Search for dissertations about: "activism"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 102 swedish dissertations containing the word activism.
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11. Digital media and the transnationalization of protests
Abstract : Recent developments in communications technology have transformed how social movements might mobilize, and how they can organize their activities. This thesis explores some of the geographical consequences of the use of digital media for political activism. It does this by focusing on the transnationalization of protests. READ MORE
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12. Openness as Political Culture : The Arab Spring and the Jordanian Protest Movements
Abstract : This study is an exploration of the origins of the Arab Spring in Jordan and across the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the leadership of the Jordanian protest movements, it suggests a new way of understanding why these movements fell apart. READ MORE
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13. This is not citizenship. Analysing the claims of disability activists in Sweden
Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to sociology, citizenship studies and disability studies by responding to T.H. Marshall’s ([1950]1992) invitation to examine the development of equal citizenship in a context of structural inequality, and Jenkins’ (1991) call to consider disability as a dimension of social stratification. READ MORE
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14. Activist Entrepreneurship : Attac'ing Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories
Abstract : This dissertation aims to extend entrepreneurship theory to also comprise entrepreneurship in non-profit organizations in civil society. Entrepreneurship is claimed to be highly relevant also to this non-profit setting. READ MORE
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15. Steal this place : the aesthetics of tactical formlessness and "The Free Town of Christiania"
Abstract : Studien avhandlar urbana förändrings- och estetiseringsprocesser med utgångspunkt i den själv-organiserande Fristaden Christiania i Köpenhamn. Arbetshypotesen är den att ett uppmärksammande av expressiva, aktivistiska urbana representationsformer kan leda till en annan förståelse av rumslig gestaltning än den som nu dominerar planeringsfältet. READ MORE