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Sofia Näsström

Ph.D, Associate Professor
Fil.dr, Docent

E-mail: sofia.nasstrom@statsvet.su.se

I am Associate Professor at the Department of Government at Uppsala University, and Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. My research focuses on issues connected to democratic theory, representation, boundary-making, social contract theory, the state, freedom, popular sovereignty, the people and statelessness.

My first book, The An-Archical State: Logics of Legitimacy in the Social Contract Tradition (2004), sought to challenge the modern, and particularly the Hobbesian understanding of legitimate statehood from the perspective of subjectivity and freedom in Levinas and Arendt. In recent years, my research has come to specialize on how to think legitimacy and democracy under global political conditions. I am currently working on two book projects in relation to this: a monograph entitled The Legitimacy of People-Making and an edited volume entitled Political Equality in Transnational Democracy (co-edited).

I am participant in the collaborative research program Transdemos, and co-founder and associate editor of the international open-access journal Ethics & Global Politics.

Selected publications

Näsström, Sofia, "Where is the Representative Turn Going?", European Journal of Political Theory (2011), Vol, 10, No 4: 501-510.

Näsström, Sofia, "The Challenge of the All-Affected Principle", Political Studies (2011). Vol. 59, Issue 1: 116-34. Abstract.

Näsström, Sofia, "Democracy Counts: Problems of Equality in Transnational Democracy", in Transnational Actors in Global Governance, eds. J. Tallberg, C. Jönsson, Palgrave, MacMillan, 2010: 348-383. Download the article here.

Näsström, Sofia, "The Legitimacy of the People", Political Theory, (2007), Vol 35, No 5: 624-658. Abstract.

Näsström, Sofia, "Representative Democracy as Tautology: Ankersmit and Lefort on Representation", European Journal of Political Theory, (2006), Vol. 5, No 3: 321-342. Abstract.

Näsström, Sofia, "What Globalization Overshadows", Political Theory, (2003), Vol. 31, No. 6: 808-834. Abstract.

For further information and list of publications, see Sofia Näsström’s homepage at Uppsala University »