This thesis aims to shed light on women’s intercourse pain by examining the conceptualization and discourse regarding such pain and how this in turn affects women’s suffering. Three different perspectives of intercourse pain, namely biomedical, biopsychosocial and the subjective experience of women were analyzed using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the three perspective’s disco

In this thesis the implementation of fundamental democratic values in municipal multi-party elected councils, Hamn- och gatunämnden and Barn- och utbildningsnämnden in Varberg, is discussed. A discussion about what implications expert knowledge can have in the decision-making process is also conducted. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first part an empirical analysis of ideas is conducted

In this paper I examine the Swedish discourse on terrorism to be found in the Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet following the bombings in Stockholm 2010.The research question that the paper revolves around is: What discourse on terrorism was dominating Swedish media following the bombings in Stockholm 2010 and what discourse was the strongest challenger? Which are the discourses’ n

In this study the Swedish democratization process is being examined with the help of three modern democratization theories. In order to find out which modern theory best can be applied to the Swedish case two Swedish books, covering the time of interest are being examined. The two books are standard works used as political-historical course literature at Swedish universities. Results show that non

With a legal dogmatic method, the purpose of this thesis was to examine how Vietnam is fulfilling its legal obligations to support returning human trafficking victims. The Vietnamese human trafficking law was the main research object and was considered in relation to the international standards in support to returnees set in the Trafficking Protocol. It also aimed to identify shortcomings, and ass

European integration has increasingly come to depend on the abolition of national regulations, driven by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). According to previous research, this mode of integration effectively undermines the institutional foundations of social democratic welfare states and coordinated systems of industrial relations – something which has not been fully appreciated by

The purpose of this thesis is to create a greater understanding of the process of the commissionaires’ work with the report Malmö’s way to a sustainable future, which was finished and presented in March 2013. It is not the content of the report that is of interest for the writer, or in focus in this thesis, but how the commissionaires working with the report experienced the process: was it transpa

Uppsatsen syftar till att ge ökad förståelse för hur storskaliga markkoncessioner, popuärt kallat land grabbing, kan öka risken för inomstatliga konflikter. Utifrån befintliga teorier om hur naturresursutvinning påverkar å ena sidan statliga institutioner och ekonomiska strukturer, och å andra sidan motiv och möjligheter för oppositionella grupper att ta till våld, har ett anpassat analysschema ut

The basic relevance of this thesis is the need to always examine the democratic society and its evolvement. In the year 2008 a new law was enacted. It changed the so called ´FRA-law` which regard the institution ´Swedish Defence Radio Authority` and enabled it to wiretap all telephone and Internet traffic that crosses Sweden's borders. With these two central factors for a ´good` democratic com

Without increasing small-scale agricultural productivity, the prospects of decreasing poverty and encouraging rural development in Bolivia will remain dim. There is very little scientific literature about the role entrepreneurship can play for enhancing agricultural productivity. Exploring this link in the Bolivian context is highly relevant due to the generally high occurrence of self employment,

Mellan 2007 och 2008 steg de internationella priserna för mat och bränsle kraftigt och det pratades i medierna och i FN om en global matkris odlad av spekulation och protektionism. Det sägs att 74 låginkomstländer och 71 medelinkomstländer drabbades av priserna som vissa månader till och med fördubblades. I de mest utsatta länderna uppstod det i flera fall våldsamma protester. Denna uppsats und

In this essay the purpose is to see which ideas about development that are framed by Sida in the swedish development discourse. The method used for the study is an idea analysis. By creating two ideal types, a dominant and a critical perspective the aim is to see if any of the perspectives are more occuring in the swedish development discourse. The study focuses on development as poverty reduction

This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social

Cambodia is preparing a scale-up of the Continuum of Care for people living with HIV with the goal of eliminating new HIV infections by 2020. To measure if Cambodia is reaching its goal it is necessary to obtain high-quality strategic information. This case study looked into how HIV Case Reporting, as one component of strategic information, facilitates the monitoring of the epidemic. Doing so, it

Sedan 2001 är Sverige representerade i den internationella styrkan International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) som finns på plats i Afghanistan. Innan de svenska soldaterna åker ner för att stötta den fredsbevarande insatsen genomgår de träning på Livgardet i Stockholm. Där tar de del av en både teoretisk och praktisk utbildning. Invävt i den teoretiska utbildningen finns en utbildningsdel

Changes in a national constitution are in their very nature a fundamental shift in a country’s polity. The focus of this essay is how the local and regional consultation bodies reacted to proposed changes in the Swedish constitution leading up to the actual reform in 2010. This essay is specifically aiming towards finding out how constitutional changes are perceived on a local and regional level o

This thesis aims to present the mental constructions behind the zero tolerance against graffiti in Stockholm. By constructing two different frames, those in favor for the zero tolerance and those against, the representation of concepts and mental constructions are exposed. The zero tolerance policy will be investigated by the method of Carrol Bacchi’s “What’s the problem represented to be?” and th

This thesis examines the Oesch class schema in a Swedish context, and tests its ability to unveil cleavages in political preferences. The Oesch class schema operationalizes class by profession. It adds horizontal divisions based on different work logics to the vertical divisions which schemata such as ESEC build on. Two cleavages are thus captured, an economic (left-right) and a sociocultural (lib

Sweden, amongst others, is usually considered a small state in a greater European context. Small state influence in the European Union (EU) is a research field filled with vast potential and possibilities. This study focuses on Swedish influence on the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CSFP) of the EU and the different strategies that small states may apply in order to obtain influence in intern