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  • Ageing (well) in rural Sweden - possibilities and challenges for impoverished older women

    Research project

    In Sweden the rates of poverty among people over the age of 65 are highest in rural areas, and the majority of poor elders are women. This project aims to explore how it is to age as a woman in rural Sweden.

  • Algorithms at work

    Research project

    Consequences of new digital systems in the Swedish social services.

  • BIOrdinary

    Research project

    Biodiversity dilemmas in ordinary places

  • Contracting for Development: On Ethics, Identity and Everyday Practice in For-Profit Aid

    Research project

    The project addresses the growing role of for-profit development aid and its role in delivering goods and services, on the one hand, and leveraging capital, on the other.

  • Decolonizing Research Methodologies: A Research School Programme

    Research project

    This project aims to support the creation, organization, and implementation of an interdisciplinary research school that brings together Burkinabe, Malian, Swedish, and Tanzanian researchers and research projects in a common collaborative framework.

  • License to Cull: Rural and urban geographies of wild animal culling

    Research project

    In the present study, we unpack the values and calculations (necropolitics) on which pest controllers and hunters rely when they cull undesirable animals in urban and rural geographies respectively.

  • Making Peace with Pests

    Research project

    From Conflict to Conviviality with Mosquitos Across Southeast Asia

  • Migrant Preparatory Training and the Shaping Circular Migration between Ethiopia and the Gulf States

    Research project

    This project deals with a critical dimension of the intensification and deepening of circular migration, namely the expansion of what we term “migrant preparatory training,” vocational education in the deployment of low-skilled documented international labor migrants from sending to receiving countries.

  • Practicing Food Sovereignty

    Research project

    Practicing Food Sovereignty focuses on indigenous communities and agricultural practices in four countries of the Eastern Himalaya region: Bhutan, Chittagong Hill Tracks of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Northeast India.

  • Responding to and Reducing Gambling Problems Studies (REGAPS)

    Research project

    This programme offers an overall coverage of topics of immediate interest in Swedish gambling research today, based on five different work packages.

  • Shadow Economies of the Internet: An Ethnography of Click Farming

    Research project

    This project investigates the devices, actors, sites, and processes that are at the center of the developing controversy around “fake news” and “fake clicks”: so-called “click farms,” persons or companies selling likes, views, and followers on social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter via unregulated online marketplaces.

  • Swahili Ocean Worlds: Fishing Communities and Sea Sustainability in Tanzania

    Research project

    This project aims at identifying how indigenous knowledge can be leveraged for sea sustainability, while improving livelihoods and alleviating poverty in fishing communities.

  • The environmental afterlives of the Suez Canal

    Research project

    Marine species transformation and biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea

  • The Prison Abolition Movement in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries

    Research project

    The aim of this project is to analyze transregional networks among two generations of women activists released from prison in three diverse geographical and political regions; New York State, Louisiana and California.