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25 March, 2021

Do we need dual-process theory to understand implicit bias? A study of the nature of implicit bias against Muslims

in: Poetics AbstractPsychological dual-process theory has become increasingly popular among sociologists. The dual-process framework accounts for two types of thinking; a fast, associative, automatic o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & Filip Olsson
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14 December, 2022

AI4People or People4AI? On human adaptation to AI at work

Ai & Society. Curmudgeon paper Abstract There is a disturbing discrepancy between the AI ethics frameworks that highlight the technology’s ability to promote the social good and the relationship bet

Type of publication: Journal articles | Engström, Emma , Jebari, Karim
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11 April, 2025

Logistics, Power, Possible Futures: A Teach-in Connecting the Nordics, Europe, and the Middle East

Venue: Biblioteket, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhusFor more information och information på svenska, visit the Facebook event here > Why should we care about logistics? How do we connect struggles around

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11 April, 2025

Countering Across Contours - A Collective Conversation: Workshop, film screening and discussion

Venue: Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg A methods workshop, work-in-progress screening, and open discussion bringing together participants, media, and approaches from the three year artistic research proj. We will engage with group efforts to offer new visual approaches to hidden struggles within transport, data, and logistics industries—workers, stories, and vantage points that have been “ghosted” from dominant narratives. Through the concept of a collectively investigated counter-aesthetics we will examine how art practices embedded within or alongside labour organizing and social movements, seeing and sensing systems of power, production, and resistance. Beyond basic introductions of why we need different forms of public engagement with logistics, the conversation will connect sites and contexts from the Nordics to Southern Europe to the Middle East, asking for example how struggles against Amazon connect cross-border to struggles for Gaza.We welcome guests—a mix of workers, organizers, artists and ad hoc researchers—from near and far.Participants:• Michele Amaglio, artist (Bologna)• Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio, Noura Salem, Elia El Khazen) (Jordan)• Peppe Dalesio, organizer, S.I.Cobas (Naples)• Benjamin Gerdes, artist and organizer, Ghost Platform (Stockholm)• Magda Malinowska, filmmaker, worker, and organizer, Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poznań)• Robert Ochshorn, software engineer and media researcher (Brussels)***The workshop is open to everyone. Artists, students, activists, researchers and logistics, data, and transportation workers are particularly invited to participate.Language: EnglishAfter the program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner. Skogen has no set ticket fee, but we take in donations for art, workshops, food.With the support of: Vetenskapsrådet, Nordisk Kultur Fond, and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.

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29 January, 2019

Victor Galaz: Big Money, Big Change – Exploring the Links Between Tax Havens and Global Sustainability

Victor Galaz, deputy director and associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.AbstractThe role of “tax havens” in the global economy has gained increasing attention in recent years. The dis

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28 March, 2024

Book launch: Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online on Zoom Welcome to a seminar where philosopher Säde Hormio presents her new book Taking Responsibility for Climate Change!  REG

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17 February, 2015

Moa Bursell & Fredrik Jansson: Ethnic Homophily and Social Influence in Workplace Preferences

Moa Bursellis a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies and a member of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Centre for Integration Studies (SULCIS). Fredrik Jansson has

Moa Bursell is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies and a member of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Centre for Integration Studies (SULCIS).
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