historians

Kontanternas historia och framtid
Andelen kontanta betalningar minskar, och år 2030 förutspås Sverige vara helt kontantlöst. Hur hamnade vi här och hur bör vi se på utvecklingen? Medverkande: Hendrik Mäkeler, 1:e antikvarie, Uppsala u
New episode of The New World: Capitalism after the pandemic
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies and Aftonbladet Kultur. Is the global response to the coronavirus outbreak a

The New World - #2 Adam Tooze
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies and Aftonbladet Kultur. Is the global response to the coronavirus outbreak a
On revolutions
Palgrave Communications, volume 6, Article number: 4 (2020). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0371-1 Abstract Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. His
On Revolutions
Working Paper SERIES 2018:63 THE VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE, University of Gothenburg, Dept of Political Science. Abstract Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swif
Law or fist? An interview on the Social Democrats and political resistance
How do you organize political resistance? Is it reasonable to use non-democratic methods to protect a democratic society? And how do you get everyone in a large organization to agree on a common strat

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"
What is it like growing up in a system that is breaking down? Lea Ypi, born in Albania in 1979, is professor of political theory at London School of Economics and in 2021 her widely acclaimed memoar F

Maria Wallenberg Bondesson
I am a historian, and defended my thesis at Stockholm University in 2003. In my thesis, I studied different types of religious conflicts in Sweden in the 17th-19th centuries. Since 2007 my research has

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores
How can we understand life on the former Swedish Caribbean colony Saint-Barthélemy? This project aims to add to our undestanding using artistic methods as a complement to the juridical documents available in archives.
On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa
One commonly observed phenomena on taxation in Africa are regional differences and that southern African countries have higher levels of shares of taxation in GDP. Using a panel data framework and div