School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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Finns det plats för mångkultur i den franska enigheten?: En kvalitativ undersökning om hur ett förbud mot utländska flaggor i Frankrike kan förklaras med nationalistisk och postkolonialistisk teori.
(2015-09-28)When the Algerian national team in June 2014 won their first game in the Men’s World Cup in football since 1982, Algerians all over the world celebrated the victory. In several French cities large masses of people defiled ... -
Samverkan för uppfyllandet av miljökvalitetsnormerna för vatten: en fallstudie av projektet Mälaren – en sjö för miljoner
(2015-09-18)In the year 2000, the European Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC) was adopted with the purpose to achieve sustainable water resource management of all waters within the European Union. However, the environmental ... -
"Men jag kan väl inte vara med och odla..?": En kvalitativ studie om vilka hinder det finns, och hur de kan förebyggas, för att odlingsintresserade ska delta i kollektivodling på Ekobacken i Växjö.
(2015-09-18)Rapid urbanization is threatening a sustainable development of cities. At the same time, cities possess a great opportunity to come up with sustainable solutions. As an urban strategy for sustainable development, urban ... -
“Show the world we are one”: The role of football in peacebuilding attempts
(2015-09-14)There is a growing field of local administered initiatives using, formerly leisure activities or hobbies, as tools to achieve social development of different types, from encouraging school attendance to facilitating peace ... -
Uyghur Identity: Contestation and Construction of Identity in a Conflict Setting
(2015-09-14)This study explores and discusses the dynamics of identity in conflict through examining Uyghur collective identity in the specific context of China as an emerging power. Particular attention ... -
Honor and Happiness: An ethnographic study of arranged marriages in a context of tradition and globalization in South India
(2015-09-04)The tradition of arranged marriages is still the most popular form of organizing a marital relationship in India. Traditionally, parents are in charge of choosing the life partner for their child, which is a manifestation ... -
Speaking in new ways: Media representations of the Asylum Relay
(2015-09-03)In the summer 2013 a group of people walked from Malmö to Stockholm with the purpose to raise awareness about the refugee policies in Sweden. The initiative is called the Asylum Relay, Asylstafetten in Swedish, and was ... -
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in the Development of Mauritius: The Marginalization of the Creole Community
(2015-07-29)The success of Mauritius has often been mentioned as a lesson for African countries to learn from involving a decreased inequality gap, improved living standards and full democracy in Africa, which is unique for the ... -
En ny maktfaktor i en världsordning i förändring: En kvalitativ studie om the New Development Bank, Världsbanken och global governance
(2015-07-29)During the last decades, the international political and financial landscape has changed dramatically. China surpassed the U.S as the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms in 2014 and emerging economies ... -
Security and Fear in Israeli and Palestinian Conflict Narratives: A Social-Psychological Study
(2015-07-21)The Israeli and Palestinian societies are involved in a long-lasting and violent conflict, where any considerable de-escalation has been conspicuously absent for the last twenty years. The seemingly never-ending spirals ... -
The Role of Buddhism in Society and Radical Buddhist Mobilization: An Explorative Study of Young Monks in Sri Lanka
(2015-06-15)Radical Buddhist mobilization in post-war Sri Lanka is taking place in an international context where religious groups are gaining a lot of attention in for instance media and by political leaders as well as by researchers. ... -
Euroskepticism i västeuropeiska storpartier: En jämförelsestudie av svenska Socialdemokraterna och brittiska Conservative Party
(2015-05-26)Denna studie jämför euroskepticismen inom två europeiska partier, Socialdemokraterna i Sverige och The Conservative and the Unionist Party i Storbritannien, i syfte att bidra till svaret på följande frågor: vilka faktorer ... -
Coping with climate variability in West Pokot, Kenya: The influences of land use on responses to climate variability, by pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in arid and semi-arid areas of West Pokot, Kenya.
(2015-03-09)Many pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in semi-arid and arid areas in East Africa, face the challenge of climate change, while the pressure on land is increasing and at the same time land use changes are ongoing. ... -
Playing with Fire: Empowerment and Conflict Transformation via Educational Drama
(2015-03-04)Conflict is an inescapable reality of human interaction. While the vast majority of conflicts are solved quickly and discretely, some affect the lives of millions and persist for decades. The wide-ranging and complex nature ... -
R2P as a global principle?: A case study of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(2015-02-17)The principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been described as revolutionary in its affect on the relationship between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and national sovereignty by placing an even greater ... -
Sveriges politik för global utveckling: En uppsats om de fattigas perspektiv samt rättighetsperspektivet i den svenska handelspolitiken
(2015-02-02)Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur de fattigas- samt rättighetsperspektivet kommer till uttryck i Sveriges politik för global utveckling. Uppsatsen ämnar också att diskutera samstämmighetspolitikens prestation ... -
The Other Male Rapist - in Swedish Printed media's news reporting about rape in 2013
(2015-01-22)This study investigates how the Other male rapist is constructed and the attributes ascribed to him, as well as all male rapists, in Swedish printed media’s (Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet) news reporting ... -
Everyday Dialogues in Highland Peru: With and Beyond Development Interventions
(2015-01-15)Development is the enterprise of triggering economic, social and political improvements through policy design and planned interventions and ameliorating negative effects of change. Feminist and anthropological studies of ...