Erik Ludvig Sunnemark

Doctoral Research Fellow - Sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Harriet Holters hus 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Other affiliations Faculty of Social Sciences (Student)

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

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.

 

Tags: Cultural and political participation, Sociology, Race and ethnicity, Postcolonial studies, Social Movements, Globalization, Discourse analysis

Publications

  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig & Sunnemark, Fredrik (2024). Collaboration, sustainability, and democracy. Constructions and understandings of social responsibility in Swedish universities’ strategic planning documents. Sociologisk forskning. ISSN 0038-0342. 61(1), p. 7–39. doi: 10.37062/sf.61.25138.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig; Sunnemark, Fredrik; Dahlquist, Karl; Gahnström, Emil; Assmo, Per & Piper, Laurence (2023). Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden. Critical Studies in Education. ISSN 1750-8487. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2023.2294462. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2023). Articulating post-apocalyptic environmentalism: global civil society and the struggle for anti-colonial climate politics in the climate movement. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. 21(5), p. 839–856. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2288405. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2022). From Progression to Explosion. Historical Time and Revolutionary Change in Marx, Gramsci, Benjamin, and Fanon. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. ISSN 0040-5817. 69(172), p. 60–82. doi: 10.3167/th.2022.6917203. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig & Thörn, Håkan (2021). Decolonizing higher education in a global post-colonial era: #RhodesMustFall from Cape Town to Oxford. Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. ISSN 1071-4413. 45(1), p. 53–76. doi: 10.1080/10714413.2021.2009749. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Tica, Sabina; Kjos, Hannah Løke; Birkvad, Simon Roland; Ahmed, Uzair; Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig & Hjelle, Karoline Blix [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2024). Skal vi forske bak lukkede dører? Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig; Andersson, Mette; Melby, Eli Ramsvik; Bygnes, Susanne & Kok, Erlend Hua Lun (2024). Sosiale bevegelser og sted - Fra Gule Vester til russiske fredsaktivister.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2024). Towards a globalised understanding of Black political subjectivity. Black Lives Matter in the UK, Sweden, and global civil society.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2023). Den globala rättviserörelsens spöke. Fronesis. ISSN 1404-2614.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2023). Zizek. En häst utan ryttare. Röda rummet. Radikal kvartalstidskrift. ISSN 1403-3844. p. 8–11.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2022). Sleepwalking into an era of climate apartheid from which no one is immune. Global civil society, COP26, and decolonial climate justice after the covid-19 pandemic.
  • Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig (2021). Är motståndet mot COP26 början på en ny, radikal klimatrörelse? Internationalen. ISSN 0345-5467.
  • Sunnemark, Ludvig (2019). ANC backar i Sydafrika - vad händer härnäst? Internationalen. ISSN 0345-5467. 44(20), p. 5–5.
  • Sunnemark, Ludvig; Assmo, Per & Sunnemark, Fredrik (2021). Segregationen i Trollhättan. En lägesrapport. Högskolan Väst.
  • Sunnemark, Ludvig (2020). Det arbetsintegrerade lärandets techne och episteme: En kartläggning av hur arbetsintegrerat lärande (AIL) förstås och används i Högskolan Västs programutbud. Högskolan Väst.
  • Sunnemark, Ludvig & Thörn, Håkan (2019). Decolonizing Higher Education in a Global Post-Colonial Era. #RhodesMustFall from Cape Town to Oxford. Göteborgs universitet.

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