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Elin Montelius serves as Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology within the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Mid Sweden University, actively contributing to the Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR) in Östersund. Her work bridges academic leadership with critical sociological research on contemporary societal challenges.
Montelius holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Mid Sweden University, awarded in 2020 for her doctoral thesis 'Att göra det materiella virtuellt: Subjektifiering, moral och motstånd i konstruktionen av den riskfyllda mathållningen' (Making the Material Virtual: Subjectification, Morality and Resistance in the Construction of Risky Eating Habits).
Her research critically examines intersections of risk, morality, and identity across diverse contexts including food practices, urban farming, national defence, and crisis preparedness. She investigates how societal vulnerabilities and resilience are constructed through gendered, classed, and intersectional lenses, particularly in Swedish total defence policies and pandemic responses. Montelius consistently challenges normative assumptions about self-sufficiency movements and urban gardening as risk-mitigation strategies while exposing underlying social inequalities.
Analysis of her publications from 2014-2025 reveals evolving focus from individual risk perception in eating habits toward systemic analyses of sustainable urban food systems and militarized crisis governance. Her work demonstrates methodological sophistication in deconstructing policy discourses and everyday practices, increasingly emphasizing intersectional approaches to 'people-rooted' defence and community resilience.
No scientific awards were documented in the available information.
Details regarding student supervision or research grants were not specified in the provided materials, though her leadership role suggests advisory responsibilities. Current projects include 'Transforming small and medium-sized cities into sustainable food systems through urban farming' and 'A will to defend what? Intersectional perspectives for a people-rooted will to defend.'
As a core researcher at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR), Montelius collaborates on interdisciplinary teams addressing societal vulnerabilities through critical perspectives on preparedness, risk communication, and community mobilization, with particular emphasis on gender dynamics in crisis contexts.