Published 24 April 2017 How can we look at gaming among young people with disabilities beyond a perspective that is mainly interested in these people’s exercise and improvement? In their recently published article, David Wästerfors and Kristofer Hansson look at how videos and computer games are used by these people within a private frame: “Taking ownership of gaming and disability”, Journal of You

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-gaming-and-disability - 2025-04-03

Published 28 April 2017 Shai Mulinari has written, together with the researchers Maria Wemrell, Björn Rönnerstrand, S. V. Subramanian and Juan Merlo, an article on the use of categorical and anti-categorical approaches in studies of population health and US racial/ethnic groupings. The article is called "Categorical and anti-categorical approaches to US racial/ethnic groupings: revisiting the Nati

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/shai-mulinari-intersectionality-and-public-health - 2025-04-03

Published 3 May 2017 Annika Capelan Köhler defended her dissertation "Fibre Formations: Wool as an anthropological site" today at 10:00 in the auditorium of Eden, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Penelope Harvey, University of Manchester.Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/annika-capelan-kohler-has-defended-her-dissertation - 2025-04-03

Published 4 May 2017 Petra Östergren has contributed with a chapter on Swedish prostitution policy to the Routledge anthology "Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe", edited by Jahnsen and Wagenaar. Read more about the bookPetra Östergren's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/petra-ostergren-swedish-prostitution - 2025-04-03

Published 4 May 2017 Carola Aili has together with Lars-Erik Nilsson written an article called "Backstage accounting in preschool: analysing dealing with complaints as ‘rehearsing away’ professional knowledge". The text was recently published in the journal "Ethnography and Education". Read the articleCarola Aili's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/carola-aili-backstage-accounting-preschool - 2025-04-03

Published 9 June 2017 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 called conditional cash transfers (CCTs). Despite empirical

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/benefits-study-grants-latin-america-held-back-insufficient-political-support - 2025-04-03

Published 21 June 2017 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. It gives a complementary interpretation of the forest owners’

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/forest-owners-way-looking-forest - 2025-04-03

Published 16 June 2017 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 countries. Editors: Mattias Bengtsson & Tomas Berglund. Le

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/relationship-between-management-and-employees-new-textbook-about-working-life - 2025-04-03

Published 28 June 2017 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 instrumental pedagogy that has followed todays increasing number of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pedagogy-daring-look-beyond-set-idea - 2025-04-03

Published 9 August 2017 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 dokumentkamp i ungdomsvården (Meeting Struggles and Docu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/dark-gazes-and-meeting-distress-youth-homes - 2025-04-03

Published 29 August 2017 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 Croatia. Abstract:Part of a wider project on how the Vietna

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vietnam-continues-haunt-american-collective-memory - 2025-04-03

Published 31 August 2017 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 after the Palestinian displacement, many Palestinian refugee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/boys-find-school-increasingly-pointless - 2025-04-03

Published 10 October 2017 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 interdisciplinary research project Demand-side Measures Against Traf

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-prostitution-policies-new-typology - 2025-04-03

Published 13 October 2017 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 the defence was Professor Christer Lindberg from the Dep

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lotta-granbom-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-03

Published 25 October 2017 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 Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/maria-gomez-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-03

Published 17 February 2021 ”Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned” This policy brief examines the development and implementation of a new gender mixed military capability within the Belgian Special Forces Group, including female soldiers in the operational detachment of the unit for the first time

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-nina-wilen - 2025-04-03

Published 18 February 2021 Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the chapter “Gender and Peaceful Change” in the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. edited by T.V. Paul et al.  Link to the publication on oxfordhandbooks.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-gender-and-peaceful-change-international-relations - 2025-04-03

Published 1 March 2021 ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” Isabel Bramsen published a piece on ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” in Journal of Resistance Studies. The study theorizes the micro-sociological dynamics of conflict and nonviolence as micro-sociological and discusses how nonviolent resistance can d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-situational-power-nonviolence - 2025-04-03

Published 2 March 2021 Annika Björkdahl recently published the chapter Urban Peacebuilding in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies that is applying the lens of the urban to rethink and rescale peacebuilding in post conflict societies. Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-annika-bjorkdahl - 2025-04-03

Published 3 March 2021 Tomas Bergström is one of the editors of a new book published by Palgrave Macmillan on the challenges for local self-government in a number of european countries. "The Future of Local Self- Government. European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations.” He contributes with a chapter on ”The future of local democracy. A somewhat dystopian view”. Link to the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-local-self-government - 2025-04-03