Selected publications
Selected publications
Fürst, H. & Nylander, E. (2023). The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2019). Debutant! Vägar till skönlitterär debut och ett särskilt uppmärksammat mottagande. Skrifter utgivna av avdelningen för litteratursociologi: Uppsala University More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2017). Selected or Rejected? Assessing Aspiring Writers’ Attempts to Achieve Publication. Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary More information Download full text
Fürst, H., Millenberg, F., & Nylander, E. (2024). Enforced Freedoms: Testing Art Students’ Artistic Engagements in a Folk High School. European Educational Research Journal. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2024). From Talent to Qualification: A Sociological and Methodological Discussion of Player Talent Identification, Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 15, 73-86. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2024). Splendid Isolation: Managing Time and Making Culture among Novelists During the Pandemic, Poetics, 103: 101733. Download full text
Nylander, E., & Fürst, H. (2024). Kulturens engagemangsformer: Variation och värde vid den svenska folkhögskolans musikutbildningar i Sverige, Folk och musik. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2023). Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists, Cultural Sociology. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2023). Continuing in a Creative Career: Claiming an Artistic Identity and Aligning Trajectories Among Early Career Novelists, Poetics 100: 101818. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2022). Arrival to a Fictional Total Institution. The Swedish Folk High School as a Liminal Space in Literature. Sociologisk Forskning, 59(3), 321-340. Download full text
Fürst H (2022) The Curse of the Difficult Second Book: Continuation and Discontinuation in Early Literary Careers. Poetics 92: 101642. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2020). Varför drömmer man om att bli författare? Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. 50(4-5): 10-20 Download full text
Fürst, H., Nylander, E. (2020). The Worth of Art Education: Students’ Justifications of a Contestable Educational Choice. Acta Sociologica. 63(4): 422-435 Download full text
Fürst, H. (2019). Subordination and Legitimation of Self-Publishing: Shifting the Basis for Evaluation of Cultural Goods. Cultural Sociology, 13(4): 483-502 Download full text
Fürst, H. (2019). In the Shadow of the First Big Break: The Existential Dimension of Aspiring Writers’ Careers. Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 50(2): 53-73 More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2018). Making the Discovery: The Creativity of Selecting Fiction Manuscripts from the Slush Pile. Symbolic interaction, 41(4): 513-532 More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2018). Aspiring Writers and Appraisal Devices under Market Uncertainty. Acta Sociologica, 61(4): 389-401 More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2016). Handling Rejection as Failure: Aspiring Writers Getting the Rejection Slip. Valuation Studies, 4(2): 153-176 More information Download full text
Book reviews
Fürst, H. (2023). “Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers" Cultural Sociology, 17(2): 304–306
Fürst, H. (2021). “Creative Visions in New York City's Contemporary Art Scene” Symbolic Interaction, 45(2): 316-318 [book review of Bound by Creativity by Hannah Wohl]
Fürst, H. (2021). “Book Review: Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (by Michael L. Siciliano”), Acta Sociologica, 65(3): 352-353
Fürst, H. (2021). To Review a Book Is to Take a Risk: Looking at Book Reviewing from Inside the Critics’ Circle. Contemporary Sociology, 50(1): 8-11 More information
Fürst, H. (2017). Clayton Childress, Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel. Princeton University Press. Princeton 2017. Cultural Sociology, 11(4): 539-540 More information
Fürst, H. (2016). Christofer Edling & Jens Rydgren (editor), Sociologi genom litteratur. Skönlitteraturens möjligheter och samhällsvetenskapens begränsningar. Arkiv förlag. Lund 2015. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 46(2): 82-85 More information Download full text
Fürst, H., Aspers, P. (2023). The Creative Economy: Production, Consumption, and Temporality. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Economic Sociology, Milan Zafirovski (editor), London: Routledge, 358-372.
Fürst, H., Olofsson, T. (2021). Framtidens bok eller bokens framtid: Strukturer i framtidsutsagor om e-böcker och ljudböcker under det tidiga 2000-talet. In: Från Strindberg till Storytel: Korskopplingar mellan ljud och litteratur, Julia Pennlert & Lars Ilshammar (editor), Göteborg: Daidalos. 231-267 More information
Fürst, H., Idevall Hagren, K. (2019). Frames of Death: Media Audience Framing of a Lethal Drone Strike. In: Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life, Holmberg, Tora; Jonsson, Annika; Palm, Fredrik (editor), London: Palgrave Macmillan. 221-239 More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2018). Skrivarlinjer och den skönlitterära debuten. In: Folkbildning och forskning årsbok 2018: Folkhögskolan 150 år, A. Laginder, E. Önnesjö, I. Carlsson & E. Nylander (editor), Stockholm: Föreningen för folkbildningsforskning. 325-341 More information Download full text
Fürst, H. (2013). Emotional Socialization on a Swedish Internet Dating Site: The Search and Hope for Happiness. In: Internet and Emotions, Tova Benski & Eran Fisher (editor), London: Routledge. 99-112 More information
Fürst, H. (2011). Core Values and the Expeditionary Mindset: An Introduction. In: Core Values and the Expeditionary Mindset: Armed Forces in Metamorphosis, Henrik Fürst, Gerhard Kümmel (editor), Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 11-13 More information
Fürst, H., Kümmel, G. (2011). Emotions: A Neglected Dimension of the Expeditionary Mindset. In: Core values and the expeditionary mindset: armed forces in metamorphosis, Henrik Fürst & Gerhard Kümmel (editor), Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 215-223 More information Download full text
Fürst, H., Kümmel, G. (2011). Core Values and the Expeditionary Mindset: Armed Forces in Metamorphosis. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. More information