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Johan Örestig Kling serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Umeå University, Sweden, and has been Area Coordinator for Leadership, Organization, and Work Life since January 2025. His academic profile bridges sociology, social theory, and organizational studies with cross-disciplinary applications in evolutionary biology and political philosophy.
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology (2013), Umeå University: Dissertation The Long and Winding Road: A Longitudinal Approach to Retirement Behaviour, analyzing four sub-studies on elderly retirement patterns using Panel Survey of Ageing and the Elderly (PSAE) data.
- Recognised university teacher certification.
Research Focus spans social movements (e.g., social media dynamics in Swedish mining conflicts), evolutionary theory (co-authoring Evolutionary Theory and Human Nature with psychologist Jonas Olofsson), and critical leadership studies. His work interrogates health inequality, human nature debates, and organizational power structures through qualitative methods. Recent publications explore climate activism’s collective action frameworks, political dimensions of friendship, and HR’s contested role in modern workplaces.
Publication Trends (2020-2024) reveal three dominant threads: (1) Revolutionary theory applied to contemporary crises (Arendt/Jappe interpretations), (2) Climate justice examining mutual aid in activism and democratic transitions, and (3) Social boundaries analyzing inequality in migrant integration and intellectual history. His scholarship consistently merges classical social theory with urgent political questions.
Academic Service includes editorial leadership for political theory journal Fronesis (2012-2021), curating issues on human nature, crisis, and friendship, followed by continued board membership. Teaching emphasizes qualitative methods across Human Resource Management and Master’s in Organization and Leadership programs.
Research Collective involvement centers on Umeå University’s Leadership, Organisation, and Working Life group, investigating societal norms through projects like Critical Studies of Norms in Society (2020). Current work connects evolutionary perspectives to organizational behavior and climate crisis responses.
