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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 successful enhances our understa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hickmann-et-al-success-factors-global-goal-setting-sustainable-development - 2025-10-25

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 how the discourse on the c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/valdemar-holt-department-political-science-winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2022 - 2025-10-25

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 the United Kingdom, by drawin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/milka-ivanovska-hadjievska-civil-society-elites-challengers-uk - 2025-10-25

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 is an inherent feature of wo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/thorsteinn-kristinsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

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 uses a Lacanian approach to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-governing-emotions-hybrid-media-ontological-insecurity-and-normalisation-far-right - 2025-10-25

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 Read more about Catarina Kin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-enforcing-and-resisting-hindutva-popular-culture-covid-19-crisis-and-fantasy - 2025-10-25

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 on the level of state-to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-10-25

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 political analysis encompasses th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-planetary-politics-twenty-second-century - 2025-10-25

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-wing sympathies are slightl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2025-10-25

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 the EU's forest policy to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-10-25

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 demands of digital diploma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-10-25

...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 think about politics and development. It became particularly clear after Brexit that there's a lot we don't understand. For example, it's interesting, and some might say paradoxical, 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-10-25

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 organizations. To the chapter “C

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-10-25

Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is not familiar with the subject, what is the current democratic situation in that region now

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-10-25

Att kombinera studier med arbete är en verklighet för många studenter och det kan vara både givande och utmanande. Esther är en av dem som fått det att fungera och här delar hon med sig av sina erfarenheter men även tips på hur man får allt att gå ihop. Vad jobbar du med? Jag jobbar på en Willys i Båstad och har jobbat där i några månader nu. Jag har olika arbetsuppgifter som att sitta i kassa, va

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/jag-lar-mig-hur-jag-ska-hantera-olika-typer-av-manniskor - 2025-10-25

Frida Eggert är doktorand på Institutionen för Tjänstevetenskap inom konsumtion, marknadsföring och detaljhandel. Här berättar hon om sina erfarenheter som doktorand och ger en inblick i den forskning hon bedriver. Vad handlar din forskning om?Jag doktorerar inom konsumtion, marknadsföring och detaljhandel, och studerar digitaliseringen av second hand-branschen. Fokus ligger specifikt på second ha

https://www.ch.lu.se/node/658 - 2025-10-25

Alessandra Sossini är doktorand vid Institutionen för Kommunikation. Här delar hon med sig av sina tankar om livet som doktorand, de största utmaningarna och ger en inblick i sin pågående forskning. Vad handlar din forskning om?Min forskning handlar om anställdas entreprenöriella identitet på sociala medier, särskilt på plattformar som LinkedIn. Jag undersöker hur anställda konstruerar och present

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/varje-dag-ser-olika-ut-beroende-pa-vad-som-star-i-fokus-0 - 2025-10-25

I ett samhälle där klädkonsumtionen fortsätter att öka i snabb takt, strävar forsknings- och samverkansprojektet Mer mode - färre kläder efter att skapa en mer hållbar syn på mode. Projektet syftar till att sprida kunskap om hållbarhet och förändra konsumtionsmönster genom forskning, utbildning och samverkan med lokala aktörer. Projektet leds av Emma Severinsson och Magdalena Peterson McIntyre vid

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/mer-mode-farre-klader-om-hallbarhet-i-garderoben - 2025-10-25

Måns Alklint, ordförande för Stampus styrelse och student i datateknik på Campus Helsingborg, vet vad som får studentlivet att lyfta. I den här intervjun berättar han varför han valde att engagera sig i Stampus, hur nya studenter kan hitta sin plats i föreningen och avslöjar vilka tre aktiviteter han tycker är absolut bäst. Varför valde du att gå med i just din studentförening?Jag ville få ut så m

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/gemenskap-engagemang-och-minnesvarda-upplevelser - 2025-10-25

Sara Rajala, student Logistics Service Management på Campus Helsingborg och projektansvarig i Agoras styrelse, inspirerades tidigt att engagera sig i studentlivet. Tillsammans med vänner och med en positiv start under Novischveckorna kändes valet självklart. Här delar Sara med sig av varför hon valde Agora, hur du som student kan engagera dig och vilka evenemang som är hennes personliga favoriter.

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/darfor-valde-sara-att-engagera-sig-i-agora - 2025-10-25