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Complicity : In search for unification
No full textThis dissertation develops a unified theory of moral complicity—explaining how agents can be morally accountable for wrongs despite not having control over whether they occurred. Despite its importance in ethics, political theory, and social justice, the concept of complicity remains theoretically fragmented. I argue that complicity should be understood through the lens of quality of will: agents are complicit when their substandard quality of will helps explain the wrongness of another’s wrongdoing. The dissertation unfolds in four papers. The first challenges structural complicity accounts and argues they track a different normative kind from the dominant accounts of complicity. This narrows the scope of complicity, thus facilitating the pursuit of a unified account. The second critiques dominant causal theories by introducing the explanatory challenge. This sets up the need for a unified account. The third advances the unified account: According to the account, agents are complicit in a wrongdoing, if and only if, their substandard quality of will exacerbates the wrongfulness of that wrongdoing. The fourth extends this framework to show how present agents can become accountable for past wrongs. Together, the papers clarify the boundaries of complicity, expose the limitations of existing views, and offer a principled framework that unifies and extends our understanding of complicity
The Dream Factory – Between Business and the Classroom : Centrumskolan’s Journey Towards an Entrepreneurial Practice
No full textThis monograph investigates the emergence of upper secondary schools that profile themselves around business and entrepreneurship. As educational policies change, this research explores how these changes make it possible for schools with an entrepreneurship profile to develop within the wider school field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu, this study offers a relational perspective of how educational policy such as life-long learning, the marketization of education, and entrepreneurship education legitimize and shape the development of schools like Centrumskolan. The study reveals that the rise of entrepreneurship-oriented schools like Centrumskolan are driven by a combination of policy reforms and market pressures that prioritize employability, adaptability and economic rationality. These forces lead to a transformation of educational capital into market capital, where traditional academic values are overshadowed by business-oriented skills and attitudes. Centrumskolan’s practices are shaped by a need to balance an innovative approach of “sticking-out” versus conformity and “fitting-in” (De Clercq och Voronov, 2009). It also requires the school to navigate between market demands and educational standards. The empirical narratives highlight how teachers and students are encouraged to adopt entrepreneurial dispositions which include flexibility, self-promotion and for students a focus on employability. Overall, the monograph provides a problematizing perspective on the consequences of marketization and entrepreneurship in education, and the tensions that arise for schools, teachers and students in the educational field. By highlighting the relational interplay between policy, market forces and everyday practices, the study offers insights not only into the future direction of upper secondary education but also into how we view entrepreneurship as a paradoxical phenomenon.
Adaptive Framework for Security Attack Monitoring in Cyber-Physical Systems
No full textThe dissertation presents an adaptive security framework for cyber-physicalsystems (CPSs) to address the growing challenges posed by evolving cyberattacks. CPSs rely on seamless integration between computational and physical components, making security breaches potentially catastrophic. Traditional methods often fail to keep pace with rapidly advancing threats. The proposed framework leverages real-time monitoring and adaptive model predictive control to dynamically adjust defences based on the threat type, frequency, and severity. By forecasting the impact of various strategies, the system identifies optimal responses to enhance resilience and mitigate risks. The approach strengthens CPS security by adapting to the continuously evolving threat landscape and safeguarding system integrity and functionality
The Nordic vision : Broadcasting Nordicness in the televised Nordic Council prize ceremonies
No full textSince 2013, the Nordic Council prizes have been awarded at live broadcast ceremonies in the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council Prize in Literature is the most prestigious, but like the other prizes, it is also part of a regional political project by the Nordic Council based on a culture of prize-giving. Rather than focusing on book content or the literary award alone, this article investigates the prize-giving ceremony. It examines how the idea of the Nordic is expressed in the prize-giving culture of broadcasted ceremonies from 2013 to 2023. It explores how organizers use narratives, audio, text, and visuals in the ceremonies to convey the prizes' meaning through an arrangement merging culture, politics, and media. The article shows the prizes are tied to the broader regional political project—the promotion of a Nordic “imagined community.” The ceremony must navigate the paradox of being both a competition between Nordic countries and an expression of Nordic cooperation. National characteristics are downplayed by avoiding national symbols, shifting focus to Nordic identity. This article contributes to the study of (literary) prize culture by showing how such prizes can be vehicles for a broader political project
Vocal variation in pied flycatchers : Insights into learning, recognition and signal evolution
No full textVocal communication plays a key role in the behaviour of many animals, mediating social interactions from mate choice to species recognition. In songbirds, vocal signals like mating songs are socially learned. This process may drive rapid song divergence across populations and species, potentially helping to establish and maintain species boundaries. However, social learning may also lead to song convergence if individuals from different populations or species come into contact and learn from one another. This raises a fundamental question: how are differences in acoustic signals maintained if individuals are flexible in what they learn? In this thesis, I address this question by investigating patterns of song learning in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), and consider how social and intrinsic factors may contribute to the persistence or loss of song variation at multiple levels. Chapter I focuses on a recent contact zone between the pied and the closely related collared flycatcher. Here, I first show that pied flycatchers learn song elements from collared flycatchers to produce mixed songs that resemble both species. Further, individual differences in mixed singing did not vary with the relative abundance of collared flycatchers in their breeding environment. This suggests that convergence may not be driven by exposure to heterospecifics during the breeding season, but rather by innate differences in learning biases or early-life song exposure. In Chapter II, I test for innate learning biases at the population level using an egg translocation experiment. Adult males hatched and raised in a foreign population were successfully able to learn the songs of this host population. However, they preferentially learned those host song elements that were most similar to their source population. This suggests that population-specific song learning is shaped not only by social exposure but also by evolved learning biases. In Chapter III, I investigate what juvenile pied flycatchers learn when they are simultaneously exposed to songs of their source and foreign populations using a controlled tutoring setup. While tutored individuals learned songs from all populations, they reproduced song elements from their source population with greater accuracy. Together, Chapters II and III demonstrate that learning biases influence both what individuals learn, and how precisely they reproduce them. These biases may play a key role in maintaining population-level song variation, even when birds are exposed to a wide range of foreign songs. In Chapter IV, I address the often-overlooked role of call variation within species. I show that even structurally simple alarm calls vary geographically across pied flycatcher populations. Moreover, nestling flycatchers discriminate between alarm calls of their own and foreign populations, depending on the context in which they are produced. This shows that nestlings are attuned to call variation from an early age, and highlights the potential role of call divergence, alongside song divergence, in social recognition and population-level interactions. Together, these findings illustrate the processes by which socially learned signals evolve and persist, offering new insights into the interplay between learning, communication, and reproductive isolation in the wild
Att balansera säkerhet och rättigheter : En kvalitativ studie av lokala uppfattningar om legitimitet i El Salvador
No full textThis study examines how contextual factors shape local needs and priorities in El Salvador, focusing on the co-construction of state legitimacy through perceptions of security and rights. It explores the dissonance between national support for President Bukele’s administration and international human rights critiques by analyzing how the support is justified and its relation to these critiques. This was explored by field work in El Salvador, and qualitative interviews with locals identifying as supporters. Theoretically, the analysis draws on performance legitimacy, the rights and security nexus and the security test. Findings show that support is primarily justified by Bukele’s delivery of security, a powerful legitimizing force contrasting the prolonged insecurity of previous governments. However, this support is conditional, reflecting a fragile political trust rooted more in performance than institutional strength. Furthermore, the supporters' responses to human rights critique are divergent: either rejected due to resentment or lack of resonance, or agreed upon, indicating a tension between normative values and situational priorities. Though rights are not entirely dismissed, security is prioritized overall. This study argues that legitimacy is co-constructed through perceptions of security and rights, with meanings shaped by political vision, lived experiences, values, beliefs, norms, and identity. It contributes to ongoing discussions on legitimacy, security, and human rights, and on universal ideals and local realities, stressing the need to reconcile universal norms to enhance its credibility and effectiveness locally. Concluding by calling for further research on Salvadoran public opposition and interdisciplinary approaches to fully grasp the complexities of legitimacy in contested contexts.Minor Field Studies (MFS
“Om man nu ska kunna stötta ett barn som har det knöligt på något vis - då måste man ju ta hänsyn till barnet” : En feministisk poststrukturell studie av förskollärares tal om dokumentationer kring barn i behov av särskilt stöd.
No full textMytiska och ideologiska dimensioner i Bröderna Lejonhjärta och Ronja rövardotter : En undersökning av Astrid Lindgrens tros- och livsåskådning
No full textDen här studien syftar till att med hjälp av Bruce Lincoln mytteori som analytiskt verktyg undersöka Astrid Lindgrens delvis dolda tros- och livsåskådning i sagoberättelserna Bröderna Lejonhjärta och Ronja rövardotter. I avsikt att utforska Lindgrens religiösa tro med utgångspunkt i barnböckerna använder undersökningen en innehållsanalys där innehållet analyseras utifrån kategorier och teman som finns i källmaterialet, vilket innebär att studien även omfattar en induktiv metod. Uppsatsen utgår också från en komparativ metod baserad på Lincolns syn på ”svag komparativism” då verken jämförs. Undersökningen består vidare av analyser där både begreppen livsåskådning och myt fokuseras i syfte att förstå Lindgrens religiösa livssyn i föreliggande texter. Därför identifieras motsatspar relaterade till aktörernas tankar, handlingar och karaktär som i texterna kan tolkas som goda respektive onda, vilka synliggör ideologiska strukturer i barnböckerna. Dessutom jämförs böckerna där likheter, skillnader och deras orsaker presenteras. Därefter avslutas analysen med att betona på vilket sätt Lindgrens personliga tros- och livsåskådning kan ha påverkat sagoberättelserna. Där ställs resultatet i analysen av de två böckerna mot uppgifter från Astrid Lindgrens Krigsdagböcker. Upplevelserna från andra världskriget kan ha inverkat på hennes livsåskådning i grunden och också över tid.
Wanting to Be Here : Everyday Life and Belonging Among Families in Sparsely Populated Rural Areas
No full textThis thesis is centered on the everyday life of families with children living in sparsely populated rural areas in northwestern Sweden. The thesis explores how families experience and negotiate their everyday lives, particularly at the intersection of local conditions and global processes and with a focus on the living conditions of children and young people. It examines the social and geographical conditions, as well as perceptions of rural life, that shape the narratives and daily practices of family members. Special attention is given to how time and space are utilized as resources, strategic tools, or even forms of resistance in the everyday lives of families. Furthermore, the study investigates the role of intergenerational exchanges in shaping a sense of place, belonging, and the perception of future opportunities, highlighting how such interactions contribute to the sustainability and identity of rural communities. The thesis is theoretically grounded in a relational rural epistemology, understood as an interplay between material, affective, and discursive dimensions. This approach seeks to anchor experiences of living in sparsely populated areas in relationships and practices. Childhood is approached as a plural and context-dependent phenomenon, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Time and space are understood as relational and interconnected, drawing on Massey’s (2005) conceptualization of place and Adams’ (2004, 2008) understanding of time. This theoretical framework, along with the aim to explore how families navigate everyday life in remote rural areas, guided the methodological choices. A qualitative multi-method approach was used to capture the complexity of daily life, including home visits, interviews, informal conversations, participatory observation, house tours, play, and children's activities. Mobile methods, such as walks and car rides were also employed. Eight families living in remote villages in northwest Sweden participated, comprising 35 individuals. Families were recruited via community websites, social media, and snowball sampling. All lived in villages with 10 to 800 residents, often in mountainous regions, offering recreational opportunities like skiing and hiking, which shape both daily routines and connections to place. The thesis includes three empirical articles. A central focus across the articles is on sense of place and everyday negotiations around time, space, and generation. Drawing on a relational understanding of rurality, the thesis challenges static views of rural areas, instead presenting them as dynamic and globally connected. The findings portray rural life as adaptive and future-oriented, as spaces of ongoing negotiation and places where viable and meaningful futures are actively created. The first article (I) examines how families navigate spatial and infrastructural challenges through daily routines. The second article (II) explores alternative temporalities, highlighting how time richness fosters meaning and attachment. The third article (III) focuses on intergenerational exchanges of values, hope, and knowledge as anchors of belonging. Altogether, children and youth appear active in rural transformation both shaped by and shaping their environments. Parents’ strategies, including care-related travel (I), time use (II), and long-term place commitments (III), reflect deeply engaged rural parenting. Across all articles, forms of everyday resistance emerge, challenging dominant societal and urban norms through practical adaptations, alternative temporalities, and visions for rural life
BOOK REVIEW: McGovern, Nathan: The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. New York: Oxford University Press 2019.
No full textBook review of Nathan McGovern's 2019 monograph on the emergence of Brahmanic, Buddhist, and Jaina identities in ancient India, especially the notion of a natural dichotomy between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical, between brahmanas and sramanas