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MATTIAS WAHLSTRÖM is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. His research mainly concerns social movements, protest, political violence and state governance of dissent. He has published research on political mobilizations by climate, labour, LGBTQ, and radical right movements. He is currently doing research on preventive work against “violent extremism” and on links between right-wing violence and social media. His main teaching areas are criminology and political sociology.