Moa Dahlberg

About me

Presentation 

Moa Dahlberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science since August 2024. She works on the research project Towards a more Adaptive Swedish Wild Boar Management System with Enhanced Collective Action Capability: Lessons from ASF outbreaks in Sweden and abroad, financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. In this project, we investigate how management systems can enhance their capacity to prevent, detect, and promptly respond to emerging ecological needs, such as outbreaks of African Swine Fever.

Moa Dahlberg has a PhD in Political Science from the Political Science Unit, Luleå University of Technology. She received her MSc in Development Studies from the Department of Government at Uppsala University in 2014 and her BSc in Development and International Cooperation at Södertörn University in 2011. During her academic studies and previous work, she has conducted field research in Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa on themes such as democratization, migration, gender, violence, and land rights. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Cape Town.

Teaching

Moa Dahlberg teaches on:

• Democracy, Development, and Democratization
• Local Government A
• Integration course - Globalization
• Degree project in political science, Bachelor's level

Research

Moa Dahlberg's research focuses on two areas: 1) the transnational governance of natural resources and 2) migration and health.

In her PhD, Moa Dahlberg focused on how the state's ability to establish and enforce collective rules in areas of limited statehood is influenced by their interactions with local authorities. More specifically, she studied how hybrid governance arrangements with traditional authorities influence the state's capacity to govern. The empirical focus was wildlife management in National Parks in Southern Africa, and the research relied on extensive qualitative fieldwork and surveys collected in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.

She has previously worked on the following research projects:

• 2017 - 2022 - “Corruption and Wildlife Management: Collective Action in Transnationally Protected Reserves" (The Swedish Research Council).
• 2022 - 2024 "Waging war to save the peace parks: A study of militarization of wildlife management” (The Swedish Research Council).
• 2020 - 2024 "Managing a Moving Resource: Opportunities for, and Obstacles to, Collective Action in Swedish Wild Boar Management" (The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency).