
Mia Liinason
Acting Head of Department | Professor

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.
Publications
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Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance
Mia Liinason, Selin Cagatay, Olga Sasunkevich
(2022)
BookUnsettling political: Conceptualizing the political in feminist and LGBTI+ activism across Russia, Scandinavian countries and Turkey
Mia Liinason, Selin Cagatay, Olga Sasunkevich, Hülya Arik
(2021) International Feminist Journal of Politics
Journal article‘The loved home’ and other exclusionary care discourses. A multi-scalar and transnational analysis of heteroactivist resistances to gender and sexual rights in Sweden.
Mia Liinason
(2021) ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
Journal articleInfiltration som motståndstaktik: Om att Rekrytera rätt
Mia Liinason
(2021) Ojämlika arbetsplatser. Hierarkier, diskriminering och strategier för jämlikhet , p.295-322
Book chapter"Drawing the line" and other small scale resistances : Exploring agency and ambiguity in transnational feminist and queer NGOs
Mia Liinason
(2021) International Feminist Journal of Politics, 23 p.102-124
Journal articleForskardrömmar : Berättelser för nyfikna barn
Mia Liinason, Steffi Buchardt, Tove Fall, Robert Lagerström, Christian Ohm
(2021)
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Introduction
Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies.
Research projects
• Spaces of Resistance. A study of gender and sexualities in times of transformation (Funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2016-2021, KAW 2015.0180).
• TechnAct: Transformations of Struggle. An interdisciplinary research cluster devoted to investigate the relation between digital technologies and emergent communities in transnational space (Funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2018-2024, VR 2018-03869).
• Network of Excellence for Training on the Nature of Hate. Research and training programme to tackle the rise of hate speech and intolerance in different social, economic and political dimensions of society. A multi-disciplinary team of researchers conducts research and training of 15 early stage researchers (Funded by EC/Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions 2020-2024, Grant ID 861047).
• Gender, secularities and religiosities across the globe. (Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2018-2022, RJ F17-1268:1).