Denna uppsats syftar till att utmana Judith Butlers subjektsförståelse utifrån den italienska filosofen och feministen Adriana Cavareros teorier om det unika, relationella och berättningsbara jaget. I min redogörelse för Butlers subjektsförståelse utgår jag från hennes teorier om subjektionen och om den uteslutande matrisen. Jag visar hur Butler försöker möjliggöra subjektets överskridande av disk

Kvinnor behöver ett eget rum för att kunna utvecklas till individer eftersom det är först då de kan bli jämställda med mannen. Kvinnors särorganisering har alltid väckt olika starkt motstånd från samhället beroende på vilka frågor och ämnen kvinnor väljer att grunda sin organisering på. Uppsatsen syftar till att beskriva en legitim form av kvinnlig särorganisering som ges i form av en kvinnokurs p

The biotechnology industry is an evolving sector of this century having potential to significantly influence our lives. It has unidentified potentials to contribute to sustainable development, but is also feared by society for its possible known and unknown impacts. Amplified transparency brought about by media, new concerns and expectations of society towards business as well as social criteria a

This thesis evaluates the user board of the elememtary school in Veberöd, Sweden. In this process an evaluation model is developed. The model itself gets evaluated in a meta-evaluation to improve the model for future use. The starting point of the evaluation is the deliberative democracy theory. Although Sweden is a representative democracy an official desire exists to have a democracy with delib

The aim of this essay is to examine which help a group of women with eating disorders had from thier treatment in daycare in 2004. The aim is to examine how the women have experienced this treatment and how they live today. The central questions are: what was their life situation like before the treatment, what was their experience of the treatment, how could the treatment have been better and how

Corporate sustainability research and practice are beginning to move beyond eco-efficiency. In our search to conceptualise sustainable development in terms that make sense to business, a growing range of frameworks, tools and management systems have emerged to support efforts to improve the social and environmental performance of companies. One of the challenges for business is to sort through the

The aim of this essay was to describe and analyse the use of snuff as a social activity. By accomplishing eight qualitative interviews with snuff-users I wanted to get a glimpse into their relationship to the snuff and find out in which situations and frames of mind the snuff-use alter. I also wanted to find out if age, class or gender has any affect in snuff-using. The interviews were analysed in

Denna kvalitativa studie undersöker vilken funktion det anorektiska beteendet fyller och huruvida det finns en koppling till hantering av adolescensens utvecklingsuppgifter. Sju semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med kvinnor från en icke-klinisk population som hade haft en ätstörning i tonåren. Studien visar att ätstörningen används för att hantera känslor, få en känsla av självkontroll, ide

This paper has two parts. In the first part we analyse the Swedish translation of KIMS and we compare it with the American version that Baer and colleagues developed(Baer et al, 2004). Our focus is the factor structure, internal consistency, scale correlations and validity in relation to the already validated translation of the MAAS. The second part has three issues: Does a group of relatives to p

This thesis deals with the Environmental performance evaluation (EPE) of the Total Heating System. The main research objective was to identify all the environmental improvements made by Sydkraft after it took over the heating plant. The following research question was phrased: How can the environmental performance evaluation be performed in a systematic way in the heating system, and what environm

The role of Art in Healthcare and its requirements through a study of Diagnostic Center (DC), a Hospital with Art and Architecture integrated. Issues: Who selected Art for DC and on what foundations? How are Art and Architecture integrated, and what is the established knowledge of Art in Healthcare? Studies of reference material, theses, research articles and interviews. Hermeneutic and discours

The aim of the study is to get a better understanding of leader's reactions in a crisis situation, and to examine whether locus of control and coping strategies can be related to leaders need for social support. The role of a leader in a crisis situation is complex and includes several aspects which must be illustrated to understand the leader's situation. Four leaders have participated in

This study, based on a bullying questionaire, investigates the long-term effects of intervention and preemptive efforts against bullying in Danish public school by t-test for independent means. Correlations between bullying and empathy, responsibility and social integration were also tested. The results indicate that intervention and preemptive efforts have positive effects on bullying and respons

This thesis deals with a Swedish shopping centre, NOVA, from a phenomenological point of view. Starting in my own experience of the architecture I discuss issues such as gender, consumerism and the image of the ideal society, the Heterotopia, as they appear to me in my studies of the building. Divided into three different themes I then discuss the aspects I?ve found through my meeting with the ar

In this master thesis, which is made in a qualitative manner, we have as purpose to investigate the nurses' estimation of the hospital welfare officer. We find it interesting to take a closer look at their opinion, because of our earlier, bachelor thesis, based on the same subject, only then in the welfare officer´s perspective on themselves. We have interviewed ten nurses and our questions at

Uppsatsen analyserar utifrån den allmänna aspektteorin, som först översiktligt presenteras, ett antal utdrag ur Yousuf Idris' roman al-Haram med tillhörande svenska översättning av Ingvar Rydberg. Detta för att se hur arabiskans grammatiskt uttryckta aspektdistinktioner i narrativ kontext kan återges i det svenska verbsystemet.

As a reaction against unjust policies and repression the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia and the Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO) in Thailand were formed at the end of the 1970s. Though their agendas have developed during the years, their demands have usually been centred on claims for independence based on nationalist arguments. GAM and PULO have used different tools in their c

In this study, I investigate the impact of Non Formal Education (NFE) programs on working children’s lives in Bangladesh considering the principle of the “best interests of the child” and assuming the importance of “educational opportunities” in challenging child labour and allowing children to make informed rational choices. Since the principle of the “best interests of the child”, as defined by

The purpose of this essay was to analyze the management and steering of the social welfare service. The objective was specifically to examine how the leaders approach their position as managers of the social welfare service, and also how they approach their way of steering. The social welfare service acts under political decisions, but the management interpret and transform these decisions into ac

An evaluation of the ecological status of 23 small water reservoirs in Burkina Faso was made in 2004 by IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Large dominance of cyanobacteria in some of the reservoirs was one of the signs of an imbalance in the ecology of the water (Cecchi et al. 2005). This led to a further investigation in 2005 and an assumption that the dominance of cyanobacteria w