Åsa Wettergren (born 1969) is an associate professor in the Department of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

. Her research interests include

social movement A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of group action and may ...

migration Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...

, processes of identification and change in organization and society, and the

sociology of emotions The sociology of emotion applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions. As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with emotion wit ...

Education

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

from Karlstad University, 2005

Notable publications

*Wettergren, Å., "Like Moths to a Flame: Culture Jamming and the Global Spectacle" *Fun and Laughter: Culture Jamming & the Emotional Regime of Late CapitalismWettergren, Åsa (2009) "Fun and Laughter: Culture Jamming & the Emotional Regime of Late Capitalism." Social Movement Studies 8:1 Dissertation

References

External links

Faculty Listing for Åsa Wettergren at the University of Gothenburg
Living people 1969 births Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg Karlstad University alumni Swedish women sociologists Swedish women academics Journalism academics {{Europe-sociologist-stub