Published 19 September 2017 Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-04-03

Published 22 September 2017 Ivan Gusic posted his thesis at the wall in Eden accompanied by collegues. In the background: Deputy Head of Department Björn Badersten. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-04-03

Published 22 September 2017 Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European cou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-04-03

Published 26 September 2017 Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-04-03

Published 29 September 2017 Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "tech

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-04-03

Published 6 October 2017 The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-04-03

Published 16 October 2017 Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-04-03

Published 19 October 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-04-03

Published 24 October 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Alter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-04-03

Published 24 October 2017 Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-04-03

Published 24 October 2017 Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-04-03

Published 7 November 2017 Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark, Linda Nyberg Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2025-04-03

Published 10 November 2017 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds personal web pageAnnika Kronsells personal web page Annik

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2025-04-03

Published 15 November 2017 Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepren

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-new-article-explores-selective-account-past-events-nationalist-movements - 2025-04-03

Published 28 November 2017 Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2025-04-03

Published 28 November 2017 The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignation about the Department of Political Science’s allege

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2025-04-03

Published 5 December 2017 Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2025-04-03

Published 5 December 2017 Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war within it. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2025-04-03

Published 12 December 2017 Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter 'Säkerhet’ (Security) in the book Politik och Kön: Feministiska Perspektiv på Statsvetenskap, (translation: Gender and Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Science) edited by Lenita Freidenvall & Maria Jansson (Studentlitteratur). Link to book at Studentitteratur.seLink to Annika Bergman Rosamond's personal w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-security-book-about-feminist-research - 2025-04-03

Published 14 December 2017 Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more information, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpcs

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-04-03