Helena BerglundSenior lecturer, Associate professor
About me
Helena Berglund is Senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science.
Teaching
Teaching has been part of my work at this department since the early 1990s. It has more or less mirrored my research interests on democratisation and civil society, with a strong emphasis on gender studies and the role of ethnicity and religion. Most of this has been conducted within the subject of political science but also the BA program in Development Studies as well as the Teacher’s Program in Social Science. In recent years I have concentrated my work on supervising students in their independent research papers.
Research
My research was previously focused on India, primarily on the issues of democratisation, political identities and civil society. This resulted in the monograph “Hindu Nationalism and Democracy”, the anthologies “Gender, Religion and Democracy” and “Development and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia and South Asia: Euro-Asian Perspectives” as well as several peer-reviewed articles. In recent years I have shifted focus thematically to cover the struggle for LGBT-rights, primarily in South-East Asia, but also in a Swedish context. Currently running is the cooperation with primarily Indonesian and Vietnamese civil society groups: “Transgender in Asia”.
Publications
Books
2004, Hindu Nationalism and Democracy, (Shipra Publications: New Delhi).
2003, Gender, Religion and Democracy (red.) with Kopola, Nelli, (PODSU: Stockholm)
2000, Dissertation: Hindu Nationalism and Democracy: A Study of the Political Theory and Practice of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Stockholm University.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2017, ”Civil society and political protest in India: The case of Coca-Cola in Kerala”, India Review, Vol. 16, nr 3, 324-343. ISSN 1473-6489, E-ISSN 1557-3036
2015, “Media and Nationalism in India: Reflections on the Narendra Modi Government”, Asian Politics and policy, Vol 7, Issue 3.
2015, “The Popular Struggle against Coca-Cola in Plachimada, Kerala”,
Journal of Developing Societies, 31, June 2015, (with Sofia Helander).
2011, "Hindu Nationalism and Gender: A Challenge to the Indian Women's Movement", International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 13, Number 13.1, March 2011.
2009, ”Including Women: Strategies of Mobilization within the Hindu nationalist movement”, India Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2009.
2009, “Gender Relations and Democracy: The Conflict between Hindu Nationalist and Secular Forces in Indian Civil Society”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 2 April 2009.
Book chapters
2017, “Protest and Participation: The Popular Struggle against Coca-Cola at Plachimada (Kerala)” in India's Tryst with Democracy: Changing Contours of Politics, Economy and Society / [ed] Shashikant Pandey, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company.
2012, “Gender, Religion and Transition: The Struggle Against the Hindu nationalist Redefinition of Womanhood”, in Comparisons, Quotas and Critical Change, Lenita Freidenvall and Michele Micheletti, (Department of Political Science (ed.), Stockholm University: Stockholm).
2011, "Introduction" in Power to the People? (Con-)Tested Civil Society in Search of Democracy, Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin (ed.), (Uppsla Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala).
2011, “The Global constitution of religious nationalism: Hindutva and globalization”, in Religion, Politics and Globalization, Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman (red.), (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford).
2010, “Hindu Political Thought” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, (CQ Press/SAGE Publications: Washington D.C.
2005, ”Hindu Nationalism and the Quest for a Uniform Civil Code” i The Politics of group Rights – The State and Multiculturalism, Ishtiaq Ahmed (ed.), (University Press of America: Lanham).
2004, ”Civil Society and Democracy” i, Democracy, Labour and Politics in Africa and Asia: Essays in honour of Bjorn Beckman, Gavin Williams (ed.), (Centre for Research and Documentation: Kano, Nigeria).
2003, "The Shah Bano Case - Cultural Nationalism and Communitarianism in Indian Politics" i Gender, Religion and Democracy, Berglund, Henrik och Kopola, Nelli (red.), 2003, (PODSU:Stockholm).
1995, "Den liberala demokratins sammansättning", i Lindensjö, Bo, Liberalism och relativism - liberalismen och dess kritiker, (Lund: Studentlitteratur).
Other articles
2010, ”Globalization the Indian Way: the popular struggle against Coca-Cola”, IKON Occasional Paper Series, 1/2010, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
2009, ”Civil Society in India: democratic space or extension of elite domination?”, Working Papers, 2009:1, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.
2004, "Religion and Nationalism - Politics of the BJP", March 6, Economic and Political Weekly.
2003, "Hindunationalistisk extremism inom indisk politik", Orientaliska studier, nr. 111.
1997, "Hindunationalismen: En analys av Bharatiya Janata Party", Internationella Studier, nr. 2.
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