Person
Doctoral Student
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail emma.sundkvistmrs.luse
Room LUX:A231
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a PhD candidate in Human rights studies since the fall 2012. My dissertation project is concerned with feminist movements and activism in Egypt after the revolution in 2011. I draw from several empirical examples with focus on how feminists engaged with the constitution writing process in 2011-13 as well as how feminists navigate the shrinking and more controlled public space since June 2013. Theoretically, I use feminist legal theory, social movement theory and postcolonial feminism mainly concerning the concepts of equality, human rights and politics.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Lund Human Rights Research Hub (research leader)
My broader research intereset is gender, feminism and human rights in the Arab and Muslim world as well as transnational feminsim and how HR-discourses have influenced international feminist politics och women's rights in the region. More specific, I am interested in activism and its precondition in today's Egypt, mainly the feminist movement and how activitsts navigate the current political order.
Book chapters (3)
- Sundkvist, E. (2020). Navigating multiple sites of knowledge : the development of religion in a Cairene women’s NGO. In Winkel, H. & Poferl, A. (Eds.) Routledge Research in Gender and Society, Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities : Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective. Routledge.
- Sundkvist, E. (2018). Konstitutionen som politisk arena : Feministers kamp om jämlikhet i det ”nya” Egypten. In Arvidsson, M., Halldenius, L. & Sturfelt, L. (Eds.) Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället (pp. 127-148). Bokbox förlag.
- Sundkvist, E. (2017). Feminism during social and political repression in Egypt : Making or breaking resistance through legal activism. In Lahai, J. & Moyo, K. (Eds.) Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South, Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan.
Conference contributions (4)
- Sundkvist, E. (2016). Demand making on the ambiguous state in a state of ambiguity : Egyptian feminist activism and human rights.
- Sundkvist, E. (2016). Making or breaking resistance : Women's rights activism in contemporary Egypt.
- Sundkvist, E. (2015). Redefining equality in Egypt : Feminist activism in times of change.
- Sundkvist, E. (2013). Methodological Challenges in Times of Change : Egypt, Gender and Political Activity.
Doctoral Student
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail emma.sundkvistmrs.luse
Room LUX:A231
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30