04/06/2026
💥💥💥We are delighted to learn that the Danish Association for Gender Research has awarded the KRAKA Prize 2025 to Mati Klitgård for their PhD dissertation “Q***r Materialism: Diffractions of New, Q***r, and Historical Materialisms.” Mati wrote the dissertation at Centre for Gender Studies (UiS) and worked with supervisors Prof. Ingvil Hellstrand and Prof. Alberto Toscano.
The KRAKA prize 2024 was awarded to Betül Özkaya for the article “‘Don’t show them anger because then they think we are criminals’: unequal conditions of anger for minority ethnic young men”.
Warmest congratulations to both awardees! Read more from the KRAKA committee 👇
Stort tillykke til de to vindere af KRAKA-prisen for 2024 og 2025 👏🎉
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Betül Özkaya modtager KRAKA-prisen 2024 for sin artikel “‘Don’t show them anger because then they think we are criminals’: unequal conditions of anger for minority ethnic young men”.
Özkayas forskning kredser om et spørgsmål, der både er enkelt og dybt overset: Hvem har egentlig ret til at føle – og udtrykke – vrede? Med et stærkt empirisk afsæt i minoritetsetniske unge mænds liv i Danmark viser hun, hvordan vrede ikke blot er en individuel følelse, men en socialt reguleret og ulige fordelt ressource. Hun insisterer på at tage følelser alvorligt som analytisk kategori og viser, hvordan maskulinitet, racialisering og sociale positioner former, hvem der har adgang til bestemte emotionelle udtryk. Hendes forskning bringer et vigtigt intersektionelt perspektiv ind i kønsforskningen og åbner for en dybere forståelse af affektiv ulighed.
Özkayas artikel kan læses her 👉https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/811537611/emsoc-article-p423.pdf
Mathias Klitgård modtager KRAKA-prisen 2025 for sin ph.d.-afhandling “Q***r Materialism. Diffractions of New, Q***r, and Historical Materialisms”.
Afhandlingen udmærker sig ved at udvikle en ny teoretisk tilgang, som Klitgård betegner som ‘q***r materialisme’. Q***r materialisme udvikles i krydsfeltet mellem q***rteori, nymaterialisme og historisk materialisme med henblik på at adressere de systemiske og sammenvævede kriser relateret til seksualitet, klima og kapitalisme. Ved at integrere q***rteori med henholdsvis historisk materialisme og nymaterialisme formår Klitgård at fremsætte helt nye bud på, hvordan vi kan forstå, analysere og dermed potentielt handle i den aktuelle polykrise, hvor økonomisk, social, økologisk, racemæssig og kønsmæssig ulighed udfordrer vores samtid.
Læs Klitgårds ph.d.-afhandling her 👉 https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019904b6fcb6-9ce2bb05-de2e-4fa1-b686-4435bf00ba28
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Congratulations to the two winners of the KRAKA Award 2024 and 2025 👏🎉
Betül Özkaya receives the KRAKA award 2024 for her article “‘Don’t show them anger because then they think we are criminals’: unequal conditions of anger for minority ethnic young men”.
Özkaya’s research revolves around a question that is both simple and deeply overlooked: who is actually allowed to feel – and express – anger? Drawing on rich empirical insights into the lives of racialised minority young men in Denmark, she shows how anger is not merely an individual emotion, but a socially regulated and unequally distributed resource. Özkaya insists on taking emotions seriously as an analytical category and shows how masculinity, racialisation, and social positioning shape who has access to particular emotional expressions. Her research brings a vital intersectional perspective into gender studies and opens up a deeper understanding of affective inequality.
Read Özkaya’s article here 👉https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/811537611/emsoc-article-p423.pdf
Mathias Klitgård receives the KRAKA award 2025 for his PhD dissertation “Q***r Materialism. Diffractions of New, Q***r, and Historical Materialisms”.
The dissertation distinguishes itself by developing a new theoretical approach dubbed “Q***r Materialism” by Klitgård. “Q***r materialism” is developed at the intersection of q***r theory, new materialism and historical materialism in order to address systemic and overlapping crises in relation to sexuality, climate and capitalism. By integrating q***r theory with respectively historical materialism and new materialism, Klitgård manages to put forward entirely new proposals for how we can understand, analyze and thereby potentially act in the current poly-crisis, where both economic, social, ecological, racial and gender inequality are challenging our contemporary era.
Read Klitgård’s PhD thesis here 👉 https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019904b6fcb6-9ce2bb05-de2e-4fa1-b686-4435bf00ba28
