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This book is an introduction to the history and theory of video art. It charts the first artistic experiments with the specificity of the video medium, the political documentary video art and video art's incorporation of narrative and pictorial codes from cinema and television. The book also presents the various theoretizations of the video medium, from Rosalind Krauss's verdict upon video as in

Introduktionsbok i skatterätt.

Arbetet pågår för fullt med att sammanställa all den kunskap som har samlats in i våra landskapsfloraprojekt till en ny spännande atlas över kärlväxternas utbredning i Sverige. Men en hel del jobb återstår ännu.

Recension av Bengt Liljegren, Winston Churchill, del 2: 1939–1965.

Det finns nu forskningsstöd för att arbetstidsförkortning leder till minskad miljöpåverkan. Mycket tyder till och med på att arbetstidsförkortning är en helt central del av en socialt och ekologiskt hållbar klimatpolitik. Det viktigaste sambandet är att arbetstiden påverkar ekonomins storlek, som i sin tur påverkar miljöförslitningen. Även om ekonomins storlek onekligen spelar roll menar författar

Recension av Alexandra Richie, Warsaw 1944 – the Fateful Uprising.

Blockchain technology offers a new type of financial infrastructure with the potential to increase financial participation and decrease transaction costs. The technology behind it is hard to fully wrap your head around, likewise it’s different versions, potential and downsides. This paper aims to investigate two things. Firstly, what is blockchain technology and digital currencies? Secondly, how c

How can an authoritarian leader manage to get reelected for over three decades despite their undemocratic political strategy? This essay aims to explain how this is possible with the theoretical framework dictator’s dilemma, by using a comparative case study between Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe and Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni. The motivation of the case selection is their long

This study is about citizen participation in regional visionary development and focuses on what makes the democratic system legitimate. The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the regional visionary plan in aspect to normative ideas about democracy. This democratic norm is borrowed from K. Sjövik and focuses on citizen participation in all aspects of democracy. The primary material for thi

In this essay I have examined the factors that may be underlying the fact that the co-operation between the Trade Union Confederation, LO, and the Social Democratic Workers Party, SAP, in Sweden is still strong. In Norway and Denmark this collaboration broke a few years ago and so I made an account of various factors that may have contributed to this break in Norway and Denmark, which I then compa

This thesis surrounds the emerging of the neoliberal hegemony in Sweden, and how to describe that emergence with the help of an analysis of ideas along with different types of analytic tools such as ideal types and the concept of hegemony. The research question to be answered is that how one can describe the emerging of the neoliberal hegemony in Sweden, which then naturally also makes this thesis

Hermafroditens historia är lång och kan avslöja hur våra könsidentiteter har skapats och upprätthållits genom historien. I denna studie studeras en rad historikers och litteraturvetares försök att skriva hermafroditens historia och hur de går tillväga för att bygga upp konstruktionen kön. Utgångspunkten är en queer förståelse av könen och fokus ligger på kön som performativt. Vad man kan se är en