• Studierektor för institutionens masterutbildningar.
• Undervisar på institutionens masteruppsatskurser samt på forskarutbildningen i ekonomisk historia.

Min forskning rör sig i huvudsak inom tre områden:

(1) Ekonomiska begränsningar av politiska rättigheter,

(2) Tvångsrelationer i arbete – under och i förberedelser för krig och beredskap, samt

(3) Militärt arbete och utbildning ur ekonomiska, genus och socialhistoriska perspektiv.

Pågående forskningsprojekt:

• Mellan fritt och ofritt arbete. Arbetsmarknadsrelationer och välfärdssamhälle i Sverige 1880–2022
• Den könsneutrala värnpliktens infrastruktur, implementering och historiska kontext
• Värnplikt, bosättarkolonialism och diskriminering av det samiska folket i Sverige
• Till konsumtionens försvar: Reklam, genus och medborgarskap i Sverige under andra världskriget

Nyligen avslutade projekt inkluderar:

• Allmän rösträtt? Rösträttens begränsningar i Sverige efter 1921
• Gender equality, Diversity and Societal Security

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

• An unfinished suffrage reform: Voting rights in Sweden after the ‘democratic breakthrough’

  2024. Fia Sundevall, Annika Berg, Bengt Sandin. Scandinavian Journal of History

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  This article examines the complex and non-linear process of democratization in Sweden after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage in 1921. The research questions address the excluded groups post-1921, the reasons for their exclusion, and the historical processes that led to further expansions of suffrage rights. The study shows that the expansion of suffrage rights in Sweden after 1921 was not guided primarily by a desire to broaden voter inclusion and/or rectify the limitations of the1921 legislation. Instead, the motivations were embedded in a more intricate and multifaceted tapestry of political aims and alliances as well as situational factors that included various social, economic, and cultural shifts. The article concludes that the history of suffrage in Sweden after 1921 has been one of continuous negotiations, transformations, and adaptations, and that this provides valuable insights for addressing challenges of political inclusion and representation in the present and future. 

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• A Nordic model of gender and military work? Labour demand, gender equality and women’s integration in the armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

  2024. Anders Ahlbäck, Fia Sundevall, Johanna Hjertquist. Scandinavian Economic History Review 72 (1), 49-66

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  This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of women in the military professions in Scandinavia and Finland, investigating the shifting roles played by military labour demands and politics of gender equality. It provides the first comparative overview of these developments in the Nordic region. The analysis demonstrates the importance of historical continuity in women’s military participation. Due to military labour demands, women were throughout the post-war decades recruited into a range of auxiliary, voluntary and hybrid capacities in the Scandinavian armed forces. The reforms opening the military professions to women in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the 1970s were the outcome of a double crisis, as military needs for the regulation of these women’s organisational status coincided with new political demands for gender equality in the labour market. Corresponding reforms in Finland were delayed by the country’s lack of continuity in women’s military participation as well as its sufficient supply of male military personnel. A common Nordic model of gender and military work nonetheless emerged in the 1990s, marked by equal rights to military participation for women on a voluntary basis, combined with mandatory military conscription for men.

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• Unpacking Coercion in Gendered War Labour

  2023. Julia Heinemann (et al.). Labor history 64 (3), 225-237

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  While in recent decades there have been growing bodies of literature on gender and war, on war and military labor, and on various forms and degrees of labor coercion, rarely have these areas – gender, coercion and war labor – been analyzed together as intersecting and interdependent themes. The special issue on Gender, War and Coerced Labor aims to fill this gap, and this introduction to the issue will not only present the five papers but also establish the three intersecting themes uniting these papers. Together the introduction and the papers contribute toward larger debates about the place of coercion, of degrees of exploitation, and of free/unfree continuums in a variety of gendered war work. 

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• Försvarsmaktens personalförsörjning 1980–2020.: En kvantitativ studie över kvinnors antal och andel i militär utbildning respektive officersyrkena

  2023. Fia Sundevall, Therese Christoffersson, Karla Jonsson. Militärhistorisk Tidskrift (1), 15-34

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  Women in Sweden gained formal access to both basic military training and professional military occupations in the 1980s. Yet, four decades later, the Swedish Armed Forces remain predominantly male-dominated. Achieving quantitative gender equality within the organization presents a significant challenge. This study compiles and contextualizes data on female participation in basic military training and in the professional officer category over the past four decades (1980–2020). Through this analysis, the study provides empirical insights into the persistent gender imbalance within the Swedish Armed Forces, prompting further research into the root causes of this disparity.

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• Contributivist views on democratic inclusion: on economic contribution as a condition for the right to vote

  2022. Jonas Hultin Rosenberg, Fia Sundevall. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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  Prior to the democratic breakthrough in most Western countries, the right to vote was premised on a person’s economic contribution. No country today reserves voting rights exclusively to contributors, but economic contribution matters once again. It matters for immigrants’ access to citizenship and its associated political rights, and it matters for emigrants’ attempts to keep the right to vote in their ‘home country’. Economic contribution has attracted very little attention in the literature on democratic inclusion. The few scholars who have discussed it have rejected it based on its expected implications, without going into detail about its different instantiations and normative underpinnings. This paper lays the foundation for a more thorough critique. Informed by historical practices, we distinguish between two main types of economic contributivist regulations: those that condition the right to vote on the size of the contribution, and those that condition it on compliance with legally required contributions. We suggest that contributivism can be based either on property rights or on reciprocity. We conclude the paper by contrasting contributivism with established principles of democratic inclusion (such as the all-affected principle), and by arguing that, unlike these other principles, contributivism is incompatible with the democratic ideal of self-rule.

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• Fattigvård och rösträtt: Motsättningar mellan sociala och politiska rättigheter i den tidiga välfärdsstatens Sverige

  2022. Fia Sundevall. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift 99 (4), 458-466

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  Den så kallade allmänna rösträtt som infördes i Sverige år 1921 inkluderade inte personer som var omhändertagna för långvarig försörjning av den skattefinansierade fattigvården – i praktiken ekonomiskt utsatta åldringar på ålderdomshemmen (då: fattigvårdsanstalter). Uteslutningen av denna grupp från rösträtten motiverades med hänvisning till deras beroendeförhållande till fattigvårdsmyndigheterna och inskränkta självbestämmanderätt – vilket i sin tur ansågs stå i direkt konflikt med idén om den självständige politiska medborgaren. I denna artikel föreslås dock att argumentationen byggde på ett regelverk som i själva verket var avskaffat när den nya rösträttsreformen trädde i kraft

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• Solving ‘the Uniform Issue’: Gender and Professional Identity in the Swedish Military

  2022. Sanna Strand, Alma Persson, Fia Sundevall. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 12 (4), 3-20

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  This article contributes empirical knowledge about the shifting ways in which the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) has articulated and addressed ‘the uniform issue’, that is, matters concerning servicewomen’s access to adequate uniforms and other equipment, since the 1980s. Drawing on analytical tools employed within post-structural policy analysis, we demonstrate how ‘the uniform issue’ has gone from being articulated as a problem for servicewomen, and to be solved by servicewomen, to a problem for the SAF in its pursuit to become an attractive employer and a legitimate public authority. By shedding light on how ‘the uniform issue’ has been problematized in shifting ways since Swedish women first were allowed to serve in all military positions, this article also contributes important insights into broader scholarly debates about workplace discrimination, gender equality, and gendered occupational identities in military work.

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