Mona Lilja is a Professor in Peace and Developments Studies at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include Resistance Studies and Gender Studies. Professor Lilja is a founding member of the RESIST research group at the University of Gothenburg, the Resistance Studies Network (RSN) and well a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Resistance Studies. She has published internationally and her papers appear in, for example: Journal of Political Power, Asian Politics and Policy, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Feminist Review, Asian Journal of Political Science, Global Public Health, Signs, European Journal of Political and Cultural Sociology, Conflict and Society, and International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. Her published monographs include Resisting Gendered Norms: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia and Power (Routledge, 2016) and Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia (Nias Press, 2008).