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The Sustainable Society in Swedish Politics – Renewal and Continuity
The article studies how the ideas of a sustainable society have developed and adapted to Swedish politics between the years 1988-2004. Social democratic welfare ideology seems to have given its imprin

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.

The societal impact of new technologies
In order to meet global challenges such as poverty and climate change, we depend on technological innovations. We have already become increasingly embedded in a technological ecosystem that have significant effects on our everyday lives. But even small mistakes in how new technologies are being introduced, can cause negative impacts on our societies. In this theme we try to understand this process.
POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 16: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Bridging Gaps - A Theory of Discrimination
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, PhD. in Philosophy.AbstractDisputes about discrimination surf
Josef Hien: Cultural Political Economy and Crisis of economic integration in Europe
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Josef Hien, political scientist and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies.Regis
Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Bridging Gaps - A Theory of Discrimination
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, PhD. in Philosophy.Register here >Abstract Disputes about d

Northern Saints and Southern Sinners? Culture, Religion and Economic Policy
Research seminar with Josef Hien, political scientist and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. This presentation promotes a novel explanation of the rift between Northern and Southern memb

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Bridging Gaps - A Theory of Discrimination
Research seminar with Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, PhD. in Philosophy. Disputes about discrimination surface time and again in the public debate: Is there such a thing as ”reverse discrimination” or ”S
The Democratic Boundary Problem Reconsidered
Ethics, Politics & Society. A Journal in Moral and Political Philosophy, N. 1, 2018, pp.89-122. Abstract Who should have a right to take part in which decisions in democratic decision making? This ““a people”, who takes decision in a democratic fashion. However, that a decision is made with a democratic decision method by a certain group of people doesn’t suffice for making the decision democratic or satisfactory from a democratic perspective. The group also has to be the right one. But what makes a group the right one? The criteria by which to identify the members of the people entitled to participate in collective decisions have been surprisingly difficult to pin down. In this paper, I shall revisit some of the problems discussed in my 2005 paper in light of some recent criticism and discussion of my position in the literature, and address a number of new issues.
Completed: The boundary problem in democratic theory
What decisions should be made with the democratic method? The core question of this project is: Who should have a right to take part in which decisions?