Search for dissertations about: "1960s"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 225 swedish dissertations containing the word 1960s.

2. 1. "We are in the Congo now" : Sweden and the trinity of peacekeeping during the Congo crisis 1960-1964

   Author : Andreas Tullberg; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; UN; government; ONUC; Peacekeeping; Sweden; Congo; Katanga; 1960s; Cold War; Carl von Clausewitz; trinity; conflict; war; military; media;

   Abstract : his work examines the contemporaneous Swedish experience from participation in the United Nations operation in the Congo, ONUC, from 1960 to 1964. Inspired by Carl von Clausewitz’s understanding of war as a trinity consisting of three ‘nodes’: the political authority, the people and the military, this study focuses on the ONUC experience as described by the government in Sweden, leading Swedish news media and the Swedish battalions serving in the Congo. READ MORE

4. 2. The liberalisation of telecommunications in Sweden : Technology and regime change from the 1960s to 1993

   Author : Magnus Karlsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; telecommunications; liberalisation; deregulation; international regimes; national regimes; sociotechnical systems; large technical systems; technological convergence; Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : This study describes the liberalisation of telecommunications in Sweden and analyses the role of technology in this process. The stable and largely successful traditional monopoly regime was challenged in the 1980s by the development of new technologies and the general trend towards market orientation and competition. READ MORE

5. 3. Greenland's future : narratives of natural resource development in the 1900s until the 1960s

   Author : Janina Priebe; Erland Mårald; Jenny Eklöf; Matthias Heymann; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greenland; modernization; 20th-century history; colonial history; narrative; history of science and ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis identifies and analyzes narratives of Greenland's future that emerged in the context of developing and modernizing the dependency's natural resources industries in the 1900s until the 1960s. After almost two centuries of Danish colonial rule, the turn of the 20th century witnessed a profound change in Greenland's governance. READ MORE

6. 4. Marine environmental governance and management in Sweden from the 1960s until today : Did the actions suit the needs?

   Author : Kjell Grip; Sven Bolmqvist; Kjell Larsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; International programmes on ocean and seas; Baltic Sea; Kattegat-Skagerrak; Marine spatial planning and management; Marine Ecology; marin ekologi;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how governance and management relevant to the use and protection of the marine environment has emerged in Sweden from the 1960s until today. Focus is on how the modern environmental and nature conservation administration in Sweden developed the legal and organizational frameworks needed for proper management. READ MORE

7. 5. Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s

   Author : Yulia Gradskova; Lisa Öberg; Helene Carlbäck; Lynne Attwood; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; oral history; Soviet Russia; maternity; beauty; everyday life; memory; body; normality; femininity; gender; intersectionality; History; Historia; historia; History; Gender studies;

   Abstract : The everyday practices of maternity and beauty are important for the enactment of femininity. This dissertation deals with femininities created in the context of changing ideas about “normality” in Soviet Russia during the mid 1930s-1960s and explores a diversity of norms, discourses and rituals. READ MORE