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This study explores how business angels in southern Sweden use social connections and trust to find and assess potential investments. Business angels often rely on their network for finding investment opportunities, and the process can vary from one cultural context to another. Most existing research on the business angels’ investment process lacks a focus on the relational and informal mechanisms

This thesis aims to test the idea that the more connected you are to the people around you, the more likely you are to act collectively or in the best interest of the collective. I tested this using Music and Arts festivals, a context in which people feel connected faster and more intuitively than in everyday life. Collective identity theory served as a basis and data was collected through qualita

Rural gentrification, amenity-led in-migration and displacement in more attractive parts of the countryside are taking up more of the rural discourse. Along this, the centrality of landscape, as a driver for gentrification and as something affected by the same notion, is establishing. This paper explores the paradox of how people move to a certain area because they find that particular landscape a

Tourism has been a fief industry for state power in Jordan, used as state-building tool and hard-currency earner. However, the country’s socio-economic structure and the current regional conflicts have hindered its development as the expected economic engine to achieve Jordan’s independence from foreign aid. This work looks at a collective identity created around outdoors and adventure sports in J

Urban transportation is becoming increasingly challenging in the face of growing cities, urban sprawl and a rising trend in car use. Beyond the direct impacts of motorized transports, the development of extensive car infrastructure exacerbates social differences, especially in urban areas. The social dimension of transport is however marginalized in the current model of transport planning and sign

Social and ecological sustainability are recognized pillars of sustainable development. However, it is not always clear how they are supposed to be achieved jointly. This unclarity can lead to major tradeoffs between social and ecological sustainability which ultimately endangers our prospects for sustainable development. In Malmö, Sweden, the tension of social and ecological sustainability can be

In Sweden processes concerning physical planning have changed and developed in a direction where dialogue has become increasingly important in planning policy and practice (Khakee, 2000). The co-creative dialogue (Adler, 2015) is a way to achieve ambitions to include groups with few resources, counteract political inclusion and actively work towards everyone’s right to participate and have influen

Improving and solving issues related to disadvantaged neighbourhoods have for decades been a concern for politicians, researchers, and professionals in Denmark as well as internationally. Recently, the concept of social mix has been very popular as a vision of development within planning practices and political strategies to develop disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This thesis investigates the academ

© 2016 The Center for Political Ecology. Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe’s most emblematic dam disasters–Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain)–and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India,

Minnesintergration är en minnesfunktion som bidrar till kunskapsinlärning genom att kombinera information från överlappande event. Denna studie undersöker påverkan av olika källor, ingrupp och utgrupp, på minnesintegration. Deltagarna (N = 61) valde medlemmar till sitt eget lag, ingruppen, och motståndarlaget, utgruppen. Medlemmar från båda lagen presenterade information till deltagarna genom ett Memory integration is a memory function that promotes knowledge acquisition through the combination of information across overlapping events. This study investigates the influence of ingroup and outgroup sources on memory integration. Participants (N = 61) selected ingroup teammates and outgroup opponents to present them information in a knowledge extension task, driven by memory integration mecha

Northvolt AB is a Swedish sustainable battery producer with a passion for green energy. During 2024, a series of crisis events affected the organization, posing threats to its reputation. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate how Northvolt during an active crisis phase implemented strategic communication in order to strengthen their image or reputation. Through coding of data, foll

Uganda’s natural resource base is one of the richest and most diverse in Africa. People’s livelihoods are inextricably linked to sound natural resource management and both water and land are basic resources for virtually all socio-economic activities. Because of the significance of agriculture to rural livelihoods, water and land are the most important assets for many households. Located in a tran

This article analyses current trends in the use of anonymity services among younger Swedes (15-25) and focuses on individuals engaging in illegal file sharing in order to better understand the rationale behind both file sharing as well as online anonymity, especially in relation to enforcement of copyright. By comparing the findings of a survey conducted on three different occasions (early 2009, l

The aim of this thesis is to examine how political Islam as an ideology of the Turkish state has constructed gender roles and influenced gender-based violence in Turkey. The political Islam, as a term, refers to a broad political movement. My focus of interest is the political Islam as advocated by the Justice and Development Party and its discourses shaped within this ideology. In order to invest

The course gives a broad overview of the archaeology, history and art history of the material culture and of the written sources from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Different aspects of the political, social, cultural and religious developments and changes within Scandinavia are treated here. These include such aspects as the transition from paganism to Christianity, Viking Age burials, gender and

Within the scope of the debate surrounding globalization, ever increasing attention is being directed to the growth of border-crossing social relations and the emergence of transnational social spaces on the micro-level. In particular, the question of how these border-crossing interrelations influence the attitudes and values of the people involved causes some controversy. Some assume that the inc

This article focuses on bodily care as the basis of economy. Drawing on Luther and Scandinavian Creation Theology, with an emphasis on shared situatedness and society, I discuss contemporary threats to welfare states. Conservative arguments in favor of family and small communities, combined with charity, provide a cultural/religious alibi for a global “neoliberalism,” where citizens are replaced b