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Ungefär hälften av Polens judar fördrevs under perioden 1967-1972 i en omfattande antisemitisk kampanj. Detta skedde bara drygt två decennier efter att nittio procent av landets judar mördats under Förintelsen. Efter kriget lämnade en majoritet av...

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The idea of the Viking is a figure with wide appeal and a large presence in popular culture. The Viking motif also has long-standing associations with normative masculinity, reactionary values, and even white supremacy. This study examines a commo...

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The prolific Turkish author Harun Yahya attracted international attention after thousands of unsolicited copies of his large-format and lavishly illustrated book Atlas of Creation were sent free of charge from Istanbul, Turkey, to schools, univers...

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Gotland, Åland, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Bornholm are five island regions in the Baltic Sea which constitute, or have until recently constituted, provinces or counties of their own. Combining perspectives from two disparate academic fields, uses of h...

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The course of military operations determined Sweden's role in Polish policy as an evacuation destination, a shelter for refugees, an important junction for communication with the Polish occupied territories and as a suitable partner in the process...

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"Get the transportation right. Then let things happen." Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Urban Planning, once gave this advice on planning cities for a sustainable future. In research and politics, 'right' is increasingly coming to mean 'sustainable.'...

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What influence have the OSCE, Council of Europe, EU and Russia had on policy and legislative adaptation in Estonia and Ukraine since 1991? 'Stateness' is congruence between the territorial definition and the right of citizenship in the state. Surp...

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Depression was formally designated as a psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III), published in 1980, yet there remains no consensus with respect to depression's underlying cause. Two broad models of causation have be...

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What does the implementation of sustainability standards and CSR practices do to power relationships at the local level? In this study I take an autoethnographic approach and focus on my previous employer, the oil company Bankers Petroleum Ltd (Ba...

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Opposition became the Bund's condition of existence, but not opposi-tion for its own sake. The Bund was founded on the conviction that the "Jewish question" could only be resolved through the liberation of the international working class from all ...

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Friendship between men is a key theme in most novels by Hermann Hesse, one of the most widely read German-language authors of the twentieth century and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hesse's protagonists are usually depicted ...

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Nineteenth-century medicine is characterised by rapid technological change, new methods of diagnostics and treatments of disease, long-reaching developments in medical science, and professionalisation. This has led to great interest in the period ...

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The role of public art after the turn of the millennium is a result of a research project commissioned by the Public Art Agency Sweden by the Art History department at Södertörn University. The book departs from the complex situation that governs ...

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What are the attitudes of online media users to the vast collection of personal data held by commercial platform companies? Do previous experiences of state surveillance have an impact on these attitudes? Do they differ for those brought up in the...

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As the population increases, urban environments across the globe are expanding and becoming denser. In conjunction with this, neoliberal capitalist policies impact how urban land is used, and who is given access to it. Changes in the urban landsca...

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How can we understand Foucault's work on ancient philosophy, and its practices of truth-telling and technologies of the self? While this late phase in Foucault's thought has often been seen as marking an ethical turn, away from the explicit politi...

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