Dr. Karl Malmqvist

Biography

Karl Malmqvist is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg. He holds a PhD in sociology, with a dissertation titled 'Boundaries of the Public Sphere: Five Cultural Sociological Case Studies of Controversies in Literary Autobiographies in Sweden 1976-2008' which explored the cultural debates surrounding literary autobiographies in major Swedish newspapers. His research has increasingly focused on the sociology of emotions. He was a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen from 2014 to 2015, where he led a research project on aggressive emotions in online spaces. Malmqvist analyzes how far-right discourses are constructed in Swedish online forums related to migrants, illustrating the emotional rules that differ from mainstream public life. He is an active member of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Emotions, contributing to seminars at the University of Gothenburg. His teaching includes courses in social psychology, cultural sociology, and criminology, with a commitment to teacher-training programs at his university.

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