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Mainstreaming the Sweden Democrats - mapping changes and continuities in party ideology 1989-2019 through discourse analysis

Much academic literature has explained the success of radical right parties across Europe in the last few decades through the increased importance of the sociocultural, conceptualised as the GAL-TAN, or libertarian-authoritarian, scale. The late rise of the Sweden Democrats, long considered an exception to the rule, as a successful radical right party, has attracted some academic interest and

Online anti-feminism within the Incel community and ideology - Feminist ethnographic and feminist content analysis of Incels’ manifestation of online anti-feminism, masculinity structures and aggrieved entitlement on r/Braincels

This thesis is a critical, feminist ethnographic research of one of the most extremist and violent movements that originated from the growing online anti-feminist ideology. Based on a feminist poststructuralist epistemological tradition, this thesis researches the growing Incel movement through feminist cyber-ethnography, netnography and feminist content analysis. The analysis bases on a dataset o

To Change or not to Change: A Qualitative Analysis of the Executive Search Industry’s Strategic Responses to Artificial Intelligence

The usage of Artificial Intelligence is gaining popularity in many industries nowadays, triggering professionals to communicate about these disruptive changes in their industries. One industry has been looked at more profoundly: the executive search industry. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain more insight into the exploration of communicated strategies by professionals

Ska vi äta ute? - en undersökning av ätande utomhus i urban miljö

Ätandet. Det finaste vi har. Vi firar med mat, sörjer med mat och samlas kring mat. Att äta ihop är ett givet sätt att mötas och en självklar del av livet. Detta i kombination med en generell växande vilja att äta utomhus, av fri vilja, men också påtvingad i och med pandemin, får mig att fundera på möjligheterna för ätande utomhus i staden. Jag konstaterar att ätande ute i stadsmiljö i de flesta fEating together is a given way of meeting people and major part of life. This, combined with a general growing desire to eat food outdoors makes me think about the possibilities for eating outdoors in the city. I note that eating out in an urban environment is in most cases directly connected with a compulsion nto consume. There is a shortage of places in the urban space where it is possible to ea

Rethinking Gender in Climate Change: A mixed-method study in two small Char lands in Northern Bangladesh

Research Problem and Objectives: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Over the last years, scholars have discussed that climate change has disproportionate impacts on people as the result of their social, political and economic conditions. Such an argument has led to the inclusion of gender in the climate change debate. However, gender in the climate c

Should David Armstrong be a Dispositionalist? An Indirect Defense of Powerful Properties

A well-known debate among proponents of natural properties concerns the very nature of such properties. On one extreme, known as Dispositionalism (or the ‘powers’ view), the essence of a property is given by the nomological or causal role(s) it plays. Properties are powers, existentially exhausted by how they affect the actual and potential behavior of their instances. On the other, known as Categ

Testing the potential to evaluate vegetation optical depth with ecosystem water dynamics in a temperate forest

Warming trends have been associated with drought which induces and heightens agents and factors that cause tree mortality. Remotely sensed observations are increasingly being used in vegetation studies and are obtained from Earth observation satellites. Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is one such product and is obtained from the microwave domain, both passive and active. It measures the degree of a

Understanding the gender-drug cultivation nexus: A qualitative case study of the gendered practices in the opium poppy cultivation for drug production in Hopong, South Shan State, Myanmar

Myanmar is the world's second-largest producer of opium poppy, the raw material from which heroin and opium are produced. 85% of this opium poppy is cultivated in rural areas of Shan State, where about 1 in 10 households in the villages are directly involved in opium poppy cultivation for the drug industry (MIMU, 2017). The economy of opium poppy permeates social and family dynamics; nonethele

The magic of blind box:how do consumers experience repeated blind box consumption, from practice theory

This thesis mainly uses practice theory to expand the current understanding of blind box consumption. Blind box consumption is currently being enthusiastically sought after in China, featuring repeated blind box consumption. To explore how consumers experience repeated blind box consumption and how blind box in turn affects consumers, we apply focus interview, semi-structured interview and netnogr

Särskilda boenden i offentlig och enskild regi - en studie om hur driftsform påverkar kvalitet

With the anticipation of creating higher efficiency and quality improvements, market mechanisms have been implemented in various public sectors in Sweden. Since the 1990s, outsourcing has been used in elderly care, and the proportion of private provision of special housing has increased. Regardless of ownership, the public authorities are responsible for ensuring the quality of these homes. When e

Solidarity in Conflict - Organised non-EEA workers, trade unions and labour rights within the Swedish wild berry industry

Every year, around 3000-6000 mainly low-income farmers, travel from Northeastern Thailand in search for wild berries in the rural parts of Northern Sweden. There has been a process of inclusion of these seasonal migrant workers into the Swedish labour market structure, since around the turn of the millennium. The aim of this study is to explore alternative answers as to why the formal inclusion pr

En delad bild - svensk kulturhistoria på display : en diskursanalys av Nordiska museet på instagram

I denna uppsats undersöks vad det är för historieskrivning som reproduceras genom Nordiska museets instagramprofil. Syftet är att studera hur nationell kulturhistoria presenteras och konstrueras genom representation i sociala medier och hur detta förhåller sig till uppfattningar om historieskrivning och nationell identitet. Uppsatsen argumenterar även för att det är viktigt att studera institution

Frihet och förtroende vid distansarbete

Distansarbete har blivit ett faktum till följd av coronapandemin då Folkhälsomyndigheten (2021) rekommenderar att personer som har möjlighet ska arbeta hemifrån. Det har i sin tur bidragit till förändrade arbetsmetoder och arbetsförhållande både på gott och ont. Studiens syfte är att skapa en nyanserad förståelse för upplevelserna med att arbeta på distans och att leda på distans. Genom en kvalita

Can strategic thinking be taught or is it a matter of cognitive ability and personality -An experimental study

Can strategic thinking be taught? Randomized experiments were organized to estimate the effect of information nudge on strategic decisions. The information nudge consisted of seeing a short text and a picture with an explanation related to game theory. Test subjects played two games: a p-beauty contest game and a variable-sum game. The main finding was surprising; the treatment was related to answ

Motivation till bättre källsortering och avfallsminskning - En kvantitativ studie om hur man kan motivera villahushåll till bättre källsortering och minskade avfallsmängder via en mobilapp

Källsortering är en viktig process för att kunna spara på jordens resurser. Genom källsortering kan våra naturresurser komma in i ett kretslopp där de återvinns eller återanvänds. Syftet med denna studie är att genom kvantitativ enkätundersökning ta reda på hur man kan motivera villahushållen i Helsingborg Stad till bättre källsortering och minskade avfallsmängder genom en mobilapp. Som framtida i

Female Empowerment on Instagram: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Femvertisements Communicated by SMIs

This thesis used Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to study femvertisements communicated by Social Media Influencers on Instagram. A critical perspective was adopted to study the convergence of advertising and feminism in the context of social media. The aim of the study was to explore the prevalent discourses of female empowerment, the main component in femvertising, and how existing discourse

Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing the Safety Management System as a State

Airlines are required to manage safety by implementing a Safety Management System (SMS). These systems are built on experience with quality management and seek to provide a structure for organisations to manage the risks presented by and to their individual operations. Safety is presented by the SMS as a ‘state of being’ arrived after following risk management to a level as low as reasonably pract

Evaluating the impacts of considering urban microclimate conditions on the accuracy of the Building Energy Simulation (BES) models

Following rapid urbanization and population growth in cities, many recent studies indicate the impacts of microclimate conditions on the energy performance of buildings. However, the methodologies and simulation tools used to evaluate the energy performance of buildings in urban settlements have overlooked the impacts of microclimatic conditions simply by the use of weather station data. This stud

Dialling up women farmers’ empowerment vis-à-vis agriculture: Exploring the effects of mobile phones in rural India

Despite women being the backbone of the agricultural sector in India, the patriarchal agrarian system poses major obstacles and challenges specific to women farmers with consequences well beyond the individual. This research aims to explore how mobile phones can empower rural women vis-à-vis agriculture. Taking the lens of Feminist Theory, the ambition of this research is to study real-life expe