We are happy to announce the 2nd Political Ecologies of the Far Right conference in Uppsala, Sweden 11.1.-13.1.2024. We look forward to receiving contributions from activists and scholars for papers, panels and workshops DL is 1st June 2023 More info: pefr.network/pefr-conferenc…

Ik ga op veldreis en ik neem mee... 📚

The past two weeks, I have traded fieldwork for this idyllic campus Lund University for a PhD course on agrarian transformations, social movements and the agrarian question. Two weeks full of interesting reflections and in depth case explorations!

Some snapshots from the first of May parade in Stockholm! #förstamaj

The right coalition in #Uppsala Region is proposing to raise the price of buses in Uppsala from 28➡️ 39kr (= 40% raise ⬆️) This is completely ridiculous 😭sign & share widely ✊ more details in the link. #klimat folkrorelse.nu/petitions/stop…

Office of the day: Norrköping's workers museum for a two-day workshop #forskardygn with ABF on how to build bridges between research & civil society

Fieldwork has meant spending a lot of time on the road. And a lot of lonely moments. However, I cannot complain when lunch breaks look like this ...

Nu går det att läsa och ladda ned (gratis) tre av kapitlen ur Catrin Lundströms, Peter Wikströms och min bok ”Race in Sweden: Racism and anti-racism in the world’s first ’colourblind’ nation” gratis här: researchgate.net/publication/37… researchgate.net/publication/36… researchgate.net/publication/36…

Behind the scenes from a workshop on life in rural Sweden with people who are in the asylum process. So many beautiful creations, funny anecdotes about navigating a new country, and painful stories of endless waiting. Crossing some language barriers thanks to #creativemethods

Torino - defending a city Park against the construction of a supermarket, one flower bed at a time. #climatesocialcamp #esseno

The wonderful slowmess shares another of her beautifully written, thought provoking and caring thoughts on her blog Slowmess.

After 3 years, SOLiDi is coming to an end. Are you working on related topics of solidarity and diversity? Want to join and present at our closing conference? Check out our #callforpapers

Open call for artistic contributions! Inviting contributions from artists working on solidarity in diversity for our final conference in Antwerp this August. Deadline for submissions is June 10th

3rd day of protests in Malmö, calling for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest and an end to the occupation #freepalestine

Uppsala university staff & phd students, sign the letter in support with the student encampment at Engelska Parken, calling to cut institutional ties with Israeli Universities that are complicit with the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. Share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1pH…

PhD vacancy📢 we're hiring a PhD to work with Dora Sampaio, @ilsevanliempt and me in an exciting project on urban migration, youth geographies and caring masculinities. Deadline 4 July 2024. For questions: [email protected]. Please share widely. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Happy to be in Universiteit voor Humanistiek for SOLiDi and see these visible signs of students raising questions, creating a platform, and developing solidarity within their institutions!

Zinaïda presented on popular education and study circles for asylum seekers in rural Sweden and the role of ambivalent solidarities Zinaïda Sluijs (she/her)

We (@elinedejong and) I are looking for contributors to our panel proposal for the annual IMISCOE conference (1-4 July 2025 in Paris). Working on “exclusionary natures of migrant solidarity in crisis-driven welfare states”? Consider applying! Deadline Sep 16, 2024

Important conversation with Maya Wind and Christina Kullberg on the role of universities, knowledge production and democratic debate in context of steller colonialism, apartheid and genocide!