When the rural Aymara migrate to El Alto they experience a cultural alienation as their culture and identity is contested by the global influences and western values of the city. The migrants have to reconstruct their identity in a process of identity-formation, which can be located on a range between the opposing tendencies of assimilation and revalorization. Revalorization or to revalue, is to a

The purpose of this study is to investigate the way George W. Bush used the language as a means to exercise power in an attempt to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom. The theories used to answer the purpose are discourse analysis and three different moral metaphors that are applied on the data. The collected material for the metaphors is constituted of cognitive linguistic books from prominent lingu

A look at to what degree SE Asian Muslims (Indonesians and Malaysians) are willing to compromise their Islamic beliefs in the Nordic countries. To integrate into Danish society, how much, if any, of their religion/traditions do Indonesian/Malay Muslims give up to "be Danish"? Through a comprehensive questionnaire sent out to Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims living in the Nordic countries

The purpose of my thesis is to make clear how current Japan in the early days of economic recovering looks on Chinese market, adverse or favorable, producing base or sale market. And the article discusses the influence of Chinese high growth on Japanese economic resuscitation from different facets, focusing on the mutual economic complementary beneficial for Japanese economy, which implies that th

Following Mao Zedong's new political offensive in September 1962, the Communist Youth League (CYL) was called to play a leading role in the struggle to revolutionize Chinese youth. However, as the Cultural Revolution entered its first phase, the CYL turned to be one of the most challenged institutions. Through a rigorous historical research based on archival data mainly kept in Beijing public

The thesis is a combination of both research fieldwork in sociology and documentary study on the historical development of Japanese animation (and manga) within China in the past two decades. The author tries to reveal some of the social changes taken place in Chinese society through a prevailing foreign culture that once did not even exist. The thesis examines the background, the initiation and d

Customers and the stakeholders are putting increased pressure on the companies to take responsibility for environmental issues in their supply chain. This may not be very easy for the companies, especially if the suppliers causing pollution are beyond company's direct business connections. This study tries to understand this phenomenon by means of a case study in the fashion industry. A Swedis

Tourism is an industry with considerable environmental and social impacts; in order to stimulate reduction of these impacts, voluntary recognition schemes i.e. ecolabels and certification programmes have been introduced to motivate tourism businesses to improve their environmental performance, encourage more sustainable practices and patterns in this branch of economy, provide information to touri

Switching from fossil fuels to biofuels has already been proven to be a good business for some industries such as the pulp industry and the wood industry in general, but very limited experience exists about the profitability of this change in other industrial contexts. This thesis investigates the financial viability of a partial shift to a biomass based energy system for the structural ceramics

Separation of waste in households is a widespread practice in modern waste management systems. Waste separation programmes are dependent on the voluntary agreement of the public to do the separation and success of it is considered to depend on promotion and public information. The purpose of the thesis is to explore various communication tools that can help overcome specific barriers to public par

Today's technology allows for communities based in polar areas to introduce composting as a way of handling organic waste. The success of this is dependent on a well functioning source separation system. The objective of this research is to examine a set of criteria that on an experiential basis influence the outcome of a number of quality aspects of a source separation system. From analysing

This paper reviews building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) applications in China as one pathway toward diversification of the Chinese energy infrastructure. By analysing the potential of BIPV's penetration in Chinese urban areas and a scenario analysis in Beijing, this paper addresses the questions (1) Is BIPV feasible in China? (2) If the Chinese government chooses BIPV, what are the pros and

The report, designed for interested parties of the industrial food industry in France, is founded on three research questions inspired by literature studies of sustainable development, management of corporate social responsibility, industrial food production and food product quality. The research questions search for the identification and explanation of critical categories of concern relevant for

Since 1999, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encourage developing countries to prepare the so called poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), which are national integrated strategies formulated through a participatory process coordinated with donors. This research has aimed to contribute to the development of effective PRS, especially the Sustainable Development and Povert

Kvinnomisshandel är idag ett etablerat samhällsproblem. Också i massmedia får detta problem stor uppmärksamhet. När kvinnomisshandel diskuteras kan det kännas som om kvinnan skuldbeläggs. Den kvinna som stannar kvar hos våldsmannen kanske inte får förståelse ifrån omgivningen lika lätt som den som bryter upp? Syftet med uppsatsen är att få en större förståelse om varför en del kvinnor inte lämnar

The paper investigates opportunities to minimize electricity consumption that will arise from the expected rapid penetration of households with set-top boxes due to the digitisation of television platforms. The study explores opportunities from a perspective of technical and behavioural change and how to promote this change through policy intervention and industry action. To explore the drivers an

This is an interview based qualitative case study on two Women's Migrant Associations in Malmoe, which I interpret as being part of a women's movement, with characteristics of a new social movement. The aim of this study is to get a deeper understanding on how the collective identity is being constructed, in this women's movement where the membership is not based on an exclusive ethnic

Abstract Environmental communication is more complex and challenging today compared to ten years ago. Moreover, it is experienced that many companies fail in their environmental communication. If companies want to succeed in their environmental communication, they must have a clear understanding of their environmental communication process. The impact from individuals and organisational condition

Source reduction and source separation are important ingredients for sustainable municipal solid waste management. They facilitate waste reduction and valorisation. However, waste managers find that it is challenging task to promote source reduction and source separation. The situation is even more difficult in developing countries and lack of environmental awareness and lack of public cooperation

Plastic materials come in a variety of forms from non-renewable resource based thermosets and thermoplastics to renewable resource based bio-plastics each of which have unique qualities and properties. These materials are seeing ever increasing production and consumption rates throughout Western Europe, being utilized in a growing number of products which inevitably enter the waste stream upon end