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Participation, Empowerment and Power Dynamics in the Digitalisation of Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Ethnographic Research on the Smallholder Farmers’ Use of Mobile Platforms for Agricultural Development in Kenya
(2023-02-09)Information and Communication Technologies, such as mobile phones, are hoped to contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on that mobile platforms bundle diverse digital services, ... -
Peace Without Peace? The Colombian Quest to an Everyday Without Violence
(2024-01-30)Environmental peacebuilding (EP) as a field of study has attempted to transition from Western notions of peace and development by including ecological rights. By looking at the case of the Colombian Peace Agreement 2016 ... -
Pirate Politics: Information Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Politics
(2013-04-03)This thesis sets out to address the question of how Information Technologies (ITs) become politically relevant, both by drawing on different theoretical approaches and by undertaking a qualitative study about the Swedish ... -
Playing with Fire: Empowerment and Conflict Transformation via Educational Drama
(2015-03-04)Conflict is an inescapable reality of human interaction. While the vast majority of conflicts are solved quickly and discretely, some affect the lives of millions and persist for decades. The wide-ranging and complex nature ... -
Pokot Young Pastoralists at the Crossroads - Tradition, Modernity and Land Tenure Transformations in East Pokot, Kenya
(2020-02-18)East Pokot, in North-Western Kenya, falls under the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of the Sub-Saharan region. Due to the yearly prolonged dry seasons, pastoralism has traditionally guaranteed the most reliable source ... -
Poverty in a Rich Country - A Case Study on the Perception of Poverty in Japan
(2019-09-20)Since the economic recession in Japan in the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in inequality. Along with the recession which was accompanied by the increase of aging population, the introduction of a new employment ... -
A qualitative study of foreign aid and China’s role in economic and human development in Zambia
(2024-01-26)The precedent of unrivaled lending in Zambia, to a great degree, and courtesy to the World Bank, has generated a normative and financial frame that puts forward economic prosperity as only being made manifest through lending ... -
A qualitative study on Invisible Racism, Racial Bias and Inequality among Afro-Swedish Healthcare Workers in Sweden
(2023-02-09)For many years, migration and racialization has formed a central theme widely discussed in our world today. The central notion of difference; vis-à-vis what is not seen, that is, absence of a certain element portray a ... -
Reducing Hierarchies for Improved Equality in the Workplace?: The Case of the Worker Cooperative Vio.Me, Greece
(2014-06-23)Part of the reason why cooperative organizations are formed is to strive towards a more equal decision-making in the workplace. Due to their potential horizontal structure, cooperatives are seen as organizations which ... -
REINTEGRATION OR REVICTIMIZATION?: An Analysis of Reintegration Assistance Provided to Victims of Human Trafficking
(2021-10-04)Human trafficking is a crime that extends beyond borders and jurisdictions. International legal standards exist to prevent, suppress, and reintegrate victims into their communities. Once repatriated, survivors of human ... -
Resistance in everyday encounters with racism: A study on how five young women of colour respond to the everyday racism they experience in Sweden
(2018-10-30)Racism can be maintained and spread in a society through seemingly small everyday actions. In Sweden, this everyday racism often aims to point out that a non-white body is not Swedish by questions and comments on a person’s, ... -
Responsibility to Protect – A larger tool than anticipated? An analysis of the potential usage of structural violence in the Responsibility to Protect
(2017-11-23)On a daily basis, many people around the world die due to starvation, structural discrimination and other actions which can be prevented by state actors. The international community has agreed that the sovereignty of the ... -
Rhetoric Techniques of Labeling of Environmentalists as "Terrorists": the Case of the Earth Liberation Front in the United States of America, 1996 – 2006
(2013-03-01)This thesis analyzes the rhetoric techniques of terrorism labeling with the focus on the Earth Liberation Front in the USA, 1996-2006. Narratives of terrorism have found extreme popularity in various dimensions of social ... -
Role of Political Parties in the Democratic System of Pakistan
(2013-06-18)This research was performed to investigate the role of political parties in Pakistan over the last two decades. This paper also attempts to discuss how parties and their actions affect the democratic culture in the state. ... -
SAVING THE PLANET OR SAVING MONEY?:Qualitative Study of the Foodsharing User Motives in Borås, Sweden
(2020-07-07)Given the rise of ICTs and the sharing economy, grassroots initiatives emerge as a complement to food banks in order to tackle the food waste problem at the local level. Foodsharing collaborates with local food operators ... -
Security and Fear in Israeli and Palestinian Conflict Narratives: A Social-Psychological Study
(2015-07-21)The Israeli and Palestinian societies are involved in a long-lasting and violent conflict, where any considerable de-escalation has been conspicuously absent for the last twenty years. The seemingly never-ending spirals ... -
“Show the world we are one”: The role of football in peacebuilding attempts
(2015-09-14)There is a growing field of local administered initiatives using, formerly leisure activities or hobbies, as tools to achieve social development of different types, from encouraging school attendance to facilitating peace ... -
SOCIAL HERITAGE AS LEVERAGE: Recognising the Social Dimension of Heritage in Sustainable Urban Development
(2024-01-26)In 2015, numerous countries committed to supporting the United Nations' Agenda 2030, which aims to address global challenges such as urban growth and climate change through the Sustainable Cities and Communities goal ... -
Speaking in new ways: Media representations of the Asylum Relay
(2015-09-03)In the summer 2013 a group of people walked from Malmö to Stockholm with the purpose to raise awareness about the refugee policies in Sweden. The initiative is called the Asylum Relay, Asylstafetten in Swedish, and was ... -
Steps toward sustainability in higher education institutions: Management practices on focus.
(2012-08-07)The purpose of this research is to assess the state of management efforts towards sustainability in higher education institutions. The analysis is based on two main sources of data. On the one hand an analysis of ...