Mathias Klitgård Sørensen
Mathias Klitgård Sørensen is about to finish his degree in Philosophy from University of Copenhagen, focusing especially on social and political philosophy. He is writing his thesis on the French philosopher Michel Foucault and the possibility of critique and social change within his framework with a special focus on domination and subjugation.
On the side, Mathias is editor of the feminist periodical HYSTERIA and has published on several platforms on related issues. In the past Mathias has worked with Youngsters Without Border on rural marginalization and Rroma people in Romania.
Mathias is interested in the conceptualization of conflict as possibility for positive social change but equally important in displaying the always-present possible strategies of exploitation through the categories of race, gender, class, etc.
Author Files
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Foucault and Galtung on structural violence
With the French thinker Michel Foucault’s conception of power and domination, a reinterpretation of Galtung’s famous concepts of structural violence and positive and negative peace is called for. When Foucault forces us to consider power as productive and when the aim of social justice is problematized, how do we then address the issue of structural violence as an object of transformation?
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Foucault’s Genealogy and the Pillar Tool
The Pillar Tool for critical analysis of the possibility of overturning unjust systems of oppression is read together with Foucault’s genealogical method of revealing the contingencies that uphold systems of oppression
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Hegelian Dialectics and Conflict Transformation
The theoretical roots of Conflict Transformation is in this article sought by means of analysis of the (in)famous German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s dialectical view of progress. The focal questions for this analysis are: what are the conceptual processes in the workings and transformations of conflicts, how can we understand obstacles to development in a broader theoretical framework, and how do we know that what we are doing is actually creating a positive development?