Search for dissertations about: "Empirical Research"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 3068 swedish dissertations containing the words Empirical Research.

  2. 11. Adaptation, now? : Exploring the Politics of Climate Adaptation through Poststructuralist Discourse Theory

    Author : Elise Remling; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Åsa Persson; Sirkku Juhola; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Climate change adaptation; Adaptation policy development; Politics of adaptation; Discourse; Poststructuralist Discourse Theory; Logics of Critical Explanation; Discourse Analysis; European Union; Germany; Qualitative policy analysis; Critical policy studies; Fantasy; Depoliticisation; Environmental Studies; Miljövetenskapliga studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : Increasing evidence of anthropogenic climate change and the recognition that warming is likely to go beyond 2°C raises the need for responses that help people cope with the anticipated changes. The rise of attention to so-called climate adaptation on political agendas at the local, national and international scale has come about with a hastily growing field of academic knowledge production. READ MORE

  4. 12. Analyzing Competitive Victimhood : Narratives of recognition and nonrecognition in the pursuit of reconciliation

    Author : Cagla Demirel; Simon Birnbaum; Fredrika Björklund; Johanna Mannergren Selimovic; Camilla Orjuela; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; competitive victimhood; post-conflict; reconciliation; ethnonational relations; narratives; competitive victimhood; postkonflikt; försoning; etnonationella relationer; narrativ; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyzes the narrative manifestation of competitive victimhood and its variations within reconciliation processes. Competitive victimhood (CV) emerges when opposing groups assert themselves to be the sole or primary victims of conflict or use their historical suffering to rationalize ingroup transgressions. READ MORE

  5. 13. Imagining Urban Gardening Space : An Ethnographic Study of Urban Gardening in Sweden

    Author : Ida Åberg; Charlotte Fridolfsson; Jörgen Ödalen; Anna Kaijser; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public space; urban gardening; Sweden; post-structuralism; psychoanalysis; ethnography;

    Abstract : Urban gardening is a phenomenon that increasingly occupies the limited space in cities. In discourse, urban gardening is constructed as a positive element and as something that can build a productive environment in urban areas. However, using urban space for gardening raises questions about the delimitations of public space. READ MORE

  6. 14. Capturing and Analysing Emotions to Support Organisational Learning : The Affect Based Learning Matrix

    Author : Theresia Olsson Neve; Paul Johannesson; Janis Stirna; Marite Kirikova; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Knowledge Management; Organisational Learning; Emotions; Affects; Perspective Change; Knowledge Management Systems; Web-based Knowledge Management Support; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the importance of managing employees’ thoughts and feelings in relation to organisational learning. To visualise and to identify affections within organisations is of major importance since most of our actions and the decisions we make are steered by our emotions rather than rational thinking. READ MORE

  7. 15. Just Labor : Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community

    Author : Vladislava Vladimirova; Hugh Beach; Piers Vitebsky; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Cultural anthropology; labor ethic; reindeer herding; ethnic obshchina; postsocialism; sovkhoism; Kola Peninsula; Russian Sami; Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This book explores the main ethical norms that influence labor in reindeer herding in the European part of the Russian North (Murmansk Region). It is based on the assumption that Soviet ideological discourse of labor has been reinterpreted in practice, and has shaped specific patterns of work that may seem contradictory to their official source. READ MORE