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2. 1. Victims of War

   Author : Lisa Hecht; Helen Frowe; Krister Bykvist; Victor Tadros; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics of war; rights; harm; victimhood; complicity; risk; provocation; compensation; filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : In my thesis, I explore the moral status of different types of agents who suffer harm. I seek to determine whether these agents are victims of wrongful harm, that is, whether they had a right not to suffer harm. READ MORE

4. 2. Laboring Through Uncertainty : an ethnography of the Chinese state, labor NGOs, and development

   Author : Darcy Pan; Johan Lindquist; Anette Nyqvist; Stephan Feuchtwang; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; uncertainty; intimacy; complicity; mingan; secrecy; state; NGO; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study sets out to understand how international development projects supporting labor activism work in contemporary China. It focuses on the lived experiences of and relationships among a group of grassroots⁠ labor NGOs in the province of Guangdong, South China; intermediary NGOs in Hong Kong; and Western funding agencies that try to bring about social change in postsocialist China where the political climate is still highly restrictive and the limits of the state’s tolerance for activism are ambiguous and uncertain. READ MORE

5. 3. This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything

   Author : Stacey Sacks; Kristina Hagström-Ståhl; Rebecca Hilton; Karmenlara Ely; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; clowning; haunting; decolonial; vivisection of W w hiteness; privilege; mask; trickster; humour; queer; ancestry; auto-ethnography; animation; softness; sculpting; discomfort; transformation; fragility; anxiety; shitfuck; porosity; intimacy; parody; satire; buffoon; listening; entanglement; embodiment; discursivity; impressibility; character; body; clowter; sensitivity; malleability; plasticity; complicity; with-nessing; narrowcasting; absurdity; race; decomposition; hospitality; bafflement.; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts;

   Abstract : This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique. READ MORE

6. 4. Individual Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression

   Author : Nikola R. Hajdin; Pål Wrange; Claus Kress; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; crime of aggression; international criminal law; individual criminal responsibility; Nuremberg; leadership clause; control or direct; shape or influence; actus reus; decisive influence; perpetration for aggression; complicity for aggression; rättsvetenskap med inriktning mot folkrätt; Legal Science; specialisation Public International Law;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the attribution of criminal responsibility for the crime of aggression in international criminal law. Prosecuting aggression is predicated by the so-called leadership clause—an individual can be held responsible only if he or she meets the requirement of being in a position of control over or to direct state action. READ MORE

7. 5. Exploring Responsibility : Public and Private in Human Rights Protection

   Author : Magdalena Bexell; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational oil corporations; NGOs; global governance; international norms; responsibility; accountability; public-private; corporate social responsibility; human rights; international relations; Human Rights; Political and administrative sciences; förvaltningskunskap; Mänskliga rättigheter; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : The theory and practice of international relations are replete with dilemmas related to the distribution of responsibility for human rights protection. Institutionalized notions of public and private empower and shape knowledge of what the spheres of responsibility signify for different kinds of actors. READ MORE