My research considers how knowledge production shapes gender equality policy, and the possibilities and limitations of institutionalizing progressive ideals around gender equality and diversity and inclusion in both a Nordic and transnational context. My work specifically engages with how the usage of progressive ideals in Swedish state feminist policy approaches are shaped by economic, social, and political rationales, along with the possibilities and limitations of those framings.
Selected Publications
Bullock, Lukas, (2024). “Exporting Sexköpslagen: Sweden, Sex Work, and the Moral Stakes of Externalizing Feminist Policy.” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 21, no. 2 (2): 503–13. doi:10.1007/s13178-023-00855-7.
Description: This article traces how Swedish forms of feminist statecraft make usage of a first-of-its-kind sex work regulation in order to advance its international image as an exceptional feminist state, which I argue is legitimized through the active silencing and marginalization of Swedish sex worker critiques of the law. As I demonstrate, the epistemic silencing of sex workers helps Sweden further its moral image as a 'good state' in international affairs while sex workers are pushed further to the margins.
Bullock, Lukas, (2025). “Confrontations in Kentucky; Housing Justice and the New Political Vision Emerging in the Bluegrass State” in Dispatches from the Threshold Fernwood Publishing. Halifax (Forthcoming).
Description: This book chapter reflects on housing justice activism that occurred across central and eastern Kentucky during the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, it guides readers through the ways that activists are re-politicizing discourses on tenants rights in transformative ways in a deeply conservative state.