Honored to receive this ’Best Article’ award from The European Sociological Association! bit.ly/387X8ur With the article, I aim to deepen our understanding of welfare state dependency as lived experience Funded by @DFF_raad - to be presented at #esa2021BCN @VIVEviden

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We are thrilled to see our work on gender, care and imposed volunteering feature as 'Highly Commended' in this great journal @JTouboel @KirkegaardSine @HjalmarCarlsen

Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it in full (the bold parts are emphasis Villepin himself made when speaking): "The Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed on October 7th and failed doubly. Firstly, in its ability to ensure the protection of the Israeli people by allowing massacres that are an abomination to occur. He bears direct responsibility for what happened. And his second failure is having encouraged a policy of occupation and colonization, which continues at this moment in the West Bank and constitutes another threat to Israel if a second front in the West Bank were to open. Force does not ensure the security of a people! This is what all Israelis must understand today. And what is important is that since October 7th, the Israeli government's choice has been to escalate the use of force. You know, neither force nor vengeance ensures peace and security. What ensures peace and security is justice! And justice is not being served today. The rationale of the Israeli government for the bombings happening today is flawed, and the whole international community can see it. The principle is: "we target terrorists, and unfortunately, there are also civilian populations," what is euphemistically called in military language "collateral damage." It must be understood that this collateral damage is not accidental. That is to say, it is perfectly predictable and fully accepted. [Host: "But once again, the responsibility is not solely Israeli."] But once more, let's stop asking about responsibility; let's look at the reality of what's happening on the ground! Assigning fault, allow me to tell you, we will leave to historians. What we want is to stop this violence, to stop these massacres. Israel is putting itself in danger, even more today, with this type of warfare and these types of strikes. We are essentially dealing with a policy of vengeance from the Netanyahu government. Israel has the right to self-defense, but self-defense does not give an indiscriminate right to kill civilian populations. When you target an ambulance, you can always imagine that there was a terrorist in one of the ambulances, or not. But the result is that there are children, women who die. Every child, every woman killed, that's more terrorists. Therefore, Israel's objective, what Israel achieves, is exactly the opposite of what they wish. So, it is essential today to change this logic and return to a strategy that is sound. Hostages, everything must be done to secure their release. But let's not forget: the Palestinian people are also taken hostage, by Hamas and by Israel. And Hamas, we all know, cares little for the Palestinian people. So telling Hamas: "we will not lift the siege, we will not have a humanitarian truce until the hostages are released," is a dialogue of the deaf. Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war to do everything so that the political solution does not come to the table. And this is where the international community, Europe, the United States, must tell Benjamin Netanyahu that this war is not acceptable. It is not acceptable because it leads us directly [to escalation] - because we can see it well, from Hamas we will move to Iran, from Iran we will move to other targets, and we then enter into the logic of a clash of civilizations. When Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu says that on one side there is the people of light and on the other the people of darkness, we can see the kind of spiral we are getting into. All the wars that have been going on for the past twenty years are wars that begin and do not end. These are frozen conflicts. We know how to start a war; we do not know how to end it. And Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu could control Gaza, it would change nothing. There will continue to be terrorist attacks, Israelis will continue to live in fear. We must get out of this. The second reason why this is yesterday's war is that the war against terrorism has never been won anywhere. Force is not the answer, once again. Vengeance is not the answer. The answer is justice, and that is what all the peoples of the world, all those who today watch what is happening, call for justice. Today the direction we must follow is to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from continuing his suicidal logic that will make Israel a besieged state. They can besiege Gaza, but they will be besieged. And do not think that tomorrow we will again have a pacified discourse with Saudi Arabia, with the Arab states that will normalize the situation: no! The wounds of history are awakening. Israel's interest is to have a responsible state at its side. And this responsible state, let's stop splitting hairs, must clearly be the West Bank, all of the West Bank. It must be Gaza, with access between the two territories, and East Jerusalem. The problem, and this is the whole point of Benjamin Netanyahu's escalation, is that Benjamin Netanyahu does not want it. And the policy of separation must be dignified. That is, it must confer to the Palestinians a state where they can live, a viable state, a true state, which can build itself and which will be all the more at peace... [Host: "Does that mean that the settlements in the West Bank have to be removed?"] Well, when we left Algeria, there were a million French who left Algeria. Today there are 500,000 Israelis colonizing the West Bank, and there are 200,000 in East Jerusalem. [Host: "They must leave the West Bank?"] Yes. Yes, that is history, that is responsibility, that is the price! I tell you solemnly, it is the price of security for Israel! And all those who today consider that it will never be enough are pursuing the worst policy." Credit to @caissesdegreve who took these extracts from the original interview which can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=vY7Iw54N…

Jeg har lige fået besked om at 4 ansatte på det lokale hospital vi støtter i Gaza blev dræbt af bomberne i Jabalya flygtningelejr. Læger og laboranter. En anden ansat mistede hele sin familie. Hun overlevede kun fordi hun var arbejde, i gang med at hjælpe andre. Våbenhvile nu!

If you have questions about the call or whether your idea would fit the special issue, you are welcome to contact the guest editors Ditte Andersen (den@vive.dk) or Magnus Paulsen Hansen (mapaha@ruc.dk). Deadline for submissions is 1 May 2024.

We invite papers that address any of these questions (and more!) from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, covering empirical cases across and beyond Nordic countries. Papers can be short (up to 5,000 words), long (10,000 words) or commentaries (1,000 words).

How does the social investment rationale work as a normative horizon for the welfare state? How is it translated into operative policies and instruments? How does the investor/investee figuration recast state/citizen relations?

Since its introduction, the social investment rationale has become a well-established public policy paradigm, especially in the Nordic welfare states. In this special issue, we want to invite scholars to (re)consider this rationale:

🚨Call for Papers🚨 Acta Sociologica is happy to publish the call for papers for a new special issue: 'Social investment in action' which will be guest-edited by @DenDitte and @magnusphansen! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

The International Committee of the Red Cross rarely speaks publicly, but it felt compelled to say: “the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend” “cannot in turn justify the limitless destruction of Gaza.” It is 100% correct. justsecurity.org/89477/rare-…

🚨Gaza is running out of #water. With limited💧water: 🔹Public #health crisis imminent, compounding desperate situation for civilians. 🔹Lives of 3500 inpatients in 35 hospitals at immediate risk. @WHO calls for unobstructed access for humanitarian aid into📍Gaza.

@TeaTBengtsson har fået seks millioner af @DFF_raad. Hun skal undersøge opvæksten for ”systembørn”. "Jeg er meget glad for bevillingen, fordi den giver mig mulighed for at se på tværs af systemer." vive.dk/da/nyheder-og-debat/… #dkforsk #dksocial vive.dk/da/nyheder-og-debat/…

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Review essays: This format (5,000 words) offer an opportunity to discuss and summarize developments in a sub-field based on recent, major monographs and anthologies in the area. Review essays are solocited by the book editors. If you have a proposal write @DenDitte or @MortenF_.

📝New publication formats✍️ Acta Sociologica introduces new formats to accommodate recent developments in social science publishing. Now, Acta publishes three kinds of research articles: Long articles, short articles and registered reports. Below we introduce the formats 👇

#JinaAmini døde for 1 år siden nu på lørdag. Hvis det var lykkedes Jina at flygte til Danmark, skal vi så hindre hendes protest og utilbørlige behandling af den bog moralpolitiet misbruger? Hvorfor? Husk demo lørdag facebook.com/events/26208756… #dkpol #kvindelivfrihed

Hvis du har mod på at skrive en phd i krydsfeltet mellem magtstudier, grøn omstilling, lobbyisme og medier og gerne vil arbejde med det empirisk. Så søg den her phd og bliv en af mit og Mark Blach-Ørstens projekt. candidate.hr-manager.net/App…

If you agree on this - how do you you get to the conclusion that 🇩🇰 is not actually ahead of 🇺🇸 in healthcare and equity ? Just curious about the reasoning

Happy 111th birthday to this little one

Today marks two years since the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital. It’s also been 694 days since teenage girls were banned from school by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Afghan women and girls continue to be pushed out of the public eye