Search for dissertations about: "rurality"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word rurality.
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1. Carving out collective spaces : Exploring the complexities of gender and everyday stressors within rural youth leisure
Abstract : Background: The reasons why young people are increasingly suffering frommental health problems, and the opportunities to turn this development aroundare globally debated. Stressors such as education, relationships, futuretrajectories of housing and employment all constitute important factors affectingyoung people’s mental health, leading to stress and achievement pressureespecially among girls and young women. READ MORE
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2. Gendered Performances in Swedish Forestry : Negotiating Subjectivities in Women-Only Networks
Abstract : Environmental resource use is intimately intertwined with gendered power relations. Overarching ideals, governance and management are shaped by the negotiation and performance of gendered subjectivities. This thesis identifies and analyses key features of such negotiations and performances in the context of contemporary Swedish forestry. READ MORE
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3. There and back again? : Dutch lifestyle migrants moving to rural Sweden in the early 21st century
Abstract : This thesis has a twofold aim. First, it studies motivations and decision processes of Dutch families moving to rural Sweden, with a focus on Hällefors municipality in the Bergslagen area. Second, it explores how this migration flow can be conceptualised within migration theory. The results of the study are presented in four papers. READ MORE
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4. Young adults in rural tourism areas
Abstract : This thesis examines how tourism affects conditions for young adults in rural areas. Such a study lies at the intersection of research about tourism impacts, adult transition, and rural areas. READ MORE