This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations, states, and national territories. The collection represents a variety of disciplines, and different theoretical conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource. 

Erika Alm, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

Linda Berg, Associate Professor, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), Umeå University, Sweden.

 

Mikela Lundahl Hero, Senior Lecturer, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

 

Anna Johansson, Senior Lecturer, Division of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, University West, Sweden.

 

Pia Laskar, Associate Professor, Department of Research and Collections, National Historical Museums of Sweden.

 

Lena Martinsson, Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

Diana Mulinari, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden.

 

Cathrin Wasshede, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg , Sweden.