06/05/2026
Happy and proud to learn that Mati Klitgård's dissertation is nominated for the KRAKA award! Congratulations to all the nominated candidates 🎉
KRAKA NOMINERING 3 🏆
(English below)
Det tredje værk i rækken af elleve nominerede til årets KRAKA-pris er:
Mathias Klitgård for ph.d-afhandlingen: “Q***r Materialism. Diffractions of New, Q***r, and Historical Materialisms”.
Dette er noget så relativt sjældent som en teoretisk ph.d-afhandling. Afhandlingen udvikler “q***r materialisme” i skæringspunktet mellem q***r teori, ny materialisme og historisk materialisme for at adressere systemiske og overlappende kriser i relation til seksualitet, klima og kapitalisme. Værket har som ambition at bidrage til teoretisk nyudvikling indenfor kønsforskningen, hvilket det i høj grad lykkes med. Ved at samtænke q***r teori med hhv. historisk materialisme og ny materialisme, formår Klitgård at fremsætte helt nye bud på, hvordan vi kan forstå, analysere og derved potentielt agere i den aktuelle poly-krise, hvor både økonomisk, social, økologisk, racial og kønnet ulighed spænder ben for den fremtid, der kunne have været. KRAKA komitéen finder at afhandlingen praktiserer en sjælden og forbilledlig forpligtelse på tværteoretisk udveksling, og at den samtidig demonstrerer Klitgårds teoretiske overskud og akademiske dybde. KRAKA komitéen finder særlig anledning til at fremhæve dette værk for dets potentiale til at understøtte nye analyser og derved nye og dybere forståelser af aktuelle udfordringer, ikke blot for samfundet men for menneskeheden.
Læs mere om Klitgårds ph.d-afhandling her 👉 https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019904b6fcb6-9ce2bb05-de2e-4fa1-b686-4435bf00ba28
KRAKA-prisen hædrer nyskabende dansk kønsforskning og uddeles på kønskonferencen onsdag d. 3. juni 2026 på Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark.
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KRAKA NOMINEE 3 🏆
The third work in the series of eleven nominees for this year's KRAKA award is:
Mathias Klitgård for the PhD thesis: “Q***r Materialism. Diffractions of New, Q***r, and Historical Materialisms”.
This is something as relatively rare as a theoretical PhD thesis. The thesis develops “q***r materialism” at the intersection of q***r theory, new materialism, and historical materialism to address systemic and overlapping crises in relation to sexuality, climate, and capitalism. The work aims to contribute to theoretical new developments within gender research, which it largely succeeds in. By integrating q***r theory with historical materialism and new materialism, Klitgård manages to present completely new proposals for how we can understand, analyze, and thereby potentially act in the current poly-crisis, where economic, social, ecological, racial, and gender inequality are blocking the future that could have been. The KRAKA committee finds that the thesis practices a rare and exemplary commitment to cross-theoretical exchange, and that it simultaneously demonstrates Klitgård's theoretical surplus and academic depth. The KRAKA committee finds special occasion to highlight this work for its potential to support new analyses and thereby new and deeper understandings of current challenges, not only for society but for humanity.
Read Klitgård’s PhD thesis here 👉 https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019904b6fcb6-9ce2bb05-de2e-4fa1-b686-4435bf00ba28
The KRAKA award honors innovative Danish gender research and will be awarded at the Danish Gender Research Conference on Wednesday 3 June, 2026 at the University of Southern Denmark.
