Research output per year
Research output per year
The Global Political Sociology (GPS) research group studies contemporary political and social dynamics across the globe, focusing on state-society relations and transnational ideas, movements and networks in their local, regional or global expressions. Researchers combine Anthropology, Area Studies, Law, Politics, and/or Sociology to develop ‘thick’ understandings of the present and the recent past, particularly since the mid-20th century. They contribute intellectual depth and ambition to Roskilde University’s international research environment.
Current research themes include collaborative knowledge production; corporate security in mining and energy sectors; democratic participation, activism and social innovation; global Christianity; the globalization of the Indian Ocean region; the history of human rights; legal responses to insurgency and home-grown terrorism; local and global gender norms in Africa; the Middle East in the global New Left; political and power elites; social movement and civil society; state-making and brokerage in Somali territories; and transitional justice.
GPS members are leading and participating in international research projects on global Catholicism; entangled histories of Palestine and the global new Left; European social-scientific knowledge production; global gender-based norms in Ethiopia; illegal resource extraction and state formation in emerging African democracies; the international standardization of transitional justice; the political responsiveness of power elites; private cash transfers in Africa; rights in natural resource extraction and energy production.
Members of GPS have expertise on social and political developments in particular countries and may be contacted individually. In Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tunisia and Uganda. In Europe: Bosnia, France, Italy, and Europe as such. In the Middle East: Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria. In Latin America: Colombia, Peru.
The aim of the GPS research group is to develop members’ research skills by sharing and critiquing each other’s work, reflecting on current transnational phenomena, and engaging in critical dialogue about theoretical insights and currents. Moreover, the group works to externally position Roskilde University’s global political sociology by publishing internationally in high-ranking journals; contributing to public debate in the media; giving talks, lectures and conference presentations; engaging in research collaboration; and inviting guest lectures.
For more information, contact research group leader, Associate Professor Line Engbo Gissel.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
Gissel, L. E., Jakobsen, L. J. & Hansen, T. O.
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/06/2021 → 31/08/2025
Project: Research
Thomassen, B., Bandak, A., Trolle, A. K., Balle, M. & Petersen, M. J. B.
01/04/2021 → 01/06/2024
Project: Research
Stacey, P. A., Buur, L. & Abdulai, A.
01/01/2021 → 31/12/2024
Project: Research
Line Engbo Gissel (Speaker) & Line Jespersgaard Jakobsen (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Astrid Krabbe Trolle (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
Astrid Krabbe Trolle (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
15/06/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
12/06/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
10/06/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Gissel, Line Engbo (Recipient), Bischoff, Carina Saxlund (Recipient) & Kvist, Jon (Recipient), 20 Sep 2019
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Larsen, Anton Grau (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Pace, Michelle (Recipient), 16 Sep 2016
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions