A willingness to defend what? Intersectional perspectives on willingness to defend.

While many studies show that the Swedish population's willingness to defend itself is high, there is uncertainty about what is meant by the concept and how it should be operationalised. The research project therefore explores different meanings of the phenomenon of willingness to defend.

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The project studies people's understandings of willingness to defend, with a particular focus on how different local, national and international communities influence such understandings. The aim of the research project is, through a combination of intersectional risk theory and qualitative methods, to gain an in-depth understanding of the different dimensions of the will to defend, as well as the importance of different forms of belongings for people's understandings of the will to defend.

A combination of intersectional risk theory and qualitative methods makes it possible to explore the following research questions:

1. How can we explain variations in people's willingness to defend? In what ways do factors such as gender, age, country of birth and place of residence contribute to such variations?
2. What is the role of local, national and international communities in people's understandings of willingness to defend?
3. What values and places are considered worth defending (and in what ways)?