WHAT IS THE CONFLICT MARKET?

Revanchist Consumer Activism

In the article “Fearing separation from capitalist paternity” the journal Consumption Markets & Culture  we examine how American anti-gender…

Presenter x 2 at CCTC2025, King’s College, London

24-17 June 2025: Presented two papers at the CCT conference 2025 held at King’s Business School at King’s College,…

Presenter about Žižek’s Ideology Critique at the Canon of Classics

19’th of June 2025: Invited by Professor Søren Askegaard at the University of Southern Denmark, I presented my take…

Consumption & Violence: Guest talk at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University

10’th of June 2025: Invited by @susannamolander and the business administration group at Stockholm Business School at Stockholm University…

Opponent “The Cynical Condition in Market and Consumer Society”

21’st of May 2025. I acted opponent at PhD candidate Mattias Hjelm’s “Mock-PhD-Defence” of his PhD dissertation “The Cynical…

“Ontological Conflicts in Consumer Culture Theory” NFF and Stockholm Business School

19’th of May 2025 Lecturer at Stockholm Business School’s Nordic Academy of Management (NFF)-funded PhD course on “Nordic Consumer…

“Seven Take-Aways from an Ethics Application” Guest Lecture at University of Gothenburg

9’th of May 2025 Invited by Professor @Benjamin Hartmann at the Department of Business Administration @University of Gothenburg, to…

Sydsvenskan Podcast Interview: “Can the food giants be shamed to lower their prices”

19 March 2025 Interview in Sydsvenskan PODCAST: “Can the food giants be shamed to lower their prices” https://podme.com/se/avsnitt/7022520/ “Matpriserna…

SVT National Television, “Boycott against the grocery chains”

28 February  2025: Swedish National TV: SVT, SVT Morgonstudion, Live Interview, “Boycott against the grocery chains” https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/experten-sa-kan-bojkotten-paverka-matjattarna

TV4 and Dagens Nyheter (DN) Interviews: “Swedes call for boycott of American commodities and brands”

28 February 2025: Swedish National Newspaper: DN (Dagens Nyheter) Interview “Swedes call for boycott of American commodities and brands”…

Svenska Dagbladet, Interview “Boycott of grocery chains -the industry strikes back”

27 February 2025  Swedish National Newspaper: Interview https://www.svd.se/a/dRQ6Wq/bojkott-av-matbutiker-planeras-branschen-slar-tillbaka

Sydsvenskan, Interview “Large boycott against the food giants: “a sort of cartell””

16 March 2025 https://www.sydsvenskan.se/artikel/stor-bojkott-mot-matvarujattarna-en-sorts-kartell/ Swedish Regional Newspape Sydsvenskan

The Conflict Market and Foodie Culture

21 March 2025, At their “Networkday” I was invited by Kristianstad University (@HKR) to speak about the “trends” in…

“Conflict Market” Research Article

Here you can read my first introduction of the ‘Conflict Market’ as a notion published in Journal of Consumer…

“Conflict Market” Research Grant

Conflict Markets: An investigation of the market’s role in a violent consumer culture Between 2023 and 2025 I am…

“Plant versus Cow: Conflict Framing ..” Research Article in JMMK

In this article I and Christian Koch explore and identify the way famous brands (in this case Oatly) amplify…

“Tickling Tensions” Research Article in MT

In this article I go into the manifestations of what I later, in the “Conflict Market”, call the “neoblue”…

“Political Ideology in Consumer Resistance” Research Article JPP&M

This article, which I published together with Christofer Laurell in Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, is the first…

Techtopia and Future Consumption

At the “Ideon Innovation Day” and Ideon Science Park’s 40-year jubilee May 31’st 2023, I had the honor (together…

My TEDx Talk on “How Consumption Promotes Political Visions” January 2019

This TEDX talk was my first official talk about the ‘Conflict Market’.

The Era of Conflicting Megatrends, Property Expo, Gothenburg, Sep 2018

In this presentation I talk to large real estate companies, investors, politicians and retailers about conflicting megatrends in society  that…

“The Future Political Role of Brands” Kindred Group Summit, Milan, Italy, May 2018

What responsibility does a brand have in the larger society? How can brands in historically stigmatized and “problematic” industries…

AdDay 2017: “From Consumer to Activist,” May 11, Stockholm

At the bizzy wizzy AdDay, for Sweden’s various brand owners to meet and get inspired, I spoke about the interesting…

“Declining Middle-Classes and Consumption”, Session Organizer at the 3’d ISA Forum 2016, Vienna, Austria

At one of the world’s most renowned conferences within sociology (the 3’d international Sociological Association Forum: “The Futures we Want:…

Keynote at “Is there a Future for the Future?”, New York, USA, May 2016

For the second year I was invited to speak as keynote at the Swedish-American Executive Women’s Forum. 2016 the theme…

Status movements- Published in European Journal of Marketing 2014

In an economically polarizing world (Piketty 2013), with a growing “precariat” (Standing 2011), previously middle-class consumers around the world…

Nouveaux Pauvres

Award winning academic paper and book chapter about the western middle-class experiencing status loss. Ulver-Sneistrup, S och Ostberg, J…

Ethics of Consumption and Brand Resistance

Article in “Journal of Consumer Culture” about what makes a brand more or less ethically legitimate to consumers. Ulver-Sneistrup,…