• “The Bureaucratic Politics of the European Union: the case of the EU´...
  Anderlini, Michel Malmö University. Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR)  (2019) The Swedish Network for European Studies Spring Conference 2019 (11-12 April 2019 : Växjö, Sweden)	Conference contribution

  

  

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  The 2011 and 2015 reviews of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) has put a stronger focus on the target countries´ selective compliance as regards to EU norms. In existing literature on Europeanization, selective compliance has often been clarified by looking further into target countries´ domestic factors, such as the mismatch between domestic policies and EU norms, their geopolitical context or the nature of their political regimes, thus overshadowing the impact of EU´s complex institutional structure on rule transfer processes. Role theory has underlined role conflicts within the EU´s institutional structure but has, nonetheless, neglected to account for how the EU´s international role(s) has been contested between EU institutions, from within. This article argues that role theory needs to re-shift its focus on the political settings in which international organizations are embedded, by better integrating the bureaucratic politics´ theoretical framework. This article maintains that the case of intra-role conflicts between the EU´s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia and other EU bureaucratic agencies, and their effects on Georgia´s selective compliance, is a promising research avenue for providing a better understanding on how rule transfer processes work.

  Paper conference Växjö.pdf   (593.9Kb)

• Towards the morphological and syntactical classification of Georgian ...
  Kock Kobaidze, Manana Eds: Amiridze, Nino; Reseck, Tamar; Topadze, Manana   Book chapter in Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax : Contributions to the festival of languages Bremen, 17 Sep to 7 Oct, 2009 : Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Bochum Serie: Diversitas Linguarum; 38 (2014) Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax (Caucasian Language Issues 10) (2009 : Bremen, Germany)	Book chapter

  

  

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  In this paper, it is proposed that Georgian verbs can be classified into two large groups: verbs formed without auxiliary verbs (mainly with thematic markers) and with auxiliary verbs. Syntactically, two main groups are identified: direct verbs and inversive verbs. Dynamic and stative are considered formal categories; the ability to form the present tense without taking an auxiliary verb is considered a morphological marker of formally dynamic verbs. Within this frame, a system is proposed that includes eight verb types, each with direct and indirect syntactic patterns. A large class of Georgian verbs, traditionally known as Class III verbs, is split into three different types, or subclasses. Characteristic formal features of all three types within Class III are touched upon. It is argued that various degrees of semantic transitivity have their morphological marking in Georgian.

• The PISA Science Assessments and the Implications for Science Educati...
  Osborne, Jonathan; Oskarsson, Magnus; Sjøberg, Svein; Serder, Margareta Eds: Hahl, Kaisa; Juuti, Kalle; Lampisälkä, Jarkko; Uitto, Anna; Lavonen, Jari   Book chapter in Cognitive and affective aspects in Science education research : Selected Papers from The ESERA 2015 conference : Springer Serie: Contributions from Science Education Research; (2017) ESERA conference (2015 : Helsinki, Finland)	Book chapter

  

  

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  Science is the major focus of PISA in 2015. Hence this chapter seeks to explore the positive and negative aspects of the PISA assessments. The chapter begins with a description of the new framework used for the science assessment in 2015. This provides an explanation of the changes and possible improvements from the 2006 framework. There then follow three contributions that explore the major social and political impact that PISA is having on education systems, schools and the learning of science going from the global to the local. Beginning with the global, the first argues that PISA should be seen in a political and cultural context, and as an instrument of power in that PISA has led to a global race in education, and is being used to legitimize neoliberal school reforms that are detrimental to the values usually promoted by educators in many countries. The next two contributions are drawn from an exploration of the effects of PISA in one country – Sweden. Taking a systemic view, the first argues that the PISA results provide a much needed external indicator and measure of the performance of the system in any one country showing how educational attainment has declined significantly in comparison to other countries and, in addition, exposing the increasing divergence between high and low performers. Such data provides a useful contrast to internal measures which may offer a different picture. The final contribution draws on a study that has explored how groups of 15-year-old students from an average comprehensive school interpret the PISA items and construct responses. The findings from this work cast doubt on the validity and comparability of the results between countries. The primary goal of this paper is to explore what PISA offers and to raise questions about its value for researchers and educators.

• Transnational Dwelling and Objects of Connection : An Ethnological Co...

  Povrzanovic Frykman, Maja Malmö University. Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)   Conference contribution in Ways of dwelling : crisis, craft, creativity : 13th SIEF congress Göttingen, Germany March 26-30 2017; : SIEF (Societé Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore / International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) (2017) 13th SIEF (Societé Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore / International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) Congress (26-30 March 2017 : Göttingen, Germany)

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  English abstract:	Migrants carry, send and receive things across state borders: coffee-makers and teapots, candy and spices, used and new clothes, medicine, books, and a myriad of other items of emotional or practical value. Home-made food is smuggled in overloaded suitcases, old shoes are repaired ‘back home’, kettles are travelling between the ‘here’ of residence and the ‘there’ of origin. The use of objects, products and food from one place in another indicates functioning transnational connections. Rather than ideas and discourses of identity and belonging, this paper explores objects of everyday use. They may serve as palpable connections between migrants, those who stayed behind, and homes located in different countries, and contribute to the (re)production of social ties. At the same time, ethnographic research shows that such objects facilitate familiar material practices that are central to the subjective experience of continuity within transnational dwelling. These are things to hold on to, they help migrants to overcome segregation between distant homes. The sense of self may be dependent on a particular object being in place, which thereby becomes a place of home. But it is not only a matter of embodied memories and sensory recollections; the sense of ‘being yourself in your own home’ is achieved by practical engagement with objects. Ethnological insights into the practices of transnational dwelling challenge the clear-cut conceptualisations of mobility and stability, of absence and presence, of ‘here’ and ‘there’. The ways some objects appear as material layers of transnational social fields depend on the specific intersections of economy, geography, and biography that are seldom fully contained in migrant categories pertaining to work, study, family, and asylum, or in the ethnic grouping of migrants. Empirical attention to personal engagements with the materiality of transnational dwelling can be opened up for theoretical contributions to critical studies of migration. Investigating the everyday objects of transnational connection rather than prioritising the markers of ethnic identity may help to destabilise the dominant ways migrants are thought of in terms of difference.
  Note:	The keynote lecture recording is available from: https://vimeo.com/album/4805520/video/235716762

• Paradise Lost or Gained? : TNC Establishment and Interethnic/Interrac...
  Petersson, Bo; Puskás, Tünde Eds: Espiña, Yolanda   Conference article in IMAGES OF EUROPE - Past, Present, Future - ISSEI 2014 Conference Proceedings, Porto Portugal; : Universidade Católica Editora (2016) The 14th International Conference of ISSEI : IMAGES OF EUROPE - Past, Present, Future (4-8 Aug, 2014 : Porto, Portugal)	Conference article

  

  

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  The paper discusses the dynamics of local ethnic, racial and social relations in a traditionally multi-ethnic Central European small town that has been heavily influenced by the establishment of a transnational company. The town in question is the traditionally triethnic (Slovak, Hungarian, Roma) Galanta in Slovakia, where the Korean transnational company Samsung since some then years back has established its presence. The paper combines theories on the everyday workings of ethnicity and race with theories on how transnational labour migration impact on interethnic relations. The focus is on categorization practices and discursive frames. In particular, the authors address to what extent engrained ethnic and racial stereotypes are maintained among the local population and to what extent they are challenged and reconstructed.

  Paradise Lost ISSEI-1-1.pdf   (52.51Kb)

  http://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/resources/Documentos/UCEditora/PDF%20Livros/Porto/Images%20of%20Europe.pdf

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