Carl Wilén
Doctoral Student
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Carl Wilén
Background
Carl Wilén finished his master degree in history of ideas 2013 and his bachelor degree in sociology 2011, both at the University of Gothenburg. Carl is a PhD student at the department of sociology and work science since January 2014.
Research interests
- Sociological theory and political philosophy
- Social change and social movements
- Slavery, capitalism and modernity
- Historical Sociology
- Critique
Ongoing research
During the last decades, a new field that studies the origins and contemporary status of human rights has emerged. The aim of Carl's thesis is to contribute with a critqiue of the human rights field, through an intervention into an on-going conflict about universal juridico-political rights in the research on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), in which slaves and their allies abolished slavery and cerated an independent state.
The thesis conists of historical investigations of the Haitian Revolution as a social movement and theoretical investigations of different possibilities to formualte the relation between abstract political forms and social property relations. Together, the diverse studies aims to provide a foundation, from which a general critique of the status and limits of human rights can be offered.
The preliminary title of the thesis is: Critique of Abstract Right - Human Rights and Property in the Time and Age of the Haitian Revolution.
Carl is also a member of the editorial committee of the journal Fronesis and a member of the edorial of the journal Röda Rummet.
For published and unpublished essays and articles, see https://gu-se.academia.edu/CarlWil%C3%A9n
Teaching and supervision
Carl lectures and holds seminars on the first level course in sociology, economic sociology and on a course on theoretical and historical perspectives on the natural sciences. In addition, he teaches at the master course ”Social change” and holds seminars with a focus on classical sociology with future teachers. Carl is also a supervisor at the bachelor course.
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Structure, Temporality, and Theories of Revolution. Reading Alberto Melucci in Revolutionary Saint Domingue,
1791–1804
Carl Wilén
Journal of Historical Sociology - 2021-01-01 -
Jämlikhet i egendomens
ruiner
Carl Wilén
Fronesis - 2020-01-01 -
Jämlikhetsbacklash och socialistisk
draksådd
Vanja Carlsson, Maryam Fanni, Carl Wilén
Fronesis - 2020-01-01 -
Ancient equality against modern democracy: resources of critique in Hannah Arendt and Ellen Meiksins
Wood
Tomas Wedin, Carl Wilén
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory - 2020-01-01 -
Demokrati eller kapitalism? En introduktion till Ellen Meiksins Woods
tänkande
Carl Wilén
Röda Rummet - 2019-01-01 -
Revolution and Universality: Interpreting the Time and Age of the Haitian Revolution
1791–1804
Carl Wilén
Future(s) of the Revolution and the Reformation. Namli, E. (ed) - 2019-01-01 -
Den goda människan på Haiti. Om synen på den haitiska
revolutionen.
Carl Wilén
Dixikon - 2019-01-01 -
Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism. A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New
Materialism.
Evelina Johansson Wilén, Carl Wilén
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2018-01-01 -
The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming
World
Carl Wilén
Acta Sociologica - 2018-01-01 -
Den borgerliga revolutionens poesi. Marx och historiestriden om den franska
revolutionen
Carl Wilén
Fronesis - 2018-01-01 -
Till kritiken av den abstrakta
utopismen
Carl Wilén
Fronesis - 2018-01-01 -
Revolutionen mellan det förflutna och
framtiden
Carl Wilén, Hannah Ohlén Järvinen, Johan Örestig
Fronesis - 2018-01-01 -
Posttänkande på steroider. Malm vs. konstruktionism, hybridism och
nymaterialism
Carl Wilén
Röda rummet - 2018-01-01 -
Det politiska våldets historia och
teori
Evelina Johansson, Carl Wilén
Röda rummet - 2017-01-01 -
Scenkonst och statsmannakonst: Jeremy Matthew Glick – The Black Radical
Tragic
Carl Wilén
Dixikon - 2017-01-01 -
Om nyliberalismens liv efter döden. En undersökning av nyliberalismens idé och sociala
jordmån
Carl Wilén
Röda rummet - 2017-01-01 -
Det nya franska motståndet måste välja
sida
Carl Wilén
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016-01-01 -
Återupptäckten. Om den haitiska revolutionens viktigaste
dokument.
Carl Wilén
Ord&Bild - 2016-01-01 -
Låt de hungerstrejkande palestinierna
stanna
Hanna Wikström, Tobias Davidsson, Gustav Svensson, André Rodin, Adrián Groglopo, Anders Törnquist, Ann Ighe, Anna Hall, Anna Nelson, Anna R Bengtsson, Anette Skårner, Anton Törnberg, Björn Andersson, Carl Cassegård, Carl Wilén, Catharina Thörn, Charlotte Melander
SVT Opinion - 2014-01-01