Reviewing the historical legacy of colonialism and slavery on attitudes about race, gender and citizenship within the United States, this thesis attempts to illuminate three principle archetypes within development discourse: the Brute, the Victim and the Authority. Each of these three discursive threads, deriving from unique historical processes, provides an opposing Other against which US citizen

The way to a Profession - Voices of students in social studies about their education The purpose of this study was to examine how students of social wcience view their education in relation to their future profession. The study was based on qualitative individual interviews with students at School of social work at Lund University in Sweden. The aim was to contribute to an understanding of the st

I den här uppsatsen studeras överföringen av litterär kodväxling mellan A Confederacy of Dunces och översättningen Dumskallarnas Sammansvärjning. Tre karaktärers personliga koder och sättet dessa markeras på analyseras, och kodframställningens roll för karaktäriseringen diskuteras. I analysen framkommer att källtextförfattaren markerar karaktärernas koder till stor del på morfosyntaktisk och grafi

Uppsatsen avhandlar Joakim Thåströms sånglyrik ur ett kontinentalfilosofiskt perspektiv. Gilles Deleuzes terminologi används för att undersöka hur textens uttrycks och på vilka möjliga sätt uttrycken kan påverka sina åhörare. Därutöver närmar sig uppsatsen musikvetenskapen, genom att diskutera b.la. musikens samverkan med Joakim Thåströms sånglyrik och hur den uttrycks.

Alkohol är ständigt närvarande i samhället och det förknippas med både glädje och elände. I den svenska kulturen är alkohol ofta något självklart och förgivettaget i flera sociala sammanhang. Uppsatsen tar inte ställning varken för eller emot alkohol, utan tyngdpunkten ligger på hur och i vilka sammanhang alkohol konsumeras och uppmärksammas. Uppsatsen ämnar att studera vilken roll alkohol spelar

Authors: Besnik Meziu & Sophie Ståhlnacke Title: We're personnel, but also their mother, father, sister or brother... Tutor: Johan Cronehed Assessor: Carina Tigervall The purpose of this study was to examine how personnel within an asylum accommodation for unaccompanied refugee children understood and looked at their own professional role, both in terms of professionalism and emotional com

“Abuse – That’s not really a factor in my world”: A qualitative study about how abuse is defined and constructed within geriatric care Nursing homes have increasingly come under attack in recent years for scandals involving the abuse of elderly care-takers within their organisations. The purpose of this study was to determine how abuse can be defined by the staff within geriatric care in nursing

This research will focus on the economic geographic patterns of the diffusion of grid photovoltaic (PV) cells. The analysis is specified to the EU 15 and the time period 1990-2010. The causal and correlational relationships will be derived from energy transitions that occurred in history and recent research directed towards renewable energy and solar energy in particular. This results in five inde

En undersökning av Stig Larssons andra roman Nyår utifrån idéer om den romantiska ironin så som de presenteras av Friedrich Schlegel och tolkas av Paul de Man samt Horace Engdahl. Uppsatsen kontrasterar synvinkeln med tidigare forskning som valt att se romanen dels som en existentialistisk roman, dels som en postmodern metafiktion.

This thesis discusses the potential conflicts between the MARPOL and BASEL regimes in relation with management of wastes derived from operations of ships. The analysis whether the BASEL Convention provides an overarching regime to deal with waste cycle from generation to disposal is also addressed for determining if MARPOL has to complement this regime. To this end, a holistic view regarding the e

Riksåklagaren är Sveriges högsta allmänna åklagare och allmän åklagare i HD. Riksåklagaren har en central roll inom rättsväsendet. Han ska bland annat verka för en enhetlig rättstillämpning, vilket till stor del utförs genom Riksåklagarens yttranden i sina svarsskrivelser och överklagandeskrifter i mål som överklagas till HD. År 1993 infördes ett system med prövningstillstånd avseende vissa brottThe Chief Public Prosecutor is Sweden's most high-ranked public prosecutor and public prosecutor in the Supreme Court. The Chief Public Prosecutor has a central role in the legal system. He will, among other tasks, work for a uniform application of the law, which is mainly achieved by the Chief Prosecutor´s opinions in his replies and appeal papers in the cases being appealed to the Supreme Co

Vision Zero was introduced as an innovative traffic safety policy that has the eradication of mortality and severe injuries caused by traffic accidents as its final goal. The process of achieving that goal is through a set of measures, rules and regulations that change not only the way of thinking and acting of traffic members (and drivers, in particular), but also of car and road designers. Since

Förevarande uppsats behandlar det interimistiska förbudet i ett praktiskt perspektiv. Mer konkret uttryckt undersöks i vilken utsträckning det immaterialrättsliga interimistiska förbudet faktiskt används i det praktiska rättslivet, samt hur det interimistiska förbudet i praktiken fungerar som ett tvistemålssubstitut. Genom en kvantitativ analys av opublicerade immaterialrättsliga rättsfall har eThis thesis addresses the interlocutory injunction from a practical perspective. The subject of the thesis is the actual use of the interlocutory injunction and the injunction’s effect as a substitute for civil litigation in cases of intellectual property infringements. A number of aspects of the actual use of the interlocutory injunction have been established in an empiric study of unpublished c

How do museums relate to working in a culturally diverse society? The notion of increasing diversity as a result of social change and Sweden as a multicultural society is central to public discussions and cultural initiatives. The goal for museums is to reflect demografics of society in their visitor numbers, and a shift to increase awareness of needs and views of the museum audience. This increas

Capitulation is wisdom - not defeat! The aim of this study has been an attempt to clarify how parents of children with neuropsychiatric disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome and intellectual disability manage to cope in their everyday life despite the high levels of stress and long term strain it involves being a parent and a caretaker of such a child. We focused our study on the family as a

Information and Communications Technology is an increasing factor in the everyday life, whether this is private or public. In coherence with this, reports and research presents the contribution to effects in terms of pollution, such as greenhouse gas emissions and electronic waste. Current reports state that the agendas of enterprises, governments and societies increasingly include how to tackle e