Zlatan Ibrahimovic is making waves in academic circles

He’s a role model, an international superstar and a Swedish celebrity more famous than even Bjorn Borg in his prime.

But Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s status as a symbol of integration and upward mobility is also being debated in academic circles, where a postgraduate course in Power and Gender at Stockholm University draws on his life and times.

“I’ve written an article where I analyse the autobiography of Ibra and how he’s received and publicly discussed in Sweden and France,” Professor Annika Olsson told the Irish Examiner. I use the results from this article when I lecture on issues relating to power, gender and inter-sectionality, for instance, and try to answer questions like: Who can talk, and be listened to, as a Swedish citizen?”