soc.umu.seNora Räthzel
Nora Räthzel has been working at the department since 1998. She wrote her PhD on constructions of the German nation through constructions of the Other. Nora is interested in the ways in which gender, ethnic, and class relations interrelate in everyday life at work and in urban neighbourhoods to create cultures of subordination and/or cultures of resistance. She has been researching young people’s access to the labour market in Sweden (funded by FAS). Together with Diana Mulinari, Aina Tollefsen, Irene Molina and Paula Mählck she is examining the working and domestic lives of workers in a European transnational corporation in Mexico, South Africa and Sweden (funded by VR). With the same team and David Uzzell she is investigating how trade unions deal with the dual challenge of a globalising work division and globalising environmental degradation (funded by FAS). She has been a member of two urban studies projects led by Katarina Nylund at Malmö Högskola: In one she has investigated the ways in which people in areas seen as segregated transgress boundaries and create meeting places on their own terms (funded by FORMAS). In another she is investigating whether and if so how, criteria of economic, social and ecological sustainability are integrated into projects of urban planning (funded by FORMAS). From 2011 she will be the Swedish part of an international project financed by the European Union, FP7, entitled: "Low Carbon at Work: Modelling agents and organisations to achieve transition to a low carbon Europe." She is a Visiting Professor at the Psychological Department of the University of Surrey.
