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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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

PUBLICATION: Sociology researcher Shai Mulinari investigates, together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, how members of Denmark's pandemic planning committee experienced lobbying efforts by the manufacturer of Tamiflu, the antiviral that was stockpiled before the pandemic of 2009. Shai Mulinari and Andreas Vilhelmsson have published the article “Pharmaceutical lobbying and pandemic stockpiling of Tamiflu:

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-pharmaceutical-companies-lobby-authorities - 2025-12-13

Sociology Professor Christofer Edling has, together with nine other researchers in sociology, political science, and social work, received a grant of 35 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies”. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation wit

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/35-million-sek-project-elites-civil-society - 2025-12-13

PUBLICATION: Doctor of Sociology Terese Anving has published the article “Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Lone Mothers and Intergenerational Support in Sweden” in the journal Studies in the Maternal. Read or download the article at mamsie.bbk.ac.ukAbstractEconomic divisions have deepened in Sweden in recent years, and lone mothers are one group where the poverty rate has increased most (Salonen 2014

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lone-mothers-struggling-make-ends-meet - 2025-12-13

Katrine Tinning at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability. Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications” today at 1 pm in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Associate Professor of Education Johan Dahlbeck at the Faculty of Education and Society

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/katrine-tinning-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-13

Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has just published a book about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewell to male breadwinning. Learn more about the book Transformations of family and gender relati

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-more-women-paid-work - 2025-12-13

Liv Sunnercrantz at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in sociology ”Hegemony and the Intellectual Function: Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993” today, 19th December, at 10:15 in Kulturens auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Emilia Palonen, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki.Main supervisor:

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/liv-sunnercrantz-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-13