Projects

This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled...

Amyloids are proteins able to form very regular insoluble fibrils. They are associated with erroneously folded proteins and related to the onset of amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s,...

In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be...

Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South. Feminist scholarship and activism have contributed to different theories...

What makes us human? We have long known that humanity’s uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we...

A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ....

This project is based on in-depth ethnographic research in eight villages in the rural Eastern Cape. It focuses on post-pandemic recovery and rebuilding at the household and community level in remote rural...

Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories. For Atlantic Creole languages,...

The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years. During the past five years my research explored the potential for sustainable infrastructure transitions in...

As former President of Stockholm University, stepping down on Jan 31 2025, my first concern will be to write a brief chapter to a new History of the University, to be published for its 150 year anniversary...

Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to human health. Health hazards associated with obesity include heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Worldwide...

Plant biodiversity is essential to the survival of the human being and the whole biosphere. Unfortunately, plant species such as multipurpose woody species are subjected to diverse threats, amongst them...