The article explores how the global Cold War conflict was made sense of and situated in local political, cultural and physical landscapes and communities during the 1980s in Britain and Denmark. Using civil defence as a prism, the article employs a comparative approach to explore variations within and between countries of how local authorities prepared or resisted the prospect of nuclear war. The

For more than two years we were involved in a collaborative process with the aim of finding out how sharing life stories could ensure “the right to the city” in Malmö, Sweden. This process led to the formation of the Gathered Voices of Malmö, an association for social justice oral history that strives to become a community archive. This article is about how sharing authority was interpreted collec

At the invitation of professor Jan-Gunnar Sjölin, following an initial suggestion from doctoral candidate Fred Andersson, Takahiko iimura visited our department during December 1st to December 4th 2003. A selection of mr iimura's video- and media-works from ca 1970 to the present day were screened on the evenings of December 2nd and 3rd. The screenings were attended by a great number of students a

Biträdande universitetslektor Kontaktinformation E-post: annika [dot] elwert [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se Telefon: +46 46 222 87 20Organisation Sociologiska institutionen Besöksadress: Sandgatan 11 (Gamla lungkliniken), Lund Rumsnummer: 407 Hämtställe: 31 WebbplatsAnnika Elwerts profil i Lunds universitets forskningsportalAndra roller Biträdande universitetslektor Centrum för ekonomisk demografiFräm

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An analysis of Thinspiration pictures, selected from a representative visual material. Thinspiration pictures refers to pictures uploaded on the internet to, as the expression implies, inspire thinness and selfstarvation. This study examine the pictures contextual function as well as the individuals that are influenced by them, their characteristics and their visual aspects. By visual analysis and

This anthology explores the memory work performed by Baltic and Central and East European far-right actors in the online space. Situated at the crossroads between memory studies, far-right studies, and media studies, the volume’s seven chapters show how a wide range of far-right actors, from small movements to major parties, have exploited digital communication technologies in order to establish t

Associate senior lecturer Contact details Email: youngeun [dot] koo [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] seOrganisation Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University Room number: 127 Service point: 61 WebpageYoungeun Koos profile in Lund University research portalYoungeun* Koo is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track Associate Senior Lecturer) of Contemporary Korean Society, a position partially

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Researcher Contact details Email: ilkin [dot] mehrabov [at] iko [dot] lu [dot] seOrganisation Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) Service point: 18 WebpageIlkin Mehrabovs profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Researcher MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World Teaching staff Department of CommunicationIlkin Mehrabov is a Senior Lecturer at the Department

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One year into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the West is in need for a diversified strategy when discussing the conflict with its partners. Due to historical experiences, non-European and non-Western countries look at the Russian aggression differently. Supporting Ukraine thus means learning how communicate the consequences of the ongoing invasion in a language that would take into accou

Professor emeritus Kontaktinformation E-post: jens [dot] rydstrom [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se Telefon: +46 46 222 80 69 Mobil: +46 73 079 95 88Organisation Genusvetenskap Besöksadress: Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M, Lund Rumsnummer: G338 Hämtställe: 31 WebbplatsJens Rydströms profil i Lunds universitets forskningsportalBakgrundJag disputerade i historia vid Stockholms universitet 2001 med avhandlingen

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This study investigates the extent to which news affects individuals' inflation expectations through an innovative experimental design. The results show that news treatment significantly affects inflation expectations, with varying degrees of impact observed across different inflation regimes. Furthermore, the study reports differences between sexes, with women reacting more strongly to news t

The establishment of the Internet and progression in computer science is connecting people at an alarming rate. Through these online connections an image-sharing culture has emerged. A prominent contributor to this social phenomenon is Facebook. Since Facebook launched its social networks in 2004, the popularity and growth of the platform has been phenomenal. It has become today’s dominant source

This article is an examination of the short film “The funeral procession of Hjalmar Branting”. Branting was the first Swedish social democratic prime minister. When he died in February 1925 it was perceived as a great national loss in a country still profoundly marked by differences of class and gender. By way of analyzing the film, in the context of contemporary press and of others sources concer

Legitimizing ESS Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as collaboration across boundaries The ESS theme at the Pufendorf Institute The purpose of this theme is to study the European Spallation Source (ESS) to be inaugurated in Lund 2019. We will apply perspectives from economics, the social sciences and the humanities to analyze ESS as a contemporary Big-Science facility focusing on processes of legitimat

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