Background

I earned my PhD in 2015 from the Department of Sociology at Lund University. Since 2015, I have taught and researched at the Department of Gender Studies where I am currently employed as senior lecturer.

I am currently Director of Studies at the Department of Gender Studies and Programme Director for the Social Studies of Gender Master Programme at the Graduate School. 

Research Areas

• Social justice and law
• Studies of racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism
• Feminist and antiracist perspectives on violence
• Postcolonial and decolonial theories
• Feminist methodologies and methods

Current Research and Teaching

My research is concerned with law, both as a tool used by social movements and activists in struggles for social justice and as an instrument of power. In my research I have been interested in exploring potential and limits of using law and legal arenas for feminist, anti-racist and other struggles for justice.

In my PhD thesis, later published as a book, I analyzed the ways in which the Swedish judiciary defines, understands and adjudicates in cases concerned with different articulations of anti-Muslim racism. Another research project The court as an emerging arena for struggles against and about racism (together with Maja Sager) explored ways in which antiracist activists and movements engage in different legal practices and proposed an understanding of their legal engagement. Here we analyzed different legal cases to understand diversity of antiracist forms of engagement, but also of different theoretical traditions and ideological approaches to law and the judiciary.

Issues of reproductive justice in times of anti-gender mobilizations have been at the core of another project that I participated in lately. My focus there was more specifically on right-claims and the use of legal arguments by anti-abortion activists. In the coming years, I will continue to work on this topic within a larger project entitled “Gender struggles in the new conjuncture. Gender, sexuality and the future of

human rights in the 21st century”, together with Mia Liinason and Ov Cristian Norocel.

Feminist, anticolonial and antiracist perspectives of violence is another topic that I have been interested in. One of the results of this interest, has been the special issue of Tidskrift för genusvetenskap focusing of feminist perspectives on peace and war, edited together with Riya Raphael.

Parallel to this research I have reflected on and written about feminist methodologies and methods. As a part of Critical Methodologies Collective, I have published a book on politics and ethics of representation in qualitative research. Most recently, I have edited – together with Maja Sager and Mia Liinason – a handbook in feminist methodologies.

I teach classes in feminist and post-colonial theories and theories of racism, nationalism and migration as well as in feminist perspectives on law and justice. I also teach methods, methodologies and theories of knowledge for feminist and critical research.

I am member in several collectives and groups: Critical Methodologies Collective, anticolonial group, network of new generation of scholars of antisemitism, Nordic Research Collective for Critical Racism Studies.

Currently, I am working together with Maja Sager on the project The court as an emerging arena for struggles against and about racism (2017-2020) that is funded by the Swedish Research Council within their special call for research on racism. The project explores courts as an emerging arena where political and social contestations over racism take place in Sweden. This is done through an in-depth analysis of several cases in which political struggles against and about racism have moved into courts. The purpose of the project is to understand what kind of space courts provide for protection from and debate about racism, and how different forms of activism involving anti-racism, but also racism, are mobilized.

In my previous research, I have explored historical articulations of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia, mainly in Sweden, Poland and Brazil. I have also worked with the issues of social justice, law and transitional justice.