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After the Gold Rush: Informal Resource Extraction in the Shadows of Global China
China has undoubtedly become much more visible on the world stage in the four decades since the country initiated economic reforms and reintegrated into the global economy.While th...
Sounding for Others: Distributed Agency in Action
Standard models of language argue that speakers encode messages individually, but utterances in interaction are composed jointly (Goodwin 2018), dialogically designed with and for...
Thresholds in Ethics
Issues to do with thresholds arise in many different areas of moral philosophy. Nonetheless, there is a striking lack of a general, unified, and systematic treatment of thresholds...
A History of Ecological Economics as Political Thought, 1980–2000
What should a sustainable relationship between society, the economy, and nature look like? Climate change has spurred renewed interest in political questions on the environment, an...
Scarred for Life? A Longitudinal Perspective on Unemployment and Social Trust
Social trust, the belief that most other people can be trusted, is an important moral resource that promotes health, longevity, better working democracies, and economic development...
Linguistic networks: Connecting constructions within and between languages
This project uses Construction Grammar to develop a linguistic network that (a) accounts for Swedish grammatical constructions and (b) connects them to constructions in other langu...
Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
The project aims at elucidating the historical phenomenon the very existence of which has until very recently remained a subject of debate and controversy—the Russian empire’s colo...
Litigating land rights in Sápmi: Indigenous legal mobilization in Finland, Norway and Sweden
In recent decades, Sami groups have been involved in numerous legal disputes on rights to land and natural resources in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Previous research has documented...
Settlement and Dispossession Entangled: Swedish Migration to Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia
This project focuses on Swedish migration to Latin America in the early 20th century, contributing empirically and theoretically to various fields.The main purpose is to discuss ho...
AI in management practice: Synergies and tensions between new tools for analysis and new approaches to control
This project investigates how AI tools (e.g. advanced analytics, automated decision-making, and deep learning algorithms) challenge principles of management control.The significanc...
Authority, community and individual freedom – Latin monastic culture and the roots of European educational ideals
What is the ultimate purpose of education: to form free individuals or obedient citizens? The tension between authority and freedom, between personal and communal interests, runs l...
Causation as a secondary relation
Our understanding of what causes what is essential to our grasp of ourselves and the world. It not only informs what we do to achieve our goals, but is also central to moral thinki...
Immunity Passports, "Vaccinated Travel", and the Governance of Mobility across South Africa’s Borders with Zimbabwe and Botswana after Covid-19
Two futures face Southern Africa in the wake of Covid-19. First, there is an emerging global trend towards vaccination or proof of virus testing – ‘or immunity passports’ – as a co...
Studying building blocks of statistical learning: Automatic computation of auditory predictability
The project investigates statistical learning (SL) and computation of auditory predictability (CAP) in infants and adults. The aim is to determine whether CAP may be an underlying...
Developmental and acquired writing difficulties – synthesizing and deepening 20 years of research.
The aim of this sabbatical is to synthesize and deepen research from 20-years studies, by our group about writing processes and writing difficulties.With the digitalization of west...
Twilight of the Gods. On the Disintegration and Demise of Old Norse Religion
It is a common opinion in research that the Scandinavians officially changed religion during the second half of the Viking Age (c. 900-1050/1100 AD). During this period the Old Nor...
Photographing Life and Death: Lennart Nilsson, Medicine and the Media in Sweden, 1940–2010
The purpose of the sabbatical is to finish a book manuscript on the famous photographs of Lennart Nilsson (1922–2017), with an international publisher. A sabbatical leave will also...
A hat parade through the history of science: Doctoral educations in the history of the Swedish system of higher education
This project explores the diffusion of a key university institution, the doctorate, and how this has affected the formation of higher education in Sweden.New doctoral degrees have...
Different aspects of modern representative democracy
In this research project, I will complete five research articles; the aim is to have them published in high-ranking peer-reviewed academic journals one year after the end of the sa...
Marketing-as-Practice: A Practice Theory-Based Framework for Marketing Research
The aim of this RJ sabbatical application is to complete four articles that all will contribute to establish a research program referred to as “marketing-as-practice” (MAP). With i...