Search for dissertations about: "neoliberalism"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 47 swedish dissertations containing the word neoliberalism.
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6. Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011
Abstract : After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. READ MORE
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7. The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States
Abstract : This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, I conducted one year of ethnographic fieldwork among people participating in network marketing, a form of sales that also includes the recruitment of additional salespeople – what is known as building a network. READ MORE
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8. Invisible yet essential : the role of seasonal labour migration in Sweden’s green industries
Abstract : Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in seasonal labour migration to the green industries in Sweden. This migration, from both within and outside the EU, has been presented as a solution to local labour shortages by the industries. READ MORE
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9. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Abstract : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. READ MORE
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10. Subjects of Feminism : The Production and Practice of Anxiety in a Swedish Activist Community
Abstract : Anxiety is a zeitgeist of our time. The range of themes to which anxiety attaches today are truly vast, but anxiety arises and is cultivated in specific ways among different groups of people. READ MORE