Search for dissertations about: "social ownership"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 246 swedish dissertations containing the words social ownership.

2. 1. At the limits of state governance : territory, property and state making in Lenje Chiefdom, rural Zambia

   Author : Linus Rosén; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : African state property regimes – embedded in a racialized structure of land ownership that stretches back centuries – are at the center of contemporary land struggles. At present, the Zambian government is appropriating ‘traditional land’, controlled by chiefs and headmen molded through colonial rule, in an effort to bring it into the fold of ‘modernity’. READ MORE

4. 2. Women's cattle ownership in Botswana : Rebranding gender relations?

   Author : Andrea Petitt; Seema Arora-Jonsson; Alice J. Hovorka; Cecilia Waldenström; Jaqueline Solway; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; women; livestock; cattle; ownership; property; commercialization. change; intersectionality;

   Abstract : Cattle are often portrayed as a male affair in Botswana. However, venturing out into the Kalahari countryside to scratch the surface of this state of affairs, another picture emerges. READ MORE

5. 3. Possessed Earth : Ownership and Power in the Salween Peace Park of Southeast Myanmar

   Author : Tomas Cole; Bengt Karlsson; Johan Lindquist; Magnus Fiskesjö; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Myanmar; conflict; peace; conservation; political ecology; ownership; sovereignty; indigeneity; ontology; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : In the wake of seven decades of protracted revolution and armed conflict in Southeast Myanmar, an ensemble of indigenous peoples and transnational activists have begun formulating a radical alternative vision of how peace and conservation might be achieved in practice. Through translating and rescaling indigenous modes of possessing the earth, this ensemble is working to transform 5,000 km2 of highly contested terrain in the highlands along the Salween River into a conservation zone they call the Salween Peace Park. READ MORE

6. 4. The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press

   Author : Jonas Ohlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; newspaper ownership; control; influence; the press; ownership concentration; board of directors; foundation ownership; principal-agent; political parallelism; Sweden;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with a perennial theme in both public and academic debate: how ownership is exercised in the news media. It does so by exploring the main agency through which ownership control is expected to be exerted in the individual media firm: the board of directors. READ MORE

7. 5. How privatization and corporatization affect healthcare employees’ work climate, work attitudes and ill-health : Implications of social status

   Author : Helena Falkenberg; Magnus Sverke; Katharina Näswall; Bo Melin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Privatization; corporatization; organizational change; ownership; healthcare employees; acute care hospitals; physicians; social status; hierarchic level; gender; work climate; work attitudes; ill-health; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Political liberalization and increased public costs have placed new demands on the Swedish public sector. Two ways of meeting these novel requirements have been to corporatize and privatize organizations. READ MORE