Diana Mulinari

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Diana Mulinari wrote her PhD on the ways through which the maternal enters the political in Latin American. She is interested in thinking gender as a principle of social organisation at a global (how gender matters in the new international division of reproductive and productive labour) and at an intersectional level (analysing how gender is constituted and constitutes a number of social relations such as class, sexuality, and race ethnicity).Her scholarship aims at developing feminist theory and methodology as a critical tool to explore (and transform) the social. An important part of her scholarly efforts lies in understanding migration, exile and transnational family practices as gendered as well as in exploring the specific forms of gendered racism at the core of the Nordic Model. Another important part aims at exploring the ways that gender matters in neo-liberal globalisation with special focus on forms of resistance and solidarity.

Current research

2007-2010 -Flags, Tags, Veils and Fires. Exploring urban violence (s) FORMAS.
Swedish Research Council on environment and urban planning. Head of the project: Irene Molina Uppsala University (other members: Juan Velazquez and Carina Listerborn) While scholarship in social science on violence is broad, explanations of the phenomena varied highly between different disciplines, from sociological understandings that tend to stress structures on identifying the causes of violence, to psychology models that focus on interpersonal relations, to anthropological ones that underline meaning and representation.. We depart in our analysis of violent urban spaces in Sweden from the understanding that the causes of violence are clearly multiple and cannot be explained by theoretical models focusing on one determinant alone.

2008-2011 Women and Migrants in Swedish Xenofobic parties
VETENSKAPSRÅDET. Swedish Research Council Head of the project: Diana Mulinari (together with Anders Neergaard) During the past two decades the radical right has re-emerged as a relevant political actor within the parliamentary field in Europe more generally and in Sweden more specifically. This development has received the interest of social scientist however the visible and relevant role women and migrants play within these parties remains untheorised. The aim of the project is to explore the ways through which gender, sexuality and “race”/ethnicity enter these organizations, their discourses and practices.


2008-2011 National Unions, Global problems. Unions, transnational solidarity and sustainability
Swedish Research Council VETENSKAPSRÅDET. Head of the project: Prof. Nora Räthzel. Umeå University (other members: Irene Molina, Aina Tollefsen, Paula Mörch and David Uzzel (Sussex)

The aim of our research is to provide an analysis of transnational practices with special emphasis on the changing conditions of labour through the role of TNC in the “Third World” with special focus on the roles of unions. The research project looks specifically into the relationships between trade unions in the peripheries (“south”) and trade unions in the centres (“north”). The focus is on the strategies of these labour unions to protect workers’ rights at local, national and transnational levels. We want to look at the ways in which these contradicting goals are perceived and how these contradictions might be transcended or might block effective policies on one or more levels. Our hypothesis here is that without an international or transnational labour policy the protection of workers’ rights will become impossible on all levels.

Selected publications

Mulinari D (2009) Drinking (feminist) mates. Friendship in feminist conversation. (ed) Mia Liinason et al. Gothenburg University. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis 131-153.

Mulinari D and N Rätzhel (2008) The Promise of the ‘Nordic’ and its Reality in the South: The Experiences of Mexican Workers as Members of the ‘Volvo Family i Complying with Colonialism. Keskinen et al Ashgate Series. London 67- 83

Mulinari Diana (2008) Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden in Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn och Chrstina Carslsson Wetteberg (red) Gender Equality as a perspective on Welfare: The Limits of political ambition? London: Routledge. 

Books by Diana Mulinari

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