School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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“Stop Rape [of women and girls] Now”: En diskursanalys av UN Action:s representationer av förövare och offer till konfliktrelaterat sexuellt våld
(2014-06-30)Konfliktrelaterat sexuellt våld är ett fenomen som fått stor internationell uppmärksamhet under de senaste två decennierna. Det har talats om passiva och sårbara kvinnor som brutalt våldtagits av uniformklädda män. I ... -
Human rights within the discussion of entrepreneurship: On a secondary level in the education system
(2014-06-27)In Sweden in the year of 2011 a new curriculum was put in place on the secondary level. This curriculum contains the introduction of human rights and the demand that human rights shall be visible within all subjects on the ... -
Upplevelser av osäkerhet: En kvalitativ studie av globaliseringens effekter för ungas etablering på arbetsmarknad och familjebildning
(2014-06-23)Globalization is described as processes of economic, social and political character and a tendency in the field has been to study these aspects of the phenomenon separately. Another common feature of previous studies is ... -
Reducing Hierarchies for Improved Equality in the Workplace?: The Case of the Worker Cooperative Vio.Me, Greece
(2014-06-23)Part of the reason why cooperative organizations are formed is to strive towards a more equal decision-making in the workplace. Due to their potential horizontal structure, cooperatives are seen as organizations which ... -
Mödradödlighet i Afrika söder om Sahara: En kvantitativ studie om den nationella utvecklingens påverkan på mödradödlighet.
(2014-05-02)About 1000 women in the so called developing countries die every day associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Sub-Saharan Africa is the worst affected region. This study aims to explore the different key factors in national ... -
Towards a Critical Social Theory of Landscape: Perceptions and Experiences of Land-use Change in Chepareria, Kenya
(2014-04-17)Increasing human pressure on ecological systems has triggered a need to understand the complexities of human-environment dynamics. Using land-use as an example this thesis asks, how do individuals belonging to different ... -
El Sistema Hammarkullen: En kvalitativ studie om hur El Sistema bidrar till social inkludering
(2014-04-03)Social exkludering är ett aktuellt samhällsproblem lokalt liksom globalt. Det handlar i stort om individers och gruppers möjligheter till delaktighet i samhället, vilket avgörs av sociala, ekonomiska, politiska och kulturella ... -
The US-Taiwan Security Relationship: In The Light of A Perceived Chinese Threat Since 1971 To Today
(2014-03-31)The aim of this research is to examine how a small country like Taiwan maintains a relationship with the sole superpower ‘the United States of America’ in terms of sovereignty and security against perceived Chinese political ... -
Implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti): Stakeholders’ Perspectives in the Case of Colombia
(2014-03-24)This thesis will address accountability and transparency issues in the Colombian Extractive Industry by assessing the eventual subscription of the country to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The ... -
Violence against women and femicides: Evaluation of legislation to end it in Guatemala
(2014-03-20)Currently, Guatemala is after El Salvador the country where most women are being murdered per capita in the world. In 2008, the Guatemalan Congress approved the Law Against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence Against ... -
Forced Labor and the Migration Industry: Outsourcing Agencies and Migrant Workers in Malaysia
(2014-03-03)Over the past decades migration has increased rapidly and during the same period migration has become an increasingly politicized and securitized issue. In the intersection between politically motivated barriers to ... -
Irregular immigration and the European Union border control policies: Personal experiences of asylum seekers in the Trampoline House (Copenhagen, Denmark) with the EU border regimes and the Danish asylum system.
(2014-02-19)The current qualitative research is focused on the irregular asylum immigration into the European Union (EU) within a context of securitization practices. The case study is the Trampoline House - a small NGO in Copenhagen, ... -
Todas somos Liderezas: A qualitative study of female leadership and political participation within the Comarca Ngobe-Buglé in Panama
(2014-01-15)Throughout Latin America there seems to have been a significant increase in indigenous women’s involvement in politics and many female political leaders have risen in the political ranks. This suggest a shift from their ... -
Ekonomisk vinst, miljöhänsyn och statligt företagande
(2013-11-27)Den här uppsatsen kommer undersöka huruvida det finns prioriteringar som inte överensstämmer med styrdokument, politiska ställningstaganden eller uttalade mål för verksamheten i statligt styrda Vattenfall. Detta kommer ... -
The Epitome of a Lost People’s Home: Sweden Democrats’ Discourse of Ontological Security And National Identity Formation
(2013-11-05)As globalization processes are continuously developing, and bringing the world in to every person’s backyard, many problems may arise. Insecurity in one’s self-identity, national belonging and cultural heritage may entail ... -
Welfare, Integration and Human Rights: A study on labour market segregation and integration policy in Norway.
(2013-10-30)A fundamental principle of human rights is that of equality and non-discrimination. This should apply to every human being on an individual basis and to everyone of a Member State’s territory. However, in many countries ... -
Skeppsbron: En väg mot ett mer integrerat hållbarhets- och klimatanpassningsarbete i Göteborg?
(2013-10-28)Att vi går en värld till mötes som blir mer och mer påverkad av klimatförändringarna är ingen nyhet. I vilken takt eller exakt vilka effekter dessa förändringar kommer att leda till, är osäkra. För att minska konsekvenserna ... -
Fri att tycka men maktlös att förändra: En studie av blogginlägg och identitetskapande runt paradoxen fri subjektivitet och maktlöshet.
(2013-10-21)Grundtanken till denna uppsats bygger på min erfarenhet av två motsatta föreställningar i det svenska samhället. Dels en generell bild av individen som självskapande, fri och subjektiv. En föreställning som, tillsammans ... -
Somaliska pirater - ett mycket litet problem: En undersökning av Sveriges arbete gällande frågan om somaliska pirater under 2009-2010.
(2013-10-16)During 2009-2010 Sweden participated in an international military operation whose intention, according to the Swedish news media, was to fight Somali pirates. The purpose of this thesis is to study various decisions and ... -
"Reencountering our ways": A discourse analysis of indigenous women's work for their individual rights within the Mayan systems in Guatemala.
(2013-10-11)Legal pluralism, the co-existence of several legal systems within the same state, exists in most countries in the world. This existence of parallel legal systems can enhance women’s access to justice, for example if these ...