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Motherwork and Space: Social and Political Participation of Mothers in Sweden’s racialised Suburbs

This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. Deploying a black feminist lens on empirical material from a Swedish-Somali mothers’ group engaged in community activism, the thesis argues that

Designkoncept för transport av hund. En lösning för att ta med hunden på cykelturen.

Cykeln har blivit ett allt vanligare transportmedel i Sverige. Som en följd av detta kommer nya lösningar och metoder krävas för att cykeln ska kunna ersätta bilen, exempelvis som vid till transport av husdjur. I samarbete med Thule Group utfördes detta examensarbete för att undersöka möjligheten att utveckla en produkt för transportering av hund. Under projektet har behov och kravspecifikationen

Complementing the multi-level perspective with the coevolutionary framework to conceptualise barriers to sustainable transitions in agro-food industries

Sustainable transitions are essential to ensure climate and land systems do not go beyond their tipping points; however, these transitions are complex, and barriers to their success are difficult to conceptualise. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) is the dominant framework for conceptualising how industries transition to using green innovations. Despite the effectiveness of the MLP, it has weaknes

Socio-Economic Determinants of Ebola Outbreak Intensity and Severity: A Study of the West-African Outbreak in 2013-2016

This study uses a specifically constructed sub-national dataset on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak cases, deaths, and CFR in order to look at the question of how important various socio-economic factors were in determining the intensity and severity of the 2013-2016 EVD outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The results of the OLS model shows that the socio-economic conditions in differ

Impact of economic growth on income distribution in East Asian emerging economies

Income inequality is one of the main topics that worried economists in recent decades. It became more popular, especially starting with the integration process of East Asian economies’ to the global market as a result of the globalization process. And there are lots of approaches on economic growth’s positive and negative effects on income distribution. Its impact on income distribution has been t

Sustainable Development at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Norwegian Initiatives in India

The inclusion of the poor in the economy is of key importance to the global sustainable development agenda. However, the integration of low-income communities in the economy requires new approaches to innovation, management and sustainability. This thesis aims to investigate how Norwegian initiatives contribute to sustainable and inclusive development in India by analysing the experiences and outc

Metodik för utmattning av asfaltbruk

Omfattande studier på Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) har under de senaste åren inriktats på hur egenskaperna i asfaltbruk kan optimeras eftersom de har avgörande betydelse för asfaltens funktion. Förutom naturligt förekommande filler i asfaltmassa har tillsatser såsom vaxer, fibrer och polymerer blivit allt vanligare. Hur dessa tillsatser påverkar asfaltbrukets egenskaper är viktigt att utreda för The durability of asphalt can be investigated with fatigue tests, which unfortunately are very laborious and costly. Therefore, they are not used as often as they should. At LTH in Lund, an alternative method is utilized using a dynamic shear rheometer, DSR, on asphalt’s mastic for fatigue properties testing. The properties of asphalt mastic are crucial for the asphalt pavements ability to withsta

Den humana, välordnade och hållbara migrationspolitiken: En kritisk analys av den politiska debatten kring invandring, ensamkommande ungdomar och nya gymnasielagen

The purpose of this thesis is to problematize how Swedish migration policy is being legitimized. The study examines discourses in debates about migration between the Moderate Party and the Swedish Social Democratic Party. There are two major areas of interest: firstly, their discussions about the change in migration policies in 2015 and 2016, and secondly, their articulations of the unaccompanied

Adverse Impacts - An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Climate Extremes on Inequality in India

Climate change is receiving more attention; the public debate has started to note its significance, and the consequences have started to show. How societies are interlinked with their environment is as evident in the 21st century as ever before. This study is an attempt to examine the relationship between climate change and inequality in India. Climate change is quantified by investigating climate

'Too few of us', again? The Fertility Discourse in Finnish Media in 2019

This qualitative study examines the dominant fertility discourse in Finnish media in 2019, when the total fertility rate dropped to an all-time low level, spurring media debate and political attention. The study analyses the representations and framings of fertility, and the underlying norms, assumptions, power-structures and silences in the dominant discourse using discourse analytical tools, mor

Pearl Fernandez: anti-kvinnan: En studie om konstruktioner av den kvinnliga mördarens femininitet, moderskap och aktörskap

The aim of this study has been to examine and deconstruct the normative understandings of femininity, womens agency, and motherhood that characterize stories of women who murder - especially women who murder alongside men. With the guidance of Laclau and Mouffes discoursetheory this study has analyzed the construction of murderer Pearl Fernandez in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Trials of Gabrie

European Political Economy, Networked Interest and Sustainable Investment. A Conceptual and Qualifying Study on the Ability of Interest Groups to Influence Environmental Regulatory Outcomes: The European Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, 2015-2019

To this day, the question of how economic development and lasting transformation take place remains both highly controversial and relevant for future growth perspectives. Questions of influence, representation of interests and power to shape legislation are faded out of the focus of economic research. By combining these aspects with network modelling techniques and a newly compiled dataset of 112

Social Capability as a Driver for Economic Growth: A Conceptual and Empirical Study on Structural Dynamics, 1991-2016

To this day, the question of what factors drive economic development and catching-up remains deeply controversial in growth literature. The concept of social capability provides a useful framework to investigate the relationship of the parallel processes of transformation, inclusion, autonomy and accountability with economic performance. Nevertheless, there are few attempts to quantify social capa

Investigation of the fate of nanodiamonds in cells using STED microscopy

Nanodiamonds are novel carbon nanoparticles with favorable properties for biological applications, such as low cytotoxicity and high biocompatibility. They can be used for e.g. cell tracking or drug delivery. The aim of this thesis was to examine the long-term behaviour of nanodiamonds in cells and to compare two different methods of nanodiamond administration, incubation of cells in nanodiamonds a

Market Liquidity and Block Holdings - Empirical evidence from the Swedish market

Purpose: Investigate the relation between block ownership and stock liquidity. Methodology: The empirical methods used in this project are of quantitative nature. We use a set of dependent variables representing liquidity measures in order to test how our main explanatory variable, sum of block holdings, affect this. Furthermore, control variables such as market capitalization, share price and vo

Predicting Tobacco-Free Nicotine Pouch Intention Among Swedish Young Adults: Gender and the Proximal Predictors of the Theory of Triadic Influence

Nicotine pouches are popular products marketed in Sweden as tobacco-free alternatives to tobacco-containing snus. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying factors influencing use of nicotine pouches among Swedish young adults using the theory of triadic influence (TTI; Flay et al., 1995), a model used to predict health-related behaviors. A questionnaire measuring self-eff

Social interaktion vid distansstudier på gymnasienivå - en kvalitativ studie om interaktion mellan lärare och elev

Abstract Författare: Maria Hovold Titel: Social interaktion vid distansstudier på gymnasienivå - en kvalitativ studie om interaktion mellan lärare och elev Kandidatuppsats: SOCK05, 15 hp Internet Vårterminen 2020 Handledare: Margareta Nilsson-Lindström Sociologiska institutionen, vårterminen 2020 Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra till förståelsen av hur den sociala interaktionen fungerar för

Clash of beliefs: 'I want to be green but what about the Christmas tree?'

The purpose of this study was to understand the role of a sustainable lifestyle for self-declared green consumers during Christmas. While such consumers tend to behave sustainably in their everyday lives, the researchers were interested in finding out how this might change in a specific setting, in this case Christmas, which is commonly associated with consumerism in the Western world. Furthermore

Post-war fertility change in Finland 1950-2018: Understanding the post-2010 fertility decline in the long-term context of post-war fertility change

Finland has had a steep decline in fertility since 2010, which has yet to show any signs of slowing down. This is highly problematic for a country like Finland which has had well below replacement level fertility over the past five decades. This study analysed previous studies and theories related to fertility, primarily in the Finnish and Nordic contexts. Moreover the author performed his own eco

Att läsa med öronen : ljudboken som utmaning och möjlighet i gymnasieskolan

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur gymnasielärare använder ljudboken för svenskundervisningen samt att ta reda på vilka möjligheter och utmaningar dessa lärare ser med ljudboken. För att uppnå syftet och besvara frågeställningarna genomfördes kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra svensklärare, där de fick beskriva och diskutera hur de arbetar med ljudböcker i svenskundThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate how high school teachers use the audiobook for Swedish teaching and to find out what opportunities and challenges these teachers see with the audiobook. To achieve the purpose and answer the questions, qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with four Swedish teachers, where they were allowed to describe and discuss how they work with audi