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It is also about health: an analysis of the CRPD Committee practice in light of southern epistemologies

The right to health for persons with disabilities in the global South is far from being realized. The 2011 World Report on Disability suggests that the majority of persons with disabilities live in low- and middle-income countries. Further studies suggest that around 80% of persons with disabilities in global South countries report poor health. With this in mind, this thesis will focus on the righ

Offer för en gärningsmans lustar : En kvalitativ studie om hur svensk nyhetspress framställer kvinnor och flickor som våldtagits och mördats eller mördats utifrån sexuella motiv.

Victim of a perpetrator´s desires - A qualitative study of how women and girls who have been murdered and raped or murdered on basis of sexual motives are portrayed in the Swedish news press. The aim of this study was to examine how women and girls who have been murdered and raped or murdered on basis of sexual motives are portrayed in swedish newspress. 75 articles have been studied. My choice

”Det klassiska är ju att de där subkulturerna inte kommer med” - En socialantropologisk studie av Malmö Stads policy-förfarande i möten med icke-kommersiella kulturverksamheter

This Bachelor’s thesis examines how Malmö Stad’s organization works with questions of culture (music, art, dance, etc.) and participation. It gives an insight into various policy documents and how they are displayed in three case studies regarding cultural operators in the subgenre. Through the theories of Mary Douglas (1966), John Clarke (2008) and Chris Shore & Susan Wright (1997, 2011) amon

Intervjustudie gällande aspekter, brister och verktyg kopplat till brandutredningar i kommunal räddningstjänst

Accidents occur in the society daily which require the fire service to respond. The fires cause socio-economic cost estimated to the equivalent value of 7 billion SEK every year. One of the strategies used by the municipalities to reduce the effects of the accidents is to investigate the fires to be able to prevent similar fires in the future. Recent research suggests that the investigations needs

“Your daughter is as good as a boy” - Learning critical theory and fundamental values through J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace in English-learning classrooms in Sweden

Teachers in Sweden are instructed not just to teach their subject but also fundamental values. However, educators are given no guidelines as to how to do this. It therefore becomes relevant to research how language teachers can use literary works in school to ensure that students acquire knowledge about themes found in the curriculum, thus combining an important part from the subject’s contents wi

Design of wind turbine blades with respect to stability

Vindkraftverk är ett av samhällets främsta verktyg för en miljövänlig energiproduktion. Den konventionella designen av bladen är emellertid i stort sett oförändrad. Triblade är ny typ av design som har potentialen att revolutionera marknaden. Genom att använda en fackverksstruktur öppnar man för möjligheten att utforska andra materialval än de konventionella kol- och glasfibermaterial som anväIn the 21st century, wind power has emerged as a strong candidate in fulfilling societies goals of achieving carbon-free energy energy production. Windpower has evolved along with other technological developments, giving rise to larger turbines, but with the overall design trend remaining largely unchanged. Winfoor, a Swedish company based in Lund,aims to break that trend. With their new Triblade

Birgittinsk vägledning. Yta och djup i predikningar för Petri kedjors fest

In Rev.IV:137, Christ told St. Birgitta that pilgrims to Vadstena could receive the same plenary indulgence as the one granted to the church San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The privilege was highly disputed, but in Vadstena the pilgrims crowded anyway on the feast of St. Peter in Chains on August 1, a feast where the deliverance from the captivity of sin was pivotal. This study is based on extant s

Gränslandet mellan konst och vetenskap Om biokonstverket Superman i relation till naturaliesamlande

This thesis explores the aesthetic language of natural history collecting in relation to art, by analyzing Kristoffer Palmgren’s bioart piece Superman in a semiotic and discourse analytic context. The artwork itself consists of eight molded fists, overgrown by microbes taken from wild trees. The fists are individually encased in glass boxes that are placed on top of one another. This presentation

Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide a

A Stranger Among Those Who Are Still Men: Reading Monsters as Performing Transgender Identities in Four Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

In his book Skin Shows, Jack Halberstam posits that depictions of monsterhood in horror media can be directly comparable to different socially constructed identities, such as gender, and even transgender. But can such a comparison be made in a text regardless of its author’s biases and intentions? The purpose of this essay is to find out how the monsters in four of H. P. Lovecraft’s short stories

Barnets röst i frågor om vårdnad, boende och umgänge - Kommer den höras tydligare efter inkorporeringen av barnkonventionen?

Uppsatsen syftar till att redogöra för och analysera barns delaktighet i tvister om vårdnad, boende och umgänge. Barn ges rätt till inflytande genom bestämmelser i såväl svensk rätt som genom internationella instrument. FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter (barnkonventionen) ges en central roll i uppsatsen. Artikel 12 i barnkonventionen stadgar att barn ska tillförsäkras rätten att fritt uttryckThis thesis is aiming to explain and analyse children’s participation in legal proceedings concerning custody, residence and visitation. Children are given the right to participation through regulations in Swedish law as well as in international legal instruments. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the CRC) is given a central role in this thesis. Article 12 in the CRC statutes that chil

Jämlikhet i Agenda 2030 - En analys om hur agendan behandlar personer som tillhör flera minoritetsgrupper

Personer som tillhör flera minoritetsgrupper tenderar att uppleva en speciell typ av diskriminering och utanförskap. Det är ett problem som uppmärksammats genom det så kallade intersektionella perspektivet. Detta perspektiv visar på att det finns en komplexitet i hur mänskliga rättigheter måste definieras för att det ska vara möjligt att främja jämlikhet oberoende av vilka grupper och hur många gr

The Strength of Local Engagement

Recent years have seen a rise in the role of communities in achieving the global goals of poverty alleviation alongside environmental protection. Simultaneously, it is increasingly recognised that communities are subject to power asymmetries resulting in differential abilities among community members to benefit from the sustainable management of natural resources. Striving to explore community- ba

The Power of the Spoken Word - A case study on Hugo Chávez's rhetorical impact on social conflicts in Venezuela

With the rise from populism over the last few decades, one can observe an increase in the violent clashes connected to populists. However, this seems to be in coherence with the right-wing side mostly, because the left-wing side gets forgotten in the calculations over conflict together with populism. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to dive into a case study that is taking place in Venezue

Pornhubs Coronamarknadsföring - En studie om Pornhubs marknadsföring av kvinnor under covid-19-pandemin2020.

“Stay at home if you can and we’ll keep you entertained (…)”. Nämnda citat kom-mer från Pornhub, den hemsida som har flest pornografiska videos i världen. Citatet publicerades i samband med covid-19-pandemin 2020 och är ett exempel på hur Pornhub utnyttjat en situation där människor är extra sårbara för att locka till sig kunder. Studien undersöker exempel på hur Pornhub marknadsför kvinnor som

Women's Role in Preventing Electoral Violence - A Study on the Impact of Women’s Situation Room on Electoral Violence in Nigeria

This thesis studies the Women’s Situation Room Nigeria, a women-led project aimed to prevent electoral violence and increase women’s participation in elections. The aim of this study is to see what kind of impact this project has had on electoral violence in Nigeria. The study is conducted as a single-N comparative case study, comparing the levels of electoral violence in the general elections of

Income inequality and income in Europe; Reassessing the inverted-U hypothesis

This paper aims at investigating the polynomial relationship between income and income inequality as described by Kuznets (1955, 1963). In order to investigate this relationship, data for 35 European countries are used for the period 1980-2017 and a long-run relationship between these two variables is found, as the initial Kuznets curve hypothesis is. The results indicate, the existence of the Kuz

France at war - Hollande’s securitization of terrorism after the 2015 attacks and the reaction of the French public

As terrorism after the 9/11 attacks has emerged as one of the most important threats to international security, the political discourse used by world leaders regarding the topic is becoming more and more essential to study. One way to do this is by using securitization theory, which helps us understand how something becomes a security issue, and how security threats are socially constructed throug

Optimization in the analysis of social interaction test in rodents - development of a new complex vision-based tool for the detection of complex behaviors

Behavior and social interactions are key features to determine the phenotype of an organism. Observing behavioral manifestations give insides on a fundamental level of how inner mechanisms work. But how is it possible to predict behavior in a way, such that it can be quantify and analyzed? One traditional strategy is to annotate the behavior by hand. Observing the animals and making notes about th

Who Leads Matters? A study of presidential leadership and its impact on environmental policy

As climate change is a global threat it is of essence to understand how we can work against it. Research within the sphere of Peace and Conflict Studies lacks the perspective of the psychology behind world leaders as an explanation for how environmental policy is conducted. This thesis investigates what type of leader Obama and Trump are, what implications that has on environmental policy and how