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Uppsatsen behandlar ämnet slöjförbud i Sverige. Syftet är att undersöka hur en svensk partipolitiskt obunden organisation, som arbetar med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck, konstruerar deras ståndpunkter om slöjförbudet samt hur de tillförskriver attribut till slöjbärande kvinnor som kan bli påverkade av slöjförbud. Materialet består av en skrift från den slöjkritiska organisationen ”Glöm aldrig The subject in this thesis is ban of veils in Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to examine how a Swedish non-party political organization, that works with honor related violence and oppression, constructs their positions about a ban of the veil, and further how they prescribe attributes to veiled women who can be affected by the ban. The analyzed material is a publication from the Swedish veil-cri

Perceptions have the capacity of indirectly shaping agendas and affecting behaviours. It is a concept briefly touched upon in peacebuilding research, as a tool of tracing dominant practices of international interveners. This paper aims to contribute to this literature, by analysing how perceptions of the UN relate with lacking local agency in peacebuilding practice. In a case study of MONUC’s inte

In this thesis I explore the conceptual relationships between Parody, the body and space in via the writer Gail Simone’s version of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman. I develop a critical re-imag(e)ination of performativity, space and the body in contemporary mass culture via Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman. As the title suggests the thesis also elaborate on sexuality understood as a phantasmatic scr

ABSTRACT Already in 1960, the Harvard professor Theodore Levitt concluded that without the capabilities to adapt, companies risk missing imminent trends and changes in the market and could suddenly be outrun by competitors. The subject of business model adaption has since been heavily discussed and is, if possible, of even greater importance today. With this thesis, the authors aspires to cast lig

Noncitizens are excluded from the decision making processes inside the liberal democratic community. The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the premises for a citizenship extended to aliens, and, to identify the most viable approach to a citizenship extended to aliens in the context of the welfare state in Scandinavia. The objects of interest in the study are four theoretical approaches whi

This thesis attempts to investigate why and how MNCs establish appropriate CSR policies for subsidiaries in different countries. The aim of the thesis is to develop a model that reveals factors that influence the CSR focuses of MNC subsidiaries in different countries, and test the model.In order to achieve the purpose of the thesis, a qualitative deductive research design has been applied, based o

Syftet med den här diskursanalysen är att undersöka svensk rasism 1996-2013 med Zygmunt Baumans teoretiska perspektiv att rasismen är en del av moderniteten. De följande frågorna är viktiga: hur har rasismen utvecklats under de senaste tjugo åren i Sverige? Vad har legat till grund för utvecklingen och vilka är effekterna på makt, demokrati och samhället i stort? För att besvara dessa frågor har t

Last year’s demographical changes and times of internationalization and also individualization have led to changes in the way welfare services are delivered. More specifically there have been changes made within social care and health care. The new times that have led to privatization has also increased the amount of service providers. Within elderly care, this is not an exception. Waves of New Pu

We are witnessing a paradigm shift in global environmental politics. The aim of this thesis is to understand the focus shift, from Sustainable Development to Green Economy. Both concepts emphasize three dimensions an environmental, an economic and a social dimension. Within the UN-context, Green Economy has been introduced as the leading buzzword. The language change is not only linguistically, bu

Within a technology-driven company, product usability and interaction design is usually not the main focus. This thesis applies a Human-Centered design process with the aim of creating a more usable and intuitive product. The project is made in collaboration with Axis Communications who aims to expand its portfolio by transferring two intercoms from its subsidiary 2N Telekomunikace to its own asso

Narratives about Europe are stories of shared European past, present and future, that provide meaning to the existence of the European Union and to the policy it pursues. In this thesis, narratives about Europe are analysed in nine State of the Union speeches, given by Commission presidents from 2010 to 2020, and situated in the theoretical framework of discursive institutionalism. A combination o

Energy justice theory is still a nascent field in political science and especially underresearched in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, this thesis aims to further the discourse on energy justice by analyzing the Power Africa Initiative, an international financing initiative which objectives include furthering energy access in the region, from the perspective of three energy justice dimensi

Den Europeiska Gröna Given lanserades som en ny, omstörtande policy med syfte att omvandla Europa till världens första klimatneutrala kontinent till år 2050. Kommissionen föreslog mer ambitiösa, bindande mål för minskning av växthusgaser i enlighet med Parisavtalet, en ny handlingsplan för en cirkulär ekonomi med utökat ansvar för producenter samt föreslog hur övergången ska bli både rättvis och vThe European Green Deal was launched as a new, disruptive policy on how to transform Europe to the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Commission proposed more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets in line with the Paris Agreement, a new action plan for a circular economy with an extended responsibility on producers and how to make sure the transition is just as well as

Detta arbete sammanställer den prekambriska berggrunden och dess geologiska utvecklingshistoria i nordvästra Skåne. Studien baseras främst på SGUs berggrundskartor som benämns Af. 148 Helsingborg NO och Af. 180 Helsingborg SO samt tillhörande berggrundsbeskrivningar. Berggrunden inom det studerade området har bildats under regionala geologiska processer och dessa beskrivs it ett bredare perspektivThis study aims to summarize the Precambrian bedrock and its’ geological development in north-western Skåne. The study is primarily based on two SGU bedrock maps called Af. 148 Helsingborg NO and Af. 180 Helsingborg SO, plus the associated bedrock descriptions. The bedrock within the studied area developed during large regional geological processes and these are described in a larger perspective.

Since mid-2000s, a great emphasis of the global development agenda is directed toward women and their participation in society, especially as wageworkers and political actors. Hand-in-hand with this emphasis on women’s empowerment and gender equality as the ‘solution’ for development, the involvements of private actors in the development arena have increased as well. The notion of private corporat

The Maputo Declaration was launched in 2003 as a response to the stagnation of African agriculture. The signatories agreed that 10% of public expenditure should be spent on agriculture in an effort to increase agricultural productivity. This paper examines to what degree the goal of the Maputo declaration has been reached. Little to no evidence was found for a direct positive impact on agricultura

En uppsats som testar strategin Dogs of the Dow på svenska börsen. Uppsatsen tar även hänsyn till återköp som en parameter i denna strategi. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida Dogs of the Dow kan generera en högre avkastning än ett jämförelseindex. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att undersöka om en utvecklad variant av strategin kan skapa bättre avkastning än ursprungsstrategin och inde