Professor Roger Johansson in Skånska Dagbladet

By Caroline Cabot - Published 18 April 2023
[Translate to English:] Tre foton samlade i en bild. Ett av Zlatan tillsammans med sin staty vid invigningen av den. Ett av Professor Roger Johansson på Lunds universitet. Och ett av Zlatanstatyn efter vandaliseringen, när näsan är borta.
[Translate to English:] Foto: Skånska Dagbladet

The statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Malmö statue has been completely renovated after being vandalized several times, but will not be put up again for several years. Professor Roger Johansson has written a scientific article on the subject and is interviewed in today's edition of Skånska Dagbladet.

The Zlatan statue has been completely renovated after being vandalized several times, but will not be put up again for several years. This is what the municipal board's work committee in Malmö decided this spring.

Even before the statue was vandalized the first time, Roger Johansson, professor here at the Department of Educational Sciences at Lund University, began to draft a scientific article about the statue, together with colleagues Helena Tolvhed, docent at Stockholm University and Per-Markku Ristilammi, professor at Malmö University.

The article was recently published in both English and Swedish, then with the title "Zlatan as a monument and mirror of the times". In it, the authors highlight the Zlatan statue as a clear example of how a monument to a person is not just an aesthetic decoration, but a symbol that contains many double-edged messages.

Read the entire article in Skånska Dagbladet here.