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I fokus för denna mastersuppsats står den form av turism som går under benämningen VFR, Visiting Friends and Relatives. Syftet är att med etnografiska metoder undersöka hur kineser bosatta i Sverige fungerar som värdar vid besök av vänner och släktingar från hemlandet. Ett mål är att resultaten i form av nya kunskaper och insikter om värdskapsstrategier och skapandet av gästfria miljöer skall bidr
This thesis has two aims. One is to situate COVID-19 in a macro narrative that characterizes our time as a risk society or reflexive modernization. The other is to bring public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic into the sharp focus of cultural trauma study which is closely related to media representations. The research scope is set in media and communication studies. Through the the
This article addresses the development under Xi Jinping of ideological and political education at the university level. It provides an overview of trends among youth, major policies and recent developments, and an analysis of how ideological and political education is organised at universities and incorporated into the curricula. It also argues that ideological and political education targeting yo
Over the last two decades, strategic emerging global production networks (GPNs) have reshaped advanced manufacturing, challenging the dominance of developed economies. Yet existing GPN theories pay limited attention to the geoeconomic logics driving these transformations. This article develops a conceptual–analytical framework that integrates geoeconomics into GPN analysis, viewing states as geoec
Oxidative stress has been suggested to contribute to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma) heterozygous mice and Pro12Ala (C/G) polymorphism in PPARG exhibited increased resistance to oxidative stress. Smoking increases the production of reactive oxygen species, which could accelerates oxidative stress under over
We compared the differences in median age at spermarche among 11 ethnic minorities in 2010, estimated the trends regarding age at spermarche in different ethnic minorities from 1995 to 2010, and explored the association of spermarche with body mass index (BMI).
The unparalleled economic growth of China during the latter 20th century and early 21st century, has led to the country becoming a great power and perhaps on the fast track to even becoming a superpower. This growth has come mainly in the form of manufactured goods, which need vast amounts of energy and resources to produce, most important of which is oil. Today China is a net importer of oil, and
This study investigates how public sector organizations generate authority in social media crisis. Furthermore, it examines how genres of governance, namely genre chain and genre mixing, contribute to the generation of authority. On this basis of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework consisting of the concepts of “network governance” and “authority,” a genre analysis of 100 top forwarded post
