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PhD and postdoc opportunities at GU

We are currently recruiting several PhD candidates and postdocs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg:

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New book chapter on resistance to media capture in Uganda

Palgrave just published an edited volume on media capture – i.e., government attempts to control the mass media – in Latin America and Africa. Calle Höglund and I co-wrote a chapter on how the Museveni government seeks to control the media in Uganda and how the so-called media fraternity – a network of journalist groups and media organisations – are mobilising to prevent media capture.

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New article on the incorporation of the ECHR in Denmark and Sweden

As readers of this blog will know, I’ve long been puzzled by the Nordic states’ commitment to international human rights norms. In this new article, I analyse the decisions to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights in Denmark and Sweden in the early 1990s. My argument is that had less to do with the winds of change sweeping across Europe at the time and more to do with competition in the domestic party political constellation than has been previously acknowledged.

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New article on legal mobilisation in Scandinavia

Why have civil society groups in Scandinavia increasingly turned to legal mobilization in recent decades? In a recent article, Malcolm Langford (University of Oslo), Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen) and I seek to account for how various actors in civil society in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have pursued societal change by using courts as political arenas.

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Det djupt ovärdiga i att flyga

Klimathänsyn är rimliga skäl för att undvika att flyga, men bekvämlighet och anständighet väger fanimej tyngre: Att resa med flyg känns som ett hån mot ens mänskliga värdighet.

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