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17 December, 2018
Completed: The power over expert reports: contents, origins and consequences

Completed: The power over expert reports – contents, origins and consequences

This project examines how the reports and investigations ordered to address the organizational problems in health care are actually used.

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15 May, 2020

How software developers can fix part of GDPR’s problem of click-through consents

AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00970-8 Abstract When General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR) arrived, most people probably noticed a practical flaw in the pr, p. 858)—revealing a practical flaw in the GDRP regulation, in which individuals’ privacy fail to be properly protected.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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05 February, 2024
Ghost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics

Ghost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics

This project aims to create a platform that makes visible the conflicts in transport logistics that are mostly being concealed from public view.

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27 August, 2024

Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

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29 August, 2024

Open Lecture: Ayelet Shachar on Time and Space in the Governance of Migration

Venue: Humanistiska teatern, Uppsala University Professor Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto) is one of the world’s leading authorities on migration and citizenship. In this lecture, delivered as par

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11 January, 2016

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14 August, 2024

Democratic Legitimacy, Institutions for Future Generations and the Problem of Constitutional Power

Chapter in Hélène Ruiz Valérie Rosoux Alessandra Donati (red.), Representing the Absent, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. Find the full book here > Abstract Recognising widely held concerns regarding ‘presentchapter challenges the contention that democratic legitimacy inexorably requires the inclusion of futuregenerations in democratic decisions. According to two requirements of democratic legitimacy – inclusionand constitutional empowerment – people should be empowered to participate in decisions about policyand law, and to determine the rules structuring the political framework. Drawing a distinction betweenthese requirements, this chapter contends that though it may be feasible to ‘include’ future generations forproxy representation, future generations cannot enjoy ‘constitutional power’.

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
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23 September, 2024

Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland

European Journal of Population, vol. 40:9 Abstract We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & J. Saarela
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05 December, 2018

A Game of Stars: Active SETI, radical translation and the Hobbesian trap

Futures  Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007  Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , Niklas Olsson-Yaouzis
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16 May, 2016

Gustaf Arrhenius: Imprecision in Population Ethics

The fourth meeting of the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar in Trinity Term will be on Monday, 16 May, in the Lecture Room on the second floor of the Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxfor

The Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar
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