Published 25 November 2024 Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Polk, who has secured a prestigious grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for his project, "Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe." This groundbreaking work aims to shed light on the evolving political landscape and its implications for Europe’s future. SummaryPolitical Party Competition and the Tra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/major-research-grant-awarded-professor-jonathan-polk-exploring-political-party-dynamics-europe - 2025-05-07

Published 29 November 2024 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have edited the book “Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield” (Bristol University Press). How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to better understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and fo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-karin-aggestam-and-jacqui-true-feminist-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-05-07

Published 5 December 2024 Rikard Bengtsson recently published a chapter entitled “Complex Role Enactment Amid Global Value Contestation: The European Union and the Crisis of the European Security Order” in the volume International Organizations Amid Global Crisis. Analysing Role Selection and Impact through Role Theory, edited by Diana Panke and Gordon M. Friedrichs (Bristol University Press). Dep

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eu-and-european-security-order - 2025-05-07

Published 6 December 2024 Patrick Nitzschner on his dissertation and external reviewer Professor Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin. Patrick Nitzschner has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Defending what is yet to come: Towards a critical theory of democratic defense'. Congratulations! AbstractCertainty about the robustness of democracy has given way to a widely diagnosed crisis of d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/patrick-nitzschner-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-05-07

Published 10 December 2024 The world is facing several crises in terms of water quality, quantity, and safety. Policy measures to date focus on a 'business as usual' approach that prioritises economic and/or green growth. But measures that prioritize growth largely fail. A group of some of the world's most prominent water scientists highlights the crucial role that policy capture has played. They

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-05-07

By alva [dot] martensson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Alva Mårtensson) - published 12 December 2024 Alexander Ryan and Jonathan Polk. Hatred towards political opponents can be more polarizing than policy differences – and populism is shaping the erosion of support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. Professor Jonathan Polk and Dr. Alexander Ryan delivered a lecture in December on what divides vo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/affective-polarization-populism-and-european-party-support-ukraine - 2025-05-07

Published 16 December 2024 In this study we elaborate the trade-off between pre-training models on domain-specific data versus a more general dataset in a political context. We start from motions from parliamentarians in the Swedish Riksdag, and focus on the two competitors for government office parties: Social Democrats and Moderates. Elaborating word embeddings on central keywords related to iss

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/matter-pre-training-political-studies-more-data-better-domain-specific-new-study-shows - 2025-05-07

Published 13 January 2025 Isak Svensson, Uppsala University and Isabel Bramsen, Lund University. ❔ Who is best positioned for mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine? ❔ When should such diplomatic efforts be launched? ❔ How should the processes of peace talks be designed? These are some of the questions examined in a new article by Isabel Bramsen from our departme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-when-who-and-how - 2025-05-07

Published 21 January 2025 In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-05-07

Published 23 January 2025 Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owner

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/danish-business-owners-more-critical-democratic-institutions-their-swedish-counterparts-during-covid - 2025-05-07

Published 29 January 2025 Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Hypothetical example of responsiveness. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-05-07

Published 28 January 2025 Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-conversation-karin-aggestam-about-fragile-ceasefire-gaza-and-future-diplomatic - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 20 december 2019 Lyckat symposium Trans, non-binary and intersex (in) education. Genusvetenskapliga institutionens Signe Bremer Gagnejsö och Irina Schmitt, i samarbete med Anthony Wagner från Linnéuniversitetet, samlade forskare, studenter, lärare, konstnärer och aktivister för ett fullspäckat symposium om ”Trans, Non-binary and Intersex (in) Education” den 14-15 november. Symposiet öpp

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/meddelande-fran-hostens-trans-non-binary-and-intersex-education-konferens - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 20 januari 2020 Diana Mulinari, professor hos oss på institutionen, aktuell med debattartikel i Sydsvenskan. "I en rad kommuner, inte minst i Skåne, används jämställdhet för att splittra och polarisera, skriver genusforskarna Mikela Lundahl Hero, Lena Martinsson och Diana Mulinari." Läs hela artikeln på Sydsvenskan: https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2020-01-18/det-finns-inget-skal-att-gora-jam

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/debatt-det-finns-inget-skal-att-gora-jamstalldhet-till-nagot-antireligiost - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 22 januari 2020 Svt-Reportage om svårigheten i att vara genusforskare i dagens samhälle. "Många genusforskare behöver utstå väldigt grova hot på grund av sitt forskningsområde." Anneli Häyrén genusforskare på Uppsala univeristet och Jenny Gunnarsson Payne etnolog på Södertörns högskola poängterar det utsatta läget genusvetenskapliga forskare arbetar i. Läs repotaget här: https://www.svt

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/reportage-flera-genusforskare-vagar-inte-uttala-sig-offentligt - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 25 februari 2020 Foto: Babak Fakhamzadeh, Källa: Flickr Hör Rebecca Selberg argumentera mot filosof Erik J Olsson i avsnittet "Kvinnorna och yttrandefriheten" i radioprogrammet Filosofiska rummet. Rebecca Selberg, lektor på institutionen, argumenterar mot filosof Erik J Olsson om kvinnors plats i akademin, kvinnors påverkan på yttrandefriheten och den feminina kulturen som enligt Erik,

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/rebecca-selberg-i-filosofiska-rummet - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 27 februari 2020 Forskaren Lena Gunnarsson har släppt sin bok Samtyckesdynamiker - sex, våldtäkt och gråzonen däremellan Hur går det till när människor kommer överens om att ha sex? Hur vet de att den andra verkligen vill? Och vad är det som gör att det ibland är svårt att dra en tydlig gräns mellan samtyckesbaserat sex och övergrepp? Samtyckesdynamiker undersöker dessa frågor på basis

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/bok-samtyckesdynamiker - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 28 februari 2020 Källa: Feministisktperspektiv.se Artikel skriven av Irina Schmitt, lektor i genusvetenskap, Ylva Habel, lektor i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Södertörns högskola och Adrian Groglopo, lektor i socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet. Artikeln är en kommentar till debattartikeln "Kvinnor hotar det fria ordet vid högskolorna", publicerad av Expressen den 8 januari, sk

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/artikel-ar-det-verkligen-kvinnor-som-hotar-forskningens-frihet - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 3 april 2020 Helle Rydström och institutionens hedersdoktor Jeff Hearn med kollegor har publicerat artikel om kriser i ”Global Discourse”. Helle Rydström och institutionens hedersdoktor Jeff Hearn har tillsammans med Annika Bergman Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza och Vasna Ramasar publicerat artikeln ”The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies” i tidskriften ”Global Disc

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/artikel-case-interdisciplinary-crisis-studies - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 22 april 2020 Rebecca Selberg kliver in i debatten kring Netflix miniserie "Unorthodox" och lyfter fram den bristande hänsynen till makt i relation till genus och sexualitet i den rådande kulturdebatten. Foto: Netflix.com Rebecca Selberg, aktuell med debattartikel i Expressen, ställer sig frågande till tolkningar av Netflix serien "Unorthodox" som en fråga om kollektivet versus individe

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/debatt-varfor-blundar-ni-sexualitetens-makt - 2025-05-07