Ludvig Sunnemark
About Ludvig Sunnemark
Ludvig Sunnemark holds a PhD in sociology and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science.
As a postdoc, he works within the project Palestinian Movement Mobilization in International Media 1917-2025, together with Håkan Thörn. The project aims to view how international media discourse has functioned as a central battleground within the overarching Israel/Palestine-conflict. It examines how the conflict and Palestinian liberation movements have been portrayed by newspapers in Sweden and the United Kingdom and seeks to analyze how such portrayals are both received and countered in Palestinian movements' own media channels and discourse production.
In general, Sunnemark's research revolves around social movements, globalization, discourse and text, with a particular focus on anticolonial and antiracist movements, using marxist, postcolonial, and critical theory. Above all, he is interested in examining how contemporary social movements make use of network structures and discourse production to construct global collective identities in response to lacks and contradictions within contemporary capitalism and its current phase of crisis. In his doctoral thesis from the University of Oslo, A New Global Movement from the Ashes of the Old: Global Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Conjuncture of Boundary Struggles (2025), he conducts case studies of the Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity movements for the purpose of developing a renewed understanding of contemporary global civil society.