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Stellan Vinthagen

Professor

Department of Sociology and Work Science
Telephone
+46 413-801 95 55
Mail
stellan.vinthagen@globalstudies.gu.se
Fax
+46 31-786 48 63
Visiting address
Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
Room number
F132
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Stellan Vinthagen

NOTE! I work in the US. Contact me via via stellan. vinthagen @ gmail. com eller +1 413 801 9555

Research area Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory.

Areas of interest Interpretations of the social meanings of acts of nonviolent disobedience as well as how transnational movements breaking of system-rules influences economic and political system-functions. Social movement theory. Conflict management.

Current research

1. A Study of Civic Resistance and its Impact on Democracy (2018-2023), funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

2. Unarmed resistance to military occupation (UMass Amherst; Development of funding applications).

3. Indigenous peoples' resistance (UMass Amherst; Development of funding applications).

Forum for Civil Society, Resistance Studies and Social Movement Research https://www.gu.se/forskning/civilsamhalle-sociala-rorelser-och-motstand…

Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance and Professor of Sociology at UMass, Amherst umass.edu/sociology/users/vinthagen

Director, Resistance Studies Initiative, UMass, Amherst umass.edu/resistancestudies

Editor, Journal of Resistance Studies, http://resistance-journal.org

Steering group, Resistance Studies Network, resistancestudies.org International Council, War Resisters’ International, wri-irg.org

Nonviolence and Peace Movements Commission, International Peace Research Association (IPRA)

Resistance Studies Network

LATEST BOOK: 2020 Conceptualizing ‘Everyday Resistance’: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Johansson, Anna & Stellan Vinthagen, Routledge (250 pages).

WORK IN USA: Department of Sociology, 200 Hicks Way, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts MA 01003-9277 Amherst, USA