Embedded in a history of global colonial capitalism and the system’s crisis ridden tendencies and fixes for capital accumulation, extractivism increases globally. The intensive exploitation of resources is increasingly framed as compatible with and necessary to climate change mitigation for the possibility of a low-carbon future, opening new extractive frontiers through a path of ‘green’ extractiv

Education, as one of the most important issues in society, can be understood rather differently. How various governments construct education can have a major impact on the discourse and with that on the actual education. Through the German federal system, each federal state is in charge of their educational system. Different governments mean different parties with different objectives, which are a

Despite attention for lack of racial diversity in climate movements in the Global North, there is little examination of other manifestations of whiteness. This thesis examines how structural whiteness – as a norm and as a power structure – shapes the Dutch climate movement’s relation to climate justice and how these impacts can be countered. Understanding racial justice as central to climate justi

Marginalisation is present in youth education for sustainability. Reducing marginalisation in youth education for sustainability is crucial in the field of human ecology since it strives to understand environmental and social justice. This thesis explores the role of art in European youth education for sustainability and the potential of art to transform dominant Western industrial cultural assump

In the past decades, community renewable energy (CRE) has significantly contributed to the uptake of renewable technology to decarbonise Germany's electricity sector. Meanwhile, the primary source of household emissions – heating – is still highly dependent on fossil fuels, especially gas. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the decarbonisation of heating becomes an even mo

As new security threats arise within the borders Europe, with new methods of modern warfare that challenge previous notions of what constitutes regular warfare, one must adapt. The contemporary landscape of information technology has made it easier for antagonistic actors, such as Russia to employ information as a subversive tool to achieve political goals. Sweden has recently established an agenc

On the 24th of February 2022 Russia decided to invade its neighbour Ukraine. On this day Putin delivered a speech in which he described his thoughts and why he deemed it necessary to invade Ukraine. This speech he sought to legitimise the action taken by his regime. This was not the first time since the start of this millennium that Russia invaded a neighbour which in turn raised the question if t

This thesis examines Putin’s use of history in their Ukrainian narrative. Presidential addresses from 2021-2022 constitute the research material. Putin’s selectiveness in historical production is not a new phenomenon. In light of the current Ukraine invasion, it can even be considered reinforced. The study highlights this fact. It does so by utilising a framework of theories and tools collected fr

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the lack of resources within a large treatment care organization (SiS) can affect the healthcare assistants professional work with the target group. The main focus was to investigate the contributing factors that affected the lack of resources in terms of the service providers work with the target group. Our findings indicated that the level of the e

In this thesis I sought to study the doctrine of the just war within the context of the First Crusade. Utilising an aggregate theory consisting of just war theory, defensive realism, and poliheuristic decision-making, I operationalised my research questions in an idiographic case study scrutinising two transcriptions of a speech Pope Urban II made at Clermont in 1095. I found that the differing ac

The purpose of this study is to examine why the Russian security forces, or siloviki, supported the 2020 amendments to the Russian constitution, using Henry E. Hale’s patronal politics as a theoretical framework. Based on this theory, the study pro-poses a hypothetical motive to explain why the siloviki supported the amendments. To strengthen the case for this motive, a number of empirical indicat

In transitioning to a sustainable society and ensuring a growing bioeconomy, a National Forest Programme (NFP) has been adopted in Sweden. In order to meet the goals set out in the NFP, forest programs have been decentralized to regional authorities in which collaborative governance should be the guiding instrument. This thesis investigates the effectiveness of new forms of decentralization, throu

This Bachelor thesis will go into depth of how the rhetorical arguments used by the Bush administration led to the justification of war against Saddam Hussien’s regime in Iraq 2003. This will be accomplished through the application of normative theory and its dif erent types of instruments, used on Bush himself and one of his colleagues in the Bush Administration, Paul Wolfowitz, who had the key i

The purpose of the essay is to investigate the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 by adopting a defensive and offensive realist perspective. Hypothetical explanations for the invasion such as balancing of threats are operationalized based on offensive defense policy, geographical proximity and military capability, while expansion of power is interpreted as challenging the status

I denna studie utforskas hur Rysslands användning av militära medel i Ukraina kan förklaras. Studien genomför två analyser, en på individnivå med hjälp av Perception och Misperception teorin och den andra på systemnivå med utgångspunkten i strukturella realismen. På individnivå finner studien att Putin ser på västen i termer av ”vi” och ”dem” samtidigt som Putin ser interaktioner mellan Rysslan

Denna uppsats syftar att analysera de bakomliggande maktstrukturer som skapas eller reproduceras av den svenska feministiska utrikespolitiken genom en kritisk diskursanalys som informeras av intersektionell feminism. Som grund till undersökningen ligger tre officiella dokument som producerats av den svenska regeringen och som ämnar att antingen etablera initiativets ramverk eller utvärdera politik

This thesis investigates the movement resisting Namakhvani Hydropower Plant Cascade Project, the largest energy project envisioned in Georgia since the declaration of independence. A Critical Discourse Analysis is used to understand the motives behind the resistance, which encompass both invocations of traditional values such as defense of ancestral land and livelihood and liberal concepts such as

Recognizing the normative power that the European Union projects outside its borders within the environmental field, this thesis seeks to shed light on the norm-importer’s agency in the norm diffusion process. Serbia as a candidate country and its political elite are chosen as the main focus of the empirical analysis. Since Serbia wants to become a member of the EU, it is in its interest to adopt