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Kerstin Jacobsson

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ID93638
NOMBREKerstin Jacobsson
NOMBRESKerstin
APELLIDOJacobsson
FIRMAJACOBSSON K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Gothenburg
ORCID0000-0003-2179-4981
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAS371
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1996
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H10
  • Storytelling in street-level bureaucracies

    Open Access•Karianne Nyheim Stray, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2025

    Purpose This article aims to explore the role of storytelling in coordinating, redirecting and streamlining frontline discretion in street-level bureaucracies by analysing how organisational narratives shape caseworkers’ reasoning in assessing sickness benefits and implementing return-to-work policies. Design/methodology/approach Based on two narrative ethnographies of caseworkers administering sickness benefits in Norway and Sweden, the analysis…

  • Assembling social conditions of sustainability through urban gardening

    Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Sociology•2025•Referencias: 15

  • Postapocalyptic community gardening

    Open Access•Nicolas M Oreskovic, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Environmental Sociology•2025•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 7

  • Multiculturism and the Nation in Germany by Paul Carls (2022)

    Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Emotions and Society•2025•Referencias: 6

  • A structural view on housing movements

    Open Access•Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi et al.•ARTICLE•Radical Housing Journal•2024

    In this article, we share strategic lessons from applying a ‘structural field of contention’ approach to a comparative study of housing struggles in Hungary and Romania since 1989. The aim is not to highlight details and specificities, but to show the benefits of looking beyond individual progressive movements in focus of most previous literature, instead capturing the ideological and structural complexity of housing contention, with different po…

  • Who’s the Real Feminist? Feminist Discursive Boundary Making in the Context of Anti-Gender Campaigns

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Eva Karlberg et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2024•Citada por: 2

    In recent years, there has been a wave of opposition to feminism, gender equality, and minority rights in various national and international contexts. While there is a growing number of works that examine anti-gender campaigns, less attention has been devoted to the potential consequences of the anti-gender mobilizations for the internal relations within socially progressive (feminist and LGBTQ+) organizations. The present article examines how th…

  • A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2023•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    The article analyses a new culture of responsibilisation implicated in a recent management reform in the Swedish Public Employment Service. Based on an interview study and organisational documents, it is shown that the reform entails a new form of responsibilisation of jobseekers as well as caseworkers. As jobseekers are expected to ‘carry their own case’ through the administrative job‐search process, they are obliged to manage tasks that used to…

  • Transforming Subjectivities

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand et al.•BOOK•Transforming Subjectivities•2022

  • Commitment and control

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2021

    Teamwork is a well-known management technique for eliciting commitment and exerting control in private companies. However, less is known about how teamwork operates as a management tool in welfare state bureaucracies. Tying critical management and street-level bureaucracy studies, this article explores teamwork as a key component in the normative control of street-level bureaucrats within the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. Based on extensive et…

  • The importance of recognizing difference

    Open Access•Petr Jehlička, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2021•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 79

    This article adds to the literature interrogating existing hierarchies in global knowledge production by examining the dominant research on post-1989 Central and East European (CEE) environmentalism. Analyses of CEE environmentalism have predominantly relied on concepts and organizational models generated by research on environmental activism and politics conducted in Western contexts, resulting in negative assessments of CEE as lacking environme…

  • Mobilizing Grassroots in the City

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Elżbieta Korolczuk•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2019•Citada por: 25•Referencias: 7

    What can we learn about civil society in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia from studies on activism within the region’s urban spaces? In this article, we argue that studying urban activism in CEE offers useful insights for general theory building about the importance of uneventful protests, the formation of agency and the processes of becoming active in the public sphere (conceptualized here as “political becoming”), and the enabling ro…

  • Performing Resistance

    Open Access•Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Antipode•2019•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 28

    This article explores protest tactics in Russian cities, stressing the liminality of spatial contestation practices. In this authoritarian context, spatial contestation typically has a liminal character, where citizens employ strategic ambiguity of their actions vis‐á‐vis (a) legal regulations, (b) official discourse, and (c) transcripts of legitimate behaviour. Showing how urbanites develop creative and subversive infrapolitical forms of resista…

  • Governing the unemployable in the neurochemical age? The case of disability coding at the Public Employment Service

    Open Access•Jon Sunnerfjell, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Subjectivity•2018

  • A Field of Contention

    Open Access•Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi et al.•ARTICLE•Voluntas Revista Internacional de…•2018•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 7

    The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…

  • The institutionalization of a new social cleavage

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2018•Citada por: 7

    The objective of this article is to analyse the ideological influences, main reforms and social inequality outcomes of “the new work strategy”, i.e. the former Swedish centre-right Alliance government’s work-first approach. By studying government bills and reports, official statistics, and research on welfare and labour market policies, discourses, policy measures and their outcomes have been analysed. The main conclusion is that Sweden, the form…

  • Organizational governance of activation policy

    Open Access•Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Security…•2018•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 4

    The Swedish Social Insurance Agency ( Försäkringskassan – SSIA) and its frontline staff have a key role in the implementation of activation policy. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at local offices, this article investigates how the transparency ideal, as an integral part of the organizational governance of the activation policy, is negotiated and enacted in the everyday life of a welfare bureaucracy. The analysis shows the central role…

  • Local worlds of activation

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz et al.•ARTICLE•Nordic Social Work Research•2017

    Much welfare research is based on the assumption that welfare regimes are homogenous entities. Nevertheless, the practice of activation may vary considerably within states. This is especially so in a country such as Sweden where municipalities and state agencies are both involved in activation. This article studies local activation policy and practice in three Swedish municipalities, representing three distinct ‘local worlds of activation’. The a…

  • Civil Society Revisited

    Open Access•Elż bieta Korolczuk, El&#380 bieta Korolczuk et al.•BOOK•Civil Society Revisited•2017

  • Civil Society Revisited

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Elżbieta Korolczuk•BOOK•Civil Society Revisited•2017

    In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collect…

  • Labour Market Policy under Conditions of Permanent Austerity

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Desmond Dinan et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2017•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 19

    Social investment (SI) is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life‐course, while ensuring financial sustainability. Recognizing that this strategy was only partially implemented by the EU member states prior to the financial and Eurozone crises, this article investigates whether reforms and expenditure patterns in labour market policy (LMP) have moved more towards or…

  • Civil Society Revisited

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Elżbieta Korolczuk•BOOK•Civil Society Revisited•2017

  • States Shaping Civic Activism

    Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•2017•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 23

    This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state–society relationships affect the forms that activism takes. The analysis aims at identifying the specific institutional mechanisms by which steering operates in the…

  • Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

    Kerstin Jacobsson•BOOK•Urban Grassroots Movements in…•2016

    Jeg er glad for a kunne presentere denne utmerkede boken som er basert pa papers presentert pa en internasjonal konferanse holdt pa Sodertorn Hogskola i Sverige i 2013. Boken fyller et kunnskapshull hva gjelder forskning pa urbane bevegelser i Sentralog Ost-Europa og peker ut en ny forskningsretning ved a forene fagfeltet urbane studier med teori om sosiale bevegelser. Betydningen av omradespesifikke faktorer er mye debattert innen begge disse fe…

  • Social Movements in Post-Communist Europe and Russia

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg•BOOK•Social Movements in Post-Communist…•2015

    1. Introduction: A new look at social movements and civil society in post-communist Russia and Poland 2. Disciplining the 'Second World': The Relationship between Transnational and Local Forces in Contemporary Hungarian Women's Social Movements 3. Does the EU help or hinder gay-rights movements in post-communist Europe? The case of Poland 4. Fragmentation of the collective action space: the animal rights movement in Poland 5. The diffusion of pub…

  • After a Cycle of Contention

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Adrienne Sörbom•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 15

    This article considers the strategic choices that radical activists face when a cycle of contention ends. It investigates the reorientation of the autonomous anarchists or left-libertarian activist milieu in Sweden after the riots at the Gothenburg summit in 2001, which ended a cycle of anti-globalization protests in Sweden. The article identifies five strategies by which this activist milieu attempted to reconstruct collective agency, build a ne…

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  • The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU

    Susana Borra, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2004•Citada por: 136•Referencias: 14

    The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely the policy, politics and polity. First, the article examines the novelties of the OMC vis-à-vis the soft law tradition in the EU, and looks at how the three dominant logics of co-ordination are linked to diverse modes of the OMC. The subsequent sections focus on…

  • Soft regulation and the subtle transformation of states

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2004•Citada por: 47•Referencias: 7

    This article studies the soft regulation developed in the field of EU employment policy from the late 1990s onwards, a type of policy co-ordination that has been termed the ‘Open Method of Coordination’. It focuses on particular regulatory mechanisms, in the section entitled ‘Discursive regulatory mechanisms’, built into this ‘soft’ system of governance, which are related to language use and knowledge making. These include: joint language use (Eu…

  • Emotion work in animal rights activism

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•2013•Citada por: 27•Referencias: 29

    Social movement activism requires emotional motivation and entails emotional costs, and, because of this, activists tend to be deeply involved in the management of emotions - or emotion work - and not just in connection with protest events, but also on an everyday basis. Based on a case study of animal rights activism in Sweden, this article identifies five types of emotion work that animal rights activists typically perform: containing, ventilat…

  • Mobilizing Grassroots in the City

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Elżbieta Korolczuk•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2019•Citada por: 25•Referencias: 7

    What can we learn about civil society in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia from studies on activism within the region’s urban spaces? In this article, we argue that studying urban activism in CEE offers useful insights for general theory building about the importance of uneventful protests, the formation of agency and the processes of becoming active in the public sphere (conceptualized here as “political becoming”), and the enabling ro…

  • A Sociology of Scandal and Moral Transgression

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Erik Löfmarck•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•2008•Citada por: 22•Referencias: 21

    In this article, we use the case of a government scandal in Sweden to develop a theoretical perspective by which to understand the moral nature of political scandals. We draw on insights from Durkheim's sociology of morality and point, inter alia, to the ritual character of scandals. However, in contrast to most Durkheimian readings, the perspective presented does not presume the existence of a moral consensus. The scandal is understood as a conf…

  • Performing Resistance

    Open Access•Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Antipode•2019•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 28

    This article explores protest tactics in Russian cities, stressing the liminality of spatial contestation practices. In this authoritarian context, spatial contestation typically has a liminal character, where citizens employ strategic ambiguity of their actions vis‐á‐vis (a) legal regulations, (b) official discourse, and (c) transcripts of legitimate behaviour. Showing how urbanites develop creative and subversive infrapolitical forms of resista…

  • Labour Market Policy under Conditions of Permanent Austerity

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Desmond Dinan et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2017•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 19

    Social investment (SI) is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life‐course, while ensuring financial sustainability. Recognizing that this strategy was only partially implemented by the EU member states prior to the financial and Eurozone crises, this article investigates whether reforms and expenditure patterns in labour market policy (LMP) have moved more towards or…

  • A Field of Contention

    Open Access•Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi et al.•ARTICLE•Voluntas Revista Internacional de…•2018•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 7

    The article offers a study of housing movements in Budapest and Bucharest, with the main focus on the developments since the financial crisis of 2008, stressing the role that both structural and contingent factors play in shaping the dynamics of this “field of contention.” It is argued that a structural view is enlightening for understanding the factors that form the interactive field between activists, such as differences in social positionality…

  • A Deviance Perspective on Social Movements

    Jonas Lindblom, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2014•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 23

    This article outlines a theoretical framework for understanding deviance and deviance-management in a social movement context. Such a deviance perspective is useful because in striving for social change, activists challenge existing social norms and may readily be defined by their environments as "outsiders" or deviants. However, activists also differ from traditional deviant groups. The article therefore conceptualizes activists as "entrepreneur…

  • Post-Political Regulation

    Open Access•C Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2013•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 35

    The debate on global governance points to shifts in the type and nature of regulation as well as in the set of actors involved. The article introduces a novel way of conceptualizing the changes, namely a move towards post-political forms of regulation (see also Garsten and Jacobsson, 2007). Drawing on Chantal Mouffe's notion of 'the post-political vision', the article argues that many contemporary forms of regulation are premised on consensual re…

  • Fragmentation of the collective action space

    Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•East European Politics•2012•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 17

    In Poland, legacies of the communist past interact with contemporary domestic opportunity structures, conditioning and shaping the forms of action of the country's animal rights movement. The resulting 'NGO-isation' of civil society impedes effective collective action, with animal rights activists' engagement channelled towards 'animal charity' and service provision rather than more political strategies or disruptive forms of protest. Faced with …

  • The importance of recognizing difference

    Open Access•Petr Jehlička, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2021•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 79

    This article adds to the literature interrogating existing hierarchies in global knowledge production by examining the dominant research on post-1989 Central and East European (CEE) environmentalism. Analyses of CEE environmentalism have predominantly relied on concepts and organizational models generated by research on environmental activism and politics conducted in Western contexts, resulting in negative assessments of CEE as lacking environme…

  • The institutionalization of a new social cleavage

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2018•Citada por: 7

    The objective of this article is to analyse the ideological influences, main reforms and social inequality outcomes of “the new work strategy”, i.e. the former Swedish centre-right Alliance government’s work-first approach. By studying government bills and reports, official statistics, and research on welfare and labour market policies, discourses, policy measures and their outcomes have been analysed. The main conclusion is that Sweden, the form…

  • A Meta-organizational Perspective on the Europeanization of Civil Society

    Open Access•Eva Karlberg, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Voluntas Revista Internacional de…•2014•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 5

    As a consequence of European integration and the EU’s expanded social policy, more citizens’ interests are today organized at EU level. In the case of the women’s movement, there is an umbrella organization—the European Women’s Lobby (EWL)—in place in Brussels coordinating national women’s movements. The EWL demands from its members that they be nationwide and representative umbrellas, which has structuring effects on the women’s movements at dom…

  • Moral Reflexivity and Dramaturgical Action in Social Movement Activism

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2012•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 28

    Drawing on Durkheim's sociology of morality, which identifies ideals and norms as the key components of morality, this article outlines a theoretical model for understanding how social movements can bring about legitimate social change. Social movement activists, we propose, can be conceptualized as followers and pursuers of sacred ideals. As such, they frequently come into conflict with existing norms in society. To manage this dilemma, activist…

  • After a Cycle of Contention

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Adrienne Sörbom•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 15

    This article considers the strategic choices that radical activists face when a cycle of contention ends. It investigates the reorientation of the autonomous anarchists or left-libertarian activist milieu in Sweden after the riots at the Gothenburg summit in 2001, which ended a cycle of anti-globalization protests in Sweden. The article identifies five strategies by which this activist milieu attempted to reconstruct collective agency, build a ne…

  • Learning to Be Affected

    Niklas Hansson, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2014•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 11

    Becoming an animal rights activist is not just a process of identity change and re-socialization but also implies, as this article suggests, a “re-engineering” of affective cognitive repertoires and processes of “sensibilization” in relation to nonhuman animals. Activists thereby develop their mental responsiveness and awareness and refine their embodied sensitivity and capacity for sensing. The article proposes a theoretical perspective for unde…

  • Discursive Will Formation and the Question of Legitimacy in European Politics

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Scandinavian Political Studies•1997•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    This article addresses the question of legitimacy, both in a general theoretical perspective and more specifically in relation to policy making in the European Union. It is argued that Jürgen Habermas' recent theories of discursive will formation provide a useful frame work for understanding the current problems of legitimacy in European policy making. The main proposition is the central connection between communication and legitimacy, and it is …

  • Postapocalyptic community gardening

    Open Access•Nicolas M Oreskovic, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Environmental Sociology•2025•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 7

  • Who’s the Real Feminist? Feminist Discursive Boundary Making in the Context of Anti-Gender Campaigns

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Eva Karlberg et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2024•Citada por: 2

    In recent years, there has been a wave of opposition to feminism, gender equality, and minority rights in various national and international contexts. While there is a growing number of works that examine anti-gender campaigns, less attention has been devoted to the potential consequences of the anti-gender mobilizations for the internal relations within socially progressive (feminist and LGBTQ+) organizations. The present article examines how th…

  • Elementary Forms of Religious Life in Animal Rights Activism

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Culture Unbound Journal of…•2014•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 17

    Many scholars have noted that secular belief systems, despite lack of a spiritual base, can possess qualities and display features similar to religion. The most well-known and forceful formulation of this is, arguably, Durkheim's claim that elementary forms of religious life pervade collective life in all societies. This article suggests that animal rights activism can fruitfully be analyzed as an instance of 'secular religion'. Drawing on Durkhe…

  • Introduction

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg•ARTICLE•East European Politics•2012•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    Introduction : A new look at social movements and civil society in postcommunist Russia and Poland

  • A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation

    Open Access•Mattias Bengtsson, Kerstin Jacobsson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2023•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 9

    The article analyses a new culture of responsibilisation implicated in a recent management reform in the Swedish Public Employment Service. Based on an interview study and organisational documents, it is shown that the reform entails a new form of responsibilisation of jobseekers as well as caseworkers. As jobseekers are expected to ‘carry their own case’ through the administrative job‐search process, they are obliged to manage tasks that used to…

  • Organizational governance of activation policy

    Open Access•Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Security…•2018•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 4

    The Swedish Social Insurance Agency ( Försäkringskassan – SSIA) and its frontline staff have a key role in the implementation of activation policy. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at local offices, this article investigates how the transparency ideal, as an integral part of the organizational governance of the activation policy, is negotiated and enacted in the everyday life of a welfare bureaucracy. The analysis shows the central role…

  • States Shaping Civic Activism

    Christian Fröhlich, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•2017•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 23

    This article offers a comparative study of animal rights and animal welfare activism in Poland and Russia. It investigates how an East European democratic state, on the one hand, and a post-Soviet semiauthoritarian state, on the other hand, steer civic activism and how different state–society relationships affect the forms that activism takes. The analysis aims at identifying the specific institutional mechanisms by which steering operates in the…

  • Ekonomernas Guernica

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Geir A Øygarden•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•1996

    This article sets out to examine the language used in the public discourse on the economy in Sweden. We investigate the metaphors used by economists in public discourse, and show how they function to depoliticize economic policy making. Theoretically, we introduce the notion of ’the surplus value of metaphors’ and by this, we develop the connection between metaphor and myth. We also try to show how myths mask themselves as common sense. Finally, …

  • Discursive Will Formation and the Question of Legitimacy in European Politics

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Scandinavian Political Studies•1997•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    This article addresses the question of legitimacy, both in a general theoretical perspective and more specifically in relation to policy making in the European Union. It is argued that Jürgen Habermas' recent theories of discursive will formation provide a useful frame work for understanding the current problems of legitimacy in European policy making. The main proposition is the central connection between communication and legitimacy, and it is …

  • Soft regulation and the subtle transformation of states

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2004•Citada por: 47•Referencias: 7

    This article studies the soft regulation developed in the field of EU employment policy from the late 1990s onwards, a type of policy co-ordination that has been termed the ‘Open Method of Coordination’. It focuses on particular regulatory mechanisms, in the section entitled ‘Discursive regulatory mechanisms’, built into this ‘soft’ system of governance, which are related to language use and knowledge making. These include: joint language use (Eu…

  • The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU

    Susana Borra, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2004•Citada por: 136•Referencias: 14

    The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely the policy, politics and polity. First, the article examines the novelties of the OMC vis-à-vis the soft law tradition in the EU, and looks at how the three dominant logics of co-ordination are linked to diverse modes of the OMC. The subsequent sections focus on…

  • Vår bästa tid är nu

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2008

    Our best time is now? On conception of time and political self-understandingThis study regards time as a horizon for action and argues that conception of time has great implication for political self-understanding. In the study, the modern conception of time, with its orientation towards the future, is contrasted with the late modern conception of time, which is characterized by a de-legitimization of utopian thinking and by an orientation toward…

  • A Sociology of Scandal and Moral Transgression

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Erik Löfmarck•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•2008•Citada por: 22•Referencias: 21

    In this article, we use the case of a government scandal in Sweden to develop a theoretical perspective by which to understand the moral nature of political scandals. We draw on insights from Durkheim's sociology of morality and point, inter alia, to the ritual character of scandals. However, in contrast to most Durkheimian readings, the perspective presented does not presume the existence of a moral consensus. The scandal is understood as a conf…

  • Chapter 6 From Deregulation to Flexicurity? The Makeover of the OECD Jobs Strategy

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Niklas Noaksson•CHAPTER•Mechanisms of OECD governance•2010

    Chapter 6 deals with the labor market policy of the OECD and compares its Jobs Study from 1994 with the re‐assessed Jobs Strategy of 2006. The initial Jobs Study recommended a single policy package which was based on a deregulation framework in many respects. The re‐assessed strategy, in contrast, recognizes two equally legitimate paths: the liberal Anglo‐Saxon path and the Social‐Democratic Nordic path. The framework of one‐size‐fits‐all has bee…

  • Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states

    Open Access•Desmond Dinan, Caroline De La Porte et al.•CHAPTER•Towards a Social Investment…•2011

  • Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states

    Desmond Dinan, Caroline De La Porte et al.•CHAPTER•Towards A Social Investment…•2011

    This chapter assesses the achievements and shortcomings of the European Employment Strategy (EES) in shifting national labour market policies towards a social investment agenda. The impact of the EES is mediated by institutional legacies, economic and financial situations, and political priorities and agendas in the member states. The chapter argues that the contradictory pressures for social and economic reform from the EU pose a challenge for a…

  • Transparency and legibility in international institutions

    Open Access•C Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2011

    The article examines the organisational production and distribution of normatively charged ideas for governing transnational business. Based on the United Nations Global Compact Initiative, it is argued that the UN version of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) builds on a metanarrative of rationality, involving ideals of transparency and legibility combined with an emphasis on consensus and harmony. The strong accent on partnership, agreemen…

  • Introduction

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg•ARTICLE•East European Politics•2012•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    Introduction : A new look at social movements and civil society in postcommunist Russia and Poland

  • Fragmentation of the collective action space

    Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•East European Politics•2012•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 17

    In Poland, legacies of the communist past interact with contemporary domestic opportunity structures, conditioning and shaping the forms of action of the country's animal rights movement. The resulting 'NGO-isation' of civil society impedes effective collective action, with animal rights activists' engagement channelled towards 'animal charity' and service provision rather than more political strategies or disruptive forms of protest. Faced with …

  • Moral Reflexivity and Dramaturgical Action in Social Movement Activism

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2012•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 28

    Drawing on Durkheim's sociology of morality, which identifies ideals and norms as the key components of morality, this article outlines a theoretical model for understanding how social movements can bring about legitimate social change. Social movement activists, we propose, can be conceptualized as followers and pursuers of sacred ideals. As such, they frequently come into conflict with existing norms in society. To manage this dilemma, activist…

  • Post-Political Regulation

    Open Access•C Garsten, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2013•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 35

    The debate on global governance points to shifts in the type and nature of regulation as well as in the set of actors involved. The article introduces a novel way of conceptualizing the changes, namely a move towards post-political forms of regulation (see also Garsten and Jacobsson, 2007). Drawing on Chantal Mouffe's notion of 'the post-political vision', the article argues that many contemporary forms of regulation are premised on consensual re…

  • Emotion work in animal rights activism

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•2013•Citada por: 27•Referencias: 29

    Social movement activism requires emotional motivation and entails emotional costs, and, because of this, activists tend to be deeply involved in the management of emotions - or emotion work - and not just in connection with protest events, but also on an everyday basis. Based on a case study of animal rights activism in Sweden, this article identifies five types of emotion work that animal rights activists typically perform: containing, ventilat…

  • Learning to Be Affected

    Niklas Hansson, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2014•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 11

    Becoming an animal rights activist is not just a process of identity change and re-socialization but also implies, as this article suggests, a “re-engineering” of affective cognitive repertoires and processes of “sensibilization” in relation to nonhuman animals. Activists thereby develop their mental responsiveness and awareness and refine their embodied sensitivity and capacity for sensing. The article proposes a theoretical perspective for unde…

  • A Meta-organizational Perspective on the Europeanization of Civil Society

    Open Access•Eva Karlberg, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Voluntas Revista Internacional de…•2014•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 5

    As a consequence of European integration and the EU’s expanded social policy, more citizens’ interests are today organized at EU level. In the case of the women’s movement, there is an umbrella organization—the European Women’s Lobby (EWL)—in place in Brussels coordinating national women’s movements. The EWL demands from its members that they be nationwide and representative umbrellas, which has structuring effects on the women’s movements at dom…

  • Elementary Forms of Religious Life in Animal Rights Activism

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Culture Unbound Journal of…•2014•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 17

    Many scholars have noted that secular belief systems, despite lack of a spiritual base, can possess qualities and display features similar to religion. The most well-known and forceful formulation of this is, arguably, Durkheim's claim that elementary forms of religious life pervade collective life in all societies. This article suggests that animal rights activism can fruitfully be analyzed as an instance of 'secular religion'. Drawing on Durkhe…

  • A Deviance Perspective on Social Movements

    Jonas Lindblom, Kerstin Jacobsson•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2014•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 23

    This article outlines a theoretical framework for understanding deviance and deviance-management in a social movement context. Such a deviance perspective is useful because in striving for social change, activists challenge existing social norms and may readily be defined by their environments as "outsiders" or deviants. However, activists also differ from traditional deviant groups. The article therefore conceptualizes activists as "entrepreneur…

  • Social Movements in Post-Communist Europe and Russia

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg•BOOK•Social Movements in Post-Communist…•2015

    1. Introduction: A new look at social movements and civil society in post-communist Russia and Poland 2. Disciplining the 'Second World': The Relationship between Transnational and Local Forces in Contemporary Hungarian Women's Social Movements 3. Does the EU help or hinder gay-rights movements in post-communist Europe? The case of Poland 4. Fragmentation of the collective action space: the animal rights movement in Poland 5. The diffusion of pub…

  • After a Cycle of Contention

    Kerstin Jacobsson, Adrienne Sörbom•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2015•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 15

    This article considers the strategic choices that radical activists face when a cycle of contention ends. It investigates the reorientation of the autonomous anarchists or left-libertarian activist milieu in Sweden after the riots at the Gothenburg summit in 2001, which ended a cycle of anti-globalization protests in Sweden. The article identifies five strategies by which this activist milieu attempted to reconstruct collective agency, build a ne…

  • Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

    Kerstin Jacobsson•BOOK•Urban Grassroots Movements in…•2016

    Jeg er glad for a kunne presentere denne utmerkede boken som er basert pa papers presentert pa en internasjonal konferanse holdt pa Sodertorn Hogskola i Sverige i 2013. Boken fyller et kunnskapshull hva gjelder forskning pa urbane bevegelser i Sentralog Ost-Europa og peker ut en ny forskningsretning ved a forene fagfeltet urbane studier med teori om sosiale bevegelser. Betydningen av omradespesifikke faktorer er mye debattert innen begge disse fe…

  • Local worlds of activation

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Katarina Hollertz et al.•ARTICLE•Nordic Social Work Research•2017

    Much welfare research is based on the assumption that welfare regimes are homogenous entities. Nevertheless, the practice of activation may vary considerably within states. This is especially so in a country such as Sweden where municipalities and state agencies are both involved in activation. This article studies local activation policy and practice in three Swedish municipalities, representing three distinct ‘local worlds of activation’. The a…

  • Civil Society Revisited

    Open Access•Elż bieta Korolczuk, El&#380 bieta Korolczuk et al.•BOOK•Civil Society Revisited•2017

  • Civil Society Revisited

    Open Access•Kerstin Jacobsson, Elżbieta Korolczuk•BOOK•Civil Society Revisited•2017

    In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collect…

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