Global Political Thought
Introduction and group members
Introduction
Globalization is widely believed to have a destabilizing impact on the very foundations of modern political thought, by making its master distinctions problematic or even redundant. The members of this research group explore the challenges posed by contemporary political practices to the modern distinctions between international and world politics, between public and private, between state and society, and between nature and culture. The main objective is to rethink these distinctions in the light of current theoretical debates and empirical research in order to better understand politics in the present, analytically as well as normatively. Research questions include:
• How can global governance institutions be considered legitimate in the absence of a global demos?
• How can we make sense of the concepts of citizenship, people, and community in the absence of common identities and shared historical memories?
• How do changes in the relationship between nature and culture condition the prospects of sustainable development?
• How are crises and traumatic events constructed and turned into objects of governance and sources of political legitimacy?
• How can we justify the institutionalization of human rights in the absence of any legitimate authority in the global realm?
• How can we distinguish ideologies of empire from cosmopolitan visions of a fair world order in the absence of universally accepted ethical standards?
• How can we understand the role of private actors in global governance in the absence of a firm distinction between public and private spheres?
Department group members
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Niklas
Altermark
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Rickard
Andersson
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Björn
Badersten
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Jens
Bartelson
(Professor) |
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Maysam
Behravesh
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Annika
Bergman Rosamond
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Magdalena
Bexell
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Winnie
Bothe
(Post Doc) |
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Kurtis
Boyer
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Douglas
Brommesson
(Associate Senior Lecturer) |
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Fabio
Cristiano
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Catia
Gregoratti
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Ivan
Gusic
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Martin
Hall
(Associate Professor) |
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Sara
Kalm
(Senior Lecturer) |
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Catarina
Kinnvall
(Professor) |
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Petter
Narby
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Tobias Dan
Nielsen
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Linda
Nyberg
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Björn
Östbring
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Jonna
Pettersson
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Sarah
Schulman
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Jakob
Skovgaard
(Post Doc) |
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Johannes
Stripple
(Associate Senior Lecturer) |
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Lisa
Strömbom
(Assistant Professor) |
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Anna
Sundell
(Doctoral candidate) |
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Ted
Svensson
(Assistant Professor) |
