Emma Sundkvist

Emma Sundkvist holds a PhD in Human Rights from Lund University and has been a lecturer in the Department of Human Rights and Democracy at EHS since 2021, where she teaches at both undergraduate and master’s levels. Sundkvist’s research focuses on human rights and activism, with a primary interest in how various actors understand and utilize human rights as a political tool. Other areas of research include human rights and gender, the Middle East, women’s rights, civil society, and social movements. Her dissertation examines feminist activism in post-revolutionary Egypt from 2011–2019, exploring human rights as law, language, and space-making. Sundkvist also serves as a union representative and negotiator for the Academic Association and is an alternate member of the EHS board.

Books

• Sundkvist, Emma, 2022. Human rights as law, language, and space-making: women’s rights movement in post-revolutionary Egypt. Lund: Human Rights Studies, Department of History, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

Articles

• Sundkvist, Emma, 2023. Human Rights as Space-Making: Bodily Performative Activism Against Sexual Violence in Egypt. In: Nordic Journal of Human Rights 41. 2. S. 133-150.

• Sundkvist, Emma, 2022. Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History: Egyptian Feminist Activists’ Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014. In: Social Politics 30. 1. S. 47-68.

Book Chapters

• Sundkvist, Emma, 2018. Feminism during social and political repression in Egypt: making or breaking resistance through legal activism. In: John Idriss Lahai & Khanyisela Moyo (eds.), Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan. S. 17-43.