Search for dissertations about: "maktrelationer"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the word maktrelationer.
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1. School Bullying and Power Relations in Vietnam
Abstract : Taking seriously the oft-made claim that power relations are central to school bullying, the dissertation focuses specifically on the interconnectedness of school bullying and power relations within the specific context of Vietnamese lower secondary schooling. The dissertation is based on extended ethnographic fieldwork in two lower secondary schools in the north-eastern Vietnamese port city of Haiphong. READ MORE
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2. Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents
Abstract : The aim of the present study is to explore how children’s participation is constructed and enacted in preschool documentation and what kinds of activities evolve between teachers, children and material objects in preschool documentation practices. The study is based on videorecorded observations of teachers and children documenting different preschool activities in two preschool groups. READ MORE
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3. Decentralizing hydraulic society : Actor responses to institutional arrangements in Vietnam
Abstract : Irrigation decentralization has been launched worldwide with high expectations of improved governance, efficiency, and productivity through democratic processes. However, there is widespread recognition that decentralization is, in reality, unlikely to bring about these positive outcomes. READ MORE
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4. Experimenting for change? : The politics of accomplishing environmental governance through smart energy pilot projects
Abstract : This thesis investigates how smart energy experimentation arranges environmental governance in Sweden, focusing on the politics of such processes, against the background of an escalating environmental and climate crisis that necessitates urgent energy transformation. Empirically the thesis includes case studies of pilot projects in Stockholm, Malmö, Västerås, and on Gotland, and analysis of the policy landscape, mainly through text analysis and interviews. READ MORE
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5. Ageism in the Media : Online Representations of Older People
Abstract : Ageism is a social problem that has harmful effects on the wellbeing of older people and needs to be tackled. It is pervasive and evident in the media (e.g., films, television, print and social media). READ MORE
