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"This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian socialist economic system. It explores what information and transactions we need to enable democratic and effective financial decisions by those affected by the decisions. Based on the economic model Participatory Economics, the author proposes a set of accounting principles for an economy comprised of common ownership of productive resources, worker and consumer councils, and democratic planning, promoting the model's core values. The author tackles questions such as how accounting could be organised in an economy with no private equity owners or private lenders and creditors that is not based on greed and competition but instead on cooperation and solidarity. A large part of the book is focused on issues regarding investments, thus, he asks how and on what basis decisions are made about the allocation of an economy's production between consumption today and investments that enable more consumption in the future, and how investments are accounted for. He also considers how investments in capital assets and production facilities would be decided, financed, and valued if they are not owned by private capital owners and if allocation does not take place through markets but through a form of democratic planning. In answering these questions and more, the author demonstrates that alternative economic systems are indeed possible, and not merely lofty utopias that cannot be put into practice, and inspires further discussion about economic vision. By applying accounting to a new economic setting and offering both technical information along with the author's bold vision, this book is a comprehensive and valuable supplementary text for courses touching on critical accounting theory. It will also appeal to a general audience interested in alternative kinds of economies"--

I en politisk kontext där trygghet har kommit att handla allt mindre om välfärd och alltmer om brottsbekämpning, och där asylinvandring har kommit att ses som ett hot mot den svenska tryggheten, undersöker denna artikel hur asylsökande flyktingar upplever tryggheten i Sverige. Artikeln bygger på en intervjustudie med syriska asylsökande flyktingar som anlände till Sverige under den så kallade flyktingkrisen som kulminerade år 2015. I de asylsökande flyktingarnas berättelser beskrivs Sverige ofta som ett tryggt land, samtidigt som beskrivningen av den egna tillvaron präglas av otrygghet. Särskild vikt läggs vid upplevelsen av trygghet i relation till asylprocessen, den ekonomiska situationen, boendet och de sociala relationerna samt hur upplevelsen av trygghet förändras över tid. Artikeln redogör även för lagändringar inom asylpolitiken som införts före och efter studiens genomförande. Dessa ändringar antas leda till minskad asylinvandring och i förlängningen till minskad brottsrelaterad otrygghet. Samtidigt leder de till kraftigt försämrade förutsättningar för trygghet för asylsökande flyktingar, och artikeln ifrågasätter huruvida en ökad otrygghet för en redan utsatt grupp verkligen kan leda till ökad trygghet i samhället i stort.

AbstractIn connection to concerns about, for example, climate change, peak oil, pandemics and the depopulation of many rural areas, there has been a counter‐migration from urban to rural areas in past decades. An important part of this counter‐migration is the so‐called 'back‐to‐the‐land' migration of former urban residents who move to rural areas and adopt primarily agrarian lifestyles. Through a review of 48 migration letters in which migrants write about their experiences of moving from urban to rural areas to commence agriculture, this article explores the underlying ideals and agricultural practices of the back‐to‐land phenomena and discusses what significance this form of agricultural migration may have for understanding broader sustainability transformations and contemporary rural change. Important questions concern: What kinds of motives, practices and ideals underpin back‐to‐the‐land migration? What relevance does "back‐to‐the‐land" have for how we comprehend rurality and how the current food landscape is changing? Based on the letter reviews, this article illuminates four interconnected themes with regard to back‐to‐the‐landers practices and ideals. Back‐to‐the‐land as (i) rebelling against payroll work and meaningless lives in the cities, (ii) reinvention and retrotopia, (iii) reconnecting with nature and cultivating resilient alternatives and (iv) resistance and silent revolution. The article argues that the current back‐to‐land migration contributes to the construction of a renewed rurality—a reinvented form of rurality—that are adapted to suit both present and future needs in a world that is perceived as becoming more unruly. The article further suggests that, although back‐to‐the‐land migration may not yet have any significant material implications on the current food system, the ideals and practices the back‐to‐the‐landers profess, provide an important imaginary of how we can comprehend an alternative 'rurality' that reconnect people, land and food in more sustainable ways, through, for example, benign ways of practising agriculture and organising the food system. In this light, the current back‐to‐the‐land phenomena can be seen as a particular form of sustainability migration of voluntary peasantry that is based on retrotopian ideals of a rural past that is paired with progressive sustainability practices of the present.