Global Studies: Recent submissions
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Becoming Diversity: Critical perspectives on an anti-racist discourse in contemporary Swedish media
(2012-06-20)This thesis focuses the Swedish anti-racist campaign ”Vi gillar olika” that was launched in relation to the Swedish election 2010, where the anti-immigration party Sverigedemokraterna gained parliamentary representation. ... -
Large Scale Foreign Land Acquisitions: Neoliberal Opportunities or Neocolonial Challenges?
(2012-06-20)Over the last decade, a dramatic rise in commercial agricultural investment has taken place the world over at a rate much higher than previous times. Some of the causes that spurred this whole business happen to be mainly ... -
European Partnership with Africa: A Partnership of Values
(2012-05-24)This thesis set out to understand how European rhetoric legitimises European intervention in development and coerces African leaders into the Eurocentric world order. This through analysing the discourse in four Africa-policies ... -
A conversion of nature’s value?: A critical analysis of the TEEB as an appropriate tool to valuate ecosystems and biodiversity with an empirical analysis of a Climate Change adaptation project in Falsterbo-Skanör Vellinge
(2012-05-10)This thesis critically analyzes the appropriateness of The Economics of Ecosystems and Bio-diversity (TEEB) in terms of theoretical and practical implications and limitations. Separated into two parts, this thesis firstly ... -
Neglecting the public and focusing on the private: "The situation of education in Nigeria"
(2012-05-10)This research looks into the problem of public education funding in Nigeria. Immediately after independence, great strides were made in the area of mass education. The government’s efforts towards education recorded huge ... -
Sweden’s Policy for Global Development: A paper product or a powerful tool?
(2012-05-10)In 2003, the Swedish Policy for Global Development (PGD) was adopted. Through the PGD, Sweden has made a very strong, ambitious and quite unique commitment that all policy areas should comply with the goal of an equitable ... -
The Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – A study of 3 municipalities in Sweden: Örebro – Strängnäs – Borås
(2012-05-10)This research aims at discovering how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is being implemented within three municipalities in Sweden. By doing so, the research will unthread obstacles as well as possibilities ...