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Elin Ennerberg defended her thesis "Destination employment? Contradictions and ambiguities in Swedish labour market policy for newly arrived migrants" today at 13:15 in the auditorium at St Algatan 4, Lund. Discussant Professor Sven Hort, Linnéuniversitet.Elin Ennerberg's personal page.
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elin-ennerberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-07
Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter in the recently published anthology "Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning". Read the textAnders Kjellberg's personal page
Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates the contours of how sex-selective abortion and ‘gendercide’ have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Their article "Gendercide’, abortion policy, and the disciplining of prenatal sex-selection in neoliberal Europe" was recently published in the journal "Global Public Health". Read the articleLisa E
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-disciplining-prenatal-sex-selection-neoliberal-europe - 2025-10-07
How can we look at gaming among young people with disabilities beyond a perspective that is mainly interested in these people’s exercise and improvement? In their recently published article, David Wästerfors and Kristofer Hansson look at how videos and computer games are used by these people within a private frame: “Taking ownership of gaming and disability”, Journal of Youth Studies, 2017. Read t
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-gaming-and-disability - 2025-10-07
Shai Mulinari has written, together with the researchers Maria Wemrell, Björn Rönnerstrand, S. V. Subramanian and Juan Merlo, an article on the use of categorical and anti-categorical approaches in studies of population health and US racial/ethnic groupings. The article is called "Categorical and anti-categorical approaches to US racial/ethnic groupings: revisiting the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Surve
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/shai-mulinari-intersectionality-and-public-health - 2025-10-07
Annika Capelan Köhler defended her dissertation "Fibre Formations: Wool as an anthropological site" today at 10:00 in the auditorium of Eden, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Penelope Harvey, University of Manchester.Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/annika-capelan-kohler-has-defended-her-dissertation - 2025-10-07
Petra Östergren has contributed with a chapter on Swedish prostitution policy to the Routledge anthology "Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe", edited by Jahnsen and Wagenaar. Read more about the bookPetra Östergren's personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/petra-ostergren-swedish-prostitution - 2025-10-07
Carola Aili has together with Lars-Erik Nilsson written an article called "Backstage accounting in preschool: analysing dealing with complaints as ‘rehearsing away’ professional knowledge". The text was recently published in the journal "Ethnography and Education". Read the articleCarola Aili's personal page
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/carola-aili-backstage-accounting-preschool - 2025-10-07
Johan Sandberg has, together with Moira Nelson, published a chapter on 'Social Investment in Latin America', in the edited volume The Uses of Social Investment. The chapter aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the social investment approach in Latin America by analysing their conditional student grants, so called conditional cash transfers (CCTs). Despite empirical evidence that CCTs co
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/benefits-study-grants-latin-america-held-back-insufficient-political-support - 2025-10-07
Ann-Mari Sellerberg has published an article together with Tobias Linné on “The forest as a taskscape: seeing through the good forest owner’s eyes”, in the Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. Abstract: This article is a reanalysis of interviews conducted in 2006 and 2009 with forest owners and their families. It gives a complementary interpretation of the forest owners’ decisions to replant s
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/forest-owners-way-looking-forest - 2025-10-07
Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter on unions, employers and industrial relations ("Fack, arbetsgivare och industrial relations") in the recently published new edition of the textbook Arbetslivet (Working life), where he writes about how many young people have left unions and about class-based unions in the Nordic countries. Editors: Mattias Bengtsson & Tomas Berglund. Learn more about the book
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/relationship-between-management-and-employees-new-textbook-about-working-life - 2025-10-07
Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg has just published "To (dare) meet the unexpected - The story of the unruly chair", an essay in Swedish ”Att (våga) möta det oväntade – Historien om den bångstyriga stolen”, in the Norwegian journal on educational studies Norsk pedagogisk tidskrift. The essay seeks to problematise an instrumental pedagogy that has followed todays increasing number of (neuro) psychiatric dia
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pedagogy-daring-look-beyond-set-idea - 2025-10-07
David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström have each written a chapter concerning youth welfare in the book "Den motspänstiga akademikern" (The Opposing Academic), a volume in honor of Professor Ingrid Sahlin at the School of Social Sciences in Lund. The chapters are Eyes for Violence (David Wästerfors) and Mötesstrider och dokumentkamp i ungdomsvården (Meeting Struggles and Document Distress in Youth C
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/dark-gazes-and-meeting-distress-youth-homes - 2025-10-07
Together with Ron Eyerman and Todd Madigan, sociologist Magnus Ring has published the article “Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War” in the Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 54. More information and a link for downloading the article can be found here at the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia. Abstract:Part of a wider project on how the Vietnam War (1945-1975) is reme
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vietnam-continues-haunt-american-collective-memory - 2025-10-07
Social Anthropologist Nina Gren has published the article 'Unruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank’ in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies Nidaba. More information, and a link for downloading the article at journals.lub.lu.se Abstract:Almost 70 years after the Palestinian displacement, many Palestinian refugee youth in the Middle East
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/boys-find-school-increasingly-pointless - 2025-10-07
Social anthropologist Petra Ostergren has developed a new typology for assessing, evaluating and comparing prostitution policies. This new typology is presented and discussed in 'From Zero-Tolerance to Full Integration: Rethinking Prostitution Policies', a working paper published within the frames of the interdisciplinary research project Demand-side Measures Against Trafficking (DemandAT). Demand
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-prostitution-policies-new-typology - 2025-10-07
Lotta Granbom defended her doctoral dissertation in Social Anthropology ”The Second Wave: The Urak Lawoi after the Tsunami in Thailand” today at 10 o'clock in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Peter Ian Crawford of the School of Culture and Society at Århus University and the chairperson at the defence was Professor Christer Lindberg from the Department of Sociology at Lu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lotta-granbom-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-07
Maria Gómez defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”Teachers' Assessment and gradings Practices in upper secondary Science Classrooms in Sweden. The Teachers' and Students' Perspectives” today at 10 o'clock in Eden's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Per Andersson, at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University and the chairp
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/maria-gomez-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-07
A grant of nearly 5 million SEK from Riksbankens jubileumsfond has been awarded to Doctor in Sociology Lisa Eklund, together with Kristina Göransson at the School of Social Work, for the project Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban China, Singapore and South Korea: A comparative ethnographic study. Abstract:This comparative ethnographic project addresses parents’ educational c
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/parenting-strategies-around-childrens-education-urban-east-asia-awarded-5-million - 2025-10-07
PUBLICATION: PhD Candidate Henrik Möller has published the chapter "Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade interactions in Southwest China" in the book Emptiness and Fullness. Ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China. Henrik Möller’s doctoral thesis examines intersections of material, economic and cultural aspects of carving, trade, and consumption of the
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/many-people-china-believe-jade-stimulates-life-energy - 2025-10-07
