• Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social problem construction and the role of a contemporary distraction 

      Parker, Jonathan; Cutler, Clare; Heaslip, Vanessa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)
      The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic, and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia ...
    • DISCURSIVE GOVERNANCE OVER PRO-POPULATION POLITICS IN TURKEY 

      P. Kadayifci, Ezgi; Eslen-Ziya, Hande; Korkut, Umut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Discursive governance of pro-population politics refers to norm-based mechanisms of governance that utilise intentionally selected slogans in political discourse for dissemination of ideas to further the interests of ...
    • Ethnic discrimination in Scandinavia: evidence from a field experiment in women’s amateur soccer 

      Storm, Rasmus K.; Nesseler, Cornel Maria; Holum, Marthe Liss; Nygaard, Andreas; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination using sport as a laboratory. Applying a field experiment in the three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—we test whether foreign female minority groups ...
    • Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway 

      Flemmen, Magne Paalgard; Jarness, Vegard; Rosenlund, Lennart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)
      Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party ...
    • Language Use and Social Inclusion in International Retirement Migration 

      Cardozo, Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss; Gustafson, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)
      The migration of older people in search for improved quality of life has become an important form of human mobility, and popular retirement destinations are often highly multilingual settings. This article explores language ...
    • Performing Rurality in Online Community Groups* 

      Fisker, Jens Kaae; Johansen, Pia Heike; Jensen, Maja Theresia; Thuesen, Annette Aagard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      In this paper, we investigate how rurality is performed in online community groups, attending in particular to outdoor recreation and engagement with local nature. The starting point for our performative approach is that ...
    • Racialization and Racism in Denmark 

      Guschke, Bontu Lucie; Khawaja, Iram; Myong, Lene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Our ambition with this special issue on “Raciali-zation and Racism in Denmark” is to support and expand critical and generative engagements with how racialization and racism continue to infl u-ence, structure, and operate ...
    • Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews 

      Vassenden, Anders; Mangset, Marte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      In Goffman's terms, qualitative interviews are social encounters with their own realities. Hence, the ‘situational critique’ holds that interviews cannot produce knowledge about the world beyond these encounters, and that ...
    • Social-Ecological Peace – A framework to analyze the transition from violence to peace in post-conflict areas, applied to Aceh, Indonesia 

      Yanuardi, Yanuardi; Bluemling, Bettina; Biermann, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      While the analysis of peace often stops with "negative peace" in conflict studies (Shields 2017), critical structural analyses of a transition towards peace risk to analytically emphasize how wartime structures extend into ...