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Christina Juh­lin

Postdoc

Subjects
Organisation Qualitative methods Biodiversity Green transition Democracy Future Sociology

Primary research areas

Political participation

I study the formation of political participation, from an intimate feeling to a publicly expressed opinion. I am also interested in the crisis of traditional political participation as expressed in notions such as the hyperpolitical.

Affect and atmosphere

I study how affect and atmosphere enter the spheres of management and organizing, especially through the planning of urban space and negotiations over common spaces.

Temporary organizing

I study how the ‘temporary’ works as a pervasive force in organizing, from temporary urban spaces to temporary forms of work. I am interested in the politics of time: How time management plays out not just within organisations, but also societally.

My work rethinks how citizens engage with climate politics

I am an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of organization studies and urban studies, with a strong foundation in qualitative research.  

My research investigates political organizing in diverse settings - from large-scale urban transformations to grassroots climate initiatives. I am interested in how affective dimensions such as place attachments and the mobilization of hope shape collective action. To explore these dynamics, I draw on pragmatic sociology, urban theory, and affect studies. I have published in leading journals in sociology, management, and planning. 

Currently, I am a Postdoc and serve as Co-Principal Investigator on the Velux-funded project KLIMA-DEL. I also manage the research group Social and Political Venturing at CBS, coordinate and teach courses on qualitative methods, and co-edit a special issue of the journal ephemera. 

My next research project, for which I am currently seeking funding, will contribute to rethinking how citizens engage with climate politics as consumers and as political actors capable of shaping institutional change. Through a creative practice-based methodology and a case study of urban climate governance and lifestyle politics in Nordic cities, I aim to develop new tools for understanding and enabling climate engagement.  

Recent research projects

Research practice collaboration to understand how participation in climate politics is shaped and experienced

KLIMA-DEL (CLIMATE-PART)

KLIMA-DEL (CLIMATE-PART) is a Velux HumPraxis research-practice collaboration with Democracy X and The Danish Climate Movement. Empirically, we contribute to improving the exchange between climate engaged citizens and planners and politicians working with local climate plans. Theoretically, we contribute to current debates on hyperpolitics and the role of affect in the organization of climate action.
A recent commentary in a Danish newspaper sums up some of the project’s findings.

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