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Sara Kalm has co-authored an article with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University), which has been published in Journal of European Social Policy. The article contributes to the literature which seeks to explain the birth and design of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. It does so from a novel perspective, as it analyzes how welfare state institutions influenced the positions states

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-co-authors-un-refugee-convention-welfare-state-perspective - 2026-11-01

In times of new geopolitical challenges, the concept of total defense has been revived, in which all citizens contribute to national defense efforts. How authorities communicate this new strategy, and when such crisis communication leads to increased defense willingness, is an important issue that Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Amanda Remsö and Emma Renström from Kristianstad Unive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-sjostedt-effects-authorities-crisis-communication-individual-defense-willingness - 2026-11-01

Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen, and Inger Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. In recent years, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has faced mounting resistance from regressive political forces seeking to undermine its hard-won normative gains. This Open Access book offers a timely and rigo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-lorentzen-and-skjensbaeck-have-contributed-and-edited-new-book-backlash-against-women - 2026-11-01

Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren have co-authored the book "Troubling Testimonies. Women's narratives of war, genocide and sexual violence" (New York University Press, 2026). This book explores women’s testimonies of war across four powerful cases: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yazidi women in Syria and Northern Iraq. We develop a theoretical framework li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-kristine-hoglund-and-johanna-mannergren-give-voice-womens-testimonies-war - 2026-11-01

Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan! External reviewer: Senior lecturer Per-Anders Svärd, Södertörns högskola Supervisors/Advisors Kalm, Sara , Supervisor Badersten, Björn , Assistant supervisor Cudworth, Erika , Assistant supervisor, External person More information about t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-canavan-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-11-01

Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journal Global Policy. In a comparative study of two global health multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), we investigate the interplay between accountability and responsibility. We show that the ways in which global health MSP

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/de-dona-and-jonsson-about-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-and-responsible-accountability - 2026-11-01

Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of memory politics in societies marked by deep conflict and shows how certain forms of local dialogue initiatives can counteract simplified understandings of a conflict’s history. Drawing on interview-based case studies from t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-explores-memory-dialogues-during-and-after-war-new-book-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-11-01

Malte Breiding has been awarded the Oscar II Stipend for his doctoral thesis European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union. The stipend is awarded following a competitive selection process at both the faculty and university level and recognises outstanding doctoral research. Congratulations Malte and well deserved!

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oscar-ii-stipend-awarded-malte-breiding - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johan Sandberg has, together with Moira Nelson, published a chapter on 'Social Investment in Latin America', in the edited volume The Uses of Social Investment. The chapter aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the social investment approach in Latin America by analysing their conditional student grants, so

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/benefits-study-grants-latin-america-held-back-insufficient-political-support - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ann-Mari Sellerberg has published an article together with Tobias Linné on “The forest as a taskscape: seeing through the good forest owner’s eyes”, in the Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. Abstract:   This article is a reanalysis of interviews conducted in 2006 and 2009 with forest owners and their families. I

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/forest-owners-way-looking-forest - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter on unions, employers and industrial relations ("Fack, arbetsgivare och industrial relations") in the recently published new edition of the textbook Arbetslivet (Working life), where he writes about how many young people have left unions and about class-based unions in the Nordic

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/relationship-between-management-and-employees-new-textbook-about-working-life - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg has just published "To (dare) meet the unexpected - The story of the unruly chair", an essay in Swedish ”Att (våga) möta det oväntade – Historien om den bångstyriga stolen”, in the Norwegian journal on educational studies Norsk pedagogisk tidskrift. The essay seeks to problematise an instrument

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pedagogy-daring-look-beyond-set-idea - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström have each written a chapter concerning youth welfare in the book "Den motspänstiga akademikern" (The Opposing Academic), a volume in honor of Professor Ingrid Sahlin at the School of Social Sciences in Lund. The chapters are Eyes for Violence (David Wästerfors) and Mötesstrider och

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/dark-gazes-and-meeting-distress-youth-homes - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Together with Ron Eyerman and Todd Madigan, sociologist Magnus Ring has published the article “Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War” in the Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 54. More information and a link for downloading the article can be found here at the Portal of Scientific Journals of Cro

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vietnam-continues-haunt-american-collective-memory - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Social Anthropologist Nina Gren has published the article 'Unruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank’ in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies Nidaba. More information, and a link for downloading the article at journals.lub.lu.se   Abstract: Almost 70 years a

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/boys-find-school-increasingly-pointless - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Social anthropologist Petra Ostergren has developed a new typology for assessing, evaluating and comparing prostitution policies. This new typology is presented and discussed in 'From Zero-Tolerance to Full Integration: Rethinking Prostitution Policies', a working paper published within the frames of the interdiscipli

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-prostitution-policies-new-typology - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lotta Granbom defended her doctoral dissertation in Social Anthropology ”The Second Wave: The Urak Lawoi after the Tsunami in Thailand” today at 10 o'clock in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Peter Ian Crawford of the School of Culture and Society at Århus University and the chairperson at t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lotta-granbom-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria Gómez defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”Teachers' Assessment and gradings Practices in upper secondary Science Classrooms in Sweden. The Teachers' and Students' Perspectives” today at 10 o'clock in Eden's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Per Andersson, at the Depar

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/maria-gomez-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A grant of nearly 5 million SEK from Riksbankens jubileumsfond has been awarded to Doctor in Sociology Lisa Eklund, together with Kristina Göransson at the School of Social Work, for the project Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban China, Singapore and South Korea: A comparative ethnographic study

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/parenting-strategies-around-childrens-education-urban-east-asia-awarded-5-million - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PUBLICATION: PhD Candidate Henrik Möller has published the chapter "Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade interactions in Southwest China" in the book Emptiness and Fullness. Ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China. Henrik Möller’s doctoral thesis examines intersections of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/many-people-china-believe-jade-stimulates-life-energy - 2026-11-01