Publications
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Option assistierter Suizid Wann genug ist, entscheide ich
(2022)
The question of whether and under what circumstances assisted suicide is not only in line with the law, but also ethically legitimate beyond the legal dimension, is controversially debated. The debate centers around the ...
Naturalisation
(2022)
Who decides what criteria are used to determine who can become Swiss? Which imaginaries of Swissness are mobilised in the context of naturalisation? Why is Swiss naturalisation policy so restrictive in international ...
Un/doing Race
(2022)
What is the meaning of race, racialization and racism in Switzerland and how are they related to Switzerland's colonial heritage? How has the approach to racism changed historically? What role does anti-racist activism ...
Un/doing Race
(2022)
What is the meaning of race, racialization and racism in Switzerland and how are they related to Switzerland's colonial heritage? How has the approach to racism changed historically? What role does anti-racist activism ...
Violent Times Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective
(2022)
Violence is a persistent element of modern history and it always has been gendered. Today’s violent times have politicized and mobilized new publics, generated creative forms of resistance, incited the most unlikely ...
Zeitdiagnose Männlichkeiten Schweiz
(2021)
Change and persistence of gender relations in the workplace, family, and politics create specific opportunities and challenges for men and masculinity(ies). What is currently changing at all is up for debate. What developments ...
Selbstverständlich – und doch umstritten
(2023)
This study focuses on the relationship between organizations and society in the field of gender equality in Switzerland. The empirical research examines how companies and nonprofit organizations deal with the concern of ...
Arbeits(un)fähigkeit herstellen
(2018)
As most industrialised countries, Switzerland is increasingly attempting to (re)integrate people with health restrictions and disabilities into the job market. The reinforced political demand to reintegrate people with ...
Gute Betreuung im Alter in der Schweiz
(2018)
Apart from financing retirement provision, assistance and care for elderly people ist he central issue in Swiss politics concerning elderly people. While medical care has been in focus of the discourse about health and ...
Transitionen im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter
(2018)
Much like the first volume published in 2011, the second volume of this anthology series gathers a selection of analyses which are empirically based on the data of the Swiss panel study TREE (Transitions from Education to ...
Soziale Arbeit und die Soziale Frage
(2018)
"For a long time, the use of the term «Social Question» was referred to as being a phenomenon of the 19th century, related to the social changes taking place during that period. Today, however, the so-called Social Question ...
La religion à l'école
(2017)
In the last few decades, the organization of religious education classes in Swiss public school has been the object of profound public scrutiny. In the wake of these debates, most cantons have introduced a new course under ...
Die Nutzung von Evaluationen in den Schweizer Parlamenten
(2019)
Evaluations assess the effectiveness of a public policy using a scientific approach and thus provide bases to make effects-oriented and well-founded decisions in parliament. Although policy evaluations have been established ...
Enjeux de la formation professionnelle en Suisse
(2019)
The Swiss vocational education and training model is at the heart of an unprecedented enthusiasm. Both in Switzerland and abroad, it is praised for its management based on a public-private partnership, for its ability to ...
Construire le monde du hardcore
(2019)
An invitation to an ethnographic journey in the world of hardcore punk and beyond, this study explores the plurality of practices underlying the existence of this “music-based subculture.” Based on a fine-grained, in-depth ...
Le bénévolat des jeunes
(2019)
What makes young people want to learn, commit and become involved in an activity? This issue is of particular interest to teachers, but also to employers. In order to provide some answers, the authors of this book are ...
Travailler dans la grande distribution
(2019)
What does it mean to work in the retail sector today? In Switzerland, two giants share almost the whole market. In order to stay competitive, they intensify the work, demand more availability from their employees and deskill ...
Neue Medien
(2020)
Along with the worldwide growing mobility and migration, the scientific studies and political-public debates are increasingly more concerned with the questions of motivation and manner in which modern information and ...
Un système « de milice » sélectif
(2022)
This book is an adaptation of a doctoral thesis that studies the representativeness of the members of the local parliaments of four major Swiss cities (Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne and Lugano) from 1945 to 2016. For this ...
Diversité des familles et bien-être en Suisse
(2023)
A typical trajectory continues to dominate the life course in Switzerland: most people marry, have children, and adopt an unequal division of work between spouses. How can we understand this (relatively) weak diversity in ...