Published 13 June 2016 The fifth annual Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM) Workshop will be held from 24–25 June 2015 in Göttingen, Germany. The theme of the workshop is ”Transformations of ‘the Political’” and the themes discussed will be: - State and Governance; - Politics of knowledge production, - Political performance, - Development and Dissent; - Labouring Lives and the Politics of Labo

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Published 13 June 2016 The Department of Culture, Politics and Society at University of Turin, Italy, holds its second edition of the Summer School on “Politics, Development and Social Change in Contemporary India” from 27 June – 1 July 2016. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the School provides students with an opportunity to analyze key social, political and economic issues of contemporary

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Published 13 June 2016 On 4–8 July 2016, the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art will take place in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Conference contributions should draw on current and unpublished research relating to the archaeology and art history of South Asia from all periods. Topics from neighboring regions will also be considered if they throw light on South Asian archaeology or art

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Published 13 June 2016 The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) holds its next Biennial Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra on 5 – 7 July 2016. The South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA) – the organisation behind the excellent South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies – actively participates in the Canberra conference with special panels; and Profes

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Published 13 June 2016 A Call for papers has been announced for a panel on ”Economic Transformation and Urbanisation: The future of pluriactive small farmers and rural workers in South Asia?” to be held at the International Sociological Association (ISA) Third Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, 10 – 14 July 2016. The panel will be chaired by Prof. Staffan Lindberg, Lund University, and Prof. S

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Published 13 June 2016 On Saturday 30 July 2016, the Bangalore Research Network – NAGARA invites scholars and ethnographers for its second annual workshop. The aim is to share recently-completed or advanced stage Ethnographic research on the city of Bangalore in a one-day workshop. The main goal is to take stock of the field of ‘Bangalore Studies’ over the last few decades and to consider future d

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Published 12 November 2018 Photo: Mostphotos Simon Davidsson has authored the article ”Left-Right Orientation, Homeownership, and Class Position in Sweden” in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. Sweden is a country where left‐right orientation structures the political landscape, homeownership is increasingly important, and the importance of class for political preferences and behavior is c

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Published 16 November 2018 Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is bein

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Published 19 November 2018 Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East

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Published 27 November 2018 Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important

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Published 29 November 2018 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sove

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Published 30 November 2018 Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of

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Published 4 December 2018 Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More i

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Published 19 December 2018 Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relati

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Published 6 December 2018 Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and commentators in Britain and Europe.Learn more on discovers

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Published 10 December 2018 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published an article entitled "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus" in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda a

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Published 13 December 2018 Are female politicians less likely to be promoted to specific ministerial posts, and is it important for them to toe the party line? Hanna Bäck has, together with Johan Bo Davidsson and Markus Baumann, studied this question in an analysis of Swedish cabinet appointments. The results of their statistical analysis suggest that women are less likely to become ministers when

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Published 17 December 2018 Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored an article called ”Global outsourcing of carbon emissions 1995–2009: A reassessment”, which has been publish in the journal ”Environmental Science & Policy”. The article investigates carbon flows in international trade, adjusting for differences in production technology between countries. It provides a more nuanced understanding of the

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Published 18 December 2018 Audrey Vandeleene has co-edited the book ”Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy”, which just has been published at Palgrave Macmillan. The book studies electoral candidates and their relationship with political parties and voters in the Belgian partitocratic context.  All book chapters rely on data from the Belgian Candidate Survey 2014 that was coor

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Published 20 December 2018 Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter to “Oxford University Press Handbook on Women, Peace and Security” on “WPS, peace negotiations and peace agreements”. The book's editors are Sara Davies and Jacqui True. The chapter analyses women’s representation in peace negotiations and the contents of peace agreements. Based on a comprehensive interview survey of global p

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