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The central issue discussed in this thesis is the “essayistic mode”, which is usually described as a set of themes and characterization of the traditional written essay. In our more digitalized world today, it has been argued that some of these essayistic traits could be identified in other types of media, for example in essay films. Since the beginning of the 1990th century the capacity of essay

With a discourse analytical approach, our main theory and premiss for this thesis was to examine how identity is created and reflected in the database Europeana, through election of objects made at national level. The focus of this thesis was primarily on the manufacturing process and the institutions and secondary on the user level. Our intention was to investigate whether it is possible to ident

The increasing multinational societies brought the issue of political recognition and accomodation of ethnic minority groups, and adoption of multicultural policies are found to be facilitator in this process. Both as a political idea and set of public policies, multiculturalism is highly contested on whether it is responsible for failed integration and segregated ethnic communities. Nonetheless,

The process of firms entering and exiting the market has since Schumpeter’s introduction of the concept of creative destruction been a subject of interest for economists aiming to determine what drives economic growth. However, limited availability of data has long been a hindrance to such ambitions and it is not until recent decades that empirical studies on the role of firm dynamics for economic

In the era of privatization and securitization, private security companies are becoming a more important actor for ensuring safety in a society felt increasingly unsafe. Ensuring safety has been seen as a fundamental task of the state, which is now transferring to the private sector. This study examines one of Sweden's private security companies. Do they consider themselves as having a social

Byggsektorn har stor miljöpåverkan och det är viktigt att byggentreprenader genomförs på ett sätt som följer de miljömål som finns. Genom offentlig upphandling har myndigheter en stor möjlighet att inverka på miljöpåverkan, genom att ställa krav på att deras byggentreprenader följer vissa miljökriterier. De undersökta miljöcertifieringarna skulle då kunna utgöra utmärkta medel för att på ett strukThe construction sector has great impact on the environment and it is important that the public work contracts are carried out in a way that the environmental objectives requires. Authorities have an opportunity to influence the environment by requiring that all public works contracts obtain certain environmental criteria by means of public procurement. The studied green building certificates coul