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Der arbejdes i dag ihærdigt på at skabe ?kønsbalance? i fx bestyrelser, ledergrupper og regeringer. 2020 er blevet året med en hel bølge af favoriseringspolitik ? inden for kunst og forskning endog via lovstridige metoder. Samtidig foregår der et massivt statsligt pres på offentlige institutioner og private virksomheder for særbehandling af kvinder. Den begrundes i reglen med et behov for at imødegå ubevidst diskrimination og arbejde for øget repræsentation af forskellige befolkningsgrupper. Argumenterne herfor hviler, viser bogen, på omfattende manipulation, og hvis tendensen til at udforme lovgivning på baggrund af flere og flere kollektive identiteter fortsætter, vil det rokke ved det moderne oplyste samfunds grundpiller - og den kan komme til at skubbe kvinderne ind i en beskyttelseskultur med risiko for, at de vil blive opfattet som et B-hold. I stedet for at favorisere kvinder ved ansættelser og særbevillinger bør vi arbejde for at gøre det mere attraktivt for kvinder at gå i gang med og fastholde en karriere f.eks. inden for sektorer som forskning og entreprenørskab. Bogens titel, ?Vi vil have vores fair andel!?, er et udtryk fra EU-Kommissionens formand Ursula von der Leyens kampagne forud for EU-kommissionens sammensætning

This Essay explores the deep dissonance that exists today between the validation of American LesBiGays in the commercial marketplace and their devaluation in political and legal arenas, and questions the failure of legal scholars and civil rights activists to account meaningfully for this dissonance in their theories and practices. I n America's popular culture, LesBiGay identities abound. In its political culture, however, they emerge more tentatively. The commercial and entertainment industries increasingly commodify and celebrate LesBiGay identities. The courts and legislatures generally discount and condemn them. Thus, there is a deep dissonance between the validation of LesBiGay identities in the economic marketplace of items and ideas, and their devaluation in the legal arena of rights and remedies. Such a dissonance fosters a fragmented sense of what LesBiGay identities are, and whether or how they are valued. Surprisingly, this schizoid treatment of LesBiGay identity is largely ignored or misunderstood by legal theorists and practitioners. Typically, they look primarily to politics and law for the paths to LesBiGay self-realization and social inclusion. The academy and activists have yet to appreciate that consumer-driven corporatism, commercial entrepreneurship, and the fetishes and fantasies of the mass media are unleashing powerful cultural forces that will influence, for better or worse, the LesBiGay quest for liberty and equality. For if "the business of America is business," then surely the Americanization of the LesBiGay identity is business, too.

Earl Warren is dead. A generation of liberal legal scholars continues, nevertheless, to act as if the man and his Court preside over the present. While this romanticism is understandable, it exacts a high price in a world transformed. The following commentary is a reconstructive criticism written from the perspective of two liberals concerned about the future of "legal liberalism." The author's present their views as a commentary to emphasize their preliminary character; they represent thier current assessment of where liberals stand and where they might redirect their energies. In Part I, they outline the reasons for believing that there is cause for alarm, though not resignation, in the liberal legal community. They also define the contours of what is meant by "liberal legal scholarship." In Part II, they discuss how conservatives have managed, with varying degrees of success, to frame the nature of public law discourse in the 1980s, and how liberals have reacted, and are likely to continue to react, to this phenomenon. The authors then describe what we believe to be the pitfalls of such "reactive" scholarship. In order to suggest some broad avenues for future liberal scholarship, they offer in Part III a historical account of the approaches taken by liberal scholars to meet the challenges of conservatism in law and politics during the period from 1876 to 1937. While the parallels between that era and the authors own are, of course, not exact, the lessons of that period do offer a wealth of experience and thought upon which liberals may draw. Finally, in Part IV, they examine three avenues that may be available, among others, for intellectually powerful and politically effective liberal legal scholarship. In doing so, the authors analyze inherent shortcomings of liberal legal theory, and suggest that future liberals reevaluate their commitment to current individual rights consciousness.

As the lead piece in a Colloquy entitled The First Amendment and the Paratroopers' Paradox, this article argues that today's free speech theory is largely grounded in 18th Century fears of government's tyrannical censorship. This theory is ill-equipped to deal with a distinct tyranny in 21st Century America, a tyranny playing upon the public's insatiable appetite for amusement. Those who venture to develop free speech principles to suit a new cultural environment are the First Amendment paratroopers of our time, the ones who realize that we cannot retain our old constitutional prerogatives in a transformed world. The Paratroopers' Paradox: To save itself, the traditional First Amendment may destroy itself.

On 27 October 2015, the Nordic Council of Ministers for Business, Energy and Regional Policy (MR-NER) decided to carry out a strategic review of Nordic co-operation on energy and how it could be developed over the next 5–10 years. The strategic review is part of the Nordic Council of Ministers' reform project initiated by its Secretary General, Dagfinn Høybråten. Strategic reviews have previously been conducted on foreign and security policy, health and labour-market co-operation. The remit was to present 10–15 concrete proposals that would further enhance co-operation in areas in which significant positive outcomes have been achieved over the past two decades. The Paris Climate Change Conference of December 2015 and the EU's goal of working towards a European Energy Union make this review particularly timely. It is also based on the Nordic countries' own reviews of their national climate and energy policies. The geopolitical landscape is currently in a state of flux – global trade and climate policies are under pressure, and nationalist tendencies are emerging in many countries. This presents many challenges to Nordic energy co-operation, which has achieved ground-breaking results based on cross-border co-operation. Various studies have also shown that the Nordic Region has made similarly dramatic gains in terms of welfare. The time has come to assess how the Nordic countries can build on this success, despite adverse international trends. This review seeks to identify these challenges, present proposals for how the Nordic countries can move forward, and inspire further discussion and debate.

Meditation er ikke et nyt fænomen i det danske samfund. Det er den fokus som meditationsformen Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) har været genstand for i de senere år imidlertid. Inden for en sundhedssociologisk ramme undersøges nogle af grundene til, at netop MBSR er blevet populær både i virksomheder og blandt individer med fokus på selvudvikling i en dansk kontekst. Artiklen tager afsæt i empiri hentet fra et kvalitativt forskningsprojekt vedrørende netop denne meditationsform og indledes med en fremstilling af det teoretiske, analytiske og empiriske udgangspunkt for artiklen. Herefter følger en analyse af empirien, i hvilken forfatterne bl.a. argumenterer for, at opfattelsen af virkninger tilskrevet mindfulness meditation må ses i relation til to diskurser, som fremanalyseres og benævnes henholdsvis autenticitets- og effektiviseringsdiskurserne. Disse diskurser udgør i artiklen omdrejningspunktet for mere generelle betragtninger over nogle af de udfordringer, som det senmoderne menneske står overfor.

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Kristina Grünenberg, Hanne Kjærgaard Walker and Jakob Skov Knudsen: Mindfulness Meditation – between Authenticity and Efficiency

This article investigates how mindfulness meditation, more precisely cd-guided Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), relates to and contributes to general normative discourses on ways of being human in late modern socie­ty. The article is based on empirical data from a qualitative research project on this form of meditation and starts with a presentation of the theoretical, analytical and empirical points of departure. This is followed by an analysis of the empirical data, in which we argue that the perception of effects attributed to mindfulness meditation should be viewed in relation to two discourses, which we have named discourses of authenticity and of efficiency respectively. These discourses constitute the central point for more general reflections on some of the challenges faced by late-modern people.

Key words: Mindfulness meditation, MBSR, alternative medicine, discourse, late-modern society.

Drawing on examples from Danish and Norwegian history, this article traces the ideological origins of Nordic democracy. It takes as its starting point the observation that constitutional theories of democracy were rather weak in the Nordic countries until the mid-twentieth century; instead, a certain Nordic tradition of popular constitutionalism rooted in a romantic and organic idea of the people was central to the ideological foundations of Nordic democracy. This tradition developed alongside agrarian mobilization in the nineteenth century, and it remained a powerful ideological reference-point through most of the twentieth century, exercising, for instance, an influence on debates about European integration in the 1960s and 1970s. However, this tradition was gradually overlaid by more institutional understandings of democracy from the mid-twentieth century onwards, with the consequence that the direct importance of this folk'ish heritage declined towards the late twentieth century. Nevertheless, clear echoes of this heritage remain evident in some contemporary Nordic varieties of populism, as well as in references to the concept of folkestyre as the pan-Scandinavian synonym for democracy.