Södertörn University

Victory gardens in wartime Ukraine: community responses to food system disruptions through local food production

Introduction Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused uncertainty and concerns about disrupted food systems, creating new challenges for food security while simultaneously stimulating grassroots responses. Among these, Victory Gardens re-emerged as community-led ini...

Can solutions journalism counter news avoidance? A choice experiment examining effects on emotions, self-efficacy, and news engagement

Solutions journalism has been proposed as a potential remedy to the negativity bias in news coverage, which is often blamed for emotional exhaustion and disengagement among audiences, eventually leading to news avoidance. However, it remains unclear who is drawn to such content a...

Setting Sweden’s route to Paris: designing policy instruments for climate mitigation in forestry

Abstract The role of forest ecosystems in mitigating climate change has gained increasing prominence in international climate negotiations, particularly within the Paris Agreement and in the strategies and regulations of the European Union. This paper aims to enhance ongoing poli...

‘ Parte din Cluj ’: Forging Urban Investability Through Anti‐Social(ist) Transformations

Abstract Using the case of an urban regeneration project initiated by globally connected investors on the site of a former state‐owned factory in Romania, this paper aims to bring a threefold contribution to the understanding of investability. First, we argue that the production...

Crafting a feasible space: Enacting post-growth evolution in a local food marketplace

Craft-orientation is a mode of production and consumption that supports the formation of epistemic relationships in which objects are not encountered solely as tools for use but as entities that elicit curiosity and invite learning. Scholars in various fields have begun to explor...