Published 3 July 2018 Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s Inte

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-01-25

Published 6 September 2018 Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions ma

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2025-01-25

Published 7 September 2018 Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2025-01-25

Published 12 September 2018 Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforsknin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/gokhan-kaya-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-01-25

Published 24 September 2018 Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an in

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Published 28 September 2018 Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the d

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Published 16 October 2018 Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde. Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-not-want-angry-judges - 2025-01-25

Published 25 October 2018 Anna Sarri Krantz at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology: "Third Generation Survivors, Tredje generationens överlevande – en socialantropologisk studie om minne, antisemitism och identitet i spåret av Förintelsen” today, 25th October at 10:00 in Stora Algatans auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Bodil Liljefors Persson

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Published 26 October 2018 Sophia Yakhlef at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”United agents: community of practice within border policing in the Baltic Sea area” today, 26th October at 13:00 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Department of Criminology, Oslo University.This study focuses on a border poli

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sophia-yakhlef-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-25

Published 30 October 2018 Lisa Flower at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Loyalty Work: Emotional interactions of defence lawyers in Swedish courtrooms” today, 30 October at 10:15 in Kulturens Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Terry Maroney, Vanderbilt University, Law School, Nashville, USA.AbstractDefence lawyers’ work takes place in emotionally c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-flower-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-25

Published 6 November 2018 Urban creativity giving life to hidden places. The November issue of LUM, Lund University Magazine, includes an interview with co-coordinators of the Pufendorf theme on Urban Creativity, Erik Hannerz (Sociology) and Peter Bengtsen (Art History and Visual Studies). LUM's article Urban creativity giving life to hidden places points out that Banksys street art paintings have

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/erik-hannerz-and-peter-bengtsen-interviewed-about-urban-creativity - 2025-01-25

Published 19 December 2018 Tullia Jack at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”Negotiating Conventions: cleanliness, sustainability and everyday life” today, 19 December at one o'clock in the Palaestra auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Professor Alan Warde, Department of Sociology, University of ManchesterPart of AbstractCleanliness has seen a rapid increase in

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Published 15 February 2021 In a chapter on ‘European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis’, Ian Manners argues that economic, social, ecological, conflictual, and political crises of the EU are not separate, but part of the same planetary crisis. The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. Th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-european-union-and-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-01-25

Published 16 February 2021 Annika Björkdahl raises the critical question Where does peace take place? in the chapter Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies co-authored with Stefanie Kappler  Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

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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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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

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Published 8 March 2021 Do governing parties strategically time welfare benefit cuts and other austerity policies to help them win elections? Hanna Bäck has, together with med Daniel Strobl, Wolfgang Müller and Mariyana Angelova analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of the Western European countries. You can read about their results in the article “Electoral Cycles in Government Policy M

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-timing-austerity-reforms - 2025-01-25