Research
My research concerns the relationship between globalization and social movements, with a particular focus on how post-colonial differences between North and South play into the construction of global movements' collective identities and in the constitution of global civil societies. Drawing on Gramscian Marxism, postcolonial and decolonial theory, I analyze how movements use global civil society spaces – summits, media channels, internet, education, protest events, and culture – as arenas of struggle for the construction of alternatives to contemporary neocolonial and neoliberal hegemonies. Empirically, this means a specific focus on the climate movement, the Black Lives Matter-movement and the Rhodes Must Fall-movement. Methodologically, I primarily base myself on discourse analysis of movement texts.
Academic interests
- Social movements: antiracism, anticolonialism, migrant activism, student activism, the climate movement.
- Post-colonialism and decoloniality
- Globalization and global civil society
- Discourse analysis
- Contemporary continental political theory and philosophy
Courses taught
- SOS1004 - Innføring i sosiologi (seminars)
- SOS2000 - Sosiologisk teoretisering (seminars)
- SOSGEO4801 - Social Movements in the Age of Migration (lectures)
Background
- PhD research fellow, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, January 2021-
- Research assistant, Division of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics, School of Economics, Business and IT, University West, 2019-2021
- M.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, 2019.
- B.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, 2017.
- B.A. in History of Science and Ideas, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, 2017.