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Entrepreneurial initiatives aiming to transform organizations from the bottom up are often complicit with the power structures they seek to change, reproducing the old while trying to cultivate the new. To unleash the transformative potential of these initiatives, it is crucial to better understand how workers can productively reckon with complicity and how this reckoning drives the entrepreneuria

A naturalistic view should make us appreciate the rich possibilities of nature. This naturalistic point of departure, as formulated by Willem B. Drees, invites reflection on the relationship between nature and spirituality. Today, the concept of sustainability occupies a key role in what has come to be the greatest challenge ever that humankind has faced together at the same moment in history. Usu

Focusing on three initiatives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat – the Momentum for Change Initiative, the Lima–Paris Action Agenda, and the Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action – this chapter studies how an international environmental bureaucracy can evolve from a low-key and servant-like secretariat to an actor in its own right. It argues that in

This case explores the interplay between commerce and colonial expansion through the lens of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the 17th century. Tasked with securing profit while navigating geopolitical rivalries, the VOC’s decision-makers faced dilemmas that blurred the lines between trade and conquest. This case places students in the role of the Heeren XVII, the governing board of the VOC,

Over-consumption of resources is becoming an environmental issue with increasing impact. Within the Swedish fashion market efforts to address this issue are becoming more visible. One example is the sustainability concept launched by the brand Filippa K in early 2015. This concept will first be examined using three consequential categories for sustainability within the fashion-system: alternative

The Malmo Central Station Starbucks opened in 2012 as one of the first Starbucks shops in Sweden. The shop works as a transient location, skillfully designed around its train station location and historical aesthetic. It here functions as one of Starbucks’s first forays into coffee- and fika-minded Sweden, where it must balance appealing to Swedish customers who are new to the brand and internatio

I den här uppsatsen undersöks aktivisternas och volontärernas situation i deras arbete med flyktingarna under flyktingkrisen 2015 i Sverige. Genom att använda etnografiska metoder, i synnerhet kvalitativa intervjuer med individer engagerade i att hjälpa flyktingarna, argumenterar jag för att olika aktivistgrupper, trots att de har samma mål, uppvisar ett konkurrerande beteende. Genom en intersektiThis thesis investigates the situation of the activists and volunteers working with refugees in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden. By employing ethnographic methods, especially qualitative interviews with the individuals engaged in helping the refugees, I argue that different activist groups having the same aim are exhibiting a competitive behavior. I illustrate that the role of ac

This paper highlights new challenges to Sweden’s psychological defense, brought on by new information and communication technology which by its nature divides society. By evaluating older theories regarding framing, the paper finds that not only the way information is spread but also the social practice in connection to it is changed by the decentralizing aspects of modern information technologies

The purpose of this study was to highlight professionals’ views and aims of using touch screen technology, such as tablets, whilst working with people with dementia. The usage of touch screen technology whilst supporting people with dementia was found to be getting more and more common in today’s society. The study has underlined how the professionals described the tablet, what aims there were by

Sedan 2010 är föräldrar som är vårdnadshavare solidariskt skadeståndsskyldiga med sina barn för skador som barnen orsakat genom brott. Ansvaret är begränsat till sak- och personskador samt skador genom kränkning, och skadeståndets storlek begränsat till en femtedels prisbasbelopp per skadehändelse. Regeln infördes trots, och utan hänsyn till, den omfattande kritik som framfördes av otaliga remissiSince 2010, parents who are custodians are jointly and severally liable with their children for damages that the children have caused by crime. The liability is limited to property and personal injuries as well as damages through violation, and the amount of the damages is limited to one-fifth of the price base amount per claim. The rule was introduced despite, and without regard to, the extensive

This thesis examines in which ways the effects of climate change are excluding small-scale farmers from land and capital in in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. More specifically, it explores the relationship between powers of exclusion and the class differentiation between small-scale farmers in Ba Tri district. Through fieldwork interviews with farmers in Ba Tri district, the findings show that the e

The aim of this essay is to analyze how the preconditions for legal recognition of gender contribute to cis- and heteronormativity in Finland. The material used in the analysis consists of the final report of a working group which was given the assignment by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health to investigate possible changes in the Act on Legal Recognition of Transexuals. As it stand

Denna studie behandlar ämnet sexuellt våld i krig och konflikt under den 36 år långa konflikten i Guatemala, mer specifikt ett rättsfall i Guatemalan Court for High Risk Crimes A från februari 2016, då sexuellt våld i konflikt för första gången prövades i nationell domstol. Utifrån Michel Foucaults koncept om diskursiv makt och Paulina de los Reyes och Diana Mulinaris intersektionella perspektiv aThis paper deals with sexual violence in war and conflict during the 36 year long conflict in Guatemala, and more specifically a case in the Guatemalan Court for High Risk Crimes A from february 2016, which constitutes the first time sexual violence in conflict was tried in a domestic court. Drawing on the concept of discursive power put forward by Michel Foucault and discourses as constituting an

The following thesis investirgates the elements of the governance theories Governance and Government in policy document relating to the interaction between Försäkringskassan and Arbetsförmedlingen. In my research I have, on the basis of government letters and other key policy documents, interpreted the characteristics of both the more softer negotiation focused management and a more hierarchical g

In the fall of 2015 a huge amount of refugees has come from the Middle East to Europe. Sweden is one of the countries that embraced a lot of these refugees. This study is inspired by the volunteers in a small community in the region of Dalsland were a new refugee housing (asylboende) was established the year before. The main question has been how this change has influenced the community in terms o

The importance of education in development is generally acknowledged, but in the discussions and practice, this usually includes only basic education. However, during recent years, the growing number of urban unemployed youth in cities of developing countries has raised the question of the role of vocational education and training (VET). Despite the increasing interest towards vocational education

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the current social power relations in the Pacific in order to anticipate for a possible regional shift to the use of coconut biofuel as an alternative to the use of fossil fuels for energy production. A proposed multi-national and multi-actor project by the Economic Development Division of the regional development aid agency Pacific Community (SPC), sugges

The purpose of this essay is to analyse how the syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren (1922–) create literary value, as a deviated institution on the literary field in Sweden 2015–2016. Arbetaren is owned by the labour union Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC) and is a newspaper that historically has worked to help proletarian writers to establish themselves in the literay field. The analysis

The high youth unemployment in Uganda has resulted in youth volunteering to gain competitive advantages in the labour market. Volunteering has an important place in social development, and it is beneficial for the individual. This study investigated how youth volunteering within non-governmental organisations are creating opportunities for youth empowerment in Kampala, Uganda. A majority of previo