Elina Hartikainen from the Department of Social Anthropology has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, adressing the country's religion and politics. According to her, one of the most important questions of our time is understanding how the turn to religious arguments in conservative politics threaten and reconfigure liberal politics.
Professor Laavanya Kathiravelu at ISS researches whether citizenship has an impact on integration and belonging in Singapore and Qatar. Her own upbringing in multicultural Singapore contributed to her interest in this area of research.
– What makes it interesting to be a researcher is the combination of the freedom to choose my own line of research and the ability to spend time getting deeply immersed in a topic to really understand it and capture its complexity, says Jens Jungblut, professor at The Department of Political Science.
