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- Cárdenas, Magda Lorena
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Exploring women's vision(s) of peace : towards feminist peace in Myanmar and Georgia?
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 5:1, s. 7-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to the discussion of what feminist peace entails and how women peace activists in different contexts understand it. By analysing the work of three women's organisations in Myanmar and Georgia, I highlight diversity in the conceptualisation of feminist peace. I argue that the idea of gender equality as an intrinsic aspect of peace constitutes a common feature of these organisations' peace work. However, this goal can be pursued through different political strategies and arenas. In particular, visions of feminist peace are shaped by the context of conflict and the position of women's organisations in relation to the conflict parties. The findings reveal substantial differences in how feminist peace is envisioned, from a militant approach focused on conflict settlement, to an alternative means of conflict transformation that seeks to reimagine key conflict issues.
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- Ciccia, Rossella, et al.
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Gendering welfare state analysis : tensions between care and paid work
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 1:1-2, s. 93-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article revisits comparative research on gender relations and the welfare state through the lens of the tensions between paid work and care. It discusses how these tensions shaped the intellectual enterprise of gendering welfare state analysis and women's political activity in the welfare state, as well as the emergence of normative perspectives to overcome divisions between care and paid work. It concludes by identifying three challenges for future research posed by intersectionality, immigration and the gender implications of long-term welfare state change. Nonetheless, the greatest cross-cutting challenge remains the need to balance care and paid work in feminist analysis of welfare states.
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- Erikson, Josefina, 1979-, et al.
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A legislative gender-equality norm as a catalyst for change? Discursive convergence in the case of the Swedish Parliament
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 4:3, s. 403-421
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the establishment of gender-equality norms in a case often presented as one of the most gender-equal legislatures in the world, namely, the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). Based on a series of in-depth interviews between 2005 and 2016 with 90 legislators in the Swedish Parliament, we ask whether there is agreement over gender-equality problems in Parliament that cut across gender and party affiliation, and whether there is convergence over time in this regard. Our findings show that there is a trend of convergence of the gender-inequality framings over time, which indicates the establishment of a shared legislative gender-equality norm. We suggest that a legislative gender-equality norm might work as a catalyst for progressive and continuous work in this area.
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- Hearn, Jeff, Senior Professor, 1947-
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Evaluating the concept of political masculinity/ies : a simple idea or a case of too many ideas?
- 2024
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article critically interrogates and evaluates the concept of political masculinities as part of enhancing dialogue between political science and critical studies on men and masculinities. It discusses what counts as masculinity, what counts as political and how they connect. The connections are all too clear in mainstream politics, not only in populist, authoritarian, ethnonationalist and militaristic politics but also in democratic, socialist and various activist politics. The evaluation of the concept of political masculinities is conducted by asking three main questions: how does the concept add to, complement or contradict existing and established external concepts and theories? How is the concept constructed internally, and with what structure, elements and interrelations? And how can the application of the concept be possibly extended into fields beyond those usually recognized and labelled explicitly as specifically political fields, including the politics of the everyday and the politics of multiple global crises?
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- Josefsson, Cecilia, 1983-
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How candidate selection structures and genders political ambition : Illustrations from Uruguay
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 3:1, s. 61-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Men’s over-representation persists in almost all legislatures. This article engages with this problem by bringing together literature on the gendered nature of political parties and literature on the gender gap in political ambition to argue that candidate selection procedures structure the meaning and importance of political ambition. Exploiting the large variation in formal and informal institutions guiding candidate selection in Uruguay, I theorise and empirically explore how two of the most common ways to select legislative candidates worldwide – (1) primaries and (2) exclusive leadership selection – shape the meaning and importance of political ambition in diverging ways, with gendered effects.
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- Korolczuk, Elżbieta, PhD
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The fight against ‘gender’ and ‘LGBT ideology' : new developments in poland
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 3:1, s. 165-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent developments show that Poland’s anti-gender campaigns, initiated around 2012 by the Polish Catholic Church and ultraconservative organisations, will continue into the next parliamentary term. While the right-wing populist Law and Justice party has made attacks on ‘gender ideology’ a key element of the critique of individualism and neoliberal globalisation, anti-gender rhetoric is also today being adopted by neo-fascists, who combine a desire to maintain a gender hierarchy and hatred towards ‘sexual degenerates’ with anti-European Union sentiments and Islamophobia.
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- Markstedt, Elias, 1984, et al.
(författare)
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The subjective meaning of gender: how survey designs affect perceptions of femininity and masculinity
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 4:1, s. 51-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The rationale for this study is that self-categorising rating scales are becoming increasingly popular in large-scale survey research moving beyond binary ways of measuring gender. We are referring here to the use of rating scales that are similar to graded scales capturing left–right or liberal–conservative political ideology, that is, scales that do not include predefinitions of the core concepts (femininity/masculinity, as compared to left/right or liberal/conservative). Yet, previous studies including such non-binary gender measures have paid little attention to potential effects of survey designs. Using an experimental set-up, we are able to show that sequencing of gender measurements influences the answers received. Men were especially affected by our treatments and rated themselves as significantly ‘less masculine’ when prompted to reason about the meaning of gender prior to self-categorisation on scales measuring degrees of femininity and masculinity. Moreover, self-categorising seems to trigger more biological understandings of gender than anticipated in theory.
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- Naurin, Elin, 1975, et al.
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Does transition to parenthood affect gender traits? The effect of pregnancy on perceived female and male traits
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 4:1, s. 135-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Key messages We study the effect of a gendered life event on changes in gender identity during adulthood. Pregnant women and partners of pregnant women are followed over time, with pre- and post-test measures of gender identity. While pregnancy and childbirth are often seen as reinforcing feminine identity, we expect only small changes in a gender-equal society like Sweden. Results show that gender identity is stable during pregnancy and around childbirth for Swedish women and men.
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- Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983-, et al.
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Feminist peace or state co-optation? The Women, Peace and Security agenda in Myanmar
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 5:1, s. 25-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article engages with emerging debates about feminist peace and uses this concept to assess the ability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda to achieve gender-just change. We advance a conception of feminist peace as political conditions that allow women affected by conflict to articulate their visions of change and influence the construction of post-war order. Applying this to a case study of Women, Peace and Security practice in Myanmar, we demonstrate that features of how international aid is organised, combined with the Myanmar government’s interest in excluding critical voices, limit the ability of Women, Peace and Security practices to contribute to feminist peace. This highlights the potential for illiberal post-war states to obstruct and co-opt the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and shows how the women most directly affected by armed conflict are often the least able to participate in, benefit from and inform Women, Peace and Security practices.
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- Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983-, et al.
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In the business of feminism : consultants as Sweden’s new gender-equality workers
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 2:1, s. 75-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gender-equality work in Sweden is increasingly carried out by private consultancy firms. In this article, we explore the rationalities that govern Swedish market-based gender-equality policy through an analysis of the subject positions that are made available to gender-equality consultants. The article is an adapted version of our published work in Swedish. We analyse what types of agency these positions enable and preclude, as well as how they shape the meaning of gender equality and the content of gender-equality work. While market logics constrain the space for critical analysis and cause gender equality to be subordinated to other goals, consultants nevertheless find ways to resist these tendencies in pursuit of transformative change.
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- Scott, David, 1986-, et al.
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Projectifying feminism : Exploring the conditions for feminist politics in international development aid
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 5:2, s. 250-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As an organisational form, the project poses a challenge today for the possibility of articulating feminist politics, understood as feminist visions and ambitions. With a focus on women’s organisations working in international development aid, we examine how the project format and its managerial attributes shape the possibility of articulating feminist politics. Mobilising assemblage thinking on a material consisting mainly of interviews with project workers in women’s organisations, we show that these organisations engage in assembly work to fit their activism with the project format, such as translating feminist ambitions into bureaucratic procedures and notions of temporality, activating repertoires of expertise, and adopting marketised approaches to development. We conclude that the project format depoliticises feminist politics, although it does not make the articulation of feminist ambitions impossible. Assemblage thinking is suggested as a suitable framework for feminist research when investigating how contemporary governing arrangements influence the articulation of feminist politics.
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- Stæhr Harder, Mette Marie
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Parting with ‘interests of women’ : how feminist scholarship on substantive representation could replace ‘women’s interests’ with ‘gender equality interests’
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096. ; 6:3, s. 377-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of 'women's interests' has received a large amount of scholarly attention. In particular, the problematic assumption underpinning this concept - that women share interests - has been an object of much consideration. Yet, while scholarship on the substantive representation of women has today moved free of this assumption, three other assumptions have not been scrutinised to the same degree. These are: (1) that political interests are attached to social groups; (2) that women and men have different interests; and (3) that there are only two genders. This article argues that these three assumptions are problematic for feminist scholarship on substantive representation, which warrants replacing the attached 'women's interests' with an alternative interest: the unattached 'gender equality interests'. In addition, the article sets forth three distinct ways for future studies to operationalise the substantive representation of gender equality.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-, et al.
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Development cooperation and the stratification of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual activism : international donors, elite activists and community members during Uganda Pride 2022
- 2024
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - : Bristol University Press. - 2515-1088 .- 2515-1096.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Uganda's infamous state -sanctioned homo-hostility has resulted in intense international attention, development cooperation and Western funding to local lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual (LGBT+) organisations. However, Western funders and allies in this context are becoming increasingly questioned. Researchers have highlighted the complexities, opportunities and constraints of an increasingly transnational LGBT+ movement, but how is this manifested on the ground in the Global South? Through an inductive and ethnographically inspired study, we set out to explore the Ugandan LGBT+ community and its intra-community relationships and relations with Western funders and allies in the unique setting of Uganda Pride 2022, to which we had rare first-hand access. The results reveal that security concerns, both from outside and within the community, shaped Uganda Pride 2022. The most salient finding is that competition for international funding distorts activists' relations, as it stratifies the LGBT+ community based on who has access to Western donors and international funders.
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- Alexander, Amy C, et al.
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Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine characteristics
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088. ; 4:1, s. 151-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study offers a multidimensional analysis of individuals’ self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics to better understand variation from more to less binary gender identities. Through gender’s co-constitution along with various social localities, we expect that a number of socio-political factors differentiate individuals’ gender identities through self-assessments of their masculine and feminine characteristics. Using data from a 2013 Swedish survey, our results show that men and women tend towards traditionally polarised gender identities and that social location is a particularly influential correlate of men’s claims of feminine characteristics and women’s of masculine characteristics. Individuals from younger generations and individuals who are more educated are consistently more likely to ascribe to less binary feminine and masculine characteristics. This suggests that generational replacement and higher education may increase the tendency of populations to ascribe to less binary gender identities. © European Conference on Politics and Gender and Bristol University Press 2021.
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- Bergman Rosamond, Annika, et al.
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The digital storytelling of feminist foreign policy: Sweden’s state feminism in digital diplomacy
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088. ; 5:3, s. 303-321
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article interrogates the digital storytelling of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy. Drawing on scholarship on state feminism and digital diplomacy, it shows how digital platforms offer opportunities to reproduce narratives of state feminism through storytelling. We propose that digital diplomacy is used to advance feminist foreign policy through emotional sense-making that requires the telling of personal stories. The article provides a narrative analysis of the stories of women and girls that symbolise and embody feminist foreign policy, and the way in which they are communicated by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The article concludes by noting that the digital storytelling of feminist foreign policy allows the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to communicate to a wider digital audience. These stories, however, run the risk of obscuring the feminist ambitions of feminist foreign policy by insufficiently considering the gendered injustices that undergird the global gender order and by bringing together seemingly incompatible stories of feminist exceptionalism and success.
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- Kreft, A. K., et al.
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Do gender patterns in diplomacy disappear over time?
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088. ; 5:3, s. 279-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Existing scholarship points to gender patterns in diplomacy. This study examines such gender patterns in new ways, expecting women to be less likely to be ambassadors in states with more economic clout and in conflict-affected states, but more likely to serve as ambassadors in more gender-equal states. Most importantly, we examine whether these gender differences diminish over time. New data on ambassador appointments for Denmark, Sweden, the UK and the US spanning the period 1970–2015 reveal that whereas there are no gender differences with respect to postings to gender-equal states or states with domestic conflict, women are indeed less likely to be ambassadors in economically significant states and in states in inter-state conflict. Crucially, these patterns are not diminishing over time. This study opens up for future investigation into underlying mechanisms that explain the persistence of some gender patterns and the absence of others. © European Conference on Politics and Gender and Bristol University Press 2022.
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- Norocel, Ov Cristian, et al.
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Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliamentary debates ensuing these proposals, we evidence how anti-gender politics developed in ways specific to each examined polity and served as a key vehicle for different manners of retrogressive mobilisation, which bypassed left–right ideological cleavages and party loyalty. We scrutinise critically the discursive scenarios that coalesce in anti-gender politics in the two countries, and we map out both the commonalities and differences between the antithetic narrative scenarios, which hinge on the position of the child within a heteronormative nuclear family and the depiction of marriage equality as a harbinger of an impending societal collapse.
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- Siow, Orly, et al.
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There is no such thing as ‘women’s representation’: intersectionality and second-generation gender and politics scholarship
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Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender. - 2515-1088.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Celis and Childs have called for a ‘second generation’ of feminist scholarship on representation that foregrounds intersectional heterogeneity and emphasises responsiveness to representatives beyond parliaments. We build on these important contributions, arguing that second-generation feminist scholarship and democratic design can make the greatest gains by operationalising intersectionality in close alignment with its origins in Black feminism and critical race theory. First, to foreground intersectional heterogeneity, we posit that feminist scholarship on representation must shift away from the overarching category ‘women’, exemplified in the popular operationalisation of intersectionality as ‘diversity among women’. We instead propose a margins-to-centre approach that centres the intersections of race, gender and other power structures. Second, we exemplify what this shift looks like in practice. We show how centring racially minoritised women and the intersecting structures that position them within political institutions transforms strategies to improve responsiveness to this intersectionally marginalised group.
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- Heyl, Christoph M., et al.
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High-energy bow tie multi-pass cells for nonlinear spectral broadening applications
- 2022
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Ingår i: JPhys Photonics. - : IOP Publishing. - 2515-7647. ; 4:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Multi-pass cells (MPCs) have emerged as very attractive tools for spectral broadening and post-compression applications. We discuss pulse energy limitations of standard MPCs considering basic geometrical scaling principles and introduce a novel energy scaling method using a MPC arranged in a bow tie geometry. Employing nonlinear pulse propagation simulations, we numerically demonstrate the compression of 125 mJ, 1 ps pulses to 50 fs using a compact 2 m long setup and outline routes to extend our approach into the Joule-regime.
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- Diodato, Nazzareno, et al.
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Monthly storminess over the Po River Basin during the past millennium (800–2018 CE)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Research Communications (ERC). - : IOP Publishing. - 2515-7620. ; 2:3, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reconstructing the occurrence of diluvial storms over centennial to millennial time-scales allows for placing the emergence of modern damaging hydrological events in a longer perspective to facilitate a better understanding of their rate of return in the absence of significant anthropogenic climatic forcing. These extremes have implications for the risk of flooding in sub-regional river basins during both colder and warmer climate states. Here, we present the first homogeneous millennium-long (800–2018 CE) time-series of diluvial storms for the Po River Basin, northern Italy, which is also the longest such time-series of monthly data for the entire Europe. The monthly reconstruction of damaging hydrological events derives from several types of historical documentary sources and reveals 387 such events, allowing the construction of storm severity indices by transforming the information into a monthly, quantitative, record. A period of reduced diluvial storms occurred in the ninth and tenth centuries, followed by a stormier period culminating in the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. More complex patterns emerge in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, with generally wetter and stormier conditions than during other centuries. From the seventeenth century onwards the number of damaging hydrological events decreases, with a return in recent decades to conditions similar to those prior to the thirteenth century The flood frequency tended to increase for all seasons during periods of low solar irradiance, suggesting the presence of solar-induced circulation changes resembling the negative phases of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability as a controlling atmospheric mechanism.
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- Jönsson, Mattias, et al.
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Contrast resolution of few-photon detectors
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics: Photonics. - : IOP Publishing. - 2515-7647. ; 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate the minimum acquisition time, expressed as the number of image frames, and the minimum number of absorbed photons per pixel required to achieve a predefined contrast resolution in a monochromatic, pixelated image acquisition system at low light intensities (from well below one photon, to several hundred photons per pixel and frame). Primarily we compare systems based on the pixels of the photon-number-resolving (PNR) type of detectors and detectors that discriminate, in a binary fashion, between zero and non-zero photon numbers (so-called click detectors). We find that our model can seamlessly interpolate between the two. We also model detectors with intrinsic PNR capabilities and integrating detectors with a simple saturation model, derive the probability of errors in assigning the correct intensity (or ‘gray level’) and finally discuss how the estimated levels, which need to be based on threshold levels due to the stochastic nature of the detected photon number, should be assigned. Overall, we find that non-ideal PNR-detector-based systems offer advantages even over ideal click-detector-based systems when the incident mean photon number is sufficiently large, which is guaranteed to occur around ten photons per pixel and frame.
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- Bera, Sudarsan, et al.
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In-situ observations of cloud microphysics over Arabian Sea during dust transport events
- 2024
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Ingår i: Environmental Research Communications. - 2515-7620. ; 6:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The unique in situ measurements of clouds and precipitation within the shallow and deep cumulus over the north-eastern Arabian Sea region during the Indian monsoon are illustrated in this study with a focus on droplet spectral parameters. The observational period showed a significant incursion of Arabian dust and the presence of giant cloud condensation nuclei (GCCN), modifying the cloud and precipitation spectral properties. Warm rain microphysics supported the mixed-phase development in these clouds and exhibited hydrometeors of snow, graupel and large aggregates as part of ice processes. Cloud base droplet number concentration is about 142 ± 79 cm−3 which is one third of the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentration at 0.2% supersaturation. A rapid broadening of droplet size distribution (DSD) near to the cloud base was noted in contrast to polluted continental clouds. Relationship between the relative dispersion ( ϵ ; the ratio of DSD spectral width ( σ ) to mean radius ( r m )) and liquid water adiabatic fraction (AF) indicates that the entrainment effect has increased relative dispersion significantly (2-3 times larger) in these clouds. Effective radius ( r eff ) is found to be proportional to mean volume radius ( r v ) with a proportionality constant ( β ) that varies between 1.0-1.6, depending on the spectral dispersion parameter. Drop size distributions for the small cloud droplets with size range 2-50 μ m and the large drizzle drops (or ice hydrometeors) with size range 100-6400 μ m are parameterized using the gamma function distributions useful for large-scale cloud models.
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