Search for dissertations about: "problematizations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word problematizations.
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1. Substance use, pregnancy, and parenthood : A study on problematizations and solutions
Abstract : With the starting point in the view that how we interpret a problem is decisive for how we think this problem should be dealt with, the overall aim of this dissertation is to explore problematizations of substance use in relation to pregnancy and parenthood within different settings. The dissertation consists of four studies, based on different empirical materials, that analyze problematizations of substance use, pregnancy, and parenthood from different perspectives. READ MORE
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2. Educational imaginaries : a genealogy of the digital citizen
Abstract : This thesis makes use of a genealogical approach to map out and explainhow and why computers and citizenship have become so closely connected.It examines the historical continuities and disruptions, and the role thatpopular education has played in this interrelation. READ MORE
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3. Conditions of ‘Sustainability’ : The Case of Climate Change Adaptation in Sweden
Abstract : By describing climate change as one of the greatest challenges of our time, the Swedish government has expressed a commitment to climate change adaptation as an integral part of the country’s sustainable development efforts. Sweden has also been portrayed as a frontrunner of climate policy and sustainable development. READ MORE
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4. Ideological Closure : Drug Prevention in a Post-political Society
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically examine drug prevention as a field of problematizations – how drug prevention becomes established as a political technology within this field, how it connects to certain modes of governance, how and under which conditions it constitutes it’s problematic, the questions it asks, it´s implications in terms of political participation and representation, the various bodies of knowledge through which it constitutes the reality upon which it acts, the limits it places on ways of being, questioning, and talking in the world.The main analyses have been conducted in four separate but interrelated articles. READ MORE
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5. Climatised Moves : Climate-induced Migration and the Politics of Environmental Discourse
Abstract : This work seeks to de-naturalise climate-induced migration (CM). Combining political ecology and post-foundational theories, I read CM as a construct that reifies a series of phenomena into an issue to be researched and governed. READ MORE