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Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-support are relatively new technologies within the field of social work. This paper investigates how the social work profession in Denmark responds to the current technological changes. Analysing articles from professional journals associated with the Danish Association of Social Workers, online content on the association's website, and interviews with key actors involved in the association's work on technology, this paper shows how professional agents legitimize and criticise these technologies, thereby performing different kinds of boundary work. The paper will show how such boundary work, carried out by the profession of social work in Denmark, change over time, and how, in the discussion on artificial intelligence, the profession reinforces its own position within the welfare state, demarcates the boundaries between the profession of social work and other occupational groups, and formulates a new professional project.

Recent developments in sustainable urban drainage have turned the area, formerly controlled by engineers, into a professional field encompassing engineers, landscape architects, and urban planners. Through interviews, fieldwork, and document analysis of three Danish cases of urban rainwater management, the article shows how these three different professions, in drawing upon the specific Danish concept of LAR (Local Diversion of Rainwater), compete with each other but also coordinate their work tasks. The article proposes the concept of hinge object, inspired by Star and Griesemer's boundary object and Abbott's work on hinges, to capture how LAR serves as a coordinating object among professions, but also among professions, the state, and universities.

I denne artikel undersøges den offentlige debat i de danske aviser vedrørende situationen omkring de afviste irakiske asylansøgere, der tog ophold i Brorsons Kirke i København, maj 2009. Artiklen kortlægger med udgangspunkt i Boltanski og Thévenots teori om retfærdiggørelse og pragmatiske handlingsregimer de måder, hvorpå aktørerne i debatten retfærdiggør deres vurderinger af situationen. Artiklen viser, hvordan debatten foregår i tre forskellige regimer: Det civile, barmhjertighedens og voldens. Disse forskellige regimer peger mod forskellige handlinger og evalueringer af situationen og viser, hvorfor debattens aktører er uenige om, hvordan situationen og irakerne skal bedømmes. Artiklen viser, hvordan aktørerne i debatten arbejder med og udvider modellerne for moralsk retfærdig handlen.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Marie Leth Meilvang: Newspaper Debates about Rejected Iraqi Asylum Seekers who Sought Refuge in a Danish Church This paper examines the public debate in the Danish newspapers concerning the rejected Iraqi asylum seekers who moved into the Brorson's Church in Copenhagen, May 2009. Using Boltanski's and Thévenot's theories about regimes of justification and pragmatic action-regimes the article will map out the ways in which people in this debate justify their judgment of the situation. The article shows how the debate is going on in three different kinds of regimes: The civil regime, the compassion/pity regime and the violence regime. These different regimes point toward different kinds of action and evaluation of the situation, which is why the actors in the debate disagree about how the situation and the Iraqis should be judged. The article shows how the actors in the debate are working on and developing models of just and moral behavior. Key words: Justification, Brorson's Church, asylum seekers, Boltanski, Thévenot.

In this article, we explore the cultural-political tensions and ambiguities of urban ecology, by way of following how activists move and translate between 'familiar' and 'public' engagements in the green city. Empirically, we locate our exploration in and around Nordhavnen (The North Harbor), a large-scale sustainable urban development project in Copenhagen. Invoking Laurent Thévenot's pragmatic sociology of 'regimes of engagement', we sketch a culturally sensitive approach to urban ecological activism, highlighting the critical moral capacities involved in building new forms of 'commonality in the plural' in the city. In particular, we stress the role assumed in such engagements by various image-making practices, as means for activists to express, share and render publicly visible a range of embodied urban attachments. Pragmatic sociology, we conclude, may contribute to a novel understanding of urban politics as inclusive learning processes, more hospitable to a wider diversity of familiar attachments to cities and their ecologies.