Search for dissertations about: "self-government"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word self-government.

2. 1. Disciplining Freedom : Treatment Dilemmas and Subjectivity at a Detention Home for Young Men

   Author : Anna Gradin Franzén; Rolf Holmqvist; Karin Aronsson; Ann Phoenix; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Discipline; self-government; subjectivity; subject positioning; forced treatment; youth; normality; morality; humor; ideological dilemmas; resistance; Disciplin; självstyrning; subjektivitet; subjektspositionering; tvångsvård; ungdom; normalitet; moral; humor; ideologiska dilemman; motstånd;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study explores treatment practices and staff-resident interaction at a detention home for young men, drawing on video recorded conversations and interviews. It investigates ideological dilemmas inherent in the institutional setting and how these produce complex subject positions to uptake, negotiate or refuse. READ MORE

4. 2. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

   Author : Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

   Abstract : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. READ MORE

5. 3. Governance of Career Guidance : an enquiry into European policy

   Author : Anki Bengtsson; Klas Roth; Maria Olson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governmentality; governance; career guidance; career management; Michel Foucault; entrepreneurial; policy; active citizenship; civic competence; self-management; Europe; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to enquire into and problematize the governance of career guidance and how individuals’ career management is constructed within EU policy. The empirical material consists of European policy documents produced during 2000-2015. READ MORE

6. 4. Electric vehicles in action

   Author : Martina Wikström; Per Alvfors; Lisa Hansson; Gil Tal; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; electric vehicles; interdisciplinary approach; public fleets; public transport;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the political and practical conditions for introducing electric vehicles in Swedish public authorites and discusses the potential for using electric vehicles in public transport and public fleets. The work has been carried out using an interdisciplinary research approach. READ MORE