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Jonathan Polk and other principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Party Positioning have published a new article on the trend file, collecting six waves of the survey data between 1999-2019. The article examines stability and change in party positioning within the European Union, and stresses the increasingly strong relationship between parties’ cultural ideology and positions to
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-party-positioning - 2025-10-25
Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the contribution “Peace and Feminist Foreign Policy” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies (editors: Oliver Richmond and Gezim Visoka). Read the chapter on Springer Link’s website Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-peace-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-25
Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Reforming fossil fuel subsidies requires a new approach to setting international commitments” in the journal One Earth. The article argues that international efforts to phase out fossil fuel subsidies can be strengthened by distinguishing between different subsidies, taking into account their climate impacts and the feasibility of reform. As the climate
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-commitments-reform-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-10-25
Nina Wilén and Lisa Strömbom have co-authored the article "A Versatile Organisation: Mapping the Military’s Core Roles in a Changing Security Environment" which was recently published open access in European Journal of International Security. The main contribution of the article is a comprehensive mapping and categorization of the military’s different roles and tasks in current industrialized demo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-and-strombom-militarys-core-roles - 2025-10-25
Karin Aggestam has authored the contribution “Third-party Intervention and International Monitoring in the City of Hebron” in the report “The Impact of Third-Party Mechanisms in Conflict Resolution: Lessons Learned from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron” published by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Karin’s contribution analyses the temporary international observer force, TIPH, that was
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-international-peace-monitoring-hebron - 2025-10-25
Jenny Lorentzen has published a new article in the Journal of Modern African Studies, about the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Mali. By analysing vertical (between international and local actors) and horizontal (between local actors) friction, the article shows how interactions between different actors shapes the WPS agenda in the Malian context. Read more on Camb
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lorentzen-women-peace-and-security-mali - 2025-10-25
Ekatherina Zhukova has published an article entitled “Postcolonial Logic and Silences in Strategic Narratives: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Conflict-Affected States” in the journal Global Society. The article advances our understanding of acceptance and rejection of gender equality norms advocated by ethical foreign policies in marginalised states. The article contributes to the emerging wo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zhukova-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy-conflict-affected-states - 2025-10-25
Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö (Malmö University) are the editors of a special issue on power and evaluation. The special issue’s article is open access. Through an increasing demand for, and dependence on, various forms of evaluative practices in the public sector, the editors have seen the emergence of what has been called an audit and evaluation society. How these "societies", and practices asso
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-power-and-evaluation - 2025-10-25
Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Annick Wibben published the chapter “Feministiska institutioner? Utrikespolitik och nationellt försvar” (in English: Feminist Institutions? Foreign policy and national defense) in the edited collection Feministiska Perspectives on Global Politics (Studentlitteratur). The chapter is based on three adjacent research areas: feminist international relations, f
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-women-peace-and-security-0 - 2025-10-25
Anders Uhlin has together with Håkan Johansson and Malin Arvidson published the article “Capital and Closure in the EU Field. Advancement in the European Economic and Social Committee” in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article explores what it takes to advance to the top of an EU institution (the European Economic and Social Committee). The article combines Bourdieu’s theories of field and
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-career-advancement-eu-institution - 2025-10-25
Annika Fredén has together with Ludovic Rheault and Indridi H. Indridason co-authored the article ”Betting on the Underdog – The Influence of Social Networks on Vote Choice”, published in the journal Political Science Research and Methods. In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between local social networks and voting behavior, in the case where the voter chooses between a large
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-influence-social-networks-vote-choice - 2025-10-25
Jana Wrange has published an article on the divergent interpretations of the concept of civil defence in Sweden. The article has been published in the journal European Security and is entitled ”Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence”. Read more on the journal’s website Jana Wrange’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-civil-defence-sweden - 2025-10-25
Maiken Røed has published the article “When do political parties listen to interest groups?” in Party Politics. The article examines 88 Norwegian policy proposals and shows that parties often reuse input from interest groups. Characteristics relating to the proposals, interest groups, and parties affect parties’ propensity to listen. Read more on the journal’s website Maiken Røed’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-parties-propensity-listen-interest-groups - 2025-10-25
The study on pharmaceutical industry self-regulation that Shai Mulinari and co-authors recently published in PLOS Medicine has received considerable attention internationally. The study has recently been discussed in The British Medical Journal (published by the British Medical Association), The Pharmaceutical Journal (published by the UK Royal Pharmaceutical Society) and The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/international-coverage-mulinaris-study-pharmaceutical-industry - 2025-10-25
Abdulhadi Khalaf of the Sociology Department has together with co-editors just published the book "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf". The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-book-transit-states-labour-migration-and-citizenship-gulf - 2025-10-25
The Department of Sociology held their annual PhD Research Day Friday 12th December, which provided an opportunity for PhDs candidates from Education, Social Anthropology and Sociology to present their ongoing doctors thesis. A total of 13 PhD candidates presented their work which ranged from the emotion work and impression management of loyalty used by defense lawyers, to intellectuals in the con
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-research-day-science-mapping-rwandan-farming - 2025-10-25
Ann-Mari Sellerberg and Vesa Leppänen have published a new article: "The contradictory role of the sales assistant: superordination and subordination" Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, 2015. More information.
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictory-role-sales-assistant - 2025-10-25
The Department of Sociology hosted an international migration workshop on the theme “Queer Migrations and Mobilities: Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship, and Intimacy from a European Perspective” on the 11th and 12th of September. The workshop, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Societies (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), brought together 25 researchers, scholar-activists, activists and ac
The successful candidate will conduct sociological research and teach sociology at the BA, MA, and PhD levels. The position includes 50 percent research and 50 percent teaching and administration. Associated Senior Lecturer in SociologyBiträdande lektor (Sw), Assistant Professor (US) In addition to conducting high-quality research and teaching insociology, the successful candidate is expected to b
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/associated-senior-lecturer-sociology - 2025-10-25
Erik Hannerz’ book Performing Punk has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan. See more details here. Summary of bookArguing against the presumption that subcultural meaning constitutes a single set of meaning, Hannerz addresses how punks draw upon plural definitions of the mainstream and notions of subcultural authenticity.Drawing from an exceptionally rich fieldwork in Sweden and Indonesia
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/punk-identity-sweden-and-indonesia - 2025-10-25
