Ida-Maja Lindström

Ida-Maja Lindström is a PhD Student at the Centre for Gender Research. With a background in human geography and gender studies, she has had a long-standing interest in how gender equality and sustainability is practised in everyday life. Her project focuses on downshifting and voluntary simplicity in Sweden, lifestyles where people intend to reduce work-time and consumption to enable a better work-life balance and reduce their ecological impact.

My thesis project focuses on downshifting and voluntary simplicity in Sweden, lifestyles where people intend to reduce work-time and consumption to enable a better work-life balance and reduce their ecological impact. The project explores the motivations and experiences of these lifestyles, trying to understand in what ways they might be gendered.

Read more about the project Downshifting in Sweden: Care, Freedom and Equality?