Susanna Areschoug

Susanna Areschoug is a postdoc at the Department of Child and Youth Studies. She defended her PhD-thesis in april 2022. The dissertation centers on youth culture and youth’s everyday life in the Swedish countryside. The material is based on a ten month long ethnographic fieldwork with youth, 14-16 years of age, living in a small rural community. The study examines place-making, gender relations and identity practices using feminist and post-marxist theories. A particular focus is put on the unequal power relation between urbanity and rurality, as well as on the youth's negotiations and (subcultural) resistance towards negative articulations about the rural.

Her most recent postdoc-project is a follow-up study with the youth who participated in her dissertation. The focus in this study is on the youth's reasoning about work and mobility, as well as the transformation or radicalisation of the youth's (sub)cultural and political subjectivities.

Before this, Susanna worked in a project on young heterosexual men's sexual health, studying questions of sexual pleasure, communication and consent through interviews with men 16-29 years of age. 

Susanna has a M.A. in Gender Studies from Uppsala University and is currently a board member of Forum for feminist research.