Master Theses: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Mänskliga rättigheter i samhällskunskapen: Utifrån ett lärarperspektiv
(2013-03-05)Human rights have been added to the new curriculum which came into force the 1st of July 2011 in the Swedish Upper Secondary school. The purpose with this master thesis is to compare the old and the new curriculum as part ... -
Rhetoric Techniques of Labeling of Environmentalists as "Terrorists": the Case of the Earth Liberation Front in the United States of America, 1996 – 2006
(2013-03-01)This thesis analyzes the rhetoric techniques of terrorism labeling with the focus on the Earth Liberation Front in the USA, 1996-2006. Narratives of terrorism have found extreme popularity in various dimensions of social ... -
The Graying State of Site-Specific Art and Practice: Globalization, Biennialization and the Curatorial Turn
(2013-02-13)This thesis argues that there exists a graying state of site specificity. A range of gradients of site-specific art and practice that reflect the convoluted, muddled and simultaneously fluid state that has resulted due ... -
You must be hard-nosed!: A gender analysis of excluding organizational cultures in a production environment
(2012-10-30)In international human rights law, the boundaries between legal discrimination and its more subtle forms, exclusion, are very vague and difficult to frame. This thesis examines the subtle intangible mechanisms leading to ... -
Blockbuster exhibitions: The Future of Swedish Museums?
(2012-10-18)With the heavy cutbacks worldwide in the museum field, museums need to find other methods to finance their operations (Black, 2012). The survival of museums depends if the audiences come. If no one visits the museum, ... -
”Vi fixar och trixar oss fram till att hjälpa människor”: En studie med fokus på det sociala arbetet med köpare och säljare av sexuella tjänster i Sverige i relation till mänskliga rättigheter.
(2012-10-18)The thesis ”Vi fixar och trixar oss fram till att hjälpa människor” focuses on social work in the field of prostitution and human trafficking in Sweden. Through semi-structured interviews with social workers in the ... -
Longing for the global West: Georgian women’s organisation representatives’ perceptions of the global and the local
(2012-10-02)In academic discourses, the “globalisation process” is often described as multidimensional, non-unitary and erratic. Globally spread ideas, practices and values are commonly regarded as being re-interpreted and changed ... -
(Re)framing national discourse: an analysing perspective of the role of one object in several (dis)plays
(2012-10-02)Exhibitions, as frames for displayed objects, mediate and talk about the past as if it had just happened. Stories are being told through arrangement and physical categorization of museum materials, which were collected in ... -
Archiving Artistic Processes in Evolving Relationships
(2012-08-08)This thesis is concerned with the institutionalization of artistic processes, particularly in the forms of the archive and the art museum. It is argued that artistic processes are complex, varied, and involves many ... -
Steps toward sustainability in higher education institutions: Management practices on focus.
(2012-08-07)The purpose of this research is to assess the state of management efforts towards sustainability in higher education institutions. The analysis is based on two main sources of data. On the one hand an analysis of ... -
Revealing the Silent Message of the Museum: The Legacies of Institutional Critique
(2012-07-06)Joining reflections examining the legacies of institutional critique, this thesis focuses on the transforming roles of its producers, consumers and targets. A theoretical thesis emerging from desk-based research, it uses ...