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How is theatre used for social integration? Hanna Wittrock has in her recent article ”Integration of culture, culture as integration. The praxis and politics of multicultural theatre and drama” looked at multicultural theatre projects in Sweden. Abstract:Theatre is one of the artistic tools most often employed in Sweden to promote social integration. The aim of this article is to illustrate recurr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/wittrock-praxis-and-politics-multicultural-theatre-and-drama - 2026-01-11

What are “failed states” and how can we conceptualize them? Olle Frödin has a chapter out on ”Failed States” in the newly updated Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Learn more on sociologyencyclopedia.comOlle Frödin’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-failed-states-blackwell-encyclopedia-sociology - 2026-01-11

How do different societies deal with bullying and degrading behavior at schools? Antoinette Hetzler and Colm Flaherty investigate this by examining the ways in which Sweden and the US attempt to guarantee the social rights of students at school. Their article has just appeared in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.Abstract:Although the United States and Sweden are different i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2026-01-11

How is authenticity enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia? Which role do local and global (sub)cultures play in these enactments? Erik Hannerz has contributed a book chapter on “Emplacing Punk: Subcultural Boundary Work and Space in Indonesia” to the book edited by Julian Ch Lee and Marco Ferrarese. Description of book:Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-punks-monks-and-politics - 2026-01-11

What constitutes the subcultural? In Erik Hannerz’s recent contribution to the Journal Educare (no. 2, 2016), he refines subcultural theory by drawing on examples from the Indonesian and Swedish punk scene. Abstract:Arguing against the previous research’s presump on that the subcultural constitutes a single set of meaning, this article addresses the simple question of what constitutes the subcultu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-two-articles-subcultural-and-using-instagram-researching-graffiti - 2026-01-11

Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaalblog.comSteven Sampson’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-angry-white-males - 2026-01-11

Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration PoliticsPriscilla Solano's personal page  

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/priscilla-solano-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-01-11

How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminism and Psychology. Read the article at journals.sagepub.comAbstract: China and Ind

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter in the recently published anthology "Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning". Read the textAnders Kjellberg's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-self-regulation-versus-state-regulation-swedish-industrial-relations - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11

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 - 2026-01-11