Hansalbin Sältenberg

Background

In September 2022 I defended my doctoral thesis in Gender Studies Anti-Jewish Racism: Exploring the Swedish Racial Regime. Located in a tradition of critical race studies, the thesis explores contemporary structural anti-Jewish racism (antisemitism) by placing Sweden and notions of "Swedishness" at the core of the analysis. The doctoral project was carried out within the frame of Beyond Racism: Ethnographies of Anti-racism and Conviviality, a research project financed by the Swedish Research Council.

Since before, I hold a master's degree in sociology from Lund University.

Main research interests:

• Antisemitism, racism and antiracism
• Nationalism
• Post-colonial theory

Current research and teaching

Within the frame of my doctoral dissertation, I have tried to contribute to an ongoing dialogue between research on antisemitism and research on racism in Sweden, using a feminist and antiracist theoretical gaze that conceptualises anti-Jewish racism/antisemitism as a structural phenomenon in Sweden, not reducible to the "margins" of society. In that way, anti-Jewish racism can be understood as a dynamic and relational social phenomenon, which in turn renders possible a critical analysis of the Swedish racial regime.

I teach courses at the bachelor and the master level, including method courses, both in Swedish and in English. During the Fall of 2022 I am the coordinator of the courses SASA25: Gender, Migration and Citizenship and the internship course GNVB51.