PhD candidate, History of Religion. Master degrees in Political Science with specialization in political economy, Stockholm University and History of Religion with minor in French and English, Uppsala University.

Research

1. Secularism, politics of identity (gender, race, class, religion...), national identity, new-Orientalism, democracy, and political theology, current focus on France post 1989.
2. Masculine heroism, enemy-foe distinctions, and ideology of violence, current focus on American popular culture post 9/11/2001.

Selected Publications

Books and book chapters

”Secular Excommunication: Ideological Emancipation and Political Theology in France, 1989-2009.” PhD-thesis, to be finished in 2011-2012.

”Barbarernas leende: hjältekultur och våldsideologi i amerikansk populärkultur post 9/11.” Book manuscript, to be published at Carlsson förlag, 2010-2011.

”Efterord" book chapter in Joan Wallach Scott "Slöjans Politik”, Tankekraft förlag, Stockholm, 2010.

”Solidaritet, dadlar och havregryn”, book chapter in "Ramadan: En svensk tradition”, ed. Jenny Berglund and Simon Sorgenfrei, Arcus förlag, 2009.

Articles

Book review of John Bowen, ”Can Islam be French?”, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010 in Temenos, to be published in 2011.

”Varför all fokus på SD?”, essay in ETC, n°45 2010.

”Burkaförbud”, essay in Arbetaren: Radar, n° 2009.

”Demokratins skådespel”, essay in Arbetaren: Radar, n°38, 2009.

”Slöjan som stigma”, essay in Arbetaren: Radar, n°26, 2008.

”Politik och Islam: Kollisionskurs västlig riktning?”, peer-reviewed article in Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, n°4, 2007, sida 395-404.

Further listing, see http://uu.diva-portal.org/.

Conferences

“Religious-Secular Distinctions”, invited speaker at international conference, British Academy, London, January 2010.

“Islam and the Media”, presentation of paper at international conference, Colorado University, Boulder, January 2010.

“Welfare and Values in Europe”, presentation of paper at internationell conference, Uppsala University, March 2009.

Teaching

Currently on Second level (master) in Discourse analysis as theory and method. Teaching also comprises courses on First level (bachelor) in Islam and Secularism in Europe.

Research Networks

Impact of Religion, Uppsala University.
Religious-Secular Distinctions, Aberdeen University.

General Interests

Continental philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis (Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, Gil Anidjar), discourse theory (Ernest Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Jakob Torfing), languages (current focus on French and Korean).