This piece concerns civil society as conceptualised in Khatami's book Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society, and in a wider sense the Dialogue among Civilisations and Cultures paradigm and the UN year of Dialogue among Civilisations (2001). In this particular text, Khatami discusses civil society in relation to de-colonising spaces, with particular references to West Asia, the Islamic world and the 'West.' However, his discussion bears relevance to other spaces with experience of colonial imperial domination and occupation, historically and contemporarily. While first published a decade before the Arab Spring, it bears relevance also to the clamours for political participation and social development, which so pervaded the risings in West Asia and North Africa, including the oft forgotten Sudan. In this particular discussion of civil society, the focus is on showing the global relevance of Khatami's conceptualisation of civil society as it emanates from the Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations initiative, in a world where strategic disorder seems to be an increasing answer to resistance practices following local demands for political participation as well as independence from Western political economic structures of dominance-i.e. in spaces attempting to decolonise.

In the last couple of years, a few references to Rhodesian pasts have appeared in European and US media. A widely distributed photograph depicted Dylann Storm Roof, who killed nine African Americans during prayer service in Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in a one-man terrorist attack, wearing a jacket decorated with the Rhodesian and apartheid South African fl ags ( Hanson 2015 ). In a different, yet discursively similar context of white supremacy, the 2014 UKIP EU elections poster-boy Andre Lampitt was suspended because of his racist references to Black Africans – references he argued were sanctioned by his experience of growing up in Rhodesia ( Chapman and Chorley 2014 ). Tucked away from the gaze of the public eye, Rhodesian militaria, authentic and fake, is being sold and bought at good prices across the globe. Rhodesian Security Forces uniforms are especially popular because of the very distinct camoufl age pattern, which is considered one of the most well-designed among collectors. 2 The relatively sudden appearance of Rhodesian references in European and US public media overlap with the rise in and general acceptance of right-wing, decidedly White nationalist activity in former colonial powers, 3 in independent settler states that they created, 4 and in states in their close proximity. 5 Interestingly, to someone who over the last decade and a half has followed the development of Rhodesian presence on the Internet, it also overlaps with an explosion of videos, webpages, and web-forums concerning Rhodesian-ness in different forms.

Forskning är en komplex process som ifrågasätter, undersöker och utvecklar nya aspekter av världen. På så sätt rör sig forskningsfälten hela tiden framåt. Forskningens rön och resultat sprids sedan på många sätt, till exempel genom vetenskaplig publicering, samverkan, forskarnätverk eller genom utställningar. I denna utställning presenterar biblioteket forskning från Malmö universitets fem fakulteter. När forskning når en bred publik är den förenklad och ofta tagen ur sin kontext. Det gör att forskningresultat i den snabba nyhetsrapporteringen lätt misstolkas eller missuppfattas. Enskilda resultat är en del av ett större sammanhang och fungerar därför sällan som nyhetsrubriker. Utställningen belyser vikten av att granska all information kritiskt och uppmanar dig som besökare att fundera på om du tar till dig nyheter med förnuft eller känsla.

In 2018, Malmö University is celebrating its 20th anniversary with lectures, conferences, popular science talks, debates and exhibitions. In this exhibition, the library presents research from Malmö University’s five faculties. Research is a complex process, which questions, investigates and develops new aspects of the world. In this way, research fields are constantly moving forward. Results are disseminated in many ways, for example through scholarly publication, collaboration, researcher networks or exhibitions. When research findings reach a wider audience, they are presented in a simplified form and often out of context. This means that research findings presented in the media are often misinterpreted. Individual findings are part of a greater whole and are therefore not well suited for news headlines. This exhibition highlights the importance of reviewing information critically and encourages the visitor to think about whether you relate to news with your reason or with your emotions. Malmö University partakes in the VA (Public & Science) campaign #hurvetdudet (Eng.: How do you know that?). The aim of the campaign is to increase the knowledge of politicians and the public about what science is, how it is done, how different research findings can be evaluated and why research-based knowledge is needed as a basis for decisions about the development of society.

Rhodesians occupy a very specific digitalized time-space bubble at the very edges of a margin that researchers think of as “past.” In this study, I trace the memorization of the Rhodesian Bush War on YouTube, of what it was like to fight for a dream and see it crumble in an isolated and highly racialized society. Through narrative analysis focusing on identity formation and social networks of relationships, a military-romantic story of racialized masculine heroism, suffering and sacrifice is pieced together, forming a globally shared Rhodesian space-time bubble of meaningfulness, making it an active part of the present as much as a remnant of the past.

This article connects directly to the globalisation of both education and conflict, and attends to the intersection between these phenomena, by focusing on conflict-induced student migration, an area, which has until recently been neglected in studies of higher education and migration, and peace and conflict research. The focus is on the very intersection of these research traditions in trying to understand how increasing globalised student migration is intertwined with the internationalisation of higher education and violent conflicts. The research on which this article is based was carried out at Malmö University, Sweden. The focus is on mapping the linkages between violent conflicts and student migration, using a mixed methods design.

Recension av avhandlingen: Chris Coulter, Being a bush wife : women's lives through war and peace in northern Sierra Leone, Uppsala universitet 2006, 91-506-1887-3

The Rhodesian settler project depended on the co-operation with black men, and on the Othering of them. Masculinity was a vital part of this dou- ble movement of practical proximity and narrative distance; cross-racial co- operation between men concerning the control of women, and the sexuali- sation of the ‘African’. The racialised discourse on ‘African’ masculinity contributes to the preservation of distance between the African Other and the European Self. The latter generally evades being objectified and stud- ied, as it is itself the master of objectification of others. Consequently, sci- entific curiosity has mostly been directed towards those who are construct- ed as different and exotic (McFadden, 2000), rather than towards those who construe themselves as Norm. Research on white Zimbabweans is lacking. In this chapter we examine the performance, reproduction and contestation of masculinity among white Zimbabweans. Those white Zimbabweans whose voices are represented below belong to a rapidly shrinking category of Zimbabweans. They are Eurasian second generation commercial farm- ers. The voices are Peter, Beatrice, John, Louisa and Patricia’s. The inter- views were conducted in September and October 2000, on what were then their farms in eastern and northern Zimbabwe.