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The threat to the rural heritage has since the 1990s become a concern for Chinesescholars and heritage experts. Today many individual buildings and whole villageshave been listed as protected sites at different levels. But long before experts began totake an interest, villagers were themselves actively involved in protecting their owntraditions and the buildings of importance to the community (in
This article explores how a series of heritage-driven renewal plans in the Swedish city Malmö dealt with a landscape deeply shaped by radical politics: Malmö People’s Park (Folkets Park). Arguing against notions of heritage where the past is essentially considered a malleable resource for present commercial or political concerns, we scrutinise plans for the People’s Park from the 1980s onward to e
A conventional claim within tourism research, practice and policy is that tourism is a powerful engine for economic growth across all spatial scales, accounting for slightly more than 10 percent of the global number of jobs and gross domestic product (GDP). What does this tell us? First, that the tourism economy is heavily dependent on mobilising spatial, intangible, material and human resources.
The aim of this thesis is to examine the impact of climate change on the rights of children with disabilities and the development of their capabilities in Cambodia. Children with disabilities are one of the most marginalized groups in any society and one of the most affected by climate change. Using the social-ecological model and the capability approach, this paper analyzes participants' stor
Irrespective of the abundance of solar energy resources, its access to the low-income communities of rural Tanzania is challenged by multifaceted barriers. Again, the current access goal in energy ignored the gender perspective of access. There is no alternative to establishing women-led solar energy enhancement initiatives to mitigate those access barriers and equally address gender inequality in
Syftet med den här undersökningen var att få en djupare förståelse för män som utsätts för våld i nära relation av en kvinnlig partner. Vi har undersökt vilka normer som finns inbäddade i det faktum att en man blir slagen av en kvinna och hur dessa normer har påverkat männens syn på sin egen roll och valet att inte söka hjälp ur sin situation. Empirin har samlats in genom fyra självbiografier skriThe purpose of this study was to get a deeper understanding of men who are exposed to domestic violence by their female partners. We have examined the embedded norms related to the fact, that a man gets beaten by a woman, and how these norms have affected these men’s views on their role and their choice not to seek assistance to get out of their situation. The empirical data has been collected thr
This comparative thesis investigates in what ways municipal detailed planning of three train station areas considered perceived safety. It further examines how strengths and weaknesses in each case’s perceived safety methodology can be understood through established planning models/concepts and existing academic research on Swedish perceived safety planning. Finally, the study concludes how future
Denna uppsats är ett kulturanalytiskt forskningsprojekt som syftar till att förstå hur sociala och kulturella processer i olika rum i staden bidrar till upplevelsen av ofrivillig ensamhet. Uppsatsen undersöker den ofrivilliga ensamheten i olika skalor i staden, från bostaden, kvarteret, ut i bostadsområdet och vidare ut i staden. Detta uppnås genom att använda ett fenomenologiskt ramverk som analyThis thesis is a cultural analytical research project that aims to understand how social and cultural processes in spaces within the city contribute to the experience of loneliness. The thesis explores loneliness at different layers of the city, from housing, the neighbourhood, to the district and the wider city scale. This is achieved by using a phenomenological framework that analyses the indivi
During the 20th century the Nile River has been reason for political tensions and low intensity conflicts among the Nile Basin states such as Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) was established in 1999 with the primary aim to “[...] achieve sustainable socio-economic development through the equitable utilization of, and benefit from, the common Nile Basin water resources.” T
Syftet med denna explorativa tvärsnittsstudie var att undersöka huruvida ålderism skiljer sig mellan rekryterare och icke-rekryterare samt undersöka om det finns en korrelation mellan olika maktmotiv, personlighetsdrag samt arbetsmotivation och negativa attityder mot äldre. Data insamlades genom en enkät med totalt 123 respondenter av vilka 44 arbetade med rekrytering. Respondenterna rekryterades The purpose of this exploratory cross-sectional study was to examine whether ageism differs between recruiters and non-recruiters and to investigate if there exists a correlation between different power motives, personality traits and workmotivation and negative attitudes towards the elderly. The data was collected through a questionnaire with a total of 123 respondents of which 44 worked with rec
The outcome of the European Union’s (EU) growing legitimacy crisis was building a closer relationship to its citizens. Civil society and thus Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) at European level are seen as the remedy for the EU to improve their image and create more effective policy making. Ideally, national members of CSOs feed into the political discussion at the European level through active p
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
The aim of this study was to examine the preliminary works that were published prior to the change of the sickness insurance system in 2008. Specifically, the aim was to find out what the main discourses in the texts were and what characterized them. The study examined three preliminary works; one Official Report from the Swedish government, one government bill that proposed the change in legislat
The world of cult cinema is dotted with numerous films that are often characterised by event-like evening screenings in independent or art-house cinemas years or even decades after the film’s initial release. One film synonymous with the cult cinema circuit is Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003), which has often been hailed as the ‘Citizen Kane of bad movies’ due to the film’s lack of artistic vision,
