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How to think differently about difference: convivialities and contentions in the postmigration condition
(2025-05-21)In the Swedish integration debate, difference is often framed as an inevitable problem. This notion has become a taken-for-granted truth, echoing across political and social spheres. As a result, the debate frequently ... -
Emotional Navigation in Social Services - on Emotional Labor among Swedish Social Workers
(2025-05-19)This thesis explores emotional labor among social workers in Swedish Social Services. The primary aim is to enhance understanding of how social workers discuss and utilize emotions in their practice, as well as how ... -
Neurocognitive Correlates and Psychological Group Treatments for Pathological Mental Fatigue
(2025-05-16)Pathological mental fatigue (PMF) is associated with many injuries and diseases in the brain, and is estimated to affect tens of millions of people worldwide every year. But despite its prevalence, knowledge remains ... -
Ethnicity and Ethnic-racialized Identity in Swedish Educational Contexts
(2025-05-16)The overarching aim of this thesis was to address ethnicity and ethnic-racialized identity in Swedish educational contexts. First, to gain a contextualized understanding of how ethnicity is addressed in a relevant educational ... -
Främlingsfientligt våld i Sverige 2009–2022
(2025)This report investigates the scope and character of xenophobic violence in Sweden between 2009 and 2022. Xenophobic violence is defined as acts in which the perpetrator targets a person perceived to belong to a group ... -
Ethnicity and Ethnic-Racial Identity during Adolescence: Intervention and Contexts
(2025-05-12)Ethnicity and ethnic-racial identity are important aspects of adolescent development in an increasingly globalized and multicultural world. This thesis aims to further the understanding of how adolescents in Sweden experience ... -
Infrastructural care: Repairing railway trains, maintaining Mumbai's lifeline
(2025-05-09)Mumbai’s suburban railway trains are one of the oldest, most densely-packed, and widely-used public transport networks in the world. These trains—colloquially known as local trains or Mumbai locals, and technically as ... -
The three troubles of the triply troubled. Forensic perspectives on patients with a mental disorder, substance use disorder, and a history of violent crimes
(2025-05-02)Patients in the forensic mental health services who suffer from a mental disorder, substance use disorder, and a high risk of violence are sometimes referred to as the "triply troubled". These patients have poor prognoses ... -
The Living Papyrus: Ritual, Cosmology and Immanent Divinity among the Sihanaka of Madagascar
(2025-04-17)This thesis in historical anthropology of religion examines ritual and cosmology among the Sihanaka of Madagascar. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the rizicultural community of Anororo (2015–2022) and drawing on recent ... -
Tillgänglighetens utrymme. Om funktionshinder och funktionsnedsättningar i svensk dagspress och i ett Regionmagasin.
(2012)Undersökningen har visat att medierapporteringen av tillgänglighet för personer med fysiska, intellektuella, neuropsykiatriska och psykiska funktionsnedsättningar har varit tämligen sparsam under hela undersökningsperioden ... -
Finns det en stad–landpolarisering i Sveriges riksdag?
(Valforskningsprogrammet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen vid Göteborgs universitet, 2025)På senare tid har opinionsforskningen ägnat allt större intresse åt geografisk polarisering, och oron växer för att demokratiska samhällen håller på att splittras. Få har dock undersökt om sådana geografiska motsättningar ... -
Analys av extra medel för studenthälsa 2021-2024
(2025)• Sedan 2021 tilldelar regeringen lärosäten särskilda medel för studenthälsa. Vid Göteborgs universitet har medlen, enligt rektorsbeslut, främst fördelats genom ett projektansökningsförfarande. Rapporten redovisar en ... -
The politics of fish as food: sustaining the unsustainable
(2025-03-31)In this compilation thesis Viktor Vesterberg explores the politics surrounding the Swedish seafood system as they manifest in different contexts and at different levels in the Swedish society. Through an interdisciplinary ... -
(O)jämlik social barnavård? Om skillnader i socialtjänstens bedömningar av risk, behov och beslut om insats till barn som utsatts för fysiskt våld av förälder
(2025)Den svenska barnavårdens beslut är av stor betydelse i ett samhälle som dels har ambitionen att behandla alla medborgare som jämlika, dels betonar den individuella rätten att behandlas och bedömas utifrån sin unika person ... -
Sexuellt samtycke bland unga - mellan ideal och praktik
(2025-03-28)In 2018, Sweden implemented a revised sexual offence law based on voluntariness (SFS 2022:1043), and the year prior the #MeToo movement shed light on the power dynamics between men and women, emphasising the importance ... -
“Gender Wars” in Europe: Diplomatic Practice under Polarized Conditions
(2025-03-28)Contemporary international relations, both globally and within Europe, are increasingly characterized by contestation. In this context, gender and sexuality are known to be mobilized by states to enhance their status, ... -
Governing Corporate Accountability: Extraterritoriality and the Effectiveness of NCP Mediation
(2025-03)As dominant actors in a globalised economy, multinational corporations can evade responsibility for labour and human rights violations and other misconduct within their own operations, those of their clients, or across ... -
The (im)possibility of being a peasant: Narratives and lived experiences of the avocado boom in Cajamarca, Colombia
(2025-03-05)Over the past decade, avocados have become a fashionable fruit with a rising demand in global markets and Colombia has emerged as a major exporter worldwide. This thesis delves into the interrelated sociocultural, economic ... -
Hur mår den svenska yrkesfiskaren 2024? Rapport om en enkätundersökning av svenska fiskelicensinnehavare
(2025)I denna rapport presenterar vi en femårig uppföljning (2024), samt en utveckling, av den ursprungliga enkäten. Nya enkäter skickades ut till svenska fiskare som har licenser kopplade till fartyg, det vill säga, ...