Mia Liinason

Background

I took my doctoral degree in Gender Studies in 2011 on the PhD-thesis Feminism and the Academy. Exploring the politics of institutionalization in Gender Studies in Sweden. In 2016, I was appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellow by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The same year, I was appointed Docent of Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg. 2018 I was elected into the Young Academy of Sweden. In 2021, I took up my position as Professor of Gender Studies at Lund University. 

Research areas

•    Processes of globalization, borders, communities
•    Digital technologies in interconnection with the cultural and the social
•    Transnational social movements
•    Feminist-, antiracist- and LGBTI+ activisms

Ongoing research and teaching

Currently, I am conducting research within several research- and collaborative projects which develops and deepens my research interests in various ways: In the project Spaces of Resistance. A study of gender and sexualities in times of transformation, I explore transnational encounters in feminist and LGBTI+ activism across Scandinavia, Russia and Turkey (together with Olga Sasunkevich, University of Gothenburg and Selin Çağatay, Central European University). I am director of the research cluster TechnAct: Transformations of Struggle. This is a 5-year interdisciplinary research environment devoted to investigate the relation between digital technologies and emergent communities in transnational space (together with Lisen Selander and Nadia Ruiz Bravo, Information Systems, and Onur Kiliç and Lena Martinsson, Gender Studies, University of Gothenburg). Further, within the Network of Excellence for Training on the Nature of Hate, I am part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and am supervisor of a PhD-project about online misogyny (together with Lisa Åkervall and Sama Khosravi Ooryad, Film Studies, University of Gothenburg). In addition, I am a member of the network Feminist and queer solidarities beyond borders, a network with activists and academics in Russia, Turkey and the Nordic context. I am also coordinator of the international research network  Gender, secularities and religiosities across the globe, which advances cross-disciplinary and transregional conversations on the intricate dynamics of secularity, religiosity and gender across the globe.