Published 4 September 2015 Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, PhD in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, will be working as a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology for three months this autumn. Her main research areas are qualitative methods, crime, social work, risk-taking, and youth studies. – In my research I focus on youth, crime and social work. I’m currently working on my postdoc

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Published 4 September 2015 Veronika Burcar has published a co-authored article (together with Louise Hellgren and Hanna Andersson) in the journal Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 1 (2015): '"Du kan ju inte bli slagen av en tjej liksom" - en studie av män som utsatts för våld i nära relationer’. Veronika Burcar“You can’t be beaten by a girl, you know” – a study of men who have been subjected to domesti

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Published 10 September 2015 Anders Persson has published an article in Vetenskapssocietetens årsbok 2015 titled: "Online chess and chat interaction – game and gaming conditions in face to face and online chess”. The article aims to answer if, how and why the game of chess changes when played online on the Internet.The author distinguishes between chess played face to face (f2f) and the role assume

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Published 11 September 2015 Shai Mulinari has together with Malin Ideland (Malmö) and Tora Holmberg (Uppsala) published an article in Science and Technology Studies: "Money, Money, Money? Politico-Moral Discourses of Stem Cell Research in a Grant Allocation Process". Read the whole article on lup.lub.lu.seShai Mulinari AbstractConcerns have been raised about the marketization of science through th

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Published 15 September 2015 Goran Basic has published an article analyzing the retold experiences of 27 survivors from the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article ”Conditions for Reconciliation: Narratives of Survivors from the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina” is published in Journal of Criminal Justice and Security.Read the article on lu.se/lup Goran Basic's personal page here on the depar

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Published 16 September 2015 Agneta Mallén has been interviewed for an article on citizen journalism and sousveillance in The Journalist. “Rachel Broady on how secret recording is fast becoming a news form, with worrying consequences for the victims and journalism."“Trial by sousveillance” in The Journalist, pages 18-19 (September/October 2015)Agneta Mallén's personal page on the department's websi

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Published 18 September 2015 Goran Basic has published an article on the ideal victim and competition for victimhood in the stories after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is in Serbian. ”Idealna žrtva i nadmetanje za dobijanje statusa žrtve u pričama preživjelih rata u Bosni i Hercegovini”. Temida, 18(2), 2015: 7-30.See article on lup.lub.lu.seGoran Basic's personal page here on the d

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Published 8 October 2015 Abdulhadi Khalaf has written the preface to a recently published book called "Bahrain’s Uprising - Resistance and Repression in the Gulf". The book explores the contentious politics of Bahrain, and charts the way in which a dynamic culture of street protest, a strong moral belief in legitimate democratic demands and creative forms of resistance continue to hamper the effor

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Published 12 October 2015 Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46

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Published 12 October 2015 A decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning. The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd police. Investigations have revealed that the threat directed at Lund University posted on the

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Published 14 October 2015 Daniel Görtz defended his dissertation in sociology " Ethnified police practices. How ethnicity is done in police work" on 29th of September at 10:00 in Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund University, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Liv Finstad, UiOSupervisors: David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström, the Department of Sociology, Lund University.Examining committee:Vesa Le

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Published 16 October 2015 Susanne Boethius defended her dissertation in sociology "Men, violence and moral work. Reports from help-seeking men at treatment centrers working with violence in close relationships" on 2nd October at 14:00 in the auditorium of Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Tove Pettersson, Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Malin Åkerström and Christof

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Published 26 October 2015 Our researchers Goran Basic, Sophia Yakhlef and Malin Åkerström have published two new reports on their Project Turnstone. Turnstone is a study of the cooperation between the border police and coastguards in the Baltic Sea area.Based on empirical material (interviews and field observations), the purpose is to map and analyse how the staff of the different organizations ex

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Published 11 November 2015 Anders Kjellberg has been awarded 75 000 sek from The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds (Arbetslöshetskassornas Samorganisation, SO) today. The ceremony took place at Juricium, Lund University. The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds awards a prize every two years to highlight research on unemployment insurance.Anders Kjellberg's personal

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By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 3 May 2023 Panel discussion at the symposium, with panellists Ted Svensson and Peder Hjort and Sandra Jakobsson as moderator. Photo: Anais Leclercq In the end of April, SASNET co-organised a symposium addressing the importance of sustainable water management in India, Bangladesh, and Sweden. The symposium was orga

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By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 30 May 2023 Last Wednesday, Niladri Chatterjee and Eleonor Marcussen, held a joint lecture in line with the SASNET Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, titled: “Shaken and Stirred: Politics of Disasters and Aid in South Asia”. Ted Svensson, Director of SASNET, opened the seminar and introduced the two researchers: Eleonor Mar

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Published 1 June 2016 SASNET has been rewarded 100 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation with which to expand the Sweden–South Asia Media Project that began in 2015. The grant will be used to arrange conferences and workshops dealing with online harassment in India and Sweden. Threats and harassment over the internet are increasing worldwide. Social media accounts are being hijacked, private pictur

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By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 June 2023 At the end of May, SASNET organised a two-day workshop at Lund University on Hindu Majoritarianism, Caste Politics, and Minoritisation. The workshop brought together scholars from a range of disciplines, including social anthropology, history, psychology, and political science. The workshop took place

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By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 19 June 2023 In May, SASNET organised its first annual lecture. It was given by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, King’s College London. In case you missed the lecture, the recording is now available on our website.  On 4 May, SASNET arranged its inaugural annual lecture in collaboration with the Association of Fore

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By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 3 July 2023 From left to right: Yasemin Arhan Modéer, Ted Svensson, Jakob Skovgaard, Malin Mendel, Cecilia Oskarsson and Henrik Chetan Aspengren. During the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, SASNET co-organised a panel debate, together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The panel debate "What

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-almedalen-week-what-does-india-want-global-politics-and-how-does-it-affect-sweden - 2025-04-03