Search for dissertations about: "power ideals"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words power ideals.
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11. Organizing for Social Change : Worker Cooperatives as Resistance to Capitalism
Abstract : When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic inequalities and declining democratization, often associated with the spread of globalized capitalism, it becomes difficult to defend a position of business as usual. Worker co-ops are economic associations equally owned and democratically governed by workers with the potential to contribute to economic democracy and social change. READ MORE
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12. Waring-type problems for polynomials : Algebra meets Geometry
Abstract : In the present thesis we analyze different types of additive decompositions of homogeneous polynomials. These problems are usually called Waring-type problems and their story go back to the mid-19th century and, recently, they received the attention of a large community of mathematicians and engineers due to several applications. READ MORE
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13. Honorius and the city of Rome : Authority and legitimacy in late antiquity
Abstract : This study examines the importance of the concept of Roma et Augustus, the close relationship between the Roman emperor and the city of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, who reigned in AD 395-423. Rome and the emperor were two of the most important and conspicuous manifestations of Roman civilisation and power, around which much of late antique ideology of authority and legitimacy was formulated. READ MORE
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14. Negotiating Reproduction: Family Size and Fertility Regulation among Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Abstract : The focus of this dissertation is situated in the realm of the global reproductive health discourse and its interplay with national politics in Ecuador. It addresses how high fertility rates are perceived as an issue that hinders development and modernisation. READ MORE
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15. Being who one wants : constructing participation within discourses of (dis)ability
Abstract : Background: Society is full of norms categorising and labelling people on the basis of abilities, traits, and appearance. People who deviate from normative ideals are subjected to practices of able-mindedness that can stigmatise and marginalise norm-breaking functionality and invoke intellectual disability labels. READ MORE