Elias Isaksson

Postdoc

Presentation

Elias investigates the factors shaping Swedish environmental and transport policy. He is particularly interested in questions of power and language, specifically in relation to overarching ideas about sustainability, mobility, and growth.

Elias earned his PhD at Lund University with the dissertation Between Growth and Sustainability: The Construction of Sustainable Mobility in Swedish Transport Policy (2023). In his dissertation, he explores how sustainable mobility is linguistically constructed in Swedish transport policy, focusing on the Urban Environment Agreement.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at Umeå University. Elias is part of the K2 project What kind of transport-efficient society do we want to achieve?