EU:s och Rysslands maktutövande över Moldavien framställs ofta som mycket olika, men den här uppsatsen visar på att det i båda fallen handlar om liknande postkoloniala strukturer – skillnaden ligger i vilken form av makt man använder inom dessa strukturer. Uppsatsen har som syfte att utifrån ett postkolonialt perspektiv och genom ett tillämpande av Joseph Nyes begrepp hård och mjuk makt, undersöka

En beständig demokrati förutsätter enligt deliberativa och deltagardemokratiska ideal ett samhälle med demokratiskt engagerade medborgare. Dessa behöver då ges någon form av demokratisk fostran. Enligt vår tes kan de få detta genom ideellt idrottsengagemang. Vår undersökning syftar till att undersöka huruvida demokratisk fostran erhållits hos ideellt aktiva ungdomar inom fotboll och ridsport. Vi h

The EU has recently shifted its trade policy from multilateralism to bilateralism, and this has highly affected Turkey via the existing trade regime with the EU. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the reactions of current actors in Turkey to the EU’s increasing FTAs with third countries in the EU-Turkey trade regime context. To do this, a theoretical framework has been established by using

As the representation of people’s identity, dress reveals people’s characteristics, social status and most importantly, how people want to be “looked like”. The same theory can be applied to film costume, which is not only a purely visual spectacle but also an important element to sustain the entire film. Film costume on one hand helps to form the concepts and images of different characters and th

Starting with an awareness of plain public art which is permanently installed, I begin to pay attention to temporality. As the term “public art” itself carries mutually conflicting concepts, previous researches have mainly focused on issues like “political aestheticization” and “privatization of public space” in terms of development and democracy. From a more socio-aesthetic viewpoint, this thesis

The project “ETT-Modular system for timber transport” investigates the possibilities of making logging shipments more effective, decrease their fuel consumption and road wear without compromising traffic safety. As part of this project a timber vehi-cle, the ETT-vehicle, that pulls four piles of timber, is 30 metres long, and has a gross combination weight of 90 tons, is tested on a distance betwe

I takt med att organisationer växer hanterar de mer och mer information vilket innebär ett behov av en process, även kallad content life-cycle processen, för att samla in, hantera och publicera information på intranätet. Vidare hjälper content life-cycle processen organisationen att anpassa det man har, med det som anställda vill ha, så att organisationen kan leverera rätt information till rätt p

Farmer associations are suggested a good tool to increase rural income and strengthen social ties among small-scale farmers. Strong social bonds can in turn generate social capital which is identified to matter significantly for development outcomes and poverty alleviation. Not much research has been devoted to how the formation of a farmer association affects group dynamics and social capital be

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att diskutera anställningsbarhet. Anställningsbarhet är ett begrepp som förknippas med högre utbildning och som i samband med Bolognaprocessen har fått förnyad popularitet. Sveriges beslut om en ny utbildnings- och examensstruktur (2007) har tvingat många utbildningsinstitutioner att revidera sina kursplaner och i det arbetet har anställningsbarhet blivit en viktig

This thesis examines the evolution of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) in the EU. The overarching purpose is to give an example of ideational causation in the EU, and concretely, to illustrate how a norm can cause changes to policy and to policymaking. It is argued that the PCD concept is essentially a norm, because it provides a guideline for how to prioritize between differing and often co

This thesis provides an analysis of three photographs from the New Mothers-series by Rineke Dijkstra, which serve as a point of entry for a discussion on how the maelstrom of visual expressions surrounding the contemporary subject is transforming his/her experience of what is real in relation to visual expressions. In the exploration, the concept of “the real” is examined in its construction and a

This study is an assessment of the functioning of the three year old Transparency Mechanism. The mechanism has a surveiling role in the WTO of the Regional Trade Agreements (RTA). Formation of RTAs has been increasing rapidly during the latest twenty years, causing a tension in the multilateral trading system. RTAs give more preferable treatment to parties within the agreement than to trading part

Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka om och på vilka sätt vuxna utlandsadopterade erfar rasism och särbehandling på grund av deras utomeuropeiska utseende, samt hur deras adoptivföräldrar har talat om och hanterat deras kroppsliga annanhet i relation till, och frågor rörande rasism och diskriminering. Undersökningen utgår ifrån en litteraturstudie och fyra intervjuer med vuxna adopterade. En t

During the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) as engines of economic development and pro-poor growth. In Bolivia, MSEs are the main source of employment but have alarmingly low levels of productivity. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to seek for an explanation of the relevance of MSEs´ growth in the Bolivian context as we

Background: The literature reviewed in the context of this master’ programme frequently refers to the enormous and increasing flows of people in the global era (Dicken, 2007; Lechner, 2004; Yeates, 2008); consequently, these flows have different directions and motives and represent diverse types of migration and migrants. As a result, the pivotal point here is the specificity of scientific migrati

Vem lyssnar politiker egentligen på? Det finns ett mycket ambitiöst mål för Öresundsregionen – att regionen ska bli den främsta i Europa. För att man ska lyckas med det krävs att medborgare och näringsliv kan påverka och samtala med politiker. Vi har valt att fokusera på hur näringslivets påverkan av beslutsprocesser ser ut eftersom tidigare forskning har visat att varken medborgare eller politike

Detta arbete syftar till att studera diskursen kring folkhemmet genom att ta avstamp i Foucaults teorier om biopolitiken. Genom att formulera dessa teorier som ett konkret analysverktyg ämnar arbetet studera hur den sociala politiken kan förstås som en specifik form av maktutövning. Det huvudsakliga fokuset kommer att ligga på utsagoplanet. Arbetet kommer att visa hur representationen av den socia

In this master's thesis I analyse how partially changing ideas and procedures regarding democracy can be incorporated into local politics. I argue that you can see a development of a democracy policy field, democracy politics, in Sweden, where politicians introduce initiatives with the aim of involving citizens in decision-making processes. I have chosen to conduct a case study on the city of

Abstract To consider judicial institutions free from any form of political capability is to ignore theories such as judicialization which have described the process and/or ability to secure political needs through judicial procedures. Judicial institutions can thus be regarded as having both judicial and political power. This power can be described through the concept of discipline, which entail

The biopolitical agenda hosts some of the most heated debates in the current political situation. Despite the fact that it is a field of growing relevance for society, few have heard of the ideologies and idéas that constitute biopolitics. This might be explained by the insight that biopolitics is still breaking relatively new political ground. As we slowly progress towards the future, the import