A Future of Expulsions

Saskia Sassen was invited to Stockholm on the 25th of November 2014 to talk about her latest book. She looks at the world and sees expulsion. The expulsion of people from their jobs, their homes, even

Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p

Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042  Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and

Population, Space and Place, Volume 23, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1002/psp.1973. Abstract Education is one of the most important drivers of regional migration in European countries, and educational expansion

Journal of Common Market Studies Abstract In this article, we argue that an analysis of the conflict around the nature and limits of European integration that arose between Catholic and Protestant Chris

Kari Andén-Papadopoulos

I am a Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm university. My research broadly concerns the role of news and documentary images and image practices i

Report on seminar 'Modelling Social Mechanisms for Knowledge Generation & Exploration' by Nanda Wijermans (Stockholm Resilience Centre) Over the last decade physicists have developed “social force”

Venue: Biblioteket, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhusFor more information och information på svenska, visit the Facebook event here > Why should we care about logistics? How do we connect struggles around

If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which  of these countrie