Mona Lilja
About Mona Lilja
Associate professor and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
- 2007: Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies, University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies (PADRIGU).
- 2000: Licentiate exam, University of Gothenburg, Department of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU).
- 1993–1997: B.A. in Peace and Development, University of Gothenburg, Department of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU).
Areas of interestThe concepts of power and resistance with special focus upon the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance. In focus are the discourses, performances and identities created by those engaged in resistance practices. What relationships enable or constrain articulations of resistance? One area of interest in this regard is Cambodian women politicians and how they navigate in a context of unequal power-relations. Yet another field of interest is the emergence of ”new democracies”. Recent work has been carried out particularly with reference to the hybrid character of the Cambodian democracy.
Current research2011-2015 Research program founded by the Swedish Research Council: ‘Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil Society in the South’. Together with: Stellan Vinthagen, Michael Schulz and Mikael Baaz.2012-2015 Research project founded by the Swedish Research Council: ‘A Paradoxical Conflict over World Heritage at the Border between Cambodia and Thailand - Civil Society Resistance and The Preah Vihear Temple’. Together with: Mikael Baaz and Niklas Lantz.
Research Experience2008–2010: Research project ‘Gender-based Violence: Understanding Change and the Transformation of Gendered Discourses’. A research co-operation between Professor Maria Stern and Mona Lilja, funded by Sida.2007–2010: Research project ‘Hybrid Democracy’ and the Processes of Change: the Political Transformation of ‘Installed Democracies’. A research co-operation between Professor Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja, funded by Sida.2002–2007: Research project ‘The Democratisation of Democracy: Viewing Women’s Political Participation in Cambodia and the Palestinian Self-rule Areas’. A doctoral project funded by Sida and supervised by Professor Björn Hettne and PhD Michael Schulz. 1999–2003: Research programme ‘Discourses and Practices of Democracy in Southeast Asia – Globalisation, National Governance and Local Responses’ at the Centre for Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Gothenburg. The project was funded by Sida.1999–2002: Research programme dealing with the prospects for democracy in Palestine. A research co-operation between the BirZeit University and the Centre for Middle East Studies, University of Gothenburg. The project was funded by Sida.
Consultancy and evaluations experiences2004– Consultant at Sida’s gender-desk. Providing gender analysis on policy documents.1999–2002: Consultant at Resource Policy Support Initiative (REPSI) led by World Resources Initiative (WRI), Washington.2001: Report commissioned by Globkom (a parliamentary commission), Demokrati och gender: politiskt deltagande i ett globalt perspektiv, Stockholm.1999–2000: Consultant at Sida. Evaluation of CDRI (Cambodian Development Resource Institute).1997: Consultant at Forum Syd, Cambodia. A report commissioned by Forum Syd, Phnom Penh, Democracy or Warfare: Viewing the Election Process of Cambodia.
Teaching experienceLecturing on power, resistance, democracy, society, gender, essay writing and method, on courses of first, second- and third- year undergraduates. In teaching, I am, among other things, inspired by queer-feminist and post-colonial thinking.
2007– Museion, Världskulturmuseet, University of Gothenburg, Responsible for formulating and developing courses for first year undergraduates at Museion, Världskulturmuseet, University of Gothenburg. Lecturing on power, resistance, democracy, society, gender, essay writing and method, on courses of first year undergraduates.
1997– PADRIGU, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Currently responsible for courses in e.g. democracy, power and gender, etc. on courses of first, second- and third- year undergraduates as well as on master level. Lecturing on power, resistance, democracy, society, gender, essay writing and method, on courses of first, second- and third- year undergraduates.
1997– Tutor of B.A. and M.A. theses in Development studies and International Relations.
2003–2006: CEAS, University of Gothenburg. Lecturing on power, resistance, democracy, society and gender, on courses of first year undergraduates.
2002–2006: Department of Gender Studies, University of Gothenburg. Lecturing on power, resistance, democracy, society and gender, on courses of first, second- and third- year undergraduates.
Administrative experiences2009– Director of Studies, University of Gothenburg. 2005–2008: Course Director, Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS), School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.2007–2008: Vice Director, Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS), School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.2005– ‘Research Network on Power, Resistance & Social Change’. Initiators & Organisers: Mona Lilja & Stellan Vinthagen.1999–2000: Administrator at Peace Collage, Jerusalem, University of Gothenburg, a Master course in Peace and Development Studies.1999– Responsible for the administration of courses of first, second- and third- year undergraduates in Gender studies, International Relations and in Development Studies, University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies and Museion.
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The Role of Civil Resistance for Peace and
Conflict
Management
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Michael Schulz, Stellan Vinthagen
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies - 2021-01-01 -
CONSTRUCTIVE RESISTANCE: Repetitions, emotions, and
time
Mona Lilja
- 2021-01-01 -
Challenges to knowledge-making: the intricate interrelation of knowledge and
resistance
Mikael Baaz, Anders Burman, Stina Hansson, Filip Strandberg Hassellind, Sofie Hellberg, Dhammika Herath, Mona Lilja, Michael Schulz, Ezechiel Sentama, Savina Sirik, Kristin Wiksell
Journal of Political Power - 2020-01-01 -
Theoretical suggestions for future research on constructive resistance: strategies of representation of the Japanese civil
society
Mona Lilja
Journal of Political Power - 2020-01-01 -
Heritage Temples, Replicas, and Repetitions: Theorizing the Significance of Repeats as
Resistance
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - 2019-01-01 -
“Gendercide” as a Means for Resistance: An Exploration of Concepts, Violence and Discourses of
Dissent
Filip Strandberg Hassellind, Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
TAELS Fifth International Conference on the Dynamics of Resistance and Discontent, 22–23 November 2019 in Sousse, Tunisia - 2019-01-01 -
Borders in the mind and on the ground - (Re)categorization as “peace-building resistance”in the Preah Vihear Temple
conflict
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
Heritage and borders. Editor: Anna Källén. - 2019-01-01 -
(Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and
Timescapes
Mona Lilja, Andreas Henriksson, Mikael Baaz
Journal of Refugee Studies - 2019-01-01 -
Judith Butler: Notes toward a performative Theory of
assembly
Lena Martinsson, Mona Lilja, Anna Johansson
Journal of resistance studies - 2018-01-01 -
Feminism as Power and Resistance: An Inquiry into Different Forms of Swedish Feminist Resistance and Anti-Genderist
Reactions
Mona Lilja, Evelina Johansson
Social Inclusion - 2018-01-01 -
Travelling Artefacts:
The Role of Recognition, (Dis)Belongings, and Acts of
Resistance
Mona Lilja, Lena Martinsson
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2018-01-01 -
Editorial
Anna Johansson, Mona Lilja, Lena Martinsson
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2018-01-01 -
Classic book review. Judith Butler: Notes toward a performative theory of
assembly
Lena Martinsson, Mona Lilja, Anna Johansson
Journal of resistance studies - 2018-01-01 -
The politics of time and temporality in Foucault’s theorisation of resistance: Ruptures, time-lags and
decelerations
Mona Lilja
Journal of Political Power - 2018-01-01 -
Emotions and resistance: An
introduction
Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen, Mona Lilja
Resistance and Emotions: interrogating Crossroads and Social change - 2018-01-01 -
Some concluding
reflections
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Satu Heikkinen
Resistance and Emotions: Interrogating Crossroads and social change - 2018-01-01 -
Linguistic Resistance: Establishing, Maintaining and Resisting
Truths
Eva Lilja, Mona Lilja
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2018-01-01 -
Women Politicians in Cambodia - Resisting and Negociating Power in a Newly "Implemented"
Democracy
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
In Najafizadeh, M. & Lindsey, L. (2018). Women of Asia - Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity - 2018-01-01 -
Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday
resistance
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Political Power - 2018-01-01 -
Resistance and Emotions - Interrrogating Crossroads and Social
Change
Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen, Mona Lilja
- 2018-01-01 -
Resistance and
Emotions
Mikael Baaz, Satu Heikkinen, Mona Lilja
Journal of Political Power - 2017-01-01 -
Legal Pluralism, Gendered Discourses and Hybridity in Land-Titling Practices in
Cambodia
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Allison Östlund
Journal of law and society - 2017-01-01 -
Layer-cake figurations and hide-and-show resistance in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Feminist review - 2017-01-01 -
How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, 'Organised Resistance' and 'Everyday
Resistance'
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz, Michael Schulz, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Political Power - 2017-01-01 -
Dangerous bodies, matter and emotions: public assemblies and embodied
resistance
Mona Lilja
Journal of Political Power - 2017-01-01 -
Resistance against material artefacts: university spaces, administrative online systems and
emotions
Anna Lena Haraldsson, Mona Lilja
Journal of Political Power - 2017-01-01 -
Dangerous bodies, matter and emotions: public assemblies and embodied
resistance
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) . (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarietis, Subjectivities. Athens: 29 august - 01 september - 2017-01-01 -
(Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and
Timescapes
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
EISA 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Barcelona, Spain: 13-16 september - 2017-01-01 -
Dangerous bodies: representations, public assemblies and embodied
resistance
Mona Lilja
EISA 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Barcelona, Spain: 13-16 september - 2017-01-01 -
(Re)categorization as Resistance: Civil Society Mobilizations Around the Preah Vihear
Temple
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - 2017-01-01 -
Resistance Studies as an Academic
Pursuit
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2017-01-01 -
Gendered Politics of Power in Contemporary
Cambodia
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
Brickell, K. and Simon Springer, S. (Eds.) The handbook of contemporary Cambodia - 2017-01-01 -
Researching Resistance and Social Change: A Critical Approach to Theory and
Practice
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
- 2017-01-01 -
The Performative Force of Cultural Products: Subject Positions and Desires Emerging From Engagement with the Manga Boys’ Love and
Yaoi
Mona Lilja, Cathrin Wasshede
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research - 2016-01-01 -
Defining and Analyzing “Resistance”: Possible Entrances to the Study of Subversive
Practices
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Michael Schulz, Stellan Vinthagen
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political - 2016-01-01 -
Child Security in Asia: The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and
Myanmar
Mona Lilja
International Feminist Journal of Politics - 2016-01-01 -
Theorising ‘Peace-building’ resistance: constructions of time and different temporalities at play in the Preah Vihear Temple
conflict
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology - 2016-01-01 -
The Governing and Resistance of the Precarious Other: Migrant understandings of “now” as well as their future in a Swedish
context
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
1st International Conference Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders. Athens, Greece. - 2016-01-01 -
Using International Criminal Law to Resist Transitional Justice: Legal Rupture in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
Conflict and Society - 2016-01-01 -
Resistance, rupture and repetition: Civil society strategies against intimate partner violence in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice - 2016-01-01 -
(Re)figurations and Situated Bodies: Gendered Shades, Resistance, and Politics in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Signs - 2016-01-01 -
Fighting with and Against the Time: The Japanese Environmental Movement's Queering of Time as
Resistance
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Civil Society - 2015-01-01 -
Entanglements of Everyday Resistance, Organised Resistance and
Violence
Mona Lilja
Pan-European Conferences on International Relations (EISA), Giardini Naxos 21-23 September 2015. - 2015-01-01 -
Fighting with and against the Time: The Environmental Movement’s Queering of Time as
Resistance
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz, Stellan Vinthagen
Identity: Representation & Practices - Lisbon, 11-12 September, 2014 Faculty of Humanities – University of Lisbon, Portugal - 2014-01-01 -
Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower: Resisting What Power With What
Resistance?
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Political Power - 2014-01-01 -
Understanding Hybrid Democracy in Cambodia: The Nexus Between Liberal Democracy, the State, Civil Society, and a “Politics of
Presence”
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
Asian Politics & Policy - 2014-01-01 -
Exploring ‘irrational
resistance’
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz, Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Political Power - 2013-01-01 -
The construction of a trauma: Gender-based violence issues in the Extraordinary Court of the Chambers of
Cambodia
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
In Mona Lilja, Resisting Gendered Norms: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia - 2013-01-01 -
Bearing witness: Biopower and resistance in the ECCC: Gendering political legitimacy through the reproduction of memories and violent discourses in
Cambodia
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
In Mona Lilja, Resisting Gendered Norms: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia - 2013-01-01 -
Resisting Gendered Norms Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
- 2013-01-01 -
Understanding Power and Performing Resistance: Swedish Feminists, Civil Society Voices, Biopolitics and “Angry”
Men
Mona Lilja, Evelina Johansson
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research - 2013-01-01 -
The Gaps of the “Linguistic Turn” Some preliminary Remarks on the Nexus of Representations, the Surplus and the
Material
Mona Lilja
Resistance Studies Magazine - 2013-01-01 -
Theorizing Resistance: Contested Representations of Gender in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
International Studies Association's (ISA) paper archive - 2013-01-01 -
Establishing the Particular through the Universal: Creating Memories in the Extraordinary Court of the Chambers of Cambodia
(ECCC).
Mona Lilja
The International Studies Association paper archive - 2013-01-01 -
Gender, resistance and biopower in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Isa Paper Archives - 2012-01-01 -
traversing the 'particular' through the 'universal': the politics of negotiating violent masculinities in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Feminist Review - 2012-01-01 -
‘Hybrid democracy and the Politics of Precence in
Cambodia’
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
International Studies Association (ISA), Montreal, 16–20 mars 2011. - 2011-01-01 -
The (re)construction of memories in the aftermath of trauma: Women struggling for representation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
First International Conference on International Relations, Human Rights and Development, Bankok, Thailand 19-20 May 2011. - 2011-01-01 -
Understanding hybrid democracy in Cambodia: The nexus between liberal democracy and a ‘politics of
presence’
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
WISC, Third Global International Studies Conference - 2011-01-01 -
Narkissos: upprepning och
förändring
Mona Lilja, Eva Lilja
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap - 2011-01-01 -
Theorizing practice: Understanding resistance against gender-based violence in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
NORMA–Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies - 2011-01-01 -
Resistance: Strengthening Power, Resisting Power Women Politicians in Cambodia Negotiating
Power
Mona Lilja
All Academic Archive for ISA 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Discourses of Hybrid Democracy: The Case of
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Asian Journal of Political Science, Routledge - 2010-01-01 -
Beyond democracy in Cambodia: Political reconstruction in a post-conflict
society
Joakim Öjendal, Mona Lilja
- 2009-01-01 -
Globalization, women's political participation and the politics of legitimacy and reconstruction in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Beyond democracy in Cambodia: Political reconstruction in a post-conflict society, eds. Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja - 2009-01-01 -
‘Theorizing Resistance: Mapping, Concretism and Universalism. The New Feminist Concepts of our
Time?’
Mona Lilja
l Academic Archive for ISA 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Motstånd
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
- 2009-01-01 -
Motståndsteorier
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Motstånd - 2009-01-01 -
Maktteorier
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Motstånd - 2009-01-01 -
Avslutande
reflektioner’
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Motstånd - 2009-01-01 -
Introduktion
Mona Lilja
Motstånd - 2009-01-01 -
Reviewing At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David
Chandler
Mona Lilja
Pacific Affairs, UBC - 2009-01-01 -
Theorizing Resistance: Mapping, Concretism and Universalism. The New Feminist Concepts of our
Time?
Mona Lilja
Resistance Studies Magazine - 2009-01-01 -
Conclusion - The Never-Ending Hunt for Political Legitimacy in a Post-Conflict
Context
Mona Lilja, Joakim Öjendal
Beyond democracy in Cambodia: Political reconstruction in a post-conflict society - 2009-01-01 -
Power, resistance and women politicians in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
- 2008-01-01 -
Gendering legitimacy through the reproduction of memories and violent discourses in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Asian Perspective - 2008-01-01 -
Resistance
Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
Encyclopaedia of activism and social justice - 2007-01-01 -
"Speakings" of resistance. Women politicians negotiating discursive power in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
- 2007-01-01 -
Performances of
resistance
Mona Lilja
New voices, new perspectives paper series - 2006-01-01 -
Everyday speakings of power and
resistance
Mona Lilja
Paper presented at the 'Facets of power in international relations' millennium annual conference in London. 30-31 October 2004 - 2004-01-01 -
Hybrid liberal democracy in a Cambodian
context
Mona Lilja
Paper presented at the 'Women and politics in Asia' international conference on women and politics in Asia, Halmstad, Sweden 6-7 June 2003 - 2003-01-01 -
Female politicians in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja, Prom Tevy
People and the 1998 national elections in Cambodia: Their voices, roles and impact on democracy - 2002-01-01 -
Oh, I am scared of a woman like
that
Mona Lilja
Paper presented at the SSAAPS Asia-Pacific annual conference, Göteborg 26-28 September 2002 - 2002-01-01 -
Addressing
anarchy
Malin Hasselskog, Mona Lilja, Sith Samath, Pia Wallgren, Joakim Öjendal
- 2001-01-01 -
Diskursens makt: Om kvinnliga identiteter och beslutsfattande i
Kambodja
Mona Lilja
Hettne, B. och Eriksson, L. (red.), Makt och internationella relationer - 2001-01-01 -
Demokrati och
gender
Mona Lilja
- 2001-01-01 -
Makt och emancipation - Några teoretiska
reflektioner
Erik Andersson, Mona Lilja
Hettne, B. och Eriksson, L. (red.), Makt och internationella relationer - 2001-01-01 -
Democracy and
power
Mona Lilja
- 2000-01-01 -
Swedish support to the development of policy research in
Cambodia
Jan Eklöf, Mona Lilja, Charles Myers
- 2000-01-01 -
Genderized power discourses in Cambodian
politics
Mona Lilja, Henrik Norberg
Schulz, M. (ed.), Peace and development - their interrelationship in the global system: an inventory of peace and development research at PADRIGU: a Festschrift in honour of professor Björn Hettne - 1999-01-01 -
I avsaknad av en föreställning: Om kvinnliga politiker i
Kambodja
Mona Lilja
Feministiskt perspektiv (dept. for Women's Studies, Göteborg University) - 1998-01-01 -
Women and democracy in
Cambodia
Mona Lilja
Speaker, EUROSEAS 98, University of Hamburg, 2-6 September 1998 - 1998-01-01 -
Cambodia and the election
process
Mona Lilja
Speaker at the conference 'Discourses and practices of democracy in Southeast Asia', the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen 4-7 October 1997 - 1997-01-01