Kirsten Marie Raahauge

As an anthropologist, I investigate the relationship between socio-cultural, spatial, and material dimensions. Landscapes, cities, neighbourhoods, houses, museums, and things have been the subject of studies, primarily in Denmark. My master's thesis was about the Incas' perceptions of space, focusing on their landscapes, while my PhD thesis dealt with space perceptions in affluent neighbourhoods in Aarhus. Additionally, I have conducted fieldwork at The Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, Taastrup, and Lyngby and allotment gardens in Amager, Sønderborg and Frederikssund and Tønder. In the recently completed research project Spaces of Danish Welfare, I investigated the outskirts as a spatial phenomenon for the project From Province to Periphery. As a part of the ongoing research project The Power of Modelling, I study ethnographic models and their connection with, on the one hand, the museum they are situated in, on the other hand, the place they come from. In parallel, I am working on research into Haunted Houses in Denmark Today as part of the larger research project On the Limits of Reason. I am interested in materiality and space concerning art, design, and architecture. Together with researchers from the Institute of Architecture and Design, I am part of the Center for Interior Studies, which I head. 

1. Spatial Anthropology
2. Anthropological and spatial dimensions of the interior
3. Haunting and extra-material phenomena
4. Wellfare and periphery
5. Home, museums and other spatial sociocultural organizations
6. Urbanity and landscapes
7. Art as an anthropological phenomenon