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Pasko Kisić-Merino har en ny artikel i Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) om hur sociala medier och den nyliberala kulturen förvandlar politiska konflikter till spektakel. Med utgångspunkt i Lacans teorier visar Pasko Kisić-Merino hur människor söker ontologisk trygghet online genom två sammanflätade funktioner: programmerbara flöden som belönar engagemang och homofila nätverk som odlar en
Jana Wrange undersöker relationen mellan begreppet strategisk autonomi och idén om ett europeiskt totalförsvar. Genom att följa utvecklingen av EU:s säkerhetsdiskurser från 2010 till 2024 visar artikeln att betoningen på totalförsvar på EU-nivå, som kombinerar civila och militära förmågor, ökade redan före återkomsten av begreppet strategisk autonomi. Samtidigt har diskussionen kring strategisk au
https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ny-artikel-av-jana-wrange-om-strategisk-autonomi-och-europeiskt-totalforsvar - 2026-07-07
Annika Björkdahl diskuterar rättvis och demokratisk fred i artikeln "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times” i Peacebuilding tillsammans med Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, SungYong Lee, Gearoid Millar och Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. Den tidigare så livliga globala diskussionen om hur man bygger hållbar och rättvis fred, har ersatts av en diskurs kring säkerhet, avskräckning och försvar. När ge
Känner du dig överväldigad men inser behovet av att förstå vad som händer? Akademiska analytiska ramverk kan hjälpa. Europeiska länder, och Danmark i synnerhet, kämpar för att svara på hot från amerikanska tjänstemän om Grönlands framtid. Efter att framgångsrikt ha tagit ut Venezuelas ledning i en räd den 3 januari talar en stärkt amerikansk regering om att helt enkelt ta Grönland för sig själv. M
Sara Kalm har samförfattat en artikel tillsammans med Frida Boräng och Johannes Lindvall (Göteborgs universitet), som publicerats i Journal of European Social Policy. Artikeln bidrar till litteraturen som försöker förklara tillblivelsen och utformningen av FN:s flyktingkonvention från 1951. Den gör så genom att anlägga ett nytt perspektiv, då den analyserar hur välfärdsstatens institutioner påverk
https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/sara-kalm-med-flera-om-fns-flyktingkonventionen-ur-ett-valfardsstatsperspektiv - 2026-07-07
I tider av nya geopolitiska utmaningar har idén om ett totalförsvar, där alla medborgare bidrar till det nationella försvaret, återupplivats. Hur myndigheter kommunicerar denna nya försvarsstrategi och när sådan kriskommunikation leder till ökad försvarsvilja är en viktig forskningsfråga som Hanna Bäck och Roxanna Sjöstedt, tillsammans med Amanda Remsö och Emma Renström, Högskolan i Kristianstad,
Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen och Inger Skjensbæck har bidragit till och redigerat den nya boken Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. Under de senaste åren har agendan för kvinnor, fred och säkerhet (Women, Peace and Security, WPS) mött ett växande motstånd från regressiva politiska krafter som strävar efter att undergräva dess hårt vunna normativa f
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “On a smaller scale, biofuels can be a good alternative for public transport, but we cannot solve the climate issue by simply replacing fossil fuels with biofuels. Instead, we must reduce our energy consumption, as the total energy consumption within road transports is not decreasing”, explains David Harnesk, research
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eu-biofuel-regulation-not-sustainable-long-term - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christine Wamsler, Professor at LUCSUS, has been commissioned by The Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB) to conduct a research project on the potential of developing a Swedish national strategy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. – The research project is very timely. Wide-spread impacts and losses fr
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researcher Vasna Ramasar has been appointed as fellow to the SIGHT Fellow Programme in Global Health Leadership. The programme aims to promote an emerging generation of global health leaders, based at research institutions in Sweden, by focusing on the gaps in relation to leadership skills and international ne
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tackling-agenda-2030-through-sight-fellows-programme-global-health-leadership - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. – The SDG:s can help us as a sustainability centre to reflect around impact and how we are contributing to the goals. Where does our research sit in this context, and how can we make it more relevant to stakeholders and communities?, says Emily Boyd. This is important she notes, because today the SDG.s are becoming in
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-lucsus-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A changing climate means that citizens will have to take more action to safeguard their lives and property from extreme weather events. At the same time, there are great differences in people’s capacities and resources to do so. In a new PhD dissertation from LUCSUS, researcher Ebba Brink asserts that it is about time
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/swedish-citizens-need-more-support-handle-effects-climate-change - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES alumni Benedikt John (Batch 20) received The Global Goal Prize (hållbarhetspriset) 2018 from Miljöpartiet Skåne for his master thesis “Time to walk the talk: investigating the incorporation ofsustainability at Lund University School of Economics and Management”. The prize was handed out by Karolina Skog, Swedish
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-received-global-goal-prize - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By adopting methods used by activist citizen movements, municipal level politics can become more inclusive and even pave the way for sustainable transformations. Mine Islar, from LUCSUS, has studied the politics of Barcelona en Comú, an activist citizen platform that came to power in the municipality of Barcelona in 2
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/citizen-activist-movements-can-invigorate-local-politics - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS' researchers Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck, and Mine Islar will lead a work package in the new research project, Migration Governance and Crises, MAGYC. The project will explore how European policies are influenced by political crises triggered by migration. It gathers 13 partners from different European countri
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-new-international-research-project-migration - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her resear
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd has received a grant from Formas to organise an international conference on loss and damage in spring/summer 2019. The planned 2,5 conference will be hosted at LUCSUS and bring together leading scientists from across sustainability, ecology and climate science under a framework of loss and d
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conference-loss-and-damage-receives-formas-grant - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate networks aim to strengthen municipalities’ efforts to combat climate change. But membership benefits need to be much clearer communicated in order to utilise the networks’ full potential; and should highlight the importance of network membership to drive local climate politics forward, argues researcher Henner
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-municipal-climate-networks-can-improve-their-impact-new-research-article - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition must be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from PhD Emma Johansson. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by large-scale
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food-africa - 2026-07-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chad Boda recently attended the highly competitive 9th Summer School in Economic Geography. This is a brief reflection on his experience. What is the Summer Institute in Economic Geography?The Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG) represents a unique approach to advanced training, mentoring, and professional d
