- University of Gothenburg
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Sociology
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- Wahlström Mattias
Mattias Wahlström
Senior lecturer
Room: F228
Phone: +46 31 786 4830
E-mail: Mattias.Wahlstrom@socav.gu.se
Presentation
MATTIAS WAHLSTRÖM obtained his Bachelor’s degree in philosophy, as well as his Master’s degree in sociology, from the University of Gothenburg in 2003. He has been a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology since 2004. In 2011 Mattias defended his doctoral thesis: "The making of protest and protest policing: Negotiation, Knowledge, Space, and Narrative."
Specialist Fields
Social movements, police research, urban sociology, philosophy of social science and narrative analysis.
Current research
Mattias’ doctoral thesis concerns contemporary political protest and the policing of protest in Sweden and Denmark. Based on qualitative analysis of interviews, observations and documents, various aspects of this area are explored, such as negotiation, provocation, spatial interaction, and organisational police change.
Teaching and tutoring
Criminology and general sociology, with a focus on social movements, political crime and police research.
Miscellaneous
He is also part of the international research programme “Caught in the act of protest: contextualizing contention (CCC)” (see http://www.protestsurvey.eu/), and the research programme “Policing ethnicity in a diversified Sweden”, coordinated by Prof. Abby Peterson.
Selected publications
Wahlström, Mattias. (Forthcoming) “Production of spaces for representation: Racist marches, counterdemonstrations, and public-order policing.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Wahlström, Mattias. 2007. "Forestalling violence: Police knowledge of interaction with political activists." Mobilization: The International Quarterly 12(4): 389-402.
Wahlström, Mattias och Abby Peterson. 2006. "Between the State and the Market: Expanding the Concept of 'Political Opportunity Structure'." Acta Sociologica 49(4): 363-377.
Wahlström, Mattias. 2006. "Unformulable Practices? Articulating Practical Understanding in Sociological Theory." Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory (13): 121-139.
Contact Information
Department of sociology
P.O. Box 720, SE 405 30 GÖTEBORG
Visiting Address:
Sprängkullsgatan 25
Phone:
+46 (0)31-786 0000
Fax:
+46 (0)31-786 4764