Based on an ethnographic study among selected ethnic minority groups in Kon Tum province of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, this paper discusses how popular discourses about social-cultural differences between the ‘civilized’ lowland majority Kinh people and ‘backward’ upland minority groups impact on political participation of the local people. Popular assumptions contend that ethnic minorities

Popular Abstract in Swedish Hantering av risker i företag och organisationer har haft en lång och komplicerad historia. På åttiotalet, och i början av nittiotalet, var uppfattningen att om en olycka inträffade i en organisation, som påstods vara nära nog perfekt, måste det bero på ”den mänskliga faktorn”, dvs. att en eller flera medarbetare inte gjorde som de borde ha gjort. Orsakerna till olyckaIntroduction Risk management in enterprises, organisations and companies has had a long and complicated history. During the eighties, and at least during the beginning of the nineties, the notion concerning risk management was that if an accident happened in an otherwise perfect system it was due to the human operator in some way being the cause of the error. The cause for the accidents was desc

The erection of roadside memorials in Sweden is commonly considered a novel practice, appearing during the last 10-15 years. Nevertheless similar precedent practices can be found in the history of Sweden. Stories about marking the site of an unexpected death with a cross could be said to date back to the eleventh century legend of Saint Sigfrid, telling of the first English missionary to spread C

Whether action is joint and conforms to agents´ commitments, and what capacities agents must exercise in order to engage in joint action, is a matter of the social structure of the situation of interaction, not of the agents´ believed sharing of mental states.

Allt sedan kommissionens gryningsräd mot AstraZeneca år 2000 har jag följt behandlingen av bolagets numera fastslagna marknadsmissbruk. Det genomgående temat har varit om myndigheterna gett AstraZenecas invändningar en rimlig behandling. Har den relevanta marknaden avgränsats på ett korrekt sätt när AZ:s dominerande ställning fastställts? Är undanhållandet av information i ett patentmål och återka

Ever since the GATT negotiations of 1993, the level of consciousness within Europe about the economic precariousness of its audiovisual industries has increased. At the same time a prevalent theory about how regions and cities can achieve economic growth and a facelift has spread. Accordingly, to create an audiovisual cluster is often proposed as a particularly promising way to go for places who f