Kerstin Jacobsson

Kerstin Jacobsson is a Swedish political sociologist conducting research on democracy issues, the European Union, active [labour market policies] and social movements. She is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg.

Education and career

Jacobsson obtained her PhD in sociology in 1997 from Uppsala University in Sweden, writing her thesis on democracy in the European Union.

As a political sociologist, Jacobsson has conducted research on Europeanization and the European Union, with one focus on democracy and another focus on employability and labor market policies. She has also studied social movements, primarily in Sweden and Eastern Europe, including animal rights activists and women's organizations.

Jacobsson K, Lindblom J. Animal rights activism: A moral-sociological perspective on social movements. Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

Jacobsson K, editor. Urban grassroots movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
Jacobsson K, Korolczuk E, editors. Civil society revisited: Lessons from Poland. Berghahn Books, 2017.

Jacobsson K, Schmid H. Real Integration or Formal Adaptation?: On the Implementation of the National Action Plans for Employment, 2002.
Borrás S, Jacobsson K. . Journal of European Public Policy, 11:185-208, 2004.
Jacobsson K. . Journal of European Social Policy, 14:355-70, 2004.
Hansson N, Jacobsson K. Learning to be affected: Subjectivity, sense, and sensibility in animal rights activism. Society & Animals, 22:262-88, 2014.
Karlberg E, Jacobsson K. A meta-organizational perspective on the Europeanization of civil society: The case of the Swedish Women’s Lobby, Voluntas: International Journal of Nonprofit or Voluntary Organizations, 26:1438-1459, 2015.
Jacobsson K, Hollertz K, Garsten C. Local worlds of activation: the diverse pathways of three Swedish municipalities. Nordic Social Work Research, 7:86-100, 2017.
Bengtsson M, de la Porte C, Jacobsson K. . Social Policy & Administration. 2017, 51:367-388.