Search for dissertations about: "power relations"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 399 swedish dissertations containing the words power relations.
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16. Fear of violence and gendered power relations : Responses to threat in public space in Sweden
Abstract : Several cases of single repeat offenders in urban space have raised public concern in Sweden during recent decades. Few studies have been conducted on consequences of the kind of ‘hostage situations’ that emerge when one individual offender causes fear and affects a larger group of people in a specific place. READ MORE
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17. Where the Wind Blows : the socio-political geography of wind power development in Finland, Norway and Sweden
Abstract : This thesis analysis the planning process for large-scale wind power development in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The aim is to explore the emerging power relations and socio-economic dynamics of the negotiation, planning and realization of this new development. READ MORE
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18. The Governance of Missing Asylum-Seekers in Sweden : Managing "Missingness" Through Different Technologies of Power
Abstract : For a highly controlled and comprehensive welfare state such as Sweden, one can assume that incorporating populations into a system of bureaucratic management (and keeping them there) is paramount to its overall functioning. Either subjects are incorporated into the system and thereby managed, or subjects are expelled from the system and no longer managed. READ MORE
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19. Teaching for the learning of additive part-whole relations : The power of variation and connections
Abstract : In this thesis, results from four empirical studies and a re-analysis are synthesized with what can constitute a structural approach to teaching and learning additive part-whole relations among learners aged four to eight years. In line with a structural approach to additive relations, the relations of parts and whole are in focus from the outset and are seen as the basis for addition and subtraction (Davydov 1982; Neuman, 1987). READ MORE
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20. Shifting Dangers in the Shape of Threats and Risks : The Discourse of Swedish Security Policy, 1979-2020
Abstract : Modern societies have become increasingly preoccupied with the identification and preemption of risk, represented as future possibilities of harm. The study demonstrates how the concept of risk has influenced the contemporary Swedish security discourse and what it means to construct security following a risk logic. READ MORE