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- Holappa, Tim, 1989-
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Rätten till bostad i det sociala skyddsnätet : En rättsvetenskaplig studie om enskildas rättigheter och det allmännas ansvar
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The right to housing is a human right expressed in the Swedish constitution as well as in international human rights conventions. In Sweden, however, the right to housing is not expressed as an enforceable right that individuals can request to have realised by public authorities or courts. Instead, the objective of the Swedish housing policy and the regulation on the right to housing has been that everyone should be able to demand good housing on the general housing market.The purpose of this thesis is to examine and analyse the legal responsibility of the central and local government to realise the right to housing for individuals who cannot arrange housing themselves. The intention is that the thesis thereby will uncover legal contradictions, ambiguities or other shortcomings that may lead to a risk that the right to housing is not realised for everyone.Methodologically, the starting point is a view of law, inspired primarily by Kaarlo Tuori’s theory on critical legal positivism, as consisting of two dimensions. In addition to a normative legal order, law also consists of legal practices. The legal order, in turn, is regarded as a multi-layered normative order: in addition to the surface level with individual legal rules, the legal order also consists of deeper levels where legal elements such as general legal principles and human rights as general normative ideas are found.The responsibility to realise the right to housing is analysed in the light of international law as well as national law. According to international law, Sweden has a responsibility to recognize and realise the right to housing for everyone. According to national law, no public authority has a clear responsibility to realise the right to housing for individuals in need. Instead, the right to housing is to be realised through several different legal frameworks that are analysed in the thesis. Firstly the right to financial housing support within the framework of social insurance. Secondly municipalities’ responsibility for housing provision. Thirdly the local social services ultimate responsibility to support individuals in need. The overall conclusion of the thesis is that the legal framework regarding the responsibility of the central and local government to realise the right to housing for those who cannot arrange housing themselves does not constitute a coherent social safety net. The support that individuals who are unable to acquire housing themselves are entitled to has the nature of emergency assistance and shelter, rather than housing of a long-term nature. Furthermore, assistance in the form of housing is often time-limited and subject to far-reaching requirements that individuals, for example, must try to acquire a home on their own. The regulation thus means that individuals who need housing and cannot arrange housing themselves risk being without state support. This is problematic if the right to housing is to be realised for everyone. How these problems are to be solved is a matter for the legislator, but this thesis contributes with knowledge of legal problems that the legal regulation entails. These problems should be addressed and the right to housing taken seriously, by all the actors involved, if the right to housing is to be realised.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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Besvärligt kunskapande i högskolepedagogik : Difficult knowledge production in higher education pedagogy
- 2023
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Ingår i: Högskolepedagogisk konferens, Göteborgs universitet 2023.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I detta samtal bjuder vi in till ett utbyte av erfarenheter och tankar om hur vi som pedagoger kan arbeta med kunskap som på ett mer grundläggande plan är utmanande för studenterna. Med utmanande menar vi i detta sammanhang inte att kunskapen är tekniskt svår eller komplex utan att den ger studenten skäl att ifrågasätta tidigare positioner. Ett ifrågasättande som direkt eller i förlängningen berör inte bara det ämne som är fokus för undervisningen utan studentens självbild, samhällssyn, ideologi mm. Vi talar om en typ av transformativ kunskap som på något plan är irreversibel (den enskilde studenten kan inte gå tillbaka till en position som förelåg kunskapandet) och vilken inte sällan kan ge upphov till ilska, irritation, och frustration hos studenter. Snarare än att få en ’lösning’ når studenten ett tillstånd av kunskapande som genererar nya frågor. Temat knyter an till det som Perkins benämnt ”troublesome learning” (Perkins 1999). Vi (Stendahl och Arvidsson) har båda från olika håll och med olika pedagogiska verktyg medvetet arbetet med besvärligt kunskapande i högskolepedagogiska situationer. Stendahl i sitt arbete med tröskelbegrepp (Meyer, Land 2003, 2005; Stendahl, Swedrup, Åberg 2021) och Arvidsson i sitt pedagogiska arbete i akademisk handledning med ’den analytiska situationen’ utifrån psykoanalytisk teori och praktik (Owler 1999, Arvidsson 2023). Vi initierar samtal om det pedagogiska värdet av att medvetet arbeta med pedagogik som kan ge upphov till fundamentala perspektivskiften. Referenser Arvidsson, M. 2023. Pedagogy for the Psycho/Analytical Situation in PhD Supervision: A Framework for Practice. Working Paper, Högskolepedagogisk konferens, Göteborgs universitet, 2023 (see även GUP). Meyer, Jan H. F. and Land, Ray. 2003. Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practicing within the disciplines. In Chris Rust (ed.). Improving Student Learning: Theory and Practice—Ten Years On. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, 412–24. Meyer, Jan H. F. and Land, Ray. 2005. Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): Epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning. Higher Education 49 (3): 373–88. Owler, Kathryn. 1999. ‘Transference and PhD pedagogy,’ Southern Review, 32 (1): 132–48, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200007349 Perkins, David. 1999. The many faces of constructivism. Educational Leadership 57 (3): 6–11 Stendahl, Sara, Otto Swedrup, Karin Åberg, (2021) The Gothenburg Law Clinic and the Use of Threshold Concepts in Clinical Legal Education, in NJOLAS,Vol. 04, no 03 (2021), pp1-21, https://doi.org/10.36368/njolas.v4i03.196
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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Systematic literature reviews – a Sisyphean task : A systematic review on social housing - caught up in methodological challenges and lost (?) in the publication patterns of legal science in combination with a global hyper-publication academic behaviour
- 2022
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Ingår i: LSA (American Law Association) Annual Meeting, held at ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon July 13th -16th, 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents critical reflections on the practical work and methodological challenges involved in pursuing a systematic literature review. The review focuses on legal and sociolegal research into the social dimension of housing in a Swedish context between 1800 and 2021. We have, step by step, in the meticulous manner that a systematic literature review calls for, worked our way through the initial batch of 4806 titles included in our carefully piloted and qualitatively secured list of publications. Our work initially was driven by a fairly simple wish to be informed in our role as researchers, and thus to build our future work in the field of housing on the foundation of and in dialogue with the work of other scholars. But we have had to tackle not only methodological stumbling stones but also more fundamental challenges as academics, through this process: Why write more when so much is written? How to deal with quantitative explosion in sheer numbers of academic publications since the mid-1990s? This paper describes in some detail our work-process with a focus on the back and forth, the mistakes and the way forward. We raise questions about publication patterns in the field of legal and sociolegal research but also about the academy and bibliometrical systems as such, including the idea that academic productivity may be measured by the number of peer reviewed publications.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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Temporary Changes and Long-Term Problems – Regulating the Swedish Labour Market and Social Security System during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2022
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Ingår i: Protecting Livelihoods. A Global Comparison of Social Law Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis. - Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. - 9783848774906 ; , s. 475-496
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a a contribution on Sweden in a book that offers a legal analysis of the social protection measures taken by welfare states across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. The twenty-one country studies in this book set out in detail how the social law measures adopted during the pandemic interacted with existing welfare state institutions, what their legal nature was, how the relationship between collective risk and individual responsibility was negotiated during the crisis, what unique challenges countries faced in implementing a crisis response, and whether any long-term changes to each welfare state can be expected from the experiences of the pandemic. In doing so, it provides the first global study of social law during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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The Gothenburg Law Clinic and the use of Threshold Concepts in Clinical Legal Education
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Law and Society. - : Umea University Library. - 2002-7788. ; 4:3, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2014, the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg launched the Gothenburg Law Clinic, or Rättspraktiken, to offer students a way to gain increased practical experience through applied studies rooted in the tradition of clinical legal education (CLE). The core pedagogical element of CLE can be described as anchoring teaching in grassroots legal realities as a means of enhancing student reflection on the complex interplay between black-letter law and law in practice. In one of the courses offered at the clinic, the welfare law course, the CLE approach was combined with the use of threshold concepts (Meyer and Land 2003). In this article, we present these two pedagogical ideas, describe their implementation in curricula, and discuss potential developments based on students’ experiences. Our aim is to describe the ways in which using a CLE approach in combination with Meyer and Land’s notion of threshold concepts has enabled students to obtain advanced-level learning of welfare law.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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A Social Minimum for Whom? Making a Case for a Normative Pattern of Pragmatic Decency
- 2019
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Ingår i: Kotkas,T. Leijten, I. and Pennings, F. (eds), Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty. - Oxford : Hart Publishing. - 978 1 50992 602 2 ; , s. 47-67
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Deciding to whom, in the face of destitution, a social minimum is to be allocated, is a question of scope. This is a chapter on scope and while it discusses this topic in a local context, we acknowledge that at the core the question ‘who counts?’ is philosophical and has divided writings on ethics and justice for centuries. The chapter puts forward two contrasting approaches on how to understand ‘who counts’ in a Swedish setting, one more particularist (based on a historic narrative) and another more universalist (based on a legal narrative). Of these two it is only the more universalist version that provides an explanation for a Swedish solidarity that evidently encompasses not only citizens and residents but also strangers and outcasts, people with distinctly weak civil and social rights. This is solidarity at a minimal level, sometimes handed out harshly and with no reference to rights – but it does exist and we propose that it plays an important role in the intricate web of values that forms the Swedish welfare state. In an effort to identify the core characteristics of this tradition we have described it as based on a normative pattern of ‘pragmatic decency’.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963
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Law and street begging in Sweden. Contextualizing banning as a legal response to provocative poverty. To deserve, to belong, to lack freedom.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Law and Society Association Yearly Meeting 2019, website.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ABSTRACT: The act of begging has been a provocative phenomenon almost regardless of what time period is studied, although, hypothetically for different reasons. In Sweden at present, begging is again a topic of heated debate, political positioning and legal struggles, just as it seems to have been as early as the in 17th century and repeatedly since then. The present paper includes i) an historic overview of the regulation of begging in Sweden 1600-1960, ii) a description of modern (1970-2019) legal responses leading up to new case law on begging from the Supreme Administrative Court. The chronological description of legal responses to begging indicates that there is a strong trajectory through history where law points out who is deserving (always a narrow personal scope), where responsibility lies (always local) and, often, practical or formal restrictions on mobility. While law at large seems to confirm this order of things in 2019, the moral agreement on its righteousness is contested.
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- Stendahl, Sara, 1963, et al.
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Social Human Rights as a Legal Strategy to Enhance EU Citizenship
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Ingår i: Pennings, F. and Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (Eds), European Citizenship and Social Rights: Entitlements and Impediments to Accessing Welfare. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. - 978 1 78811 270 3 ; , s. 103-123
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- Svensson, Eva-Maria, 1958, et al.
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Challenges of an ageing population – retirement age and the welfare model
- 2018
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Ingår i: The 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 2-4 May, 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An ageing population is repeatedly perceived as a major challenge for, and even as a threat against, the Nordic welfare model. Increasing demands on welfare services due to an ageing population, at the same time as a decreasing productivity growth, have led to a demand for a prolonged working life. The broader context, e.g. the discourse on ‘successful ageing’, the lack of interest for alternative ways to increase the revenues such as a changed tax base, and a challenge of the welfare model, is not sufficiently explored. Aim To provide an argumentative basis for a discussion on the presumptions of the perceived conflict between ageing and the welfare system, and, whether it is possible, and if so, how, to legally safeguard a sustainable welfare model based on inclusion and social security. Method
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