Katrin Uba

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty

Telephone:
+46 18 471 33 02
E-mail:
Katrin.Uba@statsvet.uu.se
Visiting address:
Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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Katrin Uba is Associate Professor (docent) in Political Science and Associate Editor of Social Movement Studies.

Her research interests are protest events, social movement outcomes, labour movement and climate activism. She is currently involved in projects studying the visions of climate activism, political outcomes of environmental movement and the use of threat in collective bargaining in Sweden.

Keywords

  • social movements
  • public policy
  • protester
  • political sociology
  • labour movement

Biography

Research interests:

- the mobilisation and political consequences of social movements. My major empirical interest is related to citizens' political mobilisation and its possibilities to achieve their stated goals (e.g., protests against school closures, changes in labour or climate policies, and food systems), but I am also interested in claims made during protest actions and protest mobilisation in general.

- individual-level political participation in comparative perspective - methodological improvements (i.e. combining methods) for social movements and political participation analysis

- the role of different interest groups in promoting the adoption of renewable energy policies or opposing renewable energy projects (e.g., wind-farms)

Education:

PhD defended at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, in June 2007. The thesis, "Do Protests Make a Difference?: The impact of anti-privatisation mobilisation in India and Peru," focuses on the outcomes of protests against privatisation in two developing countries.

The mobilisation of protests has become more visible during the last few decades, and the literature focusing on the links between protest and policy has significantly increased. Nevertheless, scholars acknowledge a lack of theoretical advancements, careful empirical analysis, and attention to developing countries regarding these links. In my thesis, I endeavour to address the shortcomings described above. Thus, I elaborate on and evaluate existing theories on social movement outcomes by applying an event history analysis to my data on anti-privatisation struggles in India and Peru.

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- MA in Political Science ("The Determinants of the political participation in South America"), International program at Peace and Conflict Department, Uppsala University, 2002.

- BA in Political Science, Tartu University, Estonia 2001.

Projects since 2007

2019 -2024 Researcher at the Formas project “Notice of industrial action”, main applicant Jenny Jansson (Uppsala University).

2017- 2020 Principal investigator and leader of the Swedish team in the EU H2020 project EURYKA, which examines youth political engagement at times of increasing inequalities

2017 worked for the EU H2020 funded project REMINDER (10%) in the Swedish team (led by Joakim Palme)

2016 worked for the VR project Civil Society and Enlightened welfare-state (30%), led by Per Ola Öberg

2015- 2018 cooperates with Jenny Jansson in an RJ-funded infrastructure project, "The Labour Movement Gone Digital: Preservation of Organizational Activities in the Online Era". The project focuses on archiving digital material produced by the Swedish trade unions.

2013-2016 EU FP7 funded international collaborative project LIVEWHAT (Living with hard times). Prinicipal investigator of the Working Package 2 and leader of the Swedish team.

2012 -2015 FAS funded junior scholar project for setting up the Swedish Protest database. I am the prinicipal investigator, but the project also involves a great work of several research-assistants.

2010 - 2014 RJ funded project on the outcomes of protest against closing of schools in Swedich 290 municipalities since the early 1990s and until 2009. The project is in its final phase, first results are presented in several international conferences.

July 2008- June 2010: explaining the adoption of renewable energy policies in EU (Sweden, Spain and Italy) and India. In co-operation with Hans Blomkvist, funded by Energimyndigheten (Swedish Energy Agency).

June 2007- 2008: protest mobilisation against EU policies and its consequences during 1992-2007. Co-opearion with Fredrik Uggla, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Research

2024-2027 Principal investigator and leader of the Swedish team at the EU Horizon 2020 project DEMETRA: Democratic Governance, Environmental and Climate Challenges, and Societal Transformation: Deliberation, Inclusiveness, and Citizen Empowerment for Sustainable Food Systems. More info at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/demetra/

2020-2024 Principal investigator of the Swedish Research Council project “The Power of Protest? Investigating forms of collective action and their influence on environmental policies”, in cooperation with Cassandra Engeman (Stockholm University)

2020-2024 Researcher at the FORTE project “The necessary and the possible: How social movements articulate, convey and negotiate visions of a fossil-free and just future”, led by Mattias Wahlström (Gothenburg University)

2022-2025 Researcher, FORTE/CHANCE project “PolarVis: Visual transformation in a transforming Europe” led by Alexandra Segerberg (UU)

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