Kerstin Jacobsson
Professor
Institutionen för sociologi ochOm Kerstin Jacobsson
Bakgrund Kerstin Jacobsson disputerade 1997 i sociologi vid Uppsala universitet och blev docent där 2002. Mellan 2003-13 var hon verksam vid Södertörns högskola, där hon blev professor 2010. Hon är sedan 2013 anställd som professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet.
Forskningsintresse Jacobssons forskning rör sig inom fältet politisk sociologi. En forskningsinriktning rör arbetsmarknads- och aktiveringspolitik, diskurser kring anställbarhet och kritiska perspektiv på styrning på social- och arbetsmarknadspolitikens område. En annan forskningsinriktning rör sociala rörelser och civilsamhälle. Jacobsson bedriver här bland annat forskning om social mobilisering och sociala rörelser i Öst- och Centraleuropa. Andra forskningsintressen rör sociologisk teori, moral- och emotionssociologi samt frågor kring organisation, styrning och governmentality, samt demokrati och legitimitet.
Aktuella forskningsprojekt
"Stadsodling som mötesplats i Göteborg, Budapest och Bukarest: Att bygga samarbetsförmåga för hållbar utveckling i skilda socio-ekonomiska kontexter, (eng title: Urban Gardens as Meeting Places in Göteborg, Budapest and Bucharest: Building Collaborative Capacity for Sustainability in Different Socio-economic Contexts) finansierat av Formas 2020-23. Projektledare: Kerstin Jacobsson.
"Bostadsfrågan, social mobilisering och styrningen av staden i Öst- och Centraleuropa". Projektledare: Kerstin Jacobsson. Finansierat av Formas 2017-22.
”Granskningskulturen och handläggaren: En studie av Arbetsförmedlingen och Försäkringskassan,” Projektledare: Kerstin Jacobsson. Finansierat av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2015-21.
Kerstin medverkar också i forskningsprogrammet “Civil Society Elites: Comparing Elite Composition, Reproduction, Integration and Contestation in European Civil Societies", Riksbankens jubileumsfond (2018-2023) Projektledare: Håkan Johansson, Lunds universitet.
Undervisning, handledning Jacobsson undervisar bl.a. om EU och europeisering, civilsamhället i Öst- och Centraleuropa, sociala rörelser, politisk sociologi, sociologisk teori, och emotionssociologi. Handledning av uppsatser och doktoranders avhandlingsarbeten.
Samverkan Jacobsson inbjuds regelbundet av bildningsförbund och myndigheter att hålla offentliga föreläsningar.
Publikationer
Se Kerstins sida på Researchgate:
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A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de-personalisation of the caseworker-jobseeker
relationship
Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson, Ylva Wallinder
International Journal of Social Welfare - 2023 -
The Storying of
Experience
Kerstin Jacobsson
Transforming Subjectivities: Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times - 2023 -
A Culture of Cloning in Swedish Associationism? Conditions for Organizational Harmony and Rhythm in Urban Gardening
Associations
Kerstin Jacobsson, Ylva Wallinder
38th EGOS Colloquium. Sub-theme 03: Cords and Discords in Civil Society. July 7-9, 2022, Vienna - 2022 -
Transforming Subjectivities. Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary
Times
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Conclusion: Towards a New Research
Agenda
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kerstin Jacobsson
Transforming Subjectivities. Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times - 2022 -
Introduction Transforming
Subjectivities
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kerstin Jacobsson
Transforming Subjectivities. Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times - 2022 -
Inledning till Temanummer om Aktiveringspolitik och
styrning
Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2022 -
Normeringen av handläggarna i
sjukförsäkringen
Kerstin Jacobsson
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2022 -
Contemporary Housing
Struggles
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Emile
Durkheim.
Kerstin Jacobsson
Sociologins klassiker: Upptäckter och återupptäckter - 2022 -
Normativ impregnering som informell styrning: Exemplet
Försäkringskassan
Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz
Välfärdens aktörer: Utmaningar för människor, professioner och organisationer - 2021 -
Commitment and control: Teamwork as management tool in a welfare state
bureaucracy
Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz
Sociologisk forskning - 2021 -
Prefabricerade modulhus eller arkitektritade lösvirkeshus? Skilda handläggarideal inom Arbetsförmedlingen och
Försäkringskassan
Katarina Hollertz, Ylva Wallinder, Kerstin Jacobsson
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2021 -
The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European
environmentalism
Petr Jehlicka, Kerstin Jacobsson
Political Geography - 2021 -
Civil Society Challengers in the European Union Gender Policy
Field
Eva Karlberg, Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the ESA online conference, September 4-7 2021. - 2021 -
A Structural Field of Contention Approach to Social
Struggles.
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the ESA online conference, September 4-7 2021. - 2021 -
Durkheim and Social
Movements
Kerstin Jacobsson
The Oxford Handbook of Emile Durkheim - 2021 -
Antagonisms and solidarities in housing movements in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics. Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities. Ege, M., Moser, J. (red.) - 2021 -
Street-level bureaucrats under
new managerialism
Kerstin Jacobsson, Ylva Wallinder, Ida Seing
Journal of Professions and Organization - 2020 -
Mobilizing Grassroots in the City: Lessons for Civil Society Research in Central and Eastern
Europe
Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - 2020 -
Europeanization of and by Civil Society : Toward an Analytical
Framework
Kerstin Jacobsson, Håkan Johansson
Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations - 2019 -
Housing struggles in Bucharest and Budapest: mapping urban civil society in terms of a field of
contention
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Presentation at The XVI Polish Sociological Congress in Wroclaw - 2019 -
Performing Resistance: Liminality, Infrapolitics, and Spatial Contestation in Contemporary
Russia
Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson
Antipode - 2019 -
Följsamhet som styrningsideal på Försäkringskassan - ett hot mot
rättssäkerheten?
Kerstin Jacobsson, Ida Seing, Katarina Hollertz
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift - 2019 -
The Role of Teamwork in a Welfare State Bureaucracy: Performativity, Commitment and Control in the Swedish Social Insurance
Agency
Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz
Paper at the 3d conference on Street-level Research, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, June 11-13 2019 - 2019 -
Varieties of Professionalism: A Comparative Study of Workplace Cultures and Professional Role Identities in Two Welfare State
Bureaucracies
Kerstin Jacobsson, Ylva Wallinder, Ida Seing
14th Conference of the European Sociological Association - Europe and Beyond, 20-23 augusti, Manchester - 2019 -
Governing the unemployable in the neurochemical age? The case of disability coding at the Public Employment
Service
Jon Sunnerfjell, Kerstin Jacobsson
Subjectivity - 2018 -
Antagonism and Solidarity in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest: A Field of Contention
Approach
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the ‚Good’ and Proper Life in Cities, 17-19 January, Munich, Germany - 2018 -
A Field of Contention: Evidence from Housing Struggles in Bucharest and
Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - 2018 -
Organizational governance of activation policy: Transparency as an organizational ideal in a Swedish welfare
agency
Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson, Ida Seing
International Social Security Review - 2018 -
The institutionalization of a new social cleavage Ideological influences, main reforms and social inequality outcomes of "the new work
strategy"
Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson
Sociologisk Forskning - 2018 -
Den transparenta organisationen. Handläggaren och visibilitetskulturen i
Försäkringskassan.
Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson, Ida Seing
Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2017 -
Conclusion
Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk
Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland - 2017 -
Rethinking Civic Privatism in a Postsocialist
Context
Kerstin Jacobsson
Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland - 2017 -
Rethinking Polish Civil
Society
Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk
Jacobsson K. & Korolczuk E. (eds). Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland - 2017 -
Urban community participation in post-Soviet space: Community organizing, urban governance and urban conflict in
Lithuania
Jolanta Aidukaite, Kerstin Jacobsson
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association: (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities. Athens: 29 August-01 September - 2017 -
States Shaping Civic Activism : Comparing Animal Rights Activism in Poland and
Russia
Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson
The Sociological quarterly - 2017 -
Konkurrancestat og
neoliberalisering
Kerstin Jacobsson
Konkurrencestaten og dens kritikere - 2017 -
Performing
Resistance
Kerstin Jacobsson, Christian Fröhlich
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, RN25 Social Movements. Athens, Greece: 29 Aug - 01 Sept - 2017 -
Civil Society
Revisited
Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk
2017 -
Local worlds of activation: the diverse pathways of three Swedish
municipalities
Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz, Christina Garsten
Nordic Social Work Research - 2017 -
Labour Market Policy under Conditions of Permanent Austerity: Any Sign of Social
Investment?
Mattias Bengtsson, Caroline de la Porte, Kerstin Jacobsson
Social Policy & Administration - 2017 -
Mobilizing the
Grassroots
Kerstin Jacobsson, Elzbieta Korolczuk
Workshop on ’Imagining a link between local activism and political transformation: Inventions from Eastern Europe". Paris: 9-10 December - 2016 -
Negotiating
Ambivalence
Kerstin Jacobsson
The international symposium ”State, Work, and Affects“. Vienna University: 28-29 January - 2016 -
States Shaping Civic Activism: Animal Rights Activism in Poland and Russia
Compared
Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 10th conference. Prague: 7-10 September - 2016 -
Post-Bureaucratic Management Ideals and Affective Governance in a State
Bureaucracy
Kerstin Jacobsson, Linda Helgstedt
7th Midterm Conference on Emotions. Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11), Stockholm, 25-27 August 2016 - 2016 -
Animal Rights Activism: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social
Movements
Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom
2016 -
Transparency as ideal and practice: Labour market policy and audit culture in the Swedish public employment
service
Christina Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson
Statsvetenskaplig Tidsskrift - 2016 -
Negotiating Social Citizenship at the Street-Level: Local Activation Policies and Individualization in Sweden and
Poland
Kerstin Jacobsson, Christina Garsten, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska
Integrating Social and Employment Policies in Europe: Active Inclusion and Challenges for Local Welfare Governance - 2016 -
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern
Europe
Kerstin Jacobsson
2015 -
Europeanisation and Urban Movements Political Opportunities of Community Organisations in
Lithuania
Kerstin Jacobsson, Jolanta Aidukaitė
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe - 2015 -
Introduction: A New Look at Social Movements and Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe and
Russia
Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg
Social Movements in Post-communist Europe and Russia - 2015 -
After a Cycle of Contention: Post-Gothenburg Strategies of Left-Libertarian Activists in
Sweden
Kerstin Jacobsson, A. Sorbom
Social Movement Studies - 2015 -
Social Movements in Post-communist Europe and
Russia
Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg
2015 -
Fragmentation of the collective action space : The animal rights movement in
Poland
Kerstin Jacobsson
Social Movements in Post-communist Europe and Russia - 2015 -
Conclusion
Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe - 2015 -
Introduction
Kerstin Jacobsson
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe - 2015 -
A meta-organizational perspective on the Europeanization of civil
society
Eva Karlberg, Kerstin Jacobsson
VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - 2015 -
Performing
Resistance
Kerstin Jacobsson, Christian Fröhlich
Conference of the Swedish sociological association. Gothenburg: 13-15 March 2014 - 2014 -
A deviance perspective on social movements: The case of animal rights
activism
Jonas Lindblom, Kerstin Jacobsson
Deviant behavior - 2014 -
Learning to be affected: Subjectivity, Sense, and Sensibility in Animal Rights
Activism
Niklas Hansson, Kerstin Jacobsson
Society and Animals - 2014 -
Elementary forms of religious life in animal rights
activism
Kerstin Jacobsson
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research - 2014 -
Emotion work in animal rights activism: A moral-sociological
perspective
Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom
Acta Sociologica - 2013 -
Local worlds of
activation.
Christina Garsten, Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the Espanet conference, Poznan, 5-7 September 2013. - 2013 -
Sorting people in and
out
Christina Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson
Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization - 2013 -
En möjliggörande
arbetsmarknadspolitik?
Kerstin Jacobsson, Seing Ida
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2013 -
Post-political
regulation
Christina Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson
Critical Sociology - 2013 -
Europas låga arbetskraftsinvesteringar - ett högt pris att
betala?
Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson
Ett konkurrenskraftigt EU till rätt pris/ Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Lars Oxelheim och Thomas Persson (red.) - 2013 -
Entrepreneurial
Poland
Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the conference “The challenge of collective action: New perspectives on civil society and social activism in contemporary Poland” Warsaw University, 18-19 October 2013 - 2013 -
Conclusion
Kerstin Jacobsson, Saxonberg Steven
Beyond NGO-ization. The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Kerstin Jacobsson and Steven Saxonberg - 2013 -
Channeling and
enrollment
Kerstin Jacobsson
Beyond NGO-ization. The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Kerstin Jacobsson and Steven Saxonberg - 2013 -
Beyond
NGO-ization
Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg
2013 -
Affects of animal rights activism: Subjectivity, sense and
sensibility
Niklas Hansson, Kerstin Jacobsson
Paper presented at the 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Geneva, 7–10 September, 2011 - 2011