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My research interests include how to theorize and how to criticize, i.e., theoretical questions on method in the context of social theory, social science, and normative critique. More specifically, my work focuses on (1) social change and structural transformation, (2) democracy and the structural development of the civil society, (3) discourses on freedom and diagnosis of social pathologies, and (4) theorizing in the age of the Anthropocene.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• Promoted to professor in sociology, 2008
• Promoted to docent in sociology, 2002
• Doctor of Philosophy, 1996

CURRENT POSITIONS
• Associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
• Coordinator of Research Network 29 (Social Theory), European Sociological Association (ESA)
• Main editor of Acta Sociologica (Sage)
• Member of the editorial board for Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory (Taylor & Francis)
• Member of the editorial board for Utbildning & Demokrati (University of Örebro)
• Member of the International Sociological Association
• Member of the European Sociological Association
• Member of the Nordic Sociological Association
• Member of the Danish Sociological Association
• Member of the research group “Culture and Civil society”, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

SOME PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• Coordinator of CAPS (Centre for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory), Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2015–2022.
• Head of the PhD-program, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, 2010–2016
• Full professor in sociology, University of Örebro, Sweden 2008-2010
• President of the Swedish Sociological Association 2009-2010
• Guest researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA 2003
• Associate professor, University of Örebro, Sweden 2001-2008
• Assistant professor Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark 1999-2001
• Post-doc, Department of political science, Columbia University NYC, USA 1997-1998
• Visiting scholar, Department of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main Germany 1989-1993
• PhD–student Department of Sociology, Lund university, Sweden: 1984-1996

Kort præsentation

TEACHING

Spring: "Critical Theory: Capitalism, Democracy and Intersectionality" and "Sociological theory development"

Fall: "Sociological diagnosis of our times" and "The art of theorizing in the social sciences"