Abstract Devastating climate change, polluted oceans and biodiversity loss make up only a few of the issues facing the planet in the current man made environmental crisis. Many efforts have been made, but often failed in an attempt to mitigate the crisis. Many social scientists suggest that environmental movements have the potential of promoting change. In Spite of the impressive size of recent en

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed to analyse ecological discourses in the Sustainable Development Goals. The paper seeks to answer the question whether or not the United Nation has succeeded in formulating the environmental and climate related goals in Agenda 2030 given their ambitions to create an including and transparent policy document that could be implemented at all levels of soc

Denna komparativa studie bygger vidare på det arbete Frida Boräng tidigare gjort i sin artikel ”Large-scale solidarity? Effects of welfare state institutions on the admission of force immigrants”. Hennes slutsatser går emot teorier om att välfärdschauvinistiska idéer skulle vara mer dominerande i mer omfattande välfärdsstater (Boräng 2015). Detta väcker frågan huruvida liknande effekter av välfärd

This thesis investigates how the discourse of the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) relating to the Irish border issue in the Brexit negotiations is constructed. The purpose is to analyse an English nationalist and populist discourse which seemingly does not make sense. This is done using Norman Fairclough’s version of critical discourse analysis. The ERG is in the paper defined as English

The thesis aims to investigate the Swedish Moderate Party in their changed migration policy during 2014-2019 based on Gunnar Sjöblom's theory of arena competition. The main material of the study consists of the party's party- and committee motions on the subject and are analyzed on the basis of a descriptive qualitative idea analysis of ideas and content. The analysis is organised on the b

This thesis examines four Israeli elections between 2015 and 2020 with the purpose of describing how populist rhetoric has been manifested within right-wing political discourse during this period. Two separate theoretical frameworks are utilized for the analysis, based on theories by Cas Mudde, Jordan Kyle and Kurt Weyland, conceptualizing populism both as an ideology and as a political strategy.

The aim of this study was to analyze the female under-representation in the Swedish Armed Forces in order to gain a deeper understanding of the organization’s underlying difficulties in recruiting and retaining women. By collecting a women’s experience of the Swedish Armed Forces via a web survey and applying a qualitative content analysis to investigate the respondents’ answers, the study wishes

In September of 2018, a total of 261 concerned public servants within the Government Offices issued an internal letter to the chief of Administrative affairs. The letter voiced the concerns of the public servants regarding what would happen to their staff policy, if a known right-wing party would be elected for government that year. When this was made public knowledge, a debate sparked amongst dif

With the foreign political turbulence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world came into a change. The post-cold war environment meant that the politics of the bipolarity no longer were the case. This period leads to pressure in redefining Sweden’s foreign and security policy, resulting in an emergence of a different commitment to the countries neutrality and non-alignment. In the light of Kje

Countries differ in the volumes of their prison population. This does not seem to simply be a result of differences in levels of crime, as prison populations does not appear to correspond with available indicators of crime, neither within nor between countries. Thus, other explanatory models should be available. Previously, the importance of economic, political, and cultural aspects has been studi

The purpose of this essay is to examine and evaluate a potential change in national discourse in Sweden due to the implementation of the European 2020-strategy. Through an analytical framework based on Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, the Swedish national reform programmes between 2011 and 2020 is analysed from a welfare regime perspective. The thesis is inspired by previous research on t

This project focuses on how a household in Malmö can manage a crisis situation with no electricity, water, heat and communication for 72 hours. This is due to the recommendation that we can take care of ourselves for 3 days in case of a crisis. This spring residents of Cape Town have been living with water restrictions of 50 litres per person per day. This can be compared to the 160 litres per per

Rising sea levels and continuous coastal development increase vulnerability to flooding in southern Sweden. National regulations try to increase local consideration of flooding in urban planning, but so far implementation is limited. The aim of this thesis is to understand the lack of implementation and explore how and why implementation failed in a Swedish municipality. In order to study the case

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplever sin motivation till GeMu, hur deras motivation och tro på sin egen förmåga samspelar, samt hur deras värdering av deras ämneskunskaper påverkar deras motivation till ämnet. Studien genomfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sammanlagt sex elever från en gymnasieskola i södra Sverige. Intervjuerna berörde elevernas motivation tThe purpose of this study is to investigate how upper secondary school students experience their motivation to develop their musical ear and knowledge of music theory. But also, how their motivation and belief in their own ability interacts, as well as how their appreciation of their musical ear and knowledge of music theory affects their motivation to develop the concerned abilities. The study wa

It has been shown that the semi-arid environment of the Sahelian belt plays an important role in the global carbon uptake as the fluctuation of its primary productivity can be determinant for the global carbon uptake. The insect Schistocerca gregaria commonly known as the desert locust is a disturbance factor that can affect the vegetation productivity for consecutive seasons. In this study the de

Traffic accidents are extremely rare, creating the need for surrogate methods for safety analysis that makes efficient use of the information provided by traffic conflicts, which also are limited in availability. The severity measure time-to-collision (TTC) in combination with extreme value theory have so far been one of the primary measures used to infer traffic safety levels, but it relies on un

The mining industry is characterized by a hazardous working environment for its employed blue-collar workers and a general complexity of valuation for investors. By theories of behav-ioral finance, corporate social responsibility, and others outlined in the following, this makes a setting where one could plausibly expect reactions and even overreactions among investors to fatal accidents incurred

Rent dricksvatten är en mänsklig rättighet, men trots detta förlitar sig många människor i världen fortfarande på osäkra system för sin försörjning. Detta är särskilt ett problem i landsbygdsområden, som har en tendens att hamna på efterkälken när större satsningar görs inom vattenområdet. Vår studie undersöker vattenförsörjningen på landsbygden i södra Brasilien, och diskuterar utmaningarna som fAccess to clean drinking water is a human right and a necessity for life, yet many rely on precarious water sources across the world. The United Nations outlines a great aspiration in Agenda 2030 - that safe and affordable drinking water should be available for all by 2030. In Rio Grande do Sul (RS) in Brazil, more than one million residents rely on small-scale water supply solutions without conve

The purpose of this study was to explore the increased privatization that followed in the wake of New public management. The study was based on foster home business and foster home conditions, with the existence of different logics with sometimes contradictory requirements to explore how foster home experiences affect their choice to enter into agreements with municipal or consultancy-supported ac