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Published 17 October 2022 Roger Hildingsson has together with Annica Kronsell published a book chapter on Green State theory in the new edition of the edited volume The State: Theories and Issues. To Bloomsbury's website and the book. Roger Hildingssons profile in Lund University research portal Find out more about Annica Kronsell here at University of Gothenburg's website
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-green-state - 2025-07-13
Published 24 October 2022 Roger Hildingsson and Åsa Knaggård has recently published a book chapter on the success of the Swedish carbon tax in the edited volume Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries. Ever since the Swedish carbon tax was introduced in 1991, as one of the first cases in the world, it has provided a pioneering example of carbon pricing. In the chapter, ”The Swedish Carbon
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-knaggard-success-swedish-carbon-tax - 2025-07-13
Published 27 October 2022 Professors Annika Björkdahl and Susanne Buckley-Zistel have co-edited a special issue on “Space for Peace” in The Journal Intervention and Statebuilding, and they have authored the article Space for Peace: A Research Agenda, in which they propose three avenues for analyzing spaces for peace: spatial practices, spatial dynamics, and space formations. Given the novelty of t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-buckley-zistel-analyzing-spaces-peace - 2025-07-13
Published 7 November 2022 Magdalena Bexell explores the formative power of indicators for business human rights responsibility in a new issue of the Journal of Human Rights. The article focuses on how indicators are legitimated, constructed, used in rankings, and contested. A case study shows that ranking schemes are ultimately dependent on their credibility in broader perspective, subject to even
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ranking-human-rights-new-article-power-indicators-global-governance - 2025-07-13
Published 14 November 2022 Sara Kalm and Anna Meeuwisse have written a book chapter called “The Moral Dimension of Countermovements: The Case of Anti-Feminism”. The chapter develops an understanding of counter-movements’ moral motivations, using theories of Axel Honneth, and empirical cases illustrating different cases of antifeminism. The volume is called The Power of Morality in Movements: Civic
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-and-meeuwisse-antifeminist-countermovements - 2025-07-13
By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 24 November 2022 What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z and Millennials in the
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-07-13
Published 2 December 2022 Katren Rogers and Professor Julian Garritzmann during dissertation 2 December 2022. Today, Katren Rogers has defended her thesis on the party politics behind the closure of asylums and orphanages between 1950 and 2015. New scientific ideas, professional specialization, anti-institutional action groups and increased tax burdens contributed to a wave of deinstitutionalizati
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/katren-rogers-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis-after-asylums-and-orphanages - 2025-07-13
Published 5 December 2022 Whether, to what extent, and how will global goal-setting for sustainable development be effective? A new openaccess study in Sustainable Development draws lessons from the MDGs for SDG implementation. The millennium development goals (MDGs) were an important precursor to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Hence, identifying the conditions that made the MDGs succes
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hickmann-et-al-success-factors-global-goal-setting-sustainable-development - 2025-07-13
Published 12 December 2022 Valdemar Holt, Department of Political Science at Lund University, has written the essay "Alienation suspected". The essay examines – based on party leader debates in the Riksdag – the Social Democrats' and Moderaterna's views on the concept of exclusion between 2010 and 2022. From the prize committee's motivation: The essay contains an impressive qualitative analysis of
Published 13 December 2022 Amid growing polarisation in European societies, civil society elites, encompassing resource-rich, influential and often liberal-oriented civil society organisations (CSOs), are under increased attacks by conservative and progressive actors alike. This article aims to understand who challenges civil society elites, on what grounds, and with what means do they do so in th
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/milka-ivanovska-hadjievska-civil-society-elites-challengers-uk - 2025-07-13
Published 16 December 2022 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has successfully defended his thesis Webs of World Order - A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order. Congratulations! Abstract This dissertation advances a relational theory of rising powers and their influence on international order. The emergence of new great powers and the relative decline of incumbent ones i
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/thorsteinn-kristinsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-13
Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Pasko Kisić Merino (Karlstad University) published the article ‘Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Abstract Focusing on the debates on ‘due impartiality’ provided to far-right leaders in Swedish media, this article u
Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Amit Singh (University of Coimbra, Portugal) published the article ‘Enforcing and Resisting Hindutva: Popular Culture, the COVID-19 Crisis and Fantasy Narratives of Motherhood and Pseudoscience in India’ in the Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12. The article can be accessed at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/12/550 R
Published 9 January 2023 Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. Astract India and Pakistan are entrenched in an antagonistic relation that is constantly on the verge of, once more, developing into an armed conflict. There are, presently, no signs of conciliatory initiatives
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-07-13
Published 9 January 2023 Ian Manners has published a chapter on “Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century” in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century edited by Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, and Franziska Müller. Abstract: After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s politica
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-planetary-politics-twenty-second-century - 2025-07-13
Published 17 January 2023 The researchers Karl Holmberg and Sara Persson at the Department of Political Science have recently published an article based on a survey of Swedes' attitudes of regulation on plastics. The survey shows that the Swedish population in general is very positive about regulating plastics in various ways. Some differences are observed, for example, men and people with right-w
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2025-07-13
Published 31 January 2023 During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-07-13
Published 2 February 2023 Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-07-13
By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 9 February 2023 Markus Holdo in front of the town Anghiari in Tuscany during fieldwork. Photo: Markus Holdo. ...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? – Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-07-13
Published 21 February 2023 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organ
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-07-13
