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.

2011. 37:99–115. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abstract Theories of participation have been developed and tested almost exclusively on majority populations. While the relative underrepresentat

AbstractThe recent increase of democratic declines around the world -- what Lührmann and Lindberg(2019) have dubbed "third wave of autocratization'' -- has sparked a new generation of studies on the t

Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?

The recent increase of democratic declines around the world has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises from democratically

Completed: Mission: Artistic Director

This project considers artistic leadership and managerial skills in Swedish theatre, a subject which has been debated both publicly and internally the past few years.

A revolution of norms

We are part of a historic revolution. This is how Pontus Strimling's TED-talk The Rise of Modern Values begun at TEDx Uppsala in November. In 18 minutes Pontus explains how norms are not something to be

Adina Preda: Can there be positive human rights?

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract This paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services

Jan O. Jonsson

Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University; Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University; member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science

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

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.AbstractThis paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services, ; the worry is that positive rights cannot have correlative duties assignable to everyone in the world. I then clarify the notion of correlativity and raise doubts about this claim. The paper concludes that there is no conceptual reason why positive rights cannot be general although they would probably look different from the socio-economic rights currently enshrined in international legal documents; the paper does not, however, argue that there are such moral rights.