Search for dissertations about: "governmentality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 67 swedish dissertations containing the word governmentality.

  2. 6. Governing Black and White : A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770-1900

    Author : Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonialism; comparison; postcolonial studies; slavery; racism; punishment; hybridity; liberalism; economy; police; Michel Foucault; governmentality; kolonialism; komparation; postkoloniale studier; slaveri; rasism; bestraffning; hybriditet; liberalism; ekonomi; polis; Michel Foucault; governmentality;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores and compares the rationalities through which Danish state officials sought to govern the colonized Afro-Caribbean population in the colony of the Danish West Indies and the state’s Danish subjects living in the metropole of Denmark in the period 1770-1900. Theoretically, it relies upon Michel Foucault’s conception of ’governmentality’ and the way this approach to governing, and to state power more generally, has been employed in various colonial and European settings, particularly within the field of colonial governmentality studies. READ MORE

  4. 7. (Re)Inventing the Armed Forces: A Governmentality Analysis of Swedish Military Marketing and Outreach in the Era of Voluntarism

    Author : Sanna Strand; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Civil-military relations; Governmentality; Gender exceptionalism; Military recruitment; Military identity; Public relations;

    Abstract : In 2010, Sweden abandoned its century-old military conscription in favour of an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) was now exposed to competition over labour, and soldiering was no longer a duty connected to male citizenship. It was a job among many. READ MORE

  5. 8. Ethnicizing Employability : Governing the Unemployed in Labour Market Projects in Sweden

    Author : Viktor Vesterberg; Magnus Dahlstedt; Åsa-Karin Engstrand; Oscar Pripp; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Employability; unemployment; social inclusion; social exclusion; ethnicity; governmentality; Anställningsbarhet; arbetslöshet; social inkludering; social exkludering; etnicitet; governmentality;

    Abstract : The dissertation analyzes labour market projects co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) targeting unemployed migrants and ethnicized groups. The analysis is qualitative, discourse-oriented and based on Foucault’s concept of governmentality. READ MORE

  6. 9. A Genealogy of Governing Economic Behaviour : Small-scale credit in Malawi 1930–2010

    Author : Johanna Värlander; Sofia Murhem; Göran Salmonsson; Torbjörn Engdahl; Maria Eriksson Baaz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governmentality; small-scale credit; microcredit; Malawi; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : In this thesis the aim has been to analyse changes and continuity in the governing of economic behaviour in small-scale credit schemes in colonial Nyasaland and independent Malawi from 1930 until 2010. Furthermore, how the effects of history in terms of how colonial and post-colonial development discourses and practices have been rephrased and reused in the early 21st century are discussed. READ MORE

  7. 10. Governing the news : A study of problems and solutions in Swedish public service broadcasting news and policy between 1954 and 2015

    Author : Martin Karlsson; Kristina Jerner Widestedt; Jörgen Skågeby; Simon Dawes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; media; journalism; discourse; metajournalistic discourse; boundary work; genealogy; governmentality; public service broadcasting; public service journalism; role performance; role conception; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : Swedish public service journalism constitutes a comparatively well-researched subject in Swedish media and journalism studies. Previous studies have, for example, contributed with valuable knowledge about the actors, conflicts, structures and political economy of Swedish public service journalism. READ MORE