Markus Holdo

Political science

Research/teaching areas 

• Social movements
• Ethics
• Participation

Current research and teaching

My main research interests are social movements, gender, and democracy. I recently published a book on urban participatory democracy projects and co-edited a volume on everyone's right to housing. I am currently leading a project that examines the ways that farmers' organizations mobilize to contest EU environmental policymaking.

Apart from these ongoing projects, I'm interested in working with others to understand the possibilities of mobilizing broad-based antiracist and solidarity movements. In my previous research, I have examined participatory budgeting in South America, 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 topics such as democracy, social movements, EU policymaking, 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, Environmental Politics Research Group.

Areas of expertise:

Social movements, democracy, the far-right, feminist ethics, segregation, urban politics, and contemporary political theory, European food politics.