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Mattias Wahlström
Professor
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout 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
- The necessary and the possible: How social movements articulate, convey and negotiate visions of a fossil free and just future (Formas 2019-01961), with Joost de Moor (Stockholm University), Katrin Uba (Uppsala University), Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörn University) and Lotte Schack (GU).
He also participates in the research project:
- Politically motivated crime in Sweden: When, where and how? (VR 2022-05487), with Anton Törnberg (GU, principal investigator).
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.
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Främlingsfientligt våld i Sverige
2009–2022
Måns Lundstedt, Anton Törnberg, Victoria Vallström, Mattias Wahlström
2025 -
Den globala
rättviserörelsen
Mattias Wahlström
Sociala rörelser i Sverige: Politiska protester och aktivism från 1945 till idag - 2025 -
Pandemic Possibilities: The Corona Crisis as Perceived Opportunity and Threat for Climate
Activists
Lotte Schack, Mattias Wahlström
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism - 2024 -
Alternative Futures for the Anthropocene: Climate Movement Visions in Swedish
society
Mattias Wahlström, Joost de Moor, Lotte Schack
Paper presented at the 16th European Sociological Association Conference, Porto, Portugal, 27-30 August - 2024 -
Unpacking local mechanisms behind anti-immigrant violence: From political mobilization to far-right
attacks
Måns Lundstedt, Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström
Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 2024, University College Dublin, 12 – 15 August 2024 - 2024 -
Klimatvisioner: I vilken sorts klimatvänligt samhälle vill svenskarna
leva?
Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag, Katrin Uba
Inferno - 2024 -
RN 25 - Research Network on Social Movements: A collective always in the
making
Elena Pavan, Mattias Wahlström, Lorenzo Bosi, Emanuela Bozzini, Nicole Doerr, Brian Doherty, Alice Mattoni, Margit Mayer, Eduardo Romanos, Kateřina Vráblíková, Katrin Uba
The European Sociologist - 2024 -
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement
leadership
Mattias Wahlström, Katrin Uba
Acta Sociologica - 2024 -
Unpacking local mechanisms behind anti-immigrant violence: From political mobilization to far-right
attacks
Måns Lundstedt, Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström
Sociologidagarna 2024 - 2024 -
Local predictors of anti-immigrant violence in Sweden: causal pathways and their variation over two waves of
migration
Måns Lundstedt, Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström
ECPR - 2023 -
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future
protesters
Anders Svensson, Mattias Wahlström
Social Movement Studies - 2023 -
The local and the trans-local in far-right mobilizing and
violence
Mattias Wahlström
Keynote lecture at the conference "Far-Right Localism", 9-10 November 2023, Humboldt University, Berlin. - 2023 -
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in
Sweden
Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström, M. Lundstedt, Hans Ekbrand
Terrorism and Political Violence - 2023 -
Wie kollektive Gewalt erzählt wird: Die Deutung von Eskalation
zwischen strategischer Planung und spontanem
Ausbruch
Mattias Wahlström
Eskalation: G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt - 2023 -
Environmental movements and their political
context
Joost de Moor, Mattias Wahlström
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements, edited by Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni - 2022 -
Online Social Media Narratives as Process and Context in Explanations of Political
Violence
Mattias Wahlström
Presentation at the workshop: Gaining Momentum Processual Perspectives in Research on Political Violence and Collective Action, 26-28 October 2022, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence - 2022 -
Thunberg,
Greta
Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Second Edition - 2022 -
Prioritising claims for social change: Grassroots decision-making in the Swedish 'Climate
Parliament'
Katrin Uba, Magnus Wennerhag, Mattias Wahlström
Paper presented at the ESA/ECPR midterm conference Critical Margins: Politicizing the Crisis, 15-17 June, Trento - 2022 -
Defining the necessary and the possible: Future imaginations in the Swedish Climate
Parliament
Joost de Moor, Mattias Wahlström
Paper presented at the ESA/ECPR midterm conference Critical Margins: Politicizing the Crisis, 15-17 June, Trento - 2022 -
Social Media Mechanisms for Right-Wing Political Violence in the 21st Century: Discursive Opportunities, Group Dynamics, and
Co-Ordination
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
Terrorism and Political Violence - 2021 -
New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate
activism
Joost de Moor, Katrin Uba, Michiel De Vydt, Mattias Wahlström
Social Movement Studies - 2021 -
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
New Media & Society - 2021 -
Stonewallupproret
Mattias Wahlström
Nationalencyklopedin - 2021 -
Local constructions of violent extremism: Negotiating the meaning of a contested concept in Swedish municipal and regional
authorities
Mattias Wahlström
Paper presented at the Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism, 10-12 March 2021 - 2021 -
Impacts of the Corona crisis on climate activists in Finland and
Sweden
Mattias Wahlström, Joost de Moor, Magnus Wennerhag, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila
Presented at the ECPR Joint sessions, 25-28 May 2021. - 2021 -
Conceptualizing and exploring the ‘Greta effect’ on micro-mobilization for climate
protest
Mattias Wahlström, Katrin Uba
Social Movements Midterm conference 2020 “Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy”, 7-9 October 2020 - 2020 -
Protest for a future II: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 20-27 September, 2019, in 19 cities around the
world.
Joost de Moor, Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag, Michiel de Vydt
2020 -
Chatten, hetzen, töten: Radikalisierung als
Lernprozess
Mattias Wahlström
Mittelweg 36 - 2020 -
Heteronormativa maktordningar på
arbetsplatsen
Sofia Björk, Mattias Wahlström
Att arbeta för lika villkor – Ett genus- och maktperspektiv på arbete och organisation. Britt-Inger Keisu (red.) - 2020 -
Promotion of racist and anti-immigrant violence on social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
Research on Racism and Discrimination: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading? A Digital Conference Organized by the Swedish Research Council 15 October 2020 - 2020 -
Local conditions and national context for anti-immigrant arson attacks: the case of Sweden in the
2000s
Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström, Hans Ekbrand, Måns Lundstedt
ECPR - 2020 -
Minns du Bensinupproret? Det är lätt att klicka – svårt att bygga en
rörelse
Mattias Wahlström
Helsingborgs Dagblad - 2020 -
Using narratives for strategic adaptation: lessons learned from
COP21
Mattias Wahlström, Joost de Moor
openDemocracy - 2020 -
Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate
movement
J. de Moor, Mattias Wahlström
Theory and Society - 2019 -
Fridays for
Future
Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström
Nationalencyklopedin - 2019 -
Genuin oro över passiv politik bakom ungas
klimatstrejker
Per Adman, Joost de Moor, Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag
Dagens Nyheter - 2019 -
Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European
cities
Mattias Wahlström, Piotr Kocyba, Michiel De Vydt, Joost de Moor
2019 -
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in radical right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom, 20 – 23 August 2019 - 2019 -
Unveiling the radical right online Exploring framing and identity in an online anti-immigrant discussion
group
Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström
Sociologisk Forskning - 2018 -
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements: Political Participation in an International Comparative
Perspective
Abby Peterson, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag
2018 -
‘Normalized’ Pride? Pride parade participants in six European
countries
Abby Peterson, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag
Sexualities - 2018 -
Medskapande pedagogik på en
introduktionskurs
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
Scherp H.Å & Uhnoo D. (red.) Medskapande högskolepedagogik - 2018 -
”Violence approving extremism” – Establishing a Swedish social
problem
Mattias Wahlström
Prepared for presentation at the Nordic conference on violent extremism: Theory and Practice, Oslo, 28-29 November 2018. - 2018 -
“A beating is the only language they understand”: Dynamics of violent rhetoric in radical right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
C-REX Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism, 29-30 November, Oslo - 2018 -
Kursintroduktion som aktivt
lärtillfälle
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
Symposium Rum för lärande, 8-9 oktober, Västerås - 2018 -
Hur värderar studenter lärarproducerade podcasts i relation till andra
läraktiviteter?
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
NU2018 Det akademiska lärarskapet, 9-11 oktober, Västerås - 2018 -
Lärarpoddar i
kriminologi
Christel Backman, Mattias Wahlström, Sara Uhnoo
Digitalisering av högre utbildning - 2018 -
Normer som skaver. Hbtq-personers sociala arbetsmiljö i Göteborgs
Stad
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Violent rhetoric on social media: situational, contextual and individual
dynamics
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
ECPR Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018 - 2018 -
‘Conscience adherents’ revisited: Non-LGBT Pride Parade
participants
Mattias Wahlström, Abby Peterson, Magnus Wennerhag
Mobilization - 2018
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