Kandidatuppsatser / Globala studier: Recent submissions
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CHANGES IN JAPAN'S STRATEGIC CULTURE – THE SEVEN SINS TO PACIFISM: Japan’s Move Away From Pacifism Explained With Strategic Culture.
(2018-02-13)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the changes within Japan’s Strategic Culture that have led Japan to move away from their previous pacifist mindset and become more militarily active in, for example, the South China ... -
Business versus sustainability? A qualitative study focused on Swedish business students’ perceptions of business sustainability and its relation to action competence as part of UN’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
(2017-10-12)Across the world it is recognized that business have to become more sustainable. Different sustainability initiatives have started to emerge in educational settings, but still few educators are able to graduate business ... -
“Babe your ass is looking tight”: En jämförande studie om kvinnliga utseendeideal, en hälsosam livsstil och den feminina kroppen på hälsobloggar
(2017-10-09)Health and people's wellbeing is an important issue in the Western society today. Moreover had today’s technology changed the way we look at bodies in the fashion industry and in social media. Women’s bodies are sometimes ... -
Hiphop över klasserna: En studie om lyssningsvanor, identitet och social hållbarhet bland gymnasieelever
(2017-10-09)Hip-hop as a subject in social science has not been around for as long as many other music genres and this study is therefore able to fill a research gap when it comes to appropriation of this global genre between social ... -
Smartphone Panopticon and the Securitized Plurality: A study of the relationship between the Islamic State, Media and Power
(2017-10-09)The events caused by the Islamic State can be read close-to-daily in Swedish newspapers. Since the Islamic State came under the scope of the four major Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska ... -
Transgendering Menstruation: En kvalitativ studie av uppfattningar kring menstruation i relation till transidentitet i Sverige.
(2017-10-09)The purpose of this essay is to shed light on transgender persons’ experiences and perceptions of menstruation, and thereby identify and show how menstruation, as well as gender, is culturally constructed. In doing so the ... -
Att lära för livet: En studie om förståelse, föreställningar och attityder i förhållande till hållbar utveckling bland studenter vid Göteborgs universitet
(2017-09-14)Det mänskliga samhället står inför en rad stora utmaningar, och i takt med globaliseringen får effekterna av mänsklig aktivitet allt större geografisk spridning. Konsekvenser av vårt handlande är avlägsna i tid och rum, ... -
En mycket märkvärdig flicka: En intersektionell analys av berättelsen om Pippi Långstrump utifrån funktionalitet, genus, ålder och vithet
(2017-09-06)The famous story about Pippi Longstocking has been around for over 70 years and millions of children, generation after generation, has gotten to know the strong little girl who never wants to grow up. 2015 was a new ... -
WHOSE PEACE? ”A content of ideas analysis of the underlying norms of democratic involvement in peacemaking – as improvers of circumstances for legitimate peace processes, or as complicating idealist norms.”
(2017-08-18)In peacemaking, methods of inclusion are extensively pushed for with the main motivation that it gives the peace process a greater legitimacy. But exclusion is also deemed necessary as it is required to reach an agreement ... -
The Rojava Revolution: Kurdish women’s reclaim of citizenship in a stateless context
(2016-09-28)The Kurds have historically been subjected to structural forms of oppression such as being denied the right to land, their language, culture, political participation or even a passport and social security number. Within ... -
We are Women in Coffee!: An explanatory case study of Fairtrade’s gendered impact on female and male farmers of a Fairtrade certified Kenyan coffee cooperative
(2016-09-28)Due to globalisation, the world is becoming increasingly intertwined with complex global trade networks linking producers and consumers through largely unequal relationships. Fairtrade addresses this inequality by ... -
Att flytta iväg eller stanna kvar?: En undersökning om avfolkning av Västernorrland ur ett intersektionellt perspektiv
(2016-09-13)The aim of this thesis is to study the ongoing depopulation of the rural areas of northern Sweden, specifically in the county of Västernorrland. The county suffers socially and economically because of the urbanization. A ... -
Making fashion sustainable and making sustainability fashionable: en fallstudie av makt och påverkan mellan Swedwatch och svenska textilföretag
(2016-09-12)The aim of this paper is to consider how Swedwatch use their power to influence social responsibility and sustainability in the Swedish textile industry. Through theories of power, responsibility and influence the study ... -
Refugee Biopolitics: A discourse analysis of the Swedish government’s recent shift in the speech on refugees
(2016-08-25)The increased movement of people across nation borders of recent years further complicates the relation between nationality and citizenship, thus challenging the nation state’s project of controlling its population. One ... -
EU leaving the refugees at the doorstep: An analysis of the readmission agreement between the EU and Turkey in the current refugee situation.
(2016-06-22)60 million refugees in the world, the highest number since World War II; how is the world responding? This study seeks to examine the changes in the EU politics, were the EU have chosen to handle the so called “refugees ... -
“What makes you Israeli”: A qualitative study of young men’s testimonies on military service, nationality and identity in Israel
(2016-06-13)Military service is an important site of contact between the state and citizen. Studying military service can highlight the penetrating power of nationalism, as the state makes a claim of the individual’s sacrifice in ... -
Det bekymmersfria resandet: En studie om socialt ansvar och svenska researrangörers arbete för homo- och bisexuella personers mänskliga rättigheter i sina destinationsländer
(2016-06-10)Globalisation is very much related to an increased mobility across the world. Since homosexuality or homosexual acts are criminalised in 75 countries and homophobia exists in all societies worldwide, this mobility is ... -
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 ...