About
Esben Bøgh Sørensen is a historian and curator at The Green Museum - The Danish Museum for Agriculture, Food, Hunting, and Forestry. He specializes in agrarian history and heads the Museum’s collections of objects. He has a PhD degree in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University, and has conducted research on early modern and modern English and Danish agricultural history. He is a board member of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies, regularly writes about history, theory, and politics in international and Danish journals and magazines, and participates in public debates. He plays the harmonica, banjo, and mandolin in his spare time.
Research publications and papers
Research publications and papers
Research publications and papers
Accepted: "From Thrift to Improvement: Reimagining Agrarian Management in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England", Agricultural History
Forthcoming: “Being Strong Together: Cooperative Farmer Organizing and Agrarian Corporatism in Denmark and Norden”, in Anker Brink Lund and Haldor Byrkjeflot (ed.) Getting to “Norden”: Exemplary Analyses of Associative Governance, Routledge, (co-author professor Mads Mordhorst, Copenhagen Business School)
2021: ”To be Bold of One’s Own: Agrarian Capitalism and Household Management in Thomas Tusser’s Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, Cultural and Social History, vol. 18, issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2021.1918846
2021: "The Ecology of Agrarian Capitalism in Early Modern England", Climate, Crisis, Capital: Sixth Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies
2018: ”Arbejde som improvement: landbrug, husholdning og kapitalisme I 1500- og 1600-tallets England” (Work as Improvement: Agricultural, household, and capitalism in the 16th and 17th centuries England), Slagmark – Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie (The Danish Journal for Intellectual History), vol. 76
2018: "Redaktionelt forord" (preface), Slagmark – Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie (The Danish Journal for Intellectual History), vol. 76 https://www.slagmark.dk/arbejdets-idhistorie
2016: ”Nye fortolkninger af Kritikken af den politiske økonomi – værdiformsteorierne” (New Interpretations of the Critique of Political Economy: Value-form theories), Arbejderhistorie – Tidsskrift for Historie, Kultur og Politik (Labour History: Journal for History, Culture and Politics), vol 2016/2
Recent publications
Research publications and papers
Research publications and papers
2023: "Klodens økokrise skyldes afmagt over for kapitalismen", Dagbladet Information, https://www.information.dk/debat/2023/07/klodens-oekokrise-skyldes-afmagt-kapitalismen
2022: "Venstrepopulismen er ved at rustne", https://politiken.dk/debat/debatindlaeg/art9086068/Idehistoriker-Venstrepopulismen-er-begyndt-at-ruste
2022: "Den omvendte Fukuyama: Kapitallogik og histories", Tankens glæde - efterskrift til Hans-Jørgen Schanz, forlaget Klim
2022: "Alle elsker andelsbevægelsen, men få fortæller hele sandheden om den", feature article in Dagbladet Information https://www.information.dk/debat/2022/06/elsker-andelsbevaegelsen-faa-fortaeller-hele-sandheden
2022: Double review article of Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital by Søren Mau, in Paradoks - Tidsskrift for Filosofi og Teori (Paradox - Journal for Philosophy and Theory): 1) https://paradoks.nu/2022/02/17/historie-og-kapitalens-logik-i-stum-tvang/ & 2) https://paradoks.nu/2022/03/07/klassekampen-mod-den-stumme-tvang/
2021: "Socialdemokratiet udstiller demokratiets krise", feature article in Politiken https://politiken.dk/debat/kroniken/art8441286/Socialdemokratiet-udstiller-demokratiets-krise
2021: "Klassenpolitik für das 21. Jahrhundert", Jacobin Magazin https://jacobin.de/artikel/klassenpolitik-fur-das-21-jahrhundert-rechtspopulismus-danemark-volkspartei-enhedslisten/
2021: "Her er fire grunde til, at Marx er tilbage på universiteterne og i den offentlige debat", Dagbladet Information https://www.information.dk/debat/2021/10/fire-grunde-marx-tilbage-paa-universiteterne-offentlige-debat
2021: ”Class Politics for the 21st Century”, Don’t Panic: Analysis & Strategies on Right-Wing Populism, The Democracy in Europe Organization
2021: ”Denmark’s Socialist Left Need to Reverse the Decline in Working Class Mobilization”, Jacobin Magazine https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/denmark-socialist-left-working-class-mobilization
Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EsbenBoegh
Academia: https://au.academia.edu/EsbenS%C3%B8rensen
Email: esbenbsoerensen@gmail.com