Search for dissertations about: "Anette Nyqvist"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Anette Nyqvist.

2. 1. Opening the Orange Envelope : Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System

   Author : Anette Nyqvist; Christina Garsten; Douglas R. Holmes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; national pension system; welfare state reform; governance; political technology; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : A national pension system, like most large government policies, does many things, some of which involve governing the population and steering citizens in certain directions. This study, on the transformation of Sweden’s national pension system, sheds light on who the actors involved at different sites and levels in the policy process are, what they do, and how they do it. READ MORE

4. 2. Laboring Through Uncertainty : an ethnography of the Chinese state, labor NGOs, and development

   Author : Darcy Pan; Johan Lindquist; Anette Nyqvist; Stephan Feuchtwang; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; uncertainty; intimacy; complicity; mingan; secrecy; state; NGO; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study sets out to understand how international development projects supporting labor activism work in contemporary China. It focuses on the lived experiences of and relationships among a group of grassroots⁠ labor NGOs in the province of Guangdong, South China; intermediary NGOs in Hong Kong; and Western funding agencies that try to bring about social change in postsocialist China where the political climate is still highly restrictive and the limits of the state’s tolerance for activism are ambiguous and uncertain. READ MORE