Writing and media

Essays on politics, economics and rhetoric, podcasts and conversations, and material for journalists.

Essays

Published elsewhere

SiteZones

The Birth of a Dying System

A review of Olga Touloumi’s Assembly by Design, on the buildings of the United Nations and the architecture of global order.

Diplomacy

SiteZones

Theses on the Category of the People

With David Payne and Gustav Strandberg. The people as a limit category for critical thought.

Populism

Most of my essays are written in Swedish. Read them on stagnell.se.

Podcasts and conversations

SITE Zones, book conversation

Populism and the People

With David Payne, in conversation with Sven-Olov Wallenstein.

Humboldt Residency Podcast, episode I

Nationalism and right-wing populism

With Richard Mole and Ronen Steinke.

Humboldt Residency Podcast, episode II

Left populism and multiculturalism

With Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Christa Rautenbach and Julia Elad-Strenger.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

What Holds the World Together?

A short report on the Residency Programme and social cohesion.

For journalists

I comment on political rhetoric, populism and post-truth, diplomacy, and how central banks and public authorities communicate.

Media enquiries

Short, medium and long biography

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Press photos, with photographer credit

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CV

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