

Subject
Political science
Research/teaching areas
Movements, Ethics, and Participation
Current research and teaching
My research is about understanding the possibilities for creating an inclusive, antiracist, and antipatriarchal society. I search for answers to this in several projects that each poses more specific questions: how can we understand the roles of emotions in far-right mobilization? How do institutions and policies affect the rise of the far right? What are the possibilities for an ethics of solidarity when public discourse is so much about individual success and individual responsibility?
Apart from these ongoing projects, I'm interested to work with others to understand the possibilities to mobilize broad-based antiracist movements. I'm looking to gather and assess different strategies based on research on movements and democratic institutions. I also gladly participate in collective discussions on masculinity, privilege, and men's roles in feminist movements.
In my previous research I have examined, among other things, discourses on riots, feminist and democratic activism in the Middle East, urban participatory democracy projects, the room for critical reflection in higher education, and environmental movements. I'm happy to discuss and collaborate in research on these themes.
I teach and supervise on topics such as democracy, public administration, social movements, political theory and qualitative methods.
Background
Ph.D. Uppsala University 2014. I've previously been affiliated with the Department of Sociology at New York University, the Center for Social Movement Studies in Florence, the Institute for Urban Research at Malmö University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, and I've been a "Visiting Democracy Fellow" at Harvard Kennedy School 2017-2019. I joined the Department of Political Science at Lund University in 2021.
Research environment
Gender and Politics, Global Political Thought, Environmental Politics Research Group, and Public Administration Theory
Areas of expertise:
Protests, inequality, antiracism, the far right, feminist ethics, segregation, urban politics, and contemporary political theory.
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Critical Reflection: John Dewey’s Relational View of Transformative Learning
Markus Holdo
(2023) Journal of Transformative Education, 21 p.9-25
Journal articleReflective Inclusion : Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means
Andrea Felicetti, Markus Holdo
(2023) Political Studies
Journal articleHow can we trust a political leader? Ethics, institutions, and relational theory
Markus Holdo
(2022) International Political Science Review, 43
Journal articleWhy Inequalities Persist in Public Deliberation: Five Mechanisms of Marginalization
Markus Holdo, Lizzie Öhrn Sagrelius
(2020) Political Studies, 68 p.634-652
Journal articleViolations of basic deliberative norms: The systemic turn and problems of inclusion
Markus Holdo
(2020) Politics, 40 p.348-362
Journal articleMarginalization and Riots: A Rationalistic Explanation of Urban Unrest
Markus Holdo, Bo Bengtsson
(2020) Housing, Theory and Society, 37 p.162-179
Journal articleMeta-deliberation: everyday acts of critical reflection in deliberative systems
Markus Holdo
(2020) Politics, 40 p.106-119
Journal articleA relational perspective on deliberative systems: combining interpretive and structural analysis
Markus Holdo
(2020) Critical Policy Studies, 14 p.21-37
Journal articleCooptation and non-cooptation: elite strategies in response to social protest
Markus Holdo
(2019) Social Movement Studies, 18 p.444-462
Journal articleSincerity as Strategy: Green Movements and the Problem of Reconciling Deliberative and Instrumental Action
Markus Holdo
(2019) Environmental Politics, 28 p.595-614
Journal articleThe Virtuous, the Critical and the Trustworthy: Citizen Ideals and Forms of Democratic Participation
Markus Holdo
(2018) Scandinavian Political Studies, 41 p.1-21
Journal articlePost-Islamism and fields of contention after the Arab Spring : feminism, Salafism and the revolutionary youth
Markus Holdo
(2017) Third World Quarterly, 38 p.1800-1815
Journal articleReasons of Power: Explaining Non-cooptation in Participatory Budgeting
Markus Holdo
(2016) International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40 p.378-394
Journal articleStrategies of Deliberation: Bourdieu and Struggles over Legitimate Positions
Markus Holdo
(2015) Political Studies, 63 p.1103-1119
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