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Mattias Wahlström

Professor

Department of Sociology and Work Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 48 30
Mail
mattias.wahlstrom@socav.gu.se
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Mattias Wahlström

MATTIAS WAHLSTRÖM is Professor of Sociology and Assistant Head of Department with responsibility for research and research education at the Department of Sociology and Work Science.

He defended his doctoral thesis in 2011: "The making of protest and protest policing: Negotiation, Knowledge, Space, and Narrative," which concerns contemporary political protest and the policing of protest in Sweden and Denmark. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews, observations and documents, various aspects of this area are explored, such as negotiation, provocation, spatial interaction, and organisational police change.

Between 2009 and 2013 he was part of the international research programme “Caught in the act of protest: contextualizing contention (CCC)” (see http://www.protestsurvey.eu/). Together with Abby Peterson and Magnus Wennerhag, he was part of a follow-up research project focusing on Pride parades in Europe and Mexico, subsequently co-authoring the book Pride Parades and LGBT movements (Routledge).

Mattias has been the principal investigator of the following, now finished, research projects:

  • Collaboration and conflict in prevention of violent extremism in Sweden (Forte 2016-00925), with Jan Jämte (Örebro University), Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörn University), and Rune Ellefsen (University of Oslo).
  • Online social media as discursive opportunity structure for attacks against refugee housing facilities (VR 2016-03515), with Hans Ekbrand (GU), Anton Törnberg (GU) and Petter Törnberg (Chalmers).

Mattias is prior co-coordinator and current board member of Research Network 25 of the European Sociological Association, as well as the local research milieu CSM-RESIST.

Current research

Mattias Wahlström is currently principal investigator for the research project

He also participates in the research project:

During 2019, Mattias also had a central role in coordination of international protest surveys directed to participants in climate protests, which, inter alia, resulted in two research reports: Protest for a Future och Protest for a Future II.

Specialist Fields Social movements, political violence, police research, social media, philosophy of social science, LGBTQ-issues and narrative analysis.

Teaching and tutoring Criminology and general sociology, with a focus on social movements, crime prevention, political violence and sociology of knowledge.