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Purpose of the study: To construct a framework by investigating value creating processes within the New Economy. In terms of value the researchers are investigating the process from consumer activation to co-production, and to the last step of using co-production in order to co-create value. Theoretical framework: The main theories are Marketing Communications, Co-production and Co-creation. Addit

Senegalese smallholders up to date face high constraints regarding their generation of livelihoods from agriculture. Restricted access to productive resources and participation in finance, input and output markets are root causes for these constraints. While the potential of collective action to address institutional constraints of smallholder agriculture has been widely acknowledged, success sto

The revolution in Egypt in the spring of 2011 gathered tens of thousands of people demonstrating. According to UN Women, among others, were women and men equal as activists in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Spring. I wondered who was designated as a protester in Swedish media portrayal of the Egyptian revolution. Despite reports that women and men stood side by side and were similar activists in

The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a more holistic understanding of how youth reason around Intergenerational Transactional Relationships (ITRs) by moving beyond the customarily analysis of youths’ motivations for the engagement. Empirical data was gained through qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with youth in Windhoek. Informants’ accounts were analyz

Abstract Authors: Helena Solberg and Martina Andersson Title: Pregnant addicts and their fetus – a qualitative study from the professional perspective on the dilemma of compulsory treatment during pregnancy. Supervisor: Helena Hansson The purpose of this study was to examine and interpret the situation with pregnant women with alcohol-or drug addiction from a professional perspective. Our study a

Abstract in UndeterminedMAKING GENDER, MAKING WAR is a unique interdisciplinary collection of papers exploring the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. Norms of gender and war are embedded in institutions and have implications for practice. The book highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, both masculinity and

LGBTs (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) in Lebanon have for a long time been a target of oppression were legal, economic and social factors have contributed to their historical marginalization. While the Lebanese Penal code in article 534, is criminalizing homosexuality the law is rarely applied and is primarily used to violate the privacy of gay and lesbians by denying them basic human rig

They have in California, USA, enacted an Act, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, (SACPA). Our purpose with this essay was to get a better knowledge about SACPA and how the Act was put in practice by the different affected professions. Through illustrating the Act’s intentions from out of a historical, political and socioeconomic perspective we have tried to present the view the

The aim of this essay was to find out how children are paid attention to by staff at emergency wards, when a close relative unexpectedly passes away. We had five questions to help us to reach our aim: · How can helpers work with children in acute crises? · How can children in crises react? · What apprehension does children have of death during different ages? · How much should children participate

Are we as a society (global, national or local) incomplete if we do not adhere to the substantial truths to be gained by alignment with the western democratic notion of the rule of law? Is the notion of the rule designed with the built in paradox that the rule of law will itself become the basis for future designs of society, defining where we are, where we want to be and even in time, possibly (r

The aim of this sociological study is to explore and to understand mechanisms of power being embedded in daily procedures of detention establishment with the focus on the case officers’ work tasks. In the study the emic approach is being used in order to understand from within power at detention. Observations, field notes, interviews and written documents constitute the empirical material being co

The aim of this thesis is to understand how the feeling of home can appear in a youth care institution for unaccompanied children. Unlike other youth care institutions that deals with psychosocial problems, these youth cares become more permanent to unaccompanied children. The study is made from qualitative approach, with ethnographic studies at a youth care for unaccompanied children. The observa

Water resources management has been reconfigured over time and space; as power over decision-making processes has increasingly been vested from the state and distributed among networks of private and non-governmental actors. Geographical scholarships of environmental governance seek to critically analyse this transformation in order to grasp how decisions are made, and the consequences that entail

The aim of the current project (“Swedish Phonetics ’39-‘69”) is to provide an account of the historical, social, discursive, and rhetoric con-ditions that determined the emergence of pho-netic science in Sweden between 1939 and 1969. The inquiry is based on a investigation in four areas: how empirical phonetic data were analysed in the period, how the discipline gained new knowledge about phonetic

Building owners are encouraged to reduce energy use in order to both contribute to national energy-saving goals and reduce the costs of heating and operation. It is important to choose the most optimal renovation measures available so as to achieve cost-effective energy use while maintaining excellent indoor environments, without sacrificing architectural quality or negatively affecting the enviro

The recent popularity of audiobooks has led to new ways of using the format as publishers and producers reproduce and “reactualise” older works by adapting them into audio. The article examines this development, focusing on the case of Storytel’s 2022 audio adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 and the marketing campaign surrounding it, combining a publishing studies approach (Squires 2007; Murray 20