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(In)Justice in the City
Get PDFThis article deals with a city walk, (In)Justice in the city, which took place in the Haga neighborhood of Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, in 2016 and was conducted within the symposia Exploiting Justice. The walk started from Haga's peripheral areas and gradually approached its center, in order to provide space for narratives other than the dominant public image of Haga. Various conceptual and perceptive entrances were used for the participants' physical encounters with the five sites visited. At each location, complex layers of history, urban planning, and people's intersecting interests became visible. Although the walking tour generated responses from participants who spoke of abandonment, secrecy, order, and lack of encounters, it simultaneously opened the possibility for a variety of different interpretations of the sites. In this way, the walk can be seen as a critical performative practice that awakens many different voices and narratives, all of which can be included in a complex exercise of democratic society
Review (English): Marcelo Caruso and Daniel Maul (eds.), Decolonization(s) and Education: New Polities and New Men
No full textReview (Swedish): Peter Skagius, Den offentliga ohälsan: En historisk studie av barnpsykologi och -psykiatri i svensk media 1968–2008
No full textImprints on the Resource Landscape: The Long History of Mining in the Arctic
Get PDFFor several years, public debates about the future of the Arctic have included the growing global needs in minerals and energy resources. To explain and manage this development, it is important to understand impacts of previous extractive industries in the north. Using theoretical approaches from economic geography and science and technology studies, the aim of this article is to describe and explain the growth of mining in the Arctic and its consequences for people and environments. How and why have minerals in the Arctic been constructed as natural resources? What systems have been built to extract them, and what were their consequences? How has the legacies of mining been managed when the extraction has ceased and why? The development of mining is explained as resulting from not only economic interests, but also geopolitical considerations, institutional frameworks and cultural-ideological trends. The same drivers are involved in the making of post-extraction futures and the way people relate to the mining legacies through environmental remediation, re-purposing and heritagization
Rural Resilience and Voluntary Work in the North of Sweden: An Ambiguous Relationship
Get PDFRural areas in the north of Sweden are characterized by depopulation, unemployment and undermined social services. Due to the demands of economic growth and development, major cities in southern Sweden have been prioritized at the expense of the countryside. However, there have been many reactions to the dismantling of the welfare society in rural areas. People are also trying to counter and compensate for the impoverishment of the countryside through voluntary work. The overarching aim of this paper is to explore meanings of voluntary work in Sweden’s northern county of Västerbotten. More specifically, the aim is to investigate how different comprehensions of rural voluntary work are related to rural identities and to a resilient rural society. A central argument in the paper is that the relation between rural volunteer work and rural resilience is ambiguous. On one hand, volunteer work can contribute to rural resilience, since volunteering is a necessary course of action for people in the countryside to secure a necessary level of social services. On the other hand, rural volunteer work often has a traditional character, not always representing the capital of knowledge needed to maintain a sustainable rural lifestyle in the long run
Norsk språkhistorie. Editors-in-chief: Helge Sandøy & Agnete Nesse. Vol. 2: Praksis. Editor: Brit Mæhlum; Assistant editorsin- chief: Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal & Stig Rognes, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2018, ISBN 9788270998487, 684 pp.
No full textTeaching International Law in Times of Change and Crisis
Get PDFThis article is a contribution to scholarship on the teaching of international law, in general, and in Nordic countries, in particular. The article draws on lessons from international law as situated and embedded in national and regional politics and systems of governance. That is, although international law is international, it is approached and implemented differently depending on situation and location. The article emphasizes that contemporary teaching of international law should engage with how situation and location matters for how international law is approached and it should also reflect contemporary global challenges. The article uses the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan as an example, as well as experiences from teaching international law with the help of a peacemaking role-play focused on the conflict in Afghanistan
Power and sovereignty: How economic-ideological forces constrain sovereignty to tax
Get PDFHow do nation states relate to each other in terms of power? How do they relate to private parties in terms of power? Nation states are often thought of as sovereign to tax. In a legal sense that may be true. However, to be legally sovereign is not the same thing as being able to effectively exercise sovereignty. The mobility of capital and businesses, or at least the perception of their mobility, is increasingly pressuring sovereignty to tax. To shed light on the economic constrains on nation states and the beliefs about such constrains, this article introduces the concept of economic-ideological forces and contends that sovereignty should be understood in a way that encompasses these forces. Otherwise, it does not provide an adequate account of power and thus becomes a tool for maintaining established power relations.
State Law, Dispute Processing, and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India, By Kalindi Kokal, London: Routledge, 2020, 218 pp.
Get PDFThis book review discusses Kokal’s central points in State Law, Dispute Processing, and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India. Within the review, Kokal’s arguments of legal pluralism are pointed out and linked back to theories related to this field, such as Ehrlich’s theory of living law and Luhmann’s systems theory. The review explores Kokal’s idea of parallel legal systems being interconnected and operating at the same time. The review further sets forward the importance of Kokal’s work as providing an enlightening perspective to the socio-legal discussion of what is law and if we should conceptualise it in terms of state law or adopt a more bottom-up approach to the issue, as Kokal did in her own work
