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Despite its increasing prevalence worldwide, ageing without children remains insufficiently studied. This article presents a scoping review of existing qualitative research examining the social aspects of childlessness in midlife and later adulthood. A total of 3,444 papers were retrieved from nine electronic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, CINAHL Complete, APA PsycINFO, SocINDEX, Academic Sear

A key aspect of an attractive and accessible public transport system is that passengers feel safe and secure, not least from a travel chain perspective. The aim of this paper is to provide an increased understanding of triggers for feelings of insecurity and perceptions of safety in relation to public transport, with a special focus on larger public transport nodes in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Th

This volume engages with the alarming convergence of far right thinking and the ecological crisis in contemporary society. Growing out of the first international conference on political ecologies of the far right, the volume gathers crucial insights from authorities in the field as well as promising early career researchers. With cases ranging from ethnographical accounts of fossil fuel populist p

In the 2016 fall issue of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, a themed section in the journal was dedicated to a revisiting of Friedrich Engels’s pamphlet The Housing Question, written in 1872. Six articles were published where the authors were asked to frame their analyses in reference to Engels’s pamphlet and the subsequent intellectual engagements with it. My teachers, Henr

China’s influence on the global stage is constantly expanding. Recently, a considerable amount of attention has been paid by the Chinese officials to the developments in the Arctic region. Majority of scientific works which have focused on the underlying rationale behind Chinese presence in the Arctic used theoretical tools provided by either liberal institutionalism or realism. Consequently, the

Studiens syfte är att undersöka ensembledeltagares perspektiv på hur lärarledda ensemblesituationer kan se ut och vad som stödjer och påverkar dess arbete samt klimat. Frågeställningarna har skapats utifrån de upplevelser och funderingar jag har inom samma område utifrån rollen som elev och ensembledeltagare. Jag har sedan sökt svar på dessa forskarfrågor genom fyra intervjuer. Litteraturen som ba

Vietnam har sedan den socialistiska revolutionen på mitten av 1900-tlaet arbetat aktivt för jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män. Sedan 1982 är Vietnam part till Konventionen om avskaffande av all slags diskriminering av kvinnor (CEDAW). Patriarkala strukturer influerade av konfucianismen lever dock vidare, och det vietnamesiska samhället är än idag starkt präglat av sociala hierarkier mellan könenThe State of Vietnam has worked actively against inequality between women and men since the early days of the socialist revolution in the mid-twentieth century. Vietnam is since 1982 State Party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). However, patriarchal structures influenced by Confucian ideology remain strong in present-day Vietnamese society.

This paper seeks to develop an understanding of how configurations of masculinity were shaped and represented by the Swedish Ballet in the 1920s through the use of a symbolic language of signs. With in-depth analysis of storylines, roles and scenography I aim to show how certain symbols, signs and metaphors where tied together to display masculinity. Further, by applying theory on space/place, thi

Kvinnliga samkönade par har tillgång till insemination inom svensk sjukvård sedan den 1 juli 2005. Trots det väljer en del par att genomföra behandlingen utanför svensk sjukvård, antingen utomlands eller genom privat insemination. Vid insemination utanför svensk sjukvård med donerad sperma skiljer sig föräldraskapsregleringen för kvinnliga samkönade par från den för olikkönade par. Mannen i ett olFemale same-sex couples have had the right to undergo insemination within Swedish health care since July 1st 2005. Despite this some couples still choose to get the treatment outside Swedish health care, either abroad or through private insemination. With insemination outside Swedish health care with donated sperm the regulation for parenthood for female same-sex couples differs from that of oppos

The issue of security is still an aspect of concern for domestic and international politics. In Southeast Asia, in 2003, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to establish three pillars for the future single community by 2015: the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). To live at peace with o

The aim of this study was to examine parents’ experiences of having a child with eating disorders. Specifically the aim was to analyze the parental view on responsibility for nursing and the child’s recovery from the eating disorder, how the child’s eating disorder change and influence the relationships and interactions within the family and how the parents views on themselves have changed with th

Ofrivillig barnlöshet är ett problem som kan bero på många olika faktorer. Ett sätt för att avhjälpa den är att genomgå assisterad befruktning. Assisterad befruktning inom svensk hälso- och sjukvård är däremot inte tillgängligt för alla. För att få genomgå en behandling krävs det att vissa villkor är uppfyllda. En av dessa förutsättningar är att den assisterade befruktningen utförs på en kvinna soInvoluntary childlessness can be a problem caused by many different factors. One way to remedy is to undergo assisted reproduction. However, assisted reproduction within the Swedish healthcare is not available for everybody. Certain conditions need to be met for a person to be eligible for treatment. One of these conditions is that the woman who is going to undergo the assisted reproduction is tog

This paper seeks to develop an understanding of how configurations of masculinity were shaped and represented by the Swedish Ballet in the 1920s through the use of a symbolic language of signs. With in-depth analysis of storylines, roles and scenography I aim to show how certain symbols, signs and metaphors where tied together to display masculinity. Further, by applying theory on space/place, thi

The aim of this thesis is to study how identity and representation operates in understandings of the Other in the reception of texts marked as being about, and written by the Other. Further my aim is to study how otherness, kinship, belonging and identity operate in these processes. My main research question is; How does Identity, kinship and belonging operates in the reception of texts, written f