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 & Kurfalı, M. (2025). Behind the Book Reviews: Enduring Hierarchies of Occurrence and Unpredictable Sentiments. Poetics, 113: 102063. Download full text
Aspers, P., Fürst, H., & Sandström, E. (2025). Framing New Art: Performances by the Tribe of Avant-Garde, Cultural Sociology, OnlineFirst. Download full text
Fürst, H., & Pettersson Fürst, J. (2025). The Nordic Vision: Broadcasting Nordicness in the Televised Nordic Council Prize Ceremonies. Orbis Litterarum, 80(4): 302-322. Download full text
Fürst, H. (2025). Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists, Cultural Sociology, 19(3): 285-304. 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, 23(5), 728-744. 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). 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. (2025). "Talent in Swedish and German Elite Youth Football: An Account of Why Talent Resists Definition Using Discourse Theory" [Review of the Dissertation A Multiverse of Talent: Contemporary Understandings of Talent in Swedish and German Elite Youth Football, by L. Monsees]. Idrottsforum. Download full text
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