Search for dissertations about: "development as freedom"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 171 swedish dissertations containing the words development as freedom.

  2. 6. International Financial Institutions and Labour Standards : A Legal Study of the Role of These Institutions in the Promotion and Implementation of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

    Author : Mpoki Mwakagali; Niklas Bruun; Tonia Novitz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international financial institutions; international labour standards; freedom of association and collective bargaining; conditionality; international law; human rights; development; Private Law; civilrätt;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the legal implications of the operations of international financial institutions (IFIs) on international labour standards on freedom of association and collective bargaining. International financial institutions provide financial assistance to member states for development activities and attach conditionality to their lending. READ MORE

  4. 7. An infrastructure of freedom : Atlanta, race, and the struggle over public transportation in the capitalist city

    Author : Marcus Mohall; Don Mitchell; David Jansson; Theresa Enright; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public transportation; transit; transit struggles; transportation; planning; mobility; politics of mobility; transportation politics; infrastructure; capitalism; race; USA; US South; Atlanta; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a multiscalar analysis of the production and struggle over the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the main transit system in metro Atlanta. It examines how the actions and visions of the state, capital, and transportation activists intersect to structure how and to what extent transit systems can be organized to realize their distinctive potential to allow urban residents to meet their basic mobility needs. READ MORE

  5. 8. From nobody to somebody : Women’s struggle to achieve dignity and self-reliance in a Bangladeshi village

    Author : Annika Forsslund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Empowering women; development education; rural development; self-reliance; dialogue; life history approach; Bangladesh;

    Abstract : This study concerns a rural development project in a village in Bangladesh,initiated in 1973 and followed up regularly until 1991. The original project included the development of a jute handicraft cooperative for women, started and supervised by the authorThe aims of the thesis are: to describe and analyze the process of change in the lives of some women, engaged in the cooperative, to shed light on this process from the women's perspective, and to discuss what can and should be a target for development education for rural women, coming from the lowest social stratum of society. READ MORE

  6. 9. Justice and Society : Problems of Reformist Politics

    Author : Mikael Spång; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; communication; good; right; ethics; morality; social unfreedom; equality; freedom; democracy; social justice; capitalism; reformism; social democracy; Management of enterprises; management; Företagsledning;

    Abstract : The subject of the dissertation is a theoretical discussion of the possibilities and limitations of reformist politics. Theories of social justice and democracy are discussed and assessed in relation to the argument that reformist politics, which underlie the welfare state program, is a contradictory politics. READ MORE

  7. 10. Beta Camera: Development and applications

    Author : Kaj Ljunggren; Lund Medicinsk strålningsfysik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Klinisk fysiologi; radiologi; tomografi; medicinsk instrumentering; medical instrumentation; tomography; radiology; Clinical physics; microchannel plate; radionuclides; scintillator; autoradiography; Beta Camera;

    Abstract : A new detector for on-line digital detection of charged particles (beta-particles, conversion electrons and alpha-particles) from thin samples for rapid autoradiography has been developed; the Beta Camera. The device consists of a photon-sensitive detector (image photon detector, IPD); the main component of which is a microchannel plate. READ MORE