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Paula Mulinari is an associate professor of social work and researches issues related to labour, racial capitalism, the welfare state and social reproduction. She has a special interest in issues related to temporality, place, social movements and utopias.

Publications

TitleTypeIssued

From the Womb to the Borders : The…
article-journal2026

Racial Capitalism, Swedish Trade Unions, and the Wages…
chapter2026

Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces : Shopping in Sweden
article-journal2026

Reinforcing the Centaur state : evictions, family policing…
article-journal2026

Utopias at work : Theories, methods and practices…
article-journal2026

Arbete, rasifiering och etncitet
chapter2025

‘Don’t be afraid of the bosses, they should…
article-journal2025

Krisen är redan här – frågan är vem…
chapter2025

‘This is neither Swedish nor Western and doesn’t…
article-journal2025

Coloniality, whiteness and systemic racism in Sweden :…
chapter2024

Lycklig är den som har en öppen väg…
report2024

Temporal Racism and the Invisibilization of Work :…
article-journal2024

The Power of Silence : Variations in the…
chapter2024

Exploring Swedish ‘Family Planning’ : Reproductive Racism and…
chapter2023

Real Utopias at work : Conflicts and dreams…
chapter2023

Trade unions negotiating the Swedish model : racial…
article-journal2023

Contradictions in care : Ward nurses’ experiences of…
article-journal2022

Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state
article-journal2022

Exit Spirals in Hospital Clinics: : ConceptualizingTurnover Contagion…
article-journal2022

Joan Acker: Hur får vi syn på den…
chapter2022

Leaderless Management as the Solution to Struggles Over…
chapter2022

Systemskiftet och kampen om tiden
chapter2022

Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism…
article-journal2022

Bland kanelbullar, Facebook och klasskamp : om en…
chapter2021

How do people become Others to be used?…
chapter2021

Kampen om professionen : om förhandlingar och tystnader…
chapter2021

Policing time – creating labour : the temporal…
article-journal2021

Dekolonialt socialt arbete : om relationen mellan gräsrotsrörelser…
article-journal2020

Rasifierade och könade tidsojämlikheter : om att skapas…
chapter2020

The Best Thing I Have Done is to…
chapter2020

Weapons of the poor : Tipping and resistance…
article-journal2019

A New Service Class in the Public Sector?…
article-journal2018

Stolthet och fördomar : Vad krävs för att…
chapter2018

To Care and Protect : Care Workers Confronting…
article-journal2018

Racism as intimacy : looking, questioning and touching…
article-journal2017

Workplaces on the move : Professional mobilisation against…
chapter2017

Blickar, frågor och beröring : rasism ett arbetsmiljöproblem
chapter2015

Exploring the experiences of women and migrant medical…
article-journal2015

Kan du leva på din lön? Om dricks,…
chapter2014

Känslor och moral i arbetslivet
chapter2014

Tystnad och osynlighet : hur hanteras diskriminering inom…
chapter2014

Intersectional Directions in Working Life Research : a…
article-journal2013

Motstånd och fatalism : läkares erfarenehter av rasism
article-journal2012

Arbete : Intersektionella Perspektiv
book2011

“Man hjälps åt” : solidaritet, solidaritetsfällor och motstånd…
chapter2011

Research Themes

The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…

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