Political Science and Political Psychology
Research areas:
- Globalisation and International Relations
- Political Psychology and security studies
- Nationalism, populism, gender and postcolonialism
Catarina Kinnvall is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. She is also the former Vice-President of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Political Psychology.
Her research interests involve political psychology, migration and multiculturalism, globalization and security, religion and nationalism, with a particular focus on South Asia and Europe.
She is the author of a number of books and articles. Some of her publications include:
- Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications (co-ed, Routledge 2019);
- Ontological Insecurity in the European Union (co-ed. Routledge 2019);
- Bordering Securities: The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersion (co-ed, Routledge 2014);
- The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology (co-ed. Palgrave 2014);
- The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West (co-author, Oxford University Press 2011);
- On Behalf of Others: the Psychology of Care in a Global World (co-ed. Oxford University Press 2008);
- Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India: The Search for Ontological Security (Routledge 2006).
Publications
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‘Hunger for Certainty’: Misrecognition, Masculinity and Agentic Action in India’s and Russia’s Desires for Neocolonial Subjecthood
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2024) Global Discourse , p.1-25
Journal articleSpecial Issue: Precariousness at Work: Gender, Violence, and Industrial Outsourcing in Asia
(2023) Global Political Economy
Editor for a journalDeglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy
Catarina Kinnvall, Pasko Kisić Merino
(2023) Theory and Psychology, 33 p.227-248
Journal articleGoverning Emotions : Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies
Pasko Kisic Merino, Catarina Kinnvall
(2023) Alternatives, 48
Journal articleCovid-19 : crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives
Catarina Kinnvall
(2023) International Relations, 37 p.156-163
Journal articleTrauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2023) International Studies Quarterly, 67
Journal articleEnforcing and Resisting Hindutva : Popular Culture, the COVID-19 Crisis and Fantasy Narratives of Motherhood and Pseudoscience in India
Catarina Kinnvall, Amit Singh
(2022) Social Sciences, 11
Journal articleExploring the Populist ‘Mind’: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Everyday Populism
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2022) British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24 p.526-542
Journal articleReligion and Indias international relations
Catarina Kinnvall
(2021) Handbook on Religion and International Relations , p.348-382
Book chapterThe Psychology of Extremist Identification : An Introduction
Catarina Kinnvall, Tereza Capelos
(2021) European Psychologist, 26 p.1-5
Journal article reviewDifferentiated Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Secularism and India's Foreign Policy
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2021) The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy , p.191-211
Book chapterPopulism, ontological insecurity and gendered nationalism: Masculinity, climate denial and Covid-19
Christine Agius, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Catarina Kinnvall
(2021) Politics, Religion and Ideology, 21 p.432-450
Journal articlePostcolonialism
Catarina Kinnvall
(2020) Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies
Book chapterGetting Inside ‘the Head’ of the Far Right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context
Pasko Merino Kisic, Tereza Capelos, Catarina Kinnvall
(2020) Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice
Book chapterOntological Security
Catarina Kinnvall
(2020) The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, Two-volume set
Article in encyclopediaAnxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics : Thinking with and beyond Giddens
Catarina Kinnvall, Jennifer Mitzen
(2020) International Theory, 12 p.240-256
Journal articleDisasters and Gendered Violence in Pakistan : Religion, Nationalism and Masculinity
Sidsel Hansson, Catarina Kinnvall
(2019) Rutledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change , p.187-212
Book chapterOntological Insecurity in the European Union
(2019)
BookIntroduction: Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
Helle Rydström, Catarina Kinnvall
(2019) Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change , p.1-29
Book chapterClimate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
(2019) Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
BookConclusions: Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
Catarina Kinnvall, Helle Rydström
(2019) Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications , p.274-281
Book chapterPopulism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva : Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics
Catarina Kinnvall
(2019) Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32 p.283-302
Journal articleRacing to the Bottom, Squeezing through the Cracks: Imagining unbordered space
Catarina Kinnvall
(2019) Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations
Book chapterMultiplicity, Discipline and the Political
Catarina Kinnvall
(2019) New Perspectives, 27 p.153-155
Journal articleOn the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall
(2018) Discover Society
Journal articleIntroduction to 2018 special issue: Ontological (in)security in the European Union
Catarina Kinnvall, Ian Manners, Jennifer Mitzen
(2018) European Security, 27 p.249-265
Editor for a journalOntological security and conflict : the dynamics of crisis and the constitution of community
Catarina Kinnvall, Jennifer Mitzen
(2018) Journal of International Relations and Development, 21 p.825-835
Journal articleMisrecognition and the Indian State: The Desire for Sovereign Agency
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2018) Review of International Studies, 44 p.902-921
Journal articleOntological Insecurities and Postcolonial Imaginaries: The Emotional Appeal of Populism
Catarina Kinnvall
(2018) Humanity & Society, 42 p.523-543
Journal articleOntological Security and the Limits to a Common world: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama’at
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2017) Postcolonial Studies, 20 p.333-352
Journal articleRacism and the role of imaginary others in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall
(2017) Nature Human Behaviour, 1
Journal article (comment)Postcolonial bordering and ontological insecurities
John Cash, Catarina Kinnvall
(2017) Postcolonial Studies, 20 p.267-274
Journal article (comment)An introduction to the special issue : Ontological securities in world politics
Catarina Kinnvall, Jennifer Mitzen
(2017) Cooperation and Conflict, 52 p.3-11
Journal articleFeeling Ontologically (In)Secure: States, Traumas and the Governing of Gendered Space
Catarina Kinnvall
(2017) Cooperation and Conflict , p.90-108
Journal articleSaffron and Orange : Religion, nation and masculinity in Canada and India
Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall
(2016) The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History , p.331-343
Book chapterThe Postcolonial has Moved into Europe: Bordering, Security and Ethno-Cultural Belonging
Catarina Kinnvall
(2016) Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 p.152-168
Journal articleGendered Insecurities: Violence against Women and Girls in Asia
Helle Rydström, Catarina Kinnvall
(2016) Violence Against Women
Journal articleNarratives of (In)Security: Nationhood, Culture, Religion and Gender: Introduction to Special Issue
Catarina Kinnvall, Molly Andrews, Kristen Monroe
(2015) Political Psychology, 36 p.141-148
Journal articleBorders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall
(2015) Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 23 p.514-529
Journal articleThe Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves
Catarina Kinnvall
(2014) Political Psychology, 35 p.303-304
ReviewFear, Insecurity and the (re)emergence of the Far Right in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall
(2014) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology
Book chapterReligion and Deep Multiculturalism: Toward a cosmopolitical ethics of engagement
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2014) Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
Book chapterThe Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology
(2014) Palgrave Series in Political Psychology
BookConcluding Remarque: Reflecting on Intersubjective Approaches to Power and Knowledge in Cultural Political Psychology
Catarina Kinnvall
(2014) Culture and Political Psychology A Societal Perspective , p.141-146
Book chapterBordering the Indefinite Nation: Pakistan, the Taliban and Desecuritised Religion
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2014) Governing Borders and Security: The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal , p.116-134
Book chapterIntroduction: Bordering Securities in a Global World
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2014) Governing Borders and Security: The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal
Book chapterConclusion
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2014) Governing Borders and Security: The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal
Book chapterRebordering France and Denmark Narratives and Practices of Border-Construction in Two European Countries
Sarah Scuzzarello, Catarina Kinnvall
(2013) Mobilities, 8 p.90-106
Journal articleBorders, Security and (Global) Governance: Introduction to Special Issue
Catarina Kinnvall
(2013) Global Society, 27 p.261-268
Journal articleSecuritizing Citizenship: (B)ordering practices and strategies of resistance
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2013) Global Society, 27 p.337-359
Journal articleTrauma and the Politics of Fear: Europe at the Crossroads
Catarina Kinnvall
(2013) Emotions and Politics
Book chapterThe Discursive Frames of Political Psychology
Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall
(2012) Political Psychology, 33 p.45-59
Journal articleEuropean Trauma: Governance and the Psychological Moment
Catarina Kinnvall
(2012) Alternatives, 37 p.266-281
Journal articleDialogicality and the (De)Securitization of Self: Globalization, migration and multicultural politics
Catarina Kinnvall, Sarah Scuzzarello
(2012) Dialogicality in Focus: Challenges to Theory, Method and Application
Book chapterContested Citizenship Strategies: Young Muslims in the West
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2011) Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 12 p.271-290
Journal articleThe Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2011)
BookDialogical Selves between Security and Insecurity Migration, Multiculturalism, and the Challenge of the Global
Catarina Kinnvall, Jitka Lindén
(2010) Theory & Psychology, 20 p.595-619
Journal articleHindu nationalism, diaspora politics and nation-building in India
Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
(2010) Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64 p.274-292
Journal articleSecurity, Subjectivity and Space in Postcolonial Europe: Muslims in the diaspora
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2010) European Security, 18 p.305-326
Journal articleThe political psychology of (de)securitization: place-making strategies in Denmark, Sweden, and Canada
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2010) Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, 28 p.1051-1070
Journal articleGender, Multiculturalism and Religious Discourse(s) : Women as Symbols in Hindu Nationalism
Sidsel Hansson, Catarina Kinnvall
(2010) Gender Inequalitiesin Asia : configuring, contesting and recognizing women and men , p.69-69
Book chapterCitizenship Regimes and Identity Strategies Among Young Muslims in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
(2010) Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies – A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Book chapterPakistan: Inside and Outside Threats
Catarina Kinnvall
(2010) Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law, 6 p.3-29
Journal articleIntroduction
Catarina Kinnvall, Sarah Scuzzarello
(2009) On Behalf of Others: The psychology of care in a global world
Book chapterGlobalization, Diaspora Politics and Gender: Muslims in Sweden
Catarina Kinnvall
(2009) Gender, Equality, Citizenship and Human rights: Challenges and controversies in China and the Nordic countries
Book chapterGlobalization and Beliefs: The Mohammed Conflict and Muslims in Scandinavia
Catarina Kinnvall
(2008) under review, Nations and Nationalism
Journal articleGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Catarina Kinnvall
(2008) Critical theorists and international relations
Book chapterIntroduction
Catarina Kinnvall, Sarah Scuzzarello
(2008) On behalf of others: the morality of care in a global world
Book chapterSpänningarna ökar i Pakistan
Sidsel Hansson, Catarina Kinnvall
(2007) Sydsvenska dagbladet
Newspaper articleCivilizations, Neo-Gandhianism and the Hindu Self
Catarina Kinnvall
(2007) Civilizational Identity: The production and Reproduction of ‘Civilizations’ in International Relations
Book chapterGlobalization and Religious Nationalism: Self, Identity and the Search for Ontological Security
Catarina Kinnvall
(2007) International Business and Globalization, 1 (set of three volumes) p.304-332
Book chapterStudying Dialogical Selves Dialogically: Multicultural challenges for adapting local cultures to global society
Catarina Kinnvall, Jitka Lindén
(2007)
Conference paperParallel Societies: Citizenship and Homesteading Practices among Muslims in Sweden and Denmark
Catarina Kinnvall
(2007)
Conference paperMoving into Europe: postcolonial identity constructions among European Muslims
Catarina Kinnvall
(2007)
Conference paperWomen as the Other: Ethical Responses to Questions of (M)otherhood in Multicultural Societies
Catarina Kinnvall
(2007)
Conference paperGlobalization and Religious Nationalism in India: The search for ontological security
Catarina Kinnvall
(2006) Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
BookLedarskap i den Samhällsvetenskapliga Debatten: Statsvetenskapens ställning i USA och Europa
Catarina Kinnvall
(2006) I Ledande Ställning: Vänbok till Lars-Göran Stenelo , p.121-140
Book chapterGlobalization and Beliefs: the Mohammed Conflict and Muslims in Scandinavia
Catarina Kinnvall
(2006)
Conference paperThe non-ethical foundation of identity building: Constructing hate in times of insecurity
Catarina Kinnvall
(2005)
Conference paperHindunationalismens Uppgång och Fall
Catarina Kinnvall
(2004) Internationella Studier
Journal articleWomen as Symbols in Religious Discourse(s): Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Indian Religions
Sidsel Hansson, Catarina Kinnvall
(2004) Chakra: tidskrift för indiska religioner, 1
Journal articleGlobalization and Religious Nationalism: Self, Identity and the Search for Ontological Security
Catarina Kinnvall
(2004) Political Psychology, 25 p.741-767
Journal articleWomen as Symbols of Religious Discourse(s): An analysis of the Muslim Diaspora in Sweden
Catarina Kinnvall
(2004)
Conference paper"Not Here, Not Now": The Absence of a European Perestroika Movement
Catarina Kinnvall
(2003) Perestroika! : the raucous rebellion in political science
Book chapterGlobalization, Identity and the Search for Chosen Traumas
Catarina Kinnvall
(2003) The Future of Identity: Centennial Reflections on the Legacy of Erik Erikson
Book chapterGlobalization and Migration: Constructing the Female Other in the Name of Tradition
Catarina Kinnvall
(2003)
Conference paperNationalism, Religion and the Search for Chosen Traumas: Comparing Sikh and Hindu identity construction
Catarina Kinnvall
(2002) Ethnicities, 2 p.79-106
Journal articleWhat is Political Psychology?
Morton Deutsch, Catarina Kinnvall
(2002) Political Psychology
Book chapterAnalyzing the Global-Local Nexus
Catarina Kinnvall
(2002) Globalization and Democratization in Asia: The Construction of Identity
Book chapterThe Global-Local Nexus Revisited: Constructing Asia in Times of Globalization
Catarina Kinnvall, Kristina Jönsson
(2002) Globalization and democratization in Asia : the construction of identity
Book chapterConstructing Facts on the Ground: Positivism and the Verification of Myths in Israel and India
Karin Aggestam, Catarina Kinnvall
(2002)
Conference paperCultural Diffusion and Political Learning : The Democratization of China
Catarina Kinnvall
(1995) Lund Political Studies
DissertationGlobal Democratization : Transitions from Authoritarian Rule 1989-1991
Catarina Kinnvall, Anders Uhlin
(1993) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 96 p.7-38
Journal article