Postdoctoral researcher. Research interests: anti-austerity movements, i.e. groups and networks of activists protesting against cuts in the welfare state.
I am employed as a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå Center for Gender Studies since autumn 2024. My postdoctoral project is called Cripping citizenship: Exploring the protests against cuts in the sickness benefit. I am investigating social mobilizations against cuts in the sickness benefit between the years 2015-2024.
I have two main research interests. Firstly, I am interested in exploring what crip-theoretical perspectives and critical disability research can mean for gender studies and feminist research in Scandinavia. Secondly, I am interested in understanding barriers and opportunities for activism in Sweden, with a specific focus on anti-austerity movements.
Previous research projects
I defended my PhD in 2020 at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University. My thesis was called “Walking or Rolling - Everyone Wants to Fuck” Disability rights activism in neoliberal landscapes and was published by Arkiv Förlag. In the thesis, I followed a cluster of groups rooted primarily in the disability rights movement, the sexual politics movement and/or the LGBTQIA+ movement in Sweden. What the groups had in common was that they worked for sexual rights for people with non-normative disabilities. Based on institutional ethnography and extended case studies, I studied the social landscape in which these groups operated.
In 2022, Niklas Altermark from Lund University and I conducted a project funded by the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund. It resulted in the report But then...? A research overview of childhood cancer survivors' living conditions in a fragmented welfare system.
In 2023, I ran a project funded by FORTE called Politik angår oss! An educational material developed with and for disability organizations. The project was run by me and Matilda Svensson Chowdhury from Malmö University.