Power, resistance and social change

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1. Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Eric Boyd, Sofie Hellberg, Michael Schulz, Sofija Barakate, Kristin Wiksell, Tintin Wulia, Matthew Tuggey, Michael Schulz, Philip Wade, Marie Widengård, Maria Clara Medina.

2. https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2019/12/31/790256816/the-2010s-a-decade-of-protests-around-the-world/.

3. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=csms20

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This work was supported by the Vetenskapsrådet [2017-00881].

Notes on contributors

Mikael Baaz is a Professor of International Law as well as an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science. He currently serve as Head of the Law Department, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. His main research interests are law and politics in the international society as well as different expressions of resistance.

Michael Schulz is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published extensively on various issues in the Middle East (resistance, democracy and state building, conflicts, security, and regionalism). The most recent publications are Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion, London/New York: Routledge 2023, ‘Whiter Democracy in Palestine? Palestinian Public Opinion Survey Towards Democracy, 1997-2016,’ Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 21, 2 (2022), pp. 176-203 (with Mahmoud Mi’ari), 2022, Between Resistance, Sharia Law and Demo-Islamic Politics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Group, 2020, and The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Security (co-eds. Jägerskog & Swain), London: Routledge, 2019.

Mona Lilja is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She currently serves as the Head of department at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University. Lilja’s area of interest is the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities—the character and emergence—of various forms of resistance. She is the author of the recently published book Constructive resistance: Repetitions, Emotions, and Time (2021).

Sofija Barakate is a PhD student in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on the civil society actors advocating for peace and social change in the context of identity-based conflicts. She particularly explores relationship between NGOs, external donors and domestic elites in Lebanon. Before her PhD studies she worked in local peacebuilding NGOs in Lebanon and with policy development in the context of EU migration.

María Clara Medina is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the School of Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg. In 2002, Medina defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Gothenburg, based on a case study of the intersectional interaction of gender, ethnicity, and social class in the agrarian history of the South-Central Andes. Her current area of research and recent publications focus on sexual and reproductive rights as human rights, contemporary feminist movements and gender-based violence in a context of precariousness and master suppression techniques. Originally from Argentina, and as founder of international networks and member of the Editorial Board of international journals, Medina is widely travelled and have lived in multicultural contexts in Latin America, Asia and Europe. Her previous academic appointments have been at the University of Tucuman (Argentina), the University of Delhi (India) and Linnaeus University (Sweden). In 2019, she was elected President of CEISAL, the European Council for Social Research in Latin America, for the period 2019-2022 and since 2020 she represents the University of Gothenburg in the Executive Board of NILAS, the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies, based in Stockholm.

Eric Boyd is a research associate at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, specialising in extractivism, heritage, and future imaginaries. He is an active member of the Young Researchers Network at ZiRS research centre in Halle, Germany, the DurhamArctic Research Group, Durham, UK, and the Power and Resistance Group at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Marie Widengård is a researcher in the environmental social sciences, focusing on the politics of nature and natural resources.

Kristin Wiksell researches organization, power and resistance from a sociological perspective, specifically focused on alternative forms of organizations. Currently working at University of Gothenburg, she is a sociology lecturer who has recently published on friendship in worker cooperatives as a mode of constructive resistance.

Tintin Wulia is a multi-disciplinary artist and Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK. Exploring the intricate power dynamics of societal and geopolitical borders, her work has been featured in key exhibitions like the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennale and the 57th Venice Biennale, and held in prominent public collections, such as the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum. Her contributions also include a chapter in the award-winning edited volume Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (New York: Routledge, 2022).

Philip Wade is a PhD candidate in Peace and Development at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His doctoral project looks at alliance and coalition building against extractive megaprojects in Argentina's North Patagonia.

Sofie Hellberg is an Associate Professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and a Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She studies, and teaches, water politics, environmental, climate governance, and theories of power and agency. Hellberg has published in leading journals and with international publishers on topics ranging from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to research methodology. Her previous work appears in international journals including Geoforum, Water Alternatives, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and Local Environmentand in a monograph on The Biopolitics of Water (Routledge, 2018).

Matt Tuggey is a PhD student in Environmental Social Science Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on landscape practices in the context of environmental conflicts. Specifically, he works with practices of landscape managers and representatives of the Swedish farmers’ and hunters’ unions, in relation to the presence of the wolf in Sweden. Before his PhD studies he worked in international education, teaching Science and developing outdoor and experiential education programmes.