School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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”De lever så här varje dag, liksom”: Representationer av fattigdom i svenska insamlingsgalor.
(2013-10-11)In this essay, I investigate the representations of poverty in two charity galas on Swedish television. Moreover, through a discourse analysis, I look at how the concepts of ‘development’ and ‘poverty’ are used in these ... -
Losers of modernization or modernization winners?
(2013-10-09)In this study we explore the links between neoliberalism and the radical right of the modern day. We have examined four party programs and used a Critical Discourse analysis to analyze them. To our help with the Critical ... -
Say no to racism?: FIFAs antirasism ur ett postkolonialt perspektiv
(2013-10-09)The purpose of this thesis is to historically describe how Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) interprets how the discourse of anti-racism has developed within their own organization throughout the ... -
Att förena kunskap och känsla för en bättre värld: Diskursanalys av Navet Science Center
(2013-10-09)Denna uppsats är en kvalitativ studie av Navet Science Centers diskurs för hållbar utveckling. Detta som ett exempel på hur hållbar utveckling kan prägla en verksamhet, utifrån ett resonemang att en diskurs är dialektiskt ... -
Identitet och mediala diskurser: En fallstudie om hur kvinnor med erfarenheter av direkt patriarkalt våld upplever sin identitet i samband med våldserfarenheterna och mediala diskurser.
(2013-09-27)Denna fallstudie tar upp enskilda kvinnors upplevelser i samband med mediala diskurser och identitet utifrån deras position som tidigare utsatta för direkt patriarkalt våld. Vissa diskursiva begrepp diskuteras, exempelvis ... -
Från input till output: En kvalitativ studie om hur resultatkrav inom biståndet påverkar svenska civilsamhällesorganisationer och mottagarens möjlighet till participation
(2013-09-25)This bachelor thesis is based on the current discourse within the aid policy, which highlights and focuses on measurability and reporting of results within the development cooperation. The purpose of this study is to ... -
Sustainability or a Waste?: A study of the impacts of the Basura Cero law on the social sustainability of the cartoneros in Buenos Aires
(2013-09-16)This thesis aims to investigate what implications that the environmentally oriented waste management law Basura Cero has on the social sustainability situation of marginalised waste pickers – cartoneros - in Buenos Aires. ... -
Unga identiteter i förändringens Portugal: En postkolonial analys av unga, universitetsutbildade portugisers identitet i relation till de forna kolonierna och de förändrade relationerna till dessa länder
(2013-09-13)A radical change is taking place in the world today: some former colonies are now booming economically while several former colonizers are suffering from economic crisis. Postcolonial theory states that old structures from ... -
Alternatives for another world?: En kritisk analys av Occupy Wall Street-rörelsens idéer för strukturell förändring
(2013-09-06)In the wake of the latest financial crisis, a group of individuals launched the Occupy Wall Street movement. It wanted to change the structures that economic and political life are founded upon. They believe that the ... -
UNEP Major Groups Facilitating Committee: An Evolving System
(2013-08-29)This human ecology thesis scrutinizes the Major Groups Facilitating Committee (MGFC) as an evolving system for stakeholder participation in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Mixed research methods for both ... -
Suveränitet kontra humanitär intervention i Libyen 2011
(2013-07-19)For one month during the beginning of 2011, the world followed the violent events in Libya. During this time the United Nations was faced with a complex question, could they handle the ongoing violence and find a solution ... -
Kvinnokroppen som diskursivt slagfält: avvikande visuella representationer av genus i Pussy Riots musikvideor.
(2013-06-18)In this paper I will examine the five Pussy Riot music videos that the group has published online on their official You Tube website. I will examine them through a “gender lens” looking at their visual representations of ... -
Veto: En motivanalys av FN:s säkerhetsråds fem permanenta medlemmars agerande i konflikten i Syrien.
(2013-06-18)Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the possible motives behind the actions of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in relation to the conflict in Syria. The background of this aim is the Arab Spring ... -
Role of Political Parties in the Democratic System of Pakistan
(2013-06-18)This research was performed to investigate the role of political parties in Pakistan over the last two decades. This paper also attempts to discuss how parties and their actions affect the democratic culture in the state. ... -
Securitizing the Virtuality of the Real: A Gramscian Analysis of the Securitization of U.S. Cyberspace Governance.
(2013-05-07)This thesis analyzes the contemporary conformations of governance in the U.S. discourse on cyberspace through a Gramscian theory of International Relations. The thesis primarily focuses upon the question of governance ... -
Pirate Politics: Information Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Politics
(2013-04-03)This thesis sets out to address the question of how Information Technologies (ITs) become politically relevant, both by drawing on different theoretical approaches and by undertaking a qualitative study about the Swedish ... -
Varför har European Civil Peace Corps inte bildats?: En studie om civilt fredsbevarande, maktutövande och kämpande diskurser.
(2013-03-26)The purpose of this study is to find out why the EU has not yet implemented the European Civil Peace Corps (ECPC), which the EU Parliament took a resolution about in 1999. The more specific questions posed are whether ... -
Bias much?: Hugo Chavez media portrayal during the presidential election of 2012.
(2013-03-15)This is a study in International Relations with the definition of International Relations as being how we understand what happens and even how we come to define some international events as more worthy of coverage than ... -
Women’s Recognition in Peacebuilding: Implementing Security Council Resolution 1325 in South Sudan
(2013-03-14)The signing of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security” in October 2000, marked the first time in the UN history that women’s role in maintaining peace and security was recognized by the Council. ... -
“Vi försvinner som en droppe i havet”: En uppsats om svenska civilsamhällesorganisationers upplevelser av sina påverkansmöjligheter i EU
(2013-03-06)This Bachelor Thesis looks at the cooperation between the Swedish civil society and the European Union (EU), and it aims at evaluating Swedish civil society organizations' influence within the EU's development work on ...