Helena BerglundSenior lecturer, Associate professor
About me
Helena Berglund is Senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science.
Research
Publications
Books
2004, Hindu Nationalism and Democracy, (Shipra Publications: New Delhi).
2003, Gender, Religion and Democracy (red.) with Kopola, Nelli, (PODSU: Stockholm)
2000, Dissertation: Hindu Nationalism and Democracy: A Study of the Political Theory and Practice of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Stockholm University.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2017, ”Civil society and political protest in India: The case of Coca-Cola in Kerala”, India Review, Vol. 16, nr 3, 324-343. ISSN 1473-6489, E-ISSN 1557-3036
2015, “Media and Nationalism in India: Reflections on the Narendra Modi Government”, Asian Politics and policy, Vol 7, Issue 3.
2015, “The Popular Struggle against Coca-Cola in Plachimada, Kerala”,
Journal of Developing Societies, 31, June 2015, (with Sofia Helander).
2011, "Hindu Nationalism and Gender: A Challenge to the Indian Women's Movement", International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 13, Number 13.1, March 2011.
2009, ”Including Women: Strategies of Mobilization within the Hindu nationalist movement”, India Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2009.
2009, “Gender Relations and Democracy: The Conflict between Hindu Nationalist and Secular Forces in Indian Civil Society”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 2 April 2009.
Book chapters
2017, “Protest and Participation: The Popular Struggle against Coca-Cola at Plachimada (Kerala)” in India's Tryst with Democracy: Changing Contours of Politics, Economy and Society / [ed] Shashikant Pandey, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company.
2012, “Gender, Religion and Transition: The Struggle Against the Hindu nationalist Redefinition of Womanhood”, in Comparisons, Quotas and Critical Change, Lenita Freidenvall and Michele Micheletti, (Department of Political Science (ed.), Stockholm University: Stockholm).
2011, "Introduction" in Power to the People? (Con-)Tested Civil Society in Search of Democracy, Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin (ed.), (Uppsla Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala).
2011, “The Global constitution of religious nationalism: Hindutva and globalization”, in Religion, Politics and Globalization, Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman (red.), (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford).
2010, “Hindu Political Thought” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, (CQ Press/SAGE Publications: Washington D.C.
2005, ”Hindu Nationalism and the Quest for a Uniform Civil Code” i The Politics of group Rights – The State and Multiculturalism, Ishtiaq Ahmed (ed.), (University Press of America: Lanham).
2004, ”Civil Society and Democracy” i, Democracy, Labour and Politics in Africa and Asia: Essays in honour of Bjorn Beckman, Gavin Williams (ed.), (Centre for Research and Documentation: Kano, Nigeria).
2003, "The Shah Bano Case - Cultural Nationalism and Communitarianism in Indian Politics" i Gender, Religion and Democracy, Berglund, Henrik och Kopola, Nelli (red.), 2003, (PODSU:Stockholm).
1995, "Den liberala demokratins sammansättning", i Lindensjö, Bo, Liberalism och relativism - liberalismen och dess kritiker, (Lund: Studentlitteratur).
Other articles
2010, ”Globalization the Indian Way: the popular struggle against Coca-Cola”, IKON Occasional Paper Series, 1/2010, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
2009, ”Civil Society in India: democratic space or extension of elite domination?”, Working Papers, 2009:1, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.
2004, "Religion and Nationalism - Politics of the BJP", March 6, Economic and Political Weekly.
2003, "Hindunationalistisk extremism inom indisk politik", Orientaliska studier, nr. 111.
1997, "Hindunationalismen: En analys av Bharatiya Janata Party", Internationella Studier, nr. 2.