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Abstract in Undetermined Invited talk (as international speaker) on Swedish and Scandinavian regional film production and particularly its international tendencies.

Abstract The overarching aim of this paper is to investigate the importance of technological shifts and national macroeconomic preconditions for long term growth and structural transformation in various regions in a national regional system. Intrinsic to this, the issue and origin of divergence and convergence coming in repetitive waves in regional systems will be discussed as a possible contribut

A brief introduction to the study of Christian liturgy, in a book devoted to Ritual Studies.

Sven Norberg has had a successful career in European development, which has been multi-faceted, active and very productive. This contribution, however, focuses on the equally impressive and parallel career, which Sven Norberg has pursued: his contributions to academic life and his activities in reforming Swedish legal education. These side activities could easily be regarded as merely incidental,

This paper describes a case of collaboration between academia and business firms in supporting innovation processes based on the CILO method, named after the CILO project (communication in learning organizations). The CILO method is an example of firm-supportive research approach. We describe the outcomes related to enhancing enterprise performance from applying the CILO-method in relation to one

The traditional restrictive attitude towards claim for compensation about non-pecuniary harms in both cause law and legislation become weaker even if the theoretically and practically reason behind the old exception-construction remain. This reason can best be explained by the thesis about incommensurability when it comes to compensate for some losses that money cannot compensate. To explain why t

Gång på gång möter den som oroar sig för risker expertrådet att lära sig att skilja mellan fara och risk. Ofta diskuteras nämligen faror som innebär mycket små risker, men det förstår allmänheten inte. Mycket av vår oro för risker beror på ett enkelt misstag. Det här kapitlet visar dock att det inte är så lätt att skilja mellan fara och risk, åtminstone inte enligt de gängse distinktioner som expe

Popular Abstract in Swedish "Becoming Muslim" är en etnologisk studie som baserar sig på djupintervjuer gjorda med sex svenska respektive tre amerikanska kvinnor vilka konverterat till islam. Utifrån deras livsberättelser studeras konversionsberättelsen (kap. 3), den kognitiva formationen av en muslimsk identitet (kap. 4) samt möten med det omgivande samhället (kap. 5). I avhandlingen ligger fokus"Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. The process of becoming Muslim is explored by looking at the conversion narrative, the cognitive organization of a Muslim identity, and encounters with the surrounding wo