The management of the mining sector in Sierra Leone is characterised by numerous integrations of government and donor agency policies, resembling that of global development agendas advocating for improvements of governance, transparency, capacity building and revenue generation. We must view the global policies in their local scales in order to substantiate their actual effects. The central argu

This study is based on a field study conducted in Lima, Peru. The field study was financed by the MFS (Minor field study) scholarship of SIDA. My intention was to illuminate the street child’s process, as an actor in interaction with its surrounding environmental systems, to leave the streets of Lima, Peru. The questions that were related to this aim were how structural aspects, such as changes in

This paper is about the values within the volunteering work in conjunction with the ASSITEJ Performing Arts Festival and World Congress 2011. Using a questionnaire method amongst the volunteers in Malmoe, I have collected 93 answers on the reasons to why they became volunteers. As a theoretical framework I use Pierre Bourdieu’s declaration of symbolic, social and cultural capital to catch the non-

In March 2011 the Swedish government appointed a committee to investigate and analyze the literature’s situation and the literature area. The committee will not investigate the conditions and positions of the actors on the book market, nor analyze the distribution of the National Arts Council’s literature support – a support with the purpose to encourage publication of quality literature with grea

Both Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now are regarded as outstanding works in their respective field of art. Their reputation rests partly on their artistic value and partly on their preoccupation with topics which were highly relevant at the time of their publication/release. They are for the most part regarded as independent works of a

It is assumed that humanitarian aid in civil war does good by relieving the suffering of the civilians undergoing hardship. However, some authors claim that aid can also lead to the exasperation and prolongation of conflict. In this paper we test the hypothesis that humanitarian aid can lead to the exasperation of conflict in civil wars. Taking Operation Life line Sudan as an example this thesis p

Uppsatsen berör klimatforskningen och det upplevda klimathotet. Utgångspunkten är en rad svenska privatpersoners tankar och känslor kring detta område så som detta kommer till uttryck i svenska medier under de senaste åren. Syftet med studien är dels att identifiera och analysera dessa utsagor, och dels att sätta dem i relation till sociologiska och vetenskapsteoretiska perspektiv på vetenskap i s

För hundra år sedan hade många av oss svårt för att överleva. Med modern läkemedelskonst kan även de svårast sjuka blomstra. Innebär det att vi har satt evolutionen ur spel? Är detta slutstationen för mänskligheten eller utvecklas vi fortfarande?

According to society and the media, many social workers are often exposed to threats or violence, or to threats of violence, at work. Social workers can work in numerous different fields, including in social welfare. The purpose of this study was to examine how such welfare workers experience their work situation from an exposure point of view. A total or four interviews were held with welfare off

This essay investigates the impact on trade flows of the formation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and whether countries with differences in the degree of exchange rate volatility prior to the adoption of the euro have experienced such trade effects to different extents. The gravity model forms the basis for the study, which is performed using a fixed effects-method on panel data from 24 OECD

Syftet med studien var att utreda om en expertgrupp, bestående av 24 deltagare rekryterade från en larmcentral, hade en bättre förmåga att minnas röster än en kontrollgrupp bestående av 24 deltagare. Försöksdeltagarna testades i ett experiment bestående av en röstdel och en ansiktsdel, varje del bestod av en verbaliseringsdel, som var tänkt att testa fenomenet verbal överskuggning samt en icke-ver