Majken Jul Sørensen

Majken Jul Sørensen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Østfold University College, Norway. Her research focuses on how people create societal change through nonviolent resistance, humor in activism, and everyday resistance in welfare states. She leads projects like Children's Expressions of Resistance in Kindergartens, exploring quiet resistance to adult power in preschools.

Education: PhD in Social Science (University of Wollongong), Master in Peace and Reconciliation Studies (Coventry University), Bachelor in Sociology (University of Tromsø). She also trained as a social educator in Denmark and worked in kindergartens and schools.

Research Interests: Constructive resistance, social movements, conflict transformation, and the role of humor in nonviolent activism. Her work bridges sociology, history, and emotions to analyze agency and grassroots change.

Articles Trends: Recent work explores resistance in education, anarchist insights into nonviolent regime change, and alternatives to war in Ukraine. Themes include temporal critiques of capitalism, children's resistance, and theoretical frameworks for constructive resistance.

Grants/Advising: Advisor to Østfold County Council on inclusion policies. Collaborates internationally on projects like Conceptualizing Emerging Movements with Political Activist Ethnography.

Labs/Teams: Active in institutional ethnography and interdisciplinary work on early childhood resistance, reflecting her focus on marginalized voices in societal change.