Magnus Wennerhag
Biographic Data
| ID | 170642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magnus Wennerhag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magnus |
| FAMILY NAME | Wennerhag |
| SIGNATURE | WENNERHAG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3886-0298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Remaining in or leaving climate activism – insights from current and former activists on sustained engagement
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997-2016
Descriptions of social movement factionalism are often based on the dichotomous conception of lawful moderates and violent radicals. In this article, we nuance this distinction by illustrating the complexity of radical flanks through an empirically grounded analysis of protest tactics, in which we ask under what conditions radical flanks are likely to use violent protest tactics. Exploring dominant explanations of political violence, the article …
De avgående redaktörerna har ordet
Detta nummers två första vetenskapliga artiklar uppmärksammar olika aspekter av det svenska civilsamhällets eliter. Den första är Joanna Mellquists och Adrienne Sörboms artikel ”Policy professionals in civil society organizations. Organizational hypocrisy and the myth of member centrality”, som bygger på intervjuer med och observationer av policyprofessionella i svenska medlemsbaserade civilsamhällesorganisationer. Författarna visar hur de policy…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I denna årgångs tredje nummer presenterar vi fyra forskningsartiklar som uppmärksammar helt olika aspekter av det svenska samhället. I artikeln ”’Även om du är analfabet så antar jag att du ändå har en tidsuppfattning som alla andra.’ En kvalitativ analys av temporala motsättningar i svensk asylbyråkrati” analyserar Anna Lundberg, Anna Lindberg och Mehek Muftee över 5 000 sidors asylakter från Migrationsverket med avseende på tio familjer. I sin …
Redaktörerna har ordet
Sociologisk Forskning publicerar inte enbart forskningsartiklar utan ger också utrymme för andra typer av artiklar som berör sociologins och sociologers villkor och utmaningar. Detta nummer innehåller två samtal mellan sociologer i Sverige om aktuella samtidsfenomen som påverkar utbildning och forskning i sociologiämnet: etikprövning och digital undervisning. I den första av dessa texter samtalar Jonas Edlund, Sara Eldén, David Wästerfors och Len…
Redaktörerna har ordet
Sociologi är en forskningsdisciplin som i dag präglas av stor mångfald, sett till vilka samhällsfenomen vi sociologer studerar eller vilka metoder och teorier vi använder. Kanske är det därför som föreställningen om en sociologisk teoretisk kanon fortfarande fyller en viktig roll, som en fast – men föränderlig – referenspunkt alla sociologer oavsett specialitet kan förhålla sig till. Detta dubbelnummer av Sociologisk Forskning innehåller många te…
Social class and environmental movements
This chapter investigates the class composition of environmental movements. It discusses the social class of those being mobilized to environment-related political participation but not how class matters when environmental movements seek support for their views and claims. The chapter describes collective actions carried out by actors self-identifying as environmentalists, leaving out local or specific campaigns and mobilizations focusing on aspe…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I det här numret av Sociologisk Forskning presenterar vi sex stycken forskningsartiklar. I artikeln ”Commitment and control. Teamwork as management tool in a welfare state bureaucracy” visar Kerstin Jacobsson och Katarina Hollertz hur teamwork fungerar som en subtil styrmekanism inom offentlig sektor. Artikeln utgår från en omfattande etnografisk studie av verksamheten vid Försäkringskassans lokalkontor och belyser hur normativ kontroll sprider s…
Redaktörerna har ordet
Det här numret ägnar vi i huvudsak åt sociologisk forskning om covid-19-pandemins samhälleliga konsekvenser. Redan kort efter pandemins utbrott, i april 2020, publicerade tidskriften ett samtal mellan fyra svenska sociologer om covid-19-pandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den. Vi bjöd kort därefter in Shai Mulinari, Linda Soneryd och Susanna Öhman att vara gästredaktörer till ett kommande temanummer med färsk empirisk forskning om hur samhäl…
From Radical Counterculture to Pragmatic Radicalism? The Collective Identity of Contemporary Radical Left-libertarian Activism in Sweden
The Collective Identity of Contemporary Radical Left-libertarian Activism in Sweden I n the mass media, radical left-libertarian movement (RLLM) actorssuch as anarchists and autonomists-are often portrayed as subcultural deviants and violent troublemakers who primarily engage in disruptive forms of protests. 1 Some of these themes can also be found in academic research, when scholars aim to pinpoint the distinctiveness of RLLM actors vis--vis oth…
De tillträdande redaktörerna har ordet
Detta nummer av Sociologisk Forskning är det sista numret från redaktionen i Lund, under ledning av redaktörerna Sara Eldén och Christofer Edling. Ett varmt tack till Lundaredaktionen för allt arbete som de har lagt ner på att göra en tidskrift som publicerat viktiga och relevanta artiklar och hållit det vetenskapliga samtalet i sociologsverige levande. I det här numret har vi i den nya redaktionen bidragit med ett samtal om sociologiska perspekt…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I det här dubbelnumret av Sociologisk Forskning fördjupar vi ett tema som vi berörde i det förra numret: de protester världen över som var en reaktion på att den 46-årige svarta mannen George Floyd dödades av en vit polis i USA. I detta nummer har vi ett samtal mellan tre samhällsvetenskapliga forskare verksamma i Sverige och USA om Black Lives Matter, antirasistiska rörelsemobiliseringar, antisvart rasism samt polisiärt dödliga våld mot svarta m…
Redaktörerna har ordet
Det här numret av Sociologisk Forskning är det första som helt görs av redaktionen på Södertörns högskola. Numret ges ut i en tid som tydligt präglas av den globala coronaviruspandemin. Redan i förra numret publicerade vi ett samtal mellan fyra svenska sociologer om pandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den. I detta nummer efterlyser vi mer sociologisk forskning om hur samhället och människors liv har påverkats av coronakrisen och covid-19, ge…
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contrib…
Förändring och kontinuitet i det svenska politiska landskapet
Change and continuity in the political landscape. Politico-sociological perspectives on the general election in Sweden 2018The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades. The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right–left scale has been challenged by socio-cultural issues relating to lifestyle and …
The changing political landscape of Sweden
The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right–left scale has been challenged by socio-cultural issues relating to lifestyle and identity. Notably, the notion of Swedish exceptionalism and the particularities of its welfare state is lingering despite fi…
Conscience Adherents” Revisited
Foundation stones in the resource mobilization theory of social movements are the notions of “conscience adherents” and “conscience constituents,” first introduced by McCarthy and Zald in 1977. In this article, we revisit the concept of conscience adherent, by applying it to individuals and groups that are direct supporters of an LGBT movement, but who do not stand to directly benefit from the success should the movement accomplish its goals. Usi…
Radical Left Movements in Europe
When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of capit
Patterns of protest participation are changing
Since the late 1960s, participation in political protests has become more common in Sweden. Today, a large majority of Swedes have at one point joined a demonstration or would be willing to join a demonstration, and around six percent of the population participates in a demonstration at least once a year. This article uses survey data to discuss the changing protest patterns in relation to the country’s traditional corporatist political culture, …
Normalized’ Pride? Pride parade participants in six European countries
Based on quantitative survey data collected during Pride parades in six European countries – the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland – we analyse who participates in Pride parades. Engaging with the so-called protest normalization thesis we ask: are Pride parade participants, aside from sexual orientation, representative of the wider populace? In none of the countries could we find indications that Pride…
Civil Society Organizations Going European
This study explores factors that influence Swedish civil society organizations’ (CSOs) degree of activity at different geographical and administrative levels and, in particular, how they are affected by processes of Europeanization in the social welfare policy area. The present study is based on a national survey and includes approximately 1,600 Swedish CSOs. Despite the often claimed mismatch between the Swedish welfare model and European Union …
European Anti-Austerity Protests - Beyond 'old' and 'new' social movements
This article explores the social composition of participants in anti-austerity protests taking place in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK between 2010 and 2012, based on over 3000 questionnaires distributed to protest participants according to a standardized method. Employing a distinction between three types of mobilizations, we compare protests anchored in the traditional 'old' labour movements, protests by smaller radical leftist unions and par…
Alone in the crowd
While corroborating the fact that the majority of protesters attend demonstrations together with friends, family and/or fellow members of their organizations, this article shows that protesting alone remains an option for many people – under the right circumstances. Through multilevel analysis of survey data from participants in 69 demonstrations in eight Western European countries, the authors study lone protesters in different types of demonstr…
Framing “The Climate Issue”
Did the protests surrounding recent climate summits mark the emergence of a climate justice movement? We analyze responses to surveys of three large demonstrations in Copenhagen, Brussels, and London, organized in connection with the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to determine who demonstrated, and how and why the collective action frames employed by demonstrators varied. The demonstrations were products of the mobilization of broad c…
National Myth-Making and Populist Mobilization in Scandinavia
This paper analyses if and how the Sweden Democrats (the SD), the Danish People’s Party (the DPP) and the Progress Party (the PP) in Norway use myths of national exclusiveness and myths about the c
European Anti-Austerity Protests - Beyond 'old' and 'new' social movements
This article explores the social composition of participants in anti-austerity protests taking place in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK between 2010 and 2012, based on over 3000 questionnaires distributed to protest participants according to a standardized method. Employing a distinction between three types of mobilizations, we compare protests anchored in the traditional 'old' labour movements, protests by smaller radical leftist unions and par…
Framing “The Climate Issue”
Did the protests surrounding recent climate summits mark the emergence of a climate justice movement? We analyze responses to surveys of three large demonstrations in Copenhagen, Brussels, and London, organized in connection with the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to determine who demonstrated, and how and why the collective action frames employed by demonstrators varied. The demonstrations were products of the mobilization of broad c…
Normalized’ Pride? Pride parade participants in six European countries
Based on quantitative survey data collected during Pride parades in six European countries – the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland – we analyse who participates in Pride parades. Engaging with the so-called protest normalization thesis we ask: are Pride parade participants, aside from sexual orientation, representative of the wider populace? In none of the countries could we find indications that Pride…
Conscience Adherents” Revisited
Foundation stones in the resource mobilization theory of social movements are the notions of “conscience adherents” and “conscience constituents,” first introduced by McCarthy and Zald in 1977. In this article, we revisit the concept of conscience adherent, by applying it to individuals and groups that are direct supporters of an LGBT movement, but who do not stand to directly benefit from the success should the movement accomplish its goals. Usi…
May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries
In this article, we argue that there is an element of rituality in all political demonstrations. This rituality can be either primarily oriented toward the past and designed to consolidate the configuration of political power—hence official—or oriented towards the future and focused on challenging existing power structures—hence oppositional. We apply this conceptual framework in a comparison of May Day demonstrations in Belgium, Switzerland, Spa…
Individualization, Life Politics, and the Reformulation of Social Critique
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 changing political landscape of Sweden
The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right–left scale has been challenged by socio-cultural issues relating to lifestyle and identity. Notably, the notion of Swedish exceptionalism and the particularities of its welfare state is lingering despite fi…
Alone in the crowd
While corroborating the fact that the majority of protesters attend demonstrations together with friends, family and/or fellow members of their organizations, this article shows that protesting alone remains an option for many people – under the right circumstances. Through multilevel analysis of survey data from participants in 69 demonstrations in eight Western European countries, the authors study lone protesters in different types of demonstr…
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997-2016
Descriptions of social movement factionalism are often based on the dichotomous conception of lawful moderates and violent radicals. In this article, we nuance this distinction by illustrating the complexity of radical flanks through an empirically grounded analysis of protest tactics, in which we ask under what conditions radical flanks are likely to use violent protest tactics. Exploring dominant explanations of political violence, the article …
Another Modernity is Possible? The Global Justice Movement and the Transformations of Politics
Using and expanding upon the conception of ‘successive modernities’ that has recently been developed within social theory, this article offers an interpretation of the political aims, ideas, and practices of the ‘global justice movement’ and argues that this contemporary social movement is best understood as an expression of the tensions characterizing the prevailing configuration of Western modernity in our own time. Social movements have often …
The Globalization Movement Comes to Town
The ”Battle of Seattle” only entered the main political agenda of Sweden in September 2000, during the IMF protests in Prague. In this article, the roots and development of "the globalization movement" in Sweden is examined. In particular, the relation between it and the Swedish Labour movement is discussed. The article begin by tracing the roots of the globalization movement in various new social movements, and continue with the complex relation…
The Globalization Movement Comes to Town
The ”Battle of Seattle” only entered the main political agenda of Sweden in September 2000, during the IMF protests in Prague. In this article, the roots and development of "the globalization movement" in Sweden is examined. In particular, the relation between it and the Swedish Labour movement is discussed. The article begin by tracing the roots of the globalization movement in various new social movements, and continue with the complex relation…
Globaliseringsrörelsen — en ny social rörelse eller en klassisk konfliktdimension i nytt sammanhang
Allt sedan demonstrationerna mot WTO i Seattle har den globala rättviserörelsen uppmärksammats för att den har sammanfört aktivister från disparata rörelsemiljöer, i gemensamma protester mot den ekonomiska globaliseringens effekter och de globala organ som anses driva fram denna utveckling. I denna artikel diskuteras hur dessa mobiliseringar kan förstås utifrån gängse teorier om "nya sociala rörelser" samt utifrån Michael Hardts och Antonio Negri…
Another Modernity is Possible? The Global Justice Movement and the Transformations of Politics
Using and expanding upon the conception of ‘successive modernities’ that has recently been developed within social theory, this article offers an interpretation of the political aims, ideas, and practices of the ‘global justice movement’ and argues that this contemporary social movement is best understood as an expression of the tensions characterizing the prevailing configuration of Western modernity in our own time. Social movements have often …
May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries
In this article, we argue that there is an element of rituality in all political demonstrations. This rituality can be either primarily oriented toward the past and designed to consolidate the configuration of political power—hence official—or oriented towards the future and focused on challenging existing power structures—hence oppositional. We apply this conceptual framework in a comparison of May Day demonstrations in Belgium, Switzerland, Spa…
Framing “The Climate Issue”
Did the protests surrounding recent climate summits mark the emergence of a climate justice movement? We analyze responses to surveys of three large demonstrations in Copenhagen, Brussels, and London, organized in connection with the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to determine who demonstrated, and how and why the collective action frames employed by demonstrators varied. The demonstrations were products of the mobilization of broad c…
National Myth-Making and Populist Mobilization in Scandinavia
This paper analyses if and how the Sweden Democrats (the SD), the Danish People’s Party (the DPP) and the Progress Party (the PP) in Norway use myths of national exclusiveness and myths about the c
Individualization, Life Politics, and the Reformulation of Social Critique
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 …
Alone in the crowd
While corroborating the fact that the majority of protesters attend demonstrations together with friends, family and/or fellow members of their organizations, this article shows that protesting alone remains an option for many people – under the right circumstances. Through multilevel analysis of survey data from participants in 69 demonstrations in eight Western European countries, the authors study lone protesters in different types of demonstr…
Civil Society Organizations Going European
This study explores factors that influence Swedish civil society organizations’ (CSOs) degree of activity at different geographical and administrative levels and, in particular, how they are affected by processes of Europeanization in the social welfare policy area. The present study is based on a national survey and includes approximately 1,600 Swedish CSOs. Despite the often claimed mismatch between the Swedish welfare model and European Union …
European Anti-Austerity Protests - Beyond 'old' and 'new' social movements
This article explores the social composition of participants in anti-austerity protests taking place in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK between 2010 and 2012, based on over 3000 questionnaires distributed to protest participants according to a standardized method. Employing a distinction between three types of mobilizations, we compare protests anchored in the traditional 'old' labour movements, protests by smaller radical leftist unions and par…
Radical Left Movements in Europe
When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of capit
Patterns of protest participation are changing
Since the late 1960s, participation in political protests has become more common in Sweden. Today, a large majority of Swedes have at one point joined a demonstration or would be willing to join a demonstration, and around six percent of the population participates in a demonstration at least once a year. This article uses survey data to discuss the changing protest patterns in relation to the country’s traditional corporatist political culture, …
Normalized’ Pride? Pride parade participants in six European countries
Based on quantitative survey data collected during Pride parades in six European countries – the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland – we analyse who participates in Pride parades. Engaging with the so-called protest normalization thesis we ask: are Pride parade participants, aside from sexual orientation, representative of the wider populace? In none of the countries could we find indications that Pride…
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contrib…
Förändring och kontinuitet i det svenska politiska landskapet
Change and continuity in the political landscape. Politico-sociological perspectives on the general election in Sweden 2018The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades. The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right–left scale has been challenged by socio-cultural issues relating to lifestyle and …
The changing political landscape of Sweden
The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right–left scale has been challenged by socio-cultural issues relating to lifestyle and identity. Notably, the notion of Swedish exceptionalism and the particularities of its welfare state is lingering despite fi…
Conscience Adherents” Revisited
Foundation stones in the resource mobilization theory of social movements are the notions of “conscience adherents” and “conscience constituents,” first introduced by McCarthy and Zald in 1977. In this article, we revisit the concept of conscience adherent, by applying it to individuals and groups that are direct supporters of an LGBT movement, but who do not stand to directly benefit from the success should the movement accomplish its goals. Usi…
From Radical Counterculture to Pragmatic Radicalism? The Collective Identity of Contemporary Radical Left-libertarian Activism in Sweden
The Collective Identity of Contemporary Radical Left-libertarian Activism in Sweden I n the mass media, radical left-libertarian movement (RLLM) actorssuch as anarchists and autonomists-are often portrayed as subcultural deviants and violent troublemakers who primarily engage in disruptive forms of protests. 1 Some of these themes can also be found in academic research, when scholars aim to pinpoint the distinctiveness of RLLM actors vis--vis oth…
De tillträdande redaktörerna har ordet
Detta nummer av Sociologisk Forskning är det sista numret från redaktionen i Lund, under ledning av redaktörerna Sara Eldén och Christofer Edling. Ett varmt tack till Lundaredaktionen för allt arbete som de har lagt ner på att göra en tidskrift som publicerat viktiga och relevanta artiklar och hållit det vetenskapliga samtalet i sociologsverige levande. I det här numret har vi i den nya redaktionen bidragit med ett samtal om sociologiska perspekt…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I det här dubbelnumret av Sociologisk Forskning fördjupar vi ett tema som vi berörde i det förra numret: de protester världen över som var en reaktion på att den 46-årige svarta mannen George Floyd dödades av en vit polis i USA. I detta nummer har vi ett samtal mellan tre samhällsvetenskapliga forskare verksamma i Sverige och USA om Black Lives Matter, antirasistiska rörelsemobiliseringar, antisvart rasism samt polisiärt dödliga våld mot svarta m…
Redaktörerna har ordet
Det här numret av Sociologisk Forskning är det första som helt görs av redaktionen på Södertörns högskola. Numret ges ut i en tid som tydligt präglas av den globala coronaviruspandemin. Redan i förra numret publicerade vi ett samtal mellan fyra svenska sociologer om pandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den. I detta nummer efterlyser vi mer sociologisk forskning om hur samhället och människors liv har påverkats av coronakrisen och covid-19, ge…
Social class and environmental movements
This chapter investigates the class composition of environmental movements. It discusses the social class of those being mobilized to environment-related political participation but not how class matters when environmental movements seek support for their views and claims. The chapter describes collective actions carried out by actors self-identifying as environmentalists, leaving out local or specific campaigns and mobilizations focusing on aspe…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I det här numret av Sociologisk Forskning presenterar vi sex stycken forskningsartiklar. I artikeln ”Commitment and control. Teamwork as management tool in a welfare state bureaucracy” visar Kerstin Jacobsson och Katarina Hollertz hur teamwork fungerar som en subtil styrmekanism inom offentlig sektor. Artikeln utgår från en omfattande etnografisk studie av verksamheten vid Försäkringskassans lokalkontor och belyser hur normativ kontroll sprider s…
Redaktörerna har ordet
Det här numret ägnar vi i huvudsak åt sociologisk forskning om covid-19-pandemins samhälleliga konsekvenser. Redan kort efter pandemins utbrott, i april 2020, publicerade tidskriften ett samtal mellan fyra svenska sociologer om covid-19-pandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den. Vi bjöd kort därefter in Shai Mulinari, Linda Soneryd och Susanna Öhman att vara gästredaktörer till ett kommande temanummer med färsk empirisk forskning om hur samhäl…
Redaktörerna har ordet
I denna årgångs tredje nummer presenterar vi fyra forskningsartiklar som uppmärksammar helt olika aspekter av det svenska samhället. I artikeln ”’Även om du är analfabet så antar jag att du ändå har en tidsuppfattning som alla andra.’ En kvalitativ analys av temporala motsättningar i svensk asylbyråkrati” analyserar Anna Lundberg, Anna Lindberg och Mehek Muftee över 5 000 sidors asylakter från Migrationsverket med avseende på tio familjer. I sin …
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