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The aim of the study was to study people with the experience of being overweight from a phenomenological perspective. The two main focuses where: How does the informants experience their body in their everyday life regarding the body, food and eating, working out, health and resistance from a phenomenological perspective? How do the informants experience their body in interaction to others and the
Green care is a new business venture that seeks to sell nature-based services for social and therapeutic purposes. In recent years, political, scientific and professional interest in green care has been growing in Sweden. Green care practitioners have begun the process of drawing closer links between agriculture and healthcare in an effort to encourage multi-sectorial thinking by allowing private
It just turned out this way - the life stories of six young women confined to a secure juvenile correctional facility The purpose of this paper is to identify risk conditions and protective conditions for a group of girls under secure confinement, based on their retrospective testimonies, and also to examine how these conditions manifest themselves in their statements. The empirical basis for th
Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka fyra olika organisationer eller föreningars syfte med att rikta sig mot tjejer/kvinnor inom pop/rock/jazz. Jag har gjort kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra personer som jobbar eller har jobbat inom organisationer eller föreningar som vill stärka flickor och kvinnors möjligheter att spela och skapa musik. De har fått representera respektive verksamhet men har o
Alla ekosystem, skogar, sjöar, hav etc., är föränderliga och står under konstant påverkan, såväl inre som yttre, vilken försöker driva det för stunden rådande tillståndet åt olika håll. Sjöar har två dominerande tillstånd som de kan befinna sig i, antingen är de näringsfattiga och klara eller så är de näringsrika och grumliga. I den har studien har jag undersökt Börringesjön, i södra Skåne. SyftetAbstract All ecosystems, forests, lakes, seas etc., are changeable and are under constant influence, inner as well as outer, that try to push the for the moment present state in different directions. Lakes have two dominating states in which they can exist, they are either clear and low in nutrients or turbid and high in nutrients. In this study I have been examining lake Börringesjön in the sout
9/11 – 2001. 3000 Americans have died as a direct result of the al-Qaida sanctioned terror attacks against the USA. The Americans were in tears, tears that soon would emerge into anger, hatred and determination – Determination to once and for all eliminate the terrorists that performed these despicable acts against their beautiful, free nation. But also, as the President proclaims, to spread the i
Suicidal thoughts are a serious problem that’s discussed on the internet forum Flashback. The aim with this study was to examine and analyze how thoughts of suicide between members are expressed, treated and handled on Flashback and how the interaction between these members unfolds. The members that participate in the communication on the forum are usually no professionals. Therefore, the members
Lagen om avveckling av fideikommiss (1963:583) syftade till att avveckla fideikommissinstitutet i svensk rätt. Fideikommissen ansågs otidsenliga och passade inte in i ett modernt samhälle. En reform infördes som avvecklade fideikommissen och återförde fideikommissegendomen till vanliga regler om arv. Fideikommissen hade som syfte att hålla ihop egendom i en persons hand. Detta medförde att samlingThe act of liquidation of estate in tail (lagen om avveckling av fideikommiss (1963:583)) intended to end the institute of estate in tail in Swedish law. The estates in tail were considered outdated and did not belong in a modern society. The new act brought the property of the estate in tail back to the ordinary rules of heritance in Swedish law. The purposes of the estate in tail were to subsume
The purpose of this thesis was to explore gender norms, beauty ideals and social practices and the way these become ‘visible’ on the Japanese female body as (re)producing the ideal Japanese femininity and skin color in particular. In order to achieve that, I investigate and identify these norms, the mechanisms that implement them on the body and the attitudes and expression of resistance against t
The thesis aims to understand if seed saving practiced by oppressed small-scale farmers and peasants who are affiliated with Navdanya can be seen as a technology of resistance against the dominant agri-food industrial paradigm. Another aim is to find out how political and cultural meanings are attached to seed saving. It also aims to challenge this aforementioned paradigm. The inquiry is exemplifi
Denna C-uppsats syftar till att öka förståelsen för hur SFI föreskrivna deltagare som är villkorade försörjningsstöd, upplever sin studiemotivation samt vilka förväntningar de har på utbildningen. Det har även varit av intresse att lyfta fram lärares, socialsekreterares, rektors, regeringens samt en SFI experts åsikter kring dessa teman. Urvalet har avgränsats till arabisk talande SFI föreskrivna This C-level thesis aims at increasing the understanding of how SFI prescribed participants, Who are on conditional income support, experience their study motivation and what they expect from the education. It has also been of interest to give attention to the opinions of teachers, social secretaries, principals, the Government and an SFI expert on these topics. The selection has been limited to A
Abstract Author: Emma Borgvall Title: To be a good girl – a qualitative study on the image of the hymen and its importance for the social control of young women's sexuality [translated title] Supervisor: Annika Capelán Köhler Assessor: Tove Harnett The aim of this study has been to explore how the social construction of the hymen is revealed in the social work with young girls and with thei
If Europe is to meet its Kyoto commitments and avert further environ- ental damage and climate change, urban car traffic has to decline drastically. Yet, no efforts to master the challenge have succeeded. Planners need new demand side tools to help facilitate more sustaina-ble travel patterns and increase use of public transport. This thesis is a literary contribution to the EU SUNSET and Swedish
On October 23, 2011, Ennahda wins Tunisia's first free democratic elections. Ennahda is an Islamist party that was publicly acknowledged only after the ruling dictator was overthrown. Media has been talking about the revolution in Tunisia as the citizen's liberation, but after the election the discussion is about women's future. When the new provisional constitution is published on Aug
The environmental impacts of pulp and paper industry are widespread and affect both air and water quality. The resulting large quantities of wastewater from the process are containing pollutants to aquatic organisms. To minimize the environmental impacts the wastewater is passed through an external biological treatment facility that reduces substances. In the process of bleaching sulphate pulp, c
The Augustan poet Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18) is mentioned by Seneca the elder for his oratorical skills as a school boy. If we are to believe Seneca, Ovid excelled to such a degree that he even surpassed his teachers. He took special interest in exercises concerning ethos, and is said to have transferred what he learned into his own verse. The influence from rhetorical training is indeed visible in
As prices for so-called urban art (a term often used to describe the studio work of artists associated with the street art world) have risen over the last decade, the removal of and trading in actual street artworks has become increasingly widespread. This paper discusses what happens to ephemeral, often site specific, artworks when they are taken from the street and put on the art market. Many
Enligt en etablerad teori om utvecklingen av politiskt styre i Europas förflutna går beskattning hand i hand med folkrepresentation. Härskare i finansiella trångmål blev nämligen mer eller mindre tvungna att erbjuda politiska fri- och rättigheter i utbyte mot folkets bidrag till statskassan. I denna avhandling undersöker jag det rakt motsatta antagandet: är det även så att icke-skatter går hand i According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse value creation in a rural tourism development project. In order to analyse value creation, I investigate how participants of a rural tourism development project define and understand uniqueness of that particular rural area as a lever to developing a touristic offer. The empirical research question guiding this work is: How do participants of a rural tour
