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1.	Bak Jørgensen, Martin, et al. (author) Transversal Solidarities and the City : An Introduction to the Special Issue 2021 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 47:6, s. 845-855 Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract The special issue contributes to the exploration of transversal solidarities counterpoised to anexhausted neoliberalism on the one hand and a xenophobic populism on the other. It trackscontours of a multifarious countermovement, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven byreimaginings of the common and the renewal of democracy. The emphasis is on the understandingof contending urban justice movements, welcoming communities and their liaisons in a multiscale(local, national, transnational) perspective. A collection of theoretically informed papers discussescases from urban contexts of Europe and the United States, all riveted by schisms of class, ‘race’/ethnicity and gender, occupied by the ‘migration’ issue and challenged by contending movementsfor social cum environmental sustainability. Exploring examples of social movements and formsof mobilisation in different contexts, the overarching aim is to retrieve options for transversalsolidarities transcending identities while focusing on commonalities.
2.	Bobek, Alicja, et al. (author) Pandemic Stories From the Margins : Migrant Experiences of Social Exclusion During COVID-19 2024 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This paper utilises the concepts of social exclusion and precarity to explore the situation of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on European countries, we first demonstrate how migrants were more likely to experience exclusion prior to the crisis and how they were further marginalised due to the public health measures. Second, we show how inadequate government support exacerbated the exclusion of migrants. Finally, we explore social ties of migrants during the pandemic, with a focus on local and transnational ties. The paper is based on qualitative data collected as part of the European Union (EU)-funded project RESISTIRÉ, which examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable groups across Europe. Over 100 narratives with migrants were gathered during the project, and these were analysed to explore the multiple social exclusions experienced by migrants, as well as the ways they coped with being on the margins of receiving societies.
3.	Dahlstedt, Magnus, et al. (author) Crisis of Solidarity? : Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden 2019 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 45:1, s. 121-135 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Europe is in crisis. In recent years, there has been a rise of xenophobic parties in a number of European countries. While arguing that there is indeed a European crisis, this article focuses on the Swedish take on the crisis. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of migration, from a Swedish vantage point. This orientation has particular significance since Sweden has traditionally been extolled as defending human rights and multiculturalism by opening its doors to refugees – the so-called Swedish exceptionalism. Reality, however, is quite different and former policies are contested, raising the question whether this signals the end of this exceptionalism. In Sweden, ongoing processes are transforming the core social fabric of what was previously known as the Swedish model. It is potentially a bellwether for the transformation of a previously inclusive democratic society into something quite different, in which ‘the Other’ increasingly plays a defining role.
4.	Erman, Eva (author) The Democratization of Global Governance through Civil Society Actors and the Challenge from Political Equality 2019 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 45:6, s. 815-828 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract In the theoretical literature on global democracy, the influential transmission belt model depicts transnational civil society as a transmission belt between the public space and the empowered space (decision-making loci), assuming that civil society actors contribute to the democratization of global governance by transmitting peoples’ preferences from the public space to the empowered space through involvement in the political decision-making. In this article, two claims are made. First, I argue that the transmission belt model fails because insofar as civil society has formalized influence in the decision-making, it is illegitimate, and insofar as it has informal influence, it is legitimate, but civil society’s special status as transmitter is dissolved. Second, I argue that civil society is better understood as a transmission belt, not between the public space and the empowered space, but between the private space (lifeworld) and the public space. It is here that civil society is essential for democracy, with its unique capacity to stay attuned to concerns in the lifeworld and to communicate those in a publically accessible form.
5.	Fuchs, Christian (author) Political Economy and Surveillance Theory 2013 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 39:5, s. 671-687 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The task of this article is to help in the grounding of foundations for relating surveillance studies to Marxian categories. Existing theories of surveillance have thus far not been linked systematically to Marx's works. The contribution of this article is that it discusses the relation of the Marxian concept of the cycle of accumulation and the notion of surveillance. It is shown that for Karl Marx surveillance was a fundamental aspect of the capitalist economy and the modern nation state. Surveillance is an integral negative and antagonistic feature of capitalist society. The Marxian concept of the cycle of capital accumulation allows for systematically distinguishing six forms of economic surveillance: applicant surveillance, workplace surveillance, workforce surveillance, property surveillance, consumer surveillance, and surveillance of competition. The notion of accumulation is suitable for establishing a general critical understanding of surveillance.
6.	Gavanas, Anna, 1971- (author) Multiplex Migration and Aspects of Precarization : Sedish Retirement Migrants to Spain and their Service Providers 2016 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:7-8, s. 1003-1016 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Exploring the relations between different migrants who meet in Spain, this article discusses issuesof mobility, the globalization of care and service work, and precarization of labor and livelihoods,of crucial importance to welfare states and the future of work and retirement conditions inEurope. A mélange of migratory processes are scrutinized along a Swedish-Spanish North-Southaxis. It analyzes longstanding conditions on the Spanish labor market combined with neoliberalde- and reregulation of work and welfare with a bearing on spatial and social inequalities acrossthe European Union. From a relational approach, the authors examine conditions of Swedishretirement migrants in Spain and of the workers and entrepreneurs who provide care and servicesfor them. Social networks, intermediaries and subcontractors are crucial to organization ofmigration as well as work and services. Some of these workers, especially third country migrants,occupy precarious, and sometimes informalized, low skilled jobs in an ethnically segmented andgendered labor market.
7.	Graff, Agnieszka, et al. (author) ‘The West Is Trying Too Hard’ : Gender and the Right-Wing Critique of Globalization 2024 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This paper examines how the term ‘gender’ has been re-signified by the right-wing actors in contemporary struggles around globalization. First, we offer a chronology of debates concerning global diffusion of gender norms, tracing the consolidation of various groups into the anti-gender movement. The next section discusses how gender and globalization intersect in discursive strategies of anti-gender actors. We show that they target international institutions and norms portraying them as a western cosmopolitan force, claiming to speak on behalf of local populations and obfuscating their transnational embeddedness. The aim is to moralize and blur the boundaries between the local and the global—a strategy we call chameleon tactics. The final part examines how chameleon tactics unfolded in the specific context of the 2019 ICPD25 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, and how an anti-globalist frame was used to blur the global identity of anti-gender organizations present there.
8.	Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim (author) A Balancing Act: Factors behind the Formation of Academic Entrepreneurship 2010 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 36:4, s. 521-535 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This article asks a twofold question: how and to what extent policy tools such as patent legislations, technology transfer offices, and the third task influence scientists to become entrepreneurial, and how do scientists’ perceptions influence their responses to such policy instruments? It pursues a novel approach by positioning scientists in the triple helix model as well as discussing new theoretical insights in the establishment of entrepreneurial activities at a large public research university in Scandinavia. It focuses on individual differences and provides critical insights into alleged impacts of public policy tools in achieving the goals of academic entrepreneurship.
9.	Hobson, Barbara (author) Gendered Dimensions and Capabilities : Opportunities, Dilemmas and Challenges 2018 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 44:6, s. 883-898 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Looking through the lens of gender, this article engages with the opportunities, dilemmas and challenges posed by Sen's framework to sociological research. Sen's capability approach offers sociological research a dynamic framework through its concept of agency and its multidimensional approach. It also poses dilemmas, revealed in the tensions within agency and choice and the challenges in operationalizing Sen's framework: adapting it to sociological models and applying it to empirically grounded research. Through conversion factors and processes, a central component in the capabilities approach, I reveal the potential of Sen's approach for developing more dynamic frameworks in sociological research, with respect to (1) changes in gendered norms (how new norms are seeded); (2) how entitlements are converted into a sense of entitlement to make claims; and (3) how the capabilities approach can lead toward a more dynamic institutional analysis of welfare states. My contribution to Sen's framework involves elaborating two mechanisms in the conversion of capabilities to agency freedoms and achievements: the sense of entitlement to make claims and the perceived scope of alternatives in exercising rights.
10.	Holmqvist, Mikael, 1970-, et al. (author) Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society : Consecration in Australia's and Sweden's Wealthy Neighbourhoods 2023 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 49:4-5, s. 767-782 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract 'Elite communities' are the areas where the wealthy, and even 'superrich', live, socialize and raise their children as future economic and financial elites; they are the places where a few lead socially and economically privileged lives. Earlier studies have concentrated on the inner dynamics of these settings, focusing on the way residents are constructed and socialized as elites through their social, communicative and aesthetic abilities that are perceived as exemplary in contemporary neoliberal society. In this paper, we broaden the perspective, by exploring how these areas contribute to polarization, that is, how they generate distinctions based on money, morals and manners that are peculiar to neoliberalism's idealization of 'entrepreneurship', 'self-management', 'leadership' and the pursuit of an 'active lifestyle'. Our data come from two major ethnographic studies: one conducted between 2010 and 2015 of Sweden's wealthiest community, Djursholm, that is populated by the country's business and financial elites; the other conducted between 2016 and 2019 of three of Australia's most prestigious and economically privileged suburbs, Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth).
11.	Holmqvist, Mikael (author) Stratification in a Neoliberal Society : The Making of Elites and Occupationally Disabled in Contemporary Sweden 2021 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 47:7-8, s. 1355-1362 Research review (peer-reviewed)
12.	Jacobsson, Kerstin, 1966-, et al. (author) Post-political regulation : Soft power and post-political visions in global governance 2013 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 39:3, s. 421-437 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The debate on global governance points to shifts in the type and nature of regulation as well asin the set of actors involved. The article introduces a novel way of conceptualizing the changes,namely a move towards post-political forms of regulation (see also Garsten and Jacobsson, 2007).Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s notion of ‘the post-political vision’, the article argues that manycontemporary forms of regulation are premised on consensual relationships as the basis forregulatory activity. These regulatory practices tend to narrow down the conflictual space, therebyexerting a form of soft power. Moreover, in the post-political forms of regulation, unequal powerrelations tend to be rendered invisible. The empirical cases discussed are voluntary regulatoryarrangements, more specifically the Open Method of Coordination of the EU (OMC) and CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives.
13.	Johansson, A., et al. (author) Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: An Analytical Framework 2016 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:3, s. 417-435 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Since James Scott introduced the concept of everyday resistance' in 1985, research has grown within partly overlapping fields. Existing studies utilize very different definitions, methodologies and understandings of everyday resistance', which makes a systematic development of the field difficult. In previous work, the authors have suggested a theoretical and definitional framework where everyday resistance is understood as a specific kind of resistance that is done routinely yet is not publicly articulated with political claims or formally organized. A more comprehensive and systematic exploration of this challenging phenomenon is possible through an analysis where: repertoires of everyday resistance are taken into account, together with relations between actors, as well as the spatialization and temporalization of resistance. These analytical dimensions are explained and motivated through illustrations from existing research. Finally, it is argued all four dimensions need to be studied in intersections.
14.	Karlsson, Lena, 1973- (author) Self-placement in the social structure of Sweden : the relationship between class identification and subjective social placement 2017 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 43:7-8, s. 1045-1061 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the two assessments of subjective placement in the social structure – class identification and subjective social placement – in a top-to-bottom social hierarchy. In this article, the focus is on the association between working-class identity and subjective social placement. The source material is derived from the International Social Survey Programme from 2009 and 2012. The analysis reveals that women who identified with the working class to a higher extent located themselves towards the lower strata compared to their male counterparts, a result indicating that the female class structure may be more polarized than that of males. The results imply a need for more research concerning how women and men relate their objective class position to social status, as well as the relationship to different outcomes, such as subjective well-being and social justice.
15.	Lalander, Rickard (author) The Ecuadorian Resource Dilemma : Sumak Kawsay or Development? 2016 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:4-5, s. 623-642 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This article examines the tensions between constitutional rights, welfare politics and extractivism in Ecuador. In practice, the rights of nature risk being subordinated to other human values amidst strategic State interests in economic development and social programs, due to the government’s pragmatic approach toward environmental rights. The Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 has been celebrated for being the most radical in the world regarding the specific rights of nature and the indigenous peoples. The central framing of the Constitution is the indigenous concept of Sumak Kawsay regarding humans being in harmony with nature. The Rafael Correa government launched a groundbreaking initiative to protect biodiversity and indigenous peoples in the oil rich national park of Yasuní, adding to the image of Ecuador as an ecological alternative to follow and a challenge to global capitalism. Far-reaching welfare programs have been implemented during the Correa administration, but resource extraction has increased. In light of the Ecuadoran experience, substantial questions remain as to whether Sumak Kawsay can be a path for socialist transformation and ecologically solvent development.
16.	Lundström, Markus, 1980- (author) Political Imaginations of Community Kitchens in Sweden 2023 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 49:2, s. 305-318 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Whereas the sociology of food has drawn attention to differences between corporate and alternative foodways, the political imaginations underpinning the latter are often overlooked. This article distinguishes between different political imaginations of the community kitchen, a set of practices characterised by collective preparation and redistribution of food. The analysis builds on ethnographic and archive material in Sweden to outline how the folkkök (people’s kitchen) was once an institutional practice to address urban food insecurity, soon outsourced as altruistic soup kitchens, and then regenerated a century later by the anarchist movement. By distinguishing between altruistic and anarchistic imaginations in this analysis, the article adds another layer to the critical sociological study of alternative foodways.
17.	Lundström, Markus, 1980-, et al. (author) Researching Otherwise? Autoethnographic Notes on the 2013 Stockholm Riots 2021 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 47:7-8, s. 1159-1170 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Market adaptation, fragmentation and precariousness have been widely documented as problematic features of knowledge production processes in the university. This article follows an undercurrent of critical scholarship to explore how paths of resistance can be opened up by researching otherwise. The article builds on autoethnographic notes from a collective and non-funded research project aimed at gathering in situ narratives from people who experienced the 2013 Stockholm Riots. The research strategy behind this project, its organization as well as its results and reception, is here used as a point of departure to scrutinize the conditions of the possibility of critical knowledge production. The article draws attention to a critical place for doing research – in the cracks of the university – which arguably complicates the academic–public divide and keeps open discursive spaces during troubling moments of closure.
18.	Malm, Andreas (author) Sea Wall Politics: Uneven and Combined Protection of the Nile Delta Coastline in the Face of Sea-Level Rise 2012 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract As global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions seem an ever more distant prospect, attention has turned to adaptation to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. On the key frontier of sea level rise, this amounts to the injunction ‘build sea walls’. But what are the implications of a scramble for coastal protection technologies? This article explores sea wall politics in one of the countries most vulnerable to sea level rise: Egypt. It is shown that protection of the Nile Delta coastline is skewed towards sunk capital and expected investments rather than poor people. This is a consequence of the neoliberal policies of the Mubarak regime and, on a more fundamental level, of uneven and combined development in Egypt. The latter process is thus undergoing an inversion and reappearing as ‘uneven and combined apocalypse’, on the threatened coastlines of Egypt and elsewhere.
19.	Maravelias, Christian (author) Social Integrative Enterprises and the Construction of an Impaired Lumpenproletariat - a Swedish Case Study 2022 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 48:3, s. 423-436 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This paper accounts for a study of the joint ambitions of the Swedish Public employment office and social enterprises to integrate jobseekers with impairments in the labor market. The number of jobseekers with impairments has increased in western labor markets. The Swedish labor market is a particular case in point. Why? I use critical disability studies in combination with Marxist studies on immaterial labor to develop the following answer: An increasing number of jobseekers are diagnosed as impaired, not because their bodily constitution makes them unfit to handle manual labor, but because their socio-cultural characteristics make them unfit to handle immaterial forms of labor. Furthermore, I show how the diagnosis of these jobseekers as impaired does not lead to that they are also considered disabled. On the contrary, they are considered to have a particular, bio-medically defined fit and ability when it comes to handling simple, manual and low paid forms of work. Hereby, I argue that they are made up as a bio-medically defined lumpenproletariat.
20.	Martinsson, Lena, 1962, et al. (author) Civil servants talk back - political subjectivity and (re)construction of the nation 2020 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 46:3, s. 429-442 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situations with conflicting norms and contradictory interpellations. When Sweden deported unaccompanied refugee children, numerous social workers and teachers found themselves torn between acting as loyal civil servants or acting in accordance with their professional ethics. When representatives from this category emerge as political subjects directed at political change, the nation state becomes unstable and porous, creating possibilities for change.
21.	Muftee, Mehek (author) Navigating and Countering Everyday Antimuslim Racism : The Case of Muslim Women in Sweden 2023 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 49:7-8, s. 1251-1267 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract In a socio-political context where antimuslim racism has gained momentum, this article aims to understand Muslim women's everyday life experiences of racialization in Sweden. More importantly, it aims to highlight what strategies are developed in order to navigate and counter these experiences. By using the concepts of double consciousness, orientations, and respectability together with an understanding of Muslims as a racialized category, the article shows how experiences of antimuslim racism are handled by the women in different ways, both on individual and collective level. Being a Muslim woman in Sweden requires developing strategies and sometimes engaging in respectability politics.
22.	Paulsson, Alexander, et al. (author) Marketization in Crisis : The Political Economy of COVID-19 and the Unmaking of Public Transport in Stockholm 2023 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 1569-1632 .- 0896-9205. ; 49:2, s. 287-303 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract While measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disturbed both global and local markets, some commentators also argued that the pandemic could be seen as the beginning of the end of neoliberalism. Although neoliberal reforms have come under pressure, little is known about the implications of COVID-19 in or across specific sectors. Scaling down the rich theoretical–historical debates about neoliberalism to the regional level, we study the impact of COVID-19 on the marketized public transport system in Stockholm, Sweden. During COVID-19, ridership dropped as did ticket revenues, which put the market under operational and financial distress. Drawing on a discussion of the norms and techniques of marketization, we probe how the contracted bus operators responded to the pandemic, how they tried to save the market from collapsing, and whether the measures taken suggest an organized move away from neoliberal policies. Adding to recent debates of COVID-19 and neoliberalism’s longevity, we conclude that although the norms underpinning marketization remained unquestioned, the techniques were partly re-evaluated in the midst of the global crisis as a way to protect the established neoliberal policies from falling apart.
23.	Sadowski, Helga, 1982- (author) Depiction of Female Migrants in German Mass Media: Insights into the Status Quo According to Lunenborg and Colleagues' Findings in Migrantinnen in den Medien 2015 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 41:6, s. 951-957 Review (peer-reviewed)
24.	Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, 1948-, et al. (author) An Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences 2016 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:7-8, s. 947-958 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The current special issue examines the range and strength of analysing contemporary transformations and struggles through the lens of ‘precarity’. Rather than defining a single precariat, the interest is in exploring ‘varieties of precarity’. These take different forms in different parts of the world, on different scales and in different socio-economic contexts, and yet they share certain characteristics in terms of conditions and capacity for agency. Contributions to this volume testify that precarity may be a political proposition as much as a sociological category that offers an analytical description of current transformations. The selection of articles has the ‘politics of precarity’ as a frame of reference. It describes the political economy of neoliberal globalization producing institutionally embedded precarization of labour, livelihoods and citizenship, but also resistance against the systemic structuration within which it is embedded.
25.	Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, 1948-, et al. (author) Reinventing the People's House : Time, Space and Activism inMultiethnic Stockholm 2021 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 47:6, s. 907-922 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from themultiethnic precariat in Sweden’s most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed thereinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century, ThePeople’ House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contestingracial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scrutinising a specificcase, the authors address the ambiguous emplacement of a People’s House in a Stockholmwrought by financialisation, polarising processes of segregation, the commodification of welfareinstitutions and interventions by competing NGO coalitions in a post-political age.
26.	Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, 1948- (author) Under the Rainbow : Migration, Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa 2016 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:7-8, s. 1051-1068 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The article focuses on systemic drivers of poverty, inequality and precarious livelihoods. It discusses the transformation of South Africa’s labour force management and its migratory system from a centralised management of unfree labour by the apartheid state bureaucracy, to a post-apartheid state of precarity, driven by ‘flexploitation’. The nexus of precarious work and a fracturing citizenship is seen to represent a duality of flexibility linking practices of employment and labour control to areas like welfare benefits, citizenship status, political participation and informal livelihoods. This is applicable to migrants and natives alike, but with migrants being particularly flexible. The author connects the issue of precarity with politics of xenophobia seen as a stratagem for the retaining of hegemony confronting looming labour struggles and an insurgent citizenship of the poor. The argument revolves around precarity as representing a rallying point for resistance as well as a social condition.
27.	Sörbom, Adrienne, et al. (author) Individualization, Life Politics, and the Reformulation of Social Critique : an Analysis of the Global Justice Movement 2013 In: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 39:3, s. 453-478 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Taking the contemporary political activism of ‘the Global Justice Movement’ as an illustrative case, this article scrutinizes some influential theoretical ideas about the consequences of ‘individualization’ for collective political action. Quite often, this process is seen as implying a new politics of individual life style – ‘life politics’ – which is associated with new social movements and claimed to have gained importance since the 1960s, on the expense of the collective ‘emancipatory politics’ being associated with ‘old social movements’ such as the Labor Movement. In the light of the article’s empirical findings, this alleged division between life politics and emancipatory politics is questioned, and it is argued that these two kinds of politics should be understood as intertwined practices. The article’s theoretically grounded analysis is based on quantitative data from a survey of participants at the fifth European Social Forum. These data are interpreted and further explored using qualitative interviews with activists.
28.	Tshabalala, Xolani (author) Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective 2024 In: Critical Sociology. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Over the last century, the South African state has periodically engaged in the practice of 'exempting' various migrants from their otherwise irregular immigration statuses. Always backed by official legislation, exemptions represent one way by which dominant capitalist interests have relied on the legitimacy of the state to meet their labour needs by sometimes employing undocumented migrants from the Southern African region. Through insights from sub-imperialism and bordering, this paper discusses historical case examples from policy articulations, parliamentary debates, secondary literature and archival materials. By exploring cross-national relationships of exploitation and differentiation, the paper argues that exemptions should be understood as attempts by which the contradictions of ubiquitous informal cross-border mobility and employment in a regime of unfree regional movement might be resolved. Exemptions also attest to the challenge of governing human mobility in a region invested with a historically vast infrastructure of producing, attracting as well as exploiting cheap migrant labour.
29.	Mulinari, Diana, et al. (author) A feminist re-reading of theories of late modernity: Beck, Giddens and the location of gender 2009 In: Critical Sociology. - 0896-9205. ; 35:4, s. 493-507 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This article is a critical reappraisal of the understandings of gender and the location of women within theories of late modernity. These theories, as articulated by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, have gained a wide use, not the least since they claim to account for changes in intimate relations. We will use four major feminist interventions for our argument – the problematization of the public-private divide, feminist theorizing of kinship, feminist understandings of labor, and the heterosexual matrix. We argue that the late modern story is made through violently created presences – of the reinvention of the heterosexual matrix, the private sphere as the location of women/gender, reproduction coupled to biology, and gender as an intimate relation between women and men – and absences of analysis of reproductive and productive labor, of the role of the state, and of gender as a social relation constituted through and within other social inequalities.
30.	Philipson Isaac, Sarah, 1990 (author) Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden 2024 In: Critical Sociology. - 0896-9205. Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Using the analytical frame of ‘temporal dispossession’, in the present article, I examine lived experiences of navigating the state production of informalization. This is connected to the increasingly blurred lines between migration regimes and labour market politics in Sweden. With temporary residence permits having become the new norm for asylum policies in Sweden, time and labour market productivity are central to the distribution of vulnerability and life chances, as labour market participation functions as the only means of qualifying for permanent residence. Theoretically engaging with ‘temporal dispossession’ and racial capitalism, I highlight how dispossession operates in and through the border regime, specifically through temporal governance, and how the latter is weaponized to dispossess people of their life chances. Empirically, I focus on how the interlocutors inhabit, negotiate, and defy the precarization of asylum through their labour market participation. Their work, however, is marked by superexploitation, as they are pushed to the margins of the labour market, often in informalized, underpaid, or unpaid positions with the promise of future employment and stability. The analysis focuses on the strategies of defiance enacted by the interlocutors and their different ways of interrogating contemporary capitalist formation through their experiences of devaluation at the intersection of asylum and labour.

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