and the relationship between everyday life and its spatial conditions in a provincial city in Denmark based on fieldwork (2017-22).

The project is part of the research project 'Spaces of Danish Welfare', lead by Kirsten Marie Raahauge and funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

'Spaces of Danish Welfare' explores the interplay between space and welfare systems in Denmark through 9 sub-projects: the super-hospital (Runa Johannessen), collective housing for elderly people (Max Pedersen), dementia care homes (Louise Høi Dedenroth), the elementary school (Katrine Lotz), space between welfare state and security state (Deane Simpson), crematoria (Niels Grønbæk), the works of Kay Fisker (Martin Søberg), the battle of Amager common (Jesper Pagh), and shrinking welfare in the periphery (Kirsten Marie Raahauge).

About Kirsten Marie Raahauge
As an anthropologist, Kirsten Marie Raahauge explores spatial anthropologies, especially in relation to the interior, conducting fieldwork in homes and institutions, as well as in haunted houses. 

She is concerned with the relationship between cultural imaginaries, social relations and space, a triangulation that also involves studies into and frictions between aesthetics, agency, the uncanny, hygge, specificity and ideas about the generic and about dark sides of design, as well as what can be seen only out of the corner of one’s eye.