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Lotte Schack

Doctoral Student

Department of Sociology and Work Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 69 53
Mail
lotte.schack@gu.se
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Lotte Schack

Lotte Schack is a doctoral student in sociology. She holds a B.Sc and an M.Sc in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. In her master thesis Our solidarity against your bureaucracy, she examined the role of care and knowledge practices in activist responses to state-sanctioned precarity in Berlin in the wake of neoliberal labour market reforms.

In Lotte's doctoral research, she aims to understand how the Swedish climate movement arrives at specific strategies and visions for a fossil free future through ethnographic fieldwork with Swedish climate activists. She is especially interested in how notions of responsibility and justice plays into these processes, and what consequences this has for the formation of specific political subjects.

The research is part of the project The necessary and the possible: How social movements articulate, convey and negotiate visions of a fossil free and just future (Formas 2019-01961) together with Joost de Moor (Sciences Po), Katrin Uba (Uppsala University), Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörns Högskola) and Mattias Wahlström (GU).

Lotte's research interests include social movements, the climate crisis, feminist and Marxist theory (in particular Social Reproduction Theory), and ethnographic methods. She is one of the editors of a Swedish anthology on contemporary Marxist theory, Samtida marxistisk teori (Daidalos 2025). She was the 2024 recipient of the Social Movement Studies Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize.

Lotte teaches on a variety of courses on the bachelor level in sociology. She has also held guest lectures at other universities. In addition, she supervises bachelor theses and welcomes supervision requests on topics related to her research interests.