26 August
Book launch: Alternative Futures in a Heating World: Visions and Vision Work of the Swedish Climate Movement
Presenters: Mattias Wahlström, University of Gothenburg and Lotte Schack, Lund University
Discussant: Martin Hultman, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Håkan Thörn, University of Gothenburg
Lotte Schack and Mattias Wahlström present their new book Alternative Futures in a Heating World: Visions and Vision Work of the Swedish Climate Movement, co-authored with Joost de Moor (UC Louvain), Katrin Uba (Uppsala University) and Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörn University).
Lotte Schack, PhD in sociology, works as researcher at the Sociology of Law department at Lund University. Her PhD thesis Children of the Crisis examined how Swedish climate activists construct and negotiate ideas of political subjectivity, responsibility, and justice.
Mattias Wahlström, Professor of sociology at GU, has published widely on social movements, protest, political violence and repression.
Martin Hultman is Professor of sociology at GU with a specialization in science and technology studies (STS) focusing primarily on four areasRead more about the book: energy, climate, environmental legislation and economics. Among Hultman's books are Climate Obstruction (2022); and Ecological Mascit (2018).
Read more about the book
2 September
Final seminar: Nathan Siegrist
Title: AUTONOMOUS SPACE: Squatting, Neoliberal Urbanism, and the Problem of Subsumption in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Discussants: Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Technische Universität, Berlin.
Anton Törnberg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
Chair: Stefano Longo, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
For participation via Zoom, please contact hakan.thorn@gu.se
NOTE! Room K002
Nathan Siegrist is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on how urban movements connected to squats and autonomous spaces influence urban development in contemporary Europe. For these purposes, he has a particular interest in current developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
Margit Mayer is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin. Her research focuses on critical urban studies, social movements and U.S. politics and she has published numerous books and articles on these topics. Her latest book is Die US-Linke und die Demokratische Partei: Über die Herausforderungen progressiver Politik in der Biden-Ära (2022).
Anton Törnberg is Associate Professor in Sociology. His research primarily focuses on far-right movements on the Internet, with an emphasis on radicalization processes and violent-extremist and xenophobic rhetoric. His latest book is Intimate Communities of Hate. Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism (2024).
17 September
Seminar: Geographies of Resistance: Entangled Spatialities of Contestation
Presenter: Tomasz Sowada, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
Tomasz Sowada is a human geographer at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His research explores geographies of resistance, spatial practices of contestation, and the entanglement of physical and digital spaces, with particular interests in urban politics, participation, and social movements.
6 October
Seminar: Symbolic struggles within union organising processes
Presenter: Sophie Banasiak, University of Gothenburg
Sophie Banasiak is PhD Student at the Department of Sociology and Work Science. She studies union organizing in the platform economy.
(with the Working Life and Welfare Seminar)
18 November
Lecture: Between Belonging and Alienation: Environmental Awareness among Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Question of Land
Presenter: Maisalon Dallashi, Stockholm University
Maisalon Dallashi has a Ph D in Sociology and her research focuses on education, labor market inequalities, environmental issues, and patterns of violence and crime within Palestinian society. She examines how structural segregation and systemic inequality shape everyday life and opportunities for both Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel. She is currently developing her postdoctoral research at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, exploring Palestinian migration, statelessness, and transnational belonging. Alongside her academic work, she actively advocates for Palestinian rights, striving to connect critical research with meaningful social and political change.
(Joint seminar with CSM-RESIST and Environmental Sociology)
10 December
Seminar: Neo-Materialist Social Movement Organisations: Organising Through Material Practices in Times of Polycrisis
Presenter: Francesca Forno, University of Trento
Francesca Forno is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. Her work examines the intersections of social movements, sustainability transitions, political consumerism, and civic engagement, with particular attention to grassroots innovation and alternative forms of organising. Her current research explores how material practices and collective infrastructures shape responses to ecological and social crises.
(with the STS Seminar)
28 January
Seminar: ”If mothers don’t care, who will?” Navigating and negotiating emotions through Communication: The case of Rebellmammorna
Presenter: Maja Rintala, Umeå University
Maja Rintala is a PhD student in Media and Communication Studies at Umeå University, where she studies the role of communication in the organizing of climate and environmental movements. Focusing on internal communication practices in groups such as Rebellmammorna, she examines the balance between structured and spontaneous dynamics during phases of formalization, and how dimensions such as emotions and temporality come into play.
