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Exploiting Justice in a Transformative Swedish Society
Get PDFIntroduction to a special issue on justice and how the concept might be exploited, with the meaning to take advantage of the concept, or, to use it for one’s own benefit. The specific context for this reflection is the Nordic, historically connected to a conceptual tradition of equality as a reference rather than justice. The Nordic feminist perspectives in legal scholarship have traditionally been successful in advocating and effectuating a feminist perspective of justice both within law and in society. However, thus far, Nordic feminist perspectives of law have at least partially been limited to questions of equality between men and women, as well as in relation to justice confined to the boundaries of the nation state. The articles in this special issue transgress these limitations in various ways. Legal scholarship is also expanded as the exploiting of justice includes other disciplines. Together this multi-disciplinary special issue targets some of today's urgent challenges in a context of increasing inequalities and, at the same time, call for hope and new possibilities to form a just society
Lucie Korecká, Wizards and Words. The Old Norse Vocabulary of Magic in a Cultural Context, München: Utzverlag, 2019, ISBN 9783831648108, 300 pp.
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Get PDFThis is an annex to the articles in the special issue on Nordic Legal Education: A Situated Gothenburg Perspective and contains of tables and descriptions of 17 Nordic LLM. programmes
The Entitlement to Tax: A critical commentary to the development of the international tax regime
Get PDFAs a result of the significant need for additional discussions on the inequality which currently shape international tax matters, Copenhagen Business School hosted a conference concerning inequality within the international tax regime in September 2020. The conference brought together researchers at the forefront of their respective fields to identify, discuss, and to underline future challenges associated to inequality in the international tax context. This special issue is an outcome of papers presented at the conference and concerns the relationship between developing and developed states with an emphasis on present shortcomings when allocating taxing rights in a fair and sustainable manner
Computing the Nordic Way: The Swedish Labour Movement, Computers and Educational Imaginaries from the Post-War Period to the Turn of the Millennium
Get PDFBased on empirical material from Swedish reformist labour movement associations, this article illustrates how digital technology has been described as a problem (and sometimes a solution) at different points in time. Most significant, for this article, is the role that non-formal adult education has played in solving these problems. Computer education has repeatedly been described as a measure not only to increase technical knowledge, but also to construe desirable (digital) citizens for the future. Problematisations of the digital have changed over time, and these discursive reconceptualisations can be described as existing on a spectrum between techno-utopian visions, where adaptation of the human is seen as a task for education, and techno-dystopian forecasts, where education is needed to mobilise democratic control over threatening machines. As such, the goal for education has been one of political control—either to adapt people to machines, or to adapt machines to people
Review (English): Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar (eds.), Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge
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Introducing evidence based public health practice through a journal club for public health officers in Somaliland
No full textEvidence based public health is one of the basic training tools of public health students and young officers in decision making. The training tools for early career specialists and trainees in public health is journal clubs (JC). It keeps the knowledge of professionals up to date and assist them in receiving information to design, plan, implement health care services, policies and strategies.
The intention of the JC team was to raise awareness of methods for public health literature search, appraising it and applying this knowledge in their daily practices. A senior public health practitioner in Somaliland (the corresponding author) invited medical students and residents to have JCs as a part of their training. They did not accept the offer so the organizer invited practicing junior public health professionals instead. The JC team members were a general practitioner and 3 public health workers from Ministry of Health, public hospital physician, public health school and field public health officer. A weekly or twice weekly journal club took place to train them in critical appraisal. This continued for 15 months in a hybrid mentorship for the health care professionals.
The team mentor selected a paper for discussion. Mentees choose a study design appraisal tool from the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) that matched the study to present. In the process of appraisal, a team member led the discussion using the checklist.
The mentees presented their critical appraisal either orally or via a presentation. The checklist and paper were compared for assessing the study design and structure of the paper of the week.
This approach of empowering junior public health officers in Somalia is a way forward for encouraging the professionals to use evidence based practice in their daily practices. This will improve their selection of research tools and translating the scientific work into their practice and services