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This thesis is a journey of dissent, an exploration of the counter-movements against the business-as-usual illustrated by the means of food. It relates my intense odyssey as student dealing with her own research process while diving into the fabulous tasty realm of food resistance. I aim through my words to demonstrate the significant potential of food as an instrument of dissent, of resistance ag

In this thesis optimization methods for image segmentation are studied. The common theme of all the methods is that we have a histogram model for appearance terms that we optimize jointly with smoothness. Recently it has been shown that if one assumes a histogram model for appearance, it is possible to optimize an approximation of the energy using only one graph cut, by ignoring the non-submodular

The official notion of women in Burma is that they are equal to men but happy with their non- political domestic role in society. This notion undermines the work and struggle done by women in the oppositional movement. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to add to the understanding of how women participate in the Burmese ethnic and student oppositional movement. The study used feminist

This paper explores social science students’ generalized trust (trust towards most people in a particular nation). The analyses are based on the survey data collected at nine universities in Tbilisi, Georgia. This study presents evidence that trust towards the people that the students meet for the first time is the strongest plausible factor behind their generalized trust level, followed by trust

I dagens moderna samhälle blir ett företags goda anseende, eller goodwill, av större och större vikt. Att ett intrång i en immateriell rättighet kan medföra att både företagets och produktens goodwill lider skada framstår kanske inte som alltför kontroversiellt. Det är inte heller ovanligt att förlorad goodwill vid framförallt varumärkesintrång ersätts med skadestånd. Ett immaterialrättsligt områIn today's modern society a company's reputation, or goodwill, becomes of greater and greater importance. That an infringement of an intellectual property right can lead to that both the company’s and the product's goodwill suffer damage may not be too controversial. It is neither uncommon for loss of goodwill, primarily because of trademark infringement, to be awarded with damages. A

The food sovereignty movement (FSM) calls for transformative change towards equality in power over food systems and social relations, including gender relations. The purpose of this feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) was to gain insights into the gendered discourses of the FSM at the international level and discursive repertoires on gender and food sovereignty at the grassroots level in T

In 1994 Rwanda was consumed by one of the bloodiest genocides in modern times, culminating in 800,000 dead after twelve weeks. As the country has taken significant strides towards uniting the country across ethnic lines, Rwanda has seen a clear increase in women’s representation in decision-making positions. This has been hallmarked by the inclusion of women in the post-genocide reconciliation pro

This research studies the perceptions of Community Based Tourism (CBT) workers towards labour-migration in the two mountainous southern Kyrgyz villages of Sary Moghul and Arslanbob. The qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews from 28 CBT workers and four key stakeholders reveal four Ideal Types of labour-migration amongst the CBT workers: i) CBT workers who wish to labour-mig

The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), one of the most important movements in Brazil, known for its land occupations, recently launched proposals to implement a new Popular Agrarian Reform (PAR) project. Consequently, one must ask: is there need for agrarian reform (AR) in Brazil? This question must engage with another discussion, that of the development of capitalism in the countryside a

International labour migration is claimed to be the dominant type of international movement of people in the modern world which is characterized by the process of globalization. Tajikistan is one of the countries for which external labour emigration is of crucial importance. Hence, this qualitative study focuses on identifying how labour migration from this country is shaped. It highlights the fac

Acknowledging that development initiatives often fail to bring about the long-lasting changes envisioned, the concept of ‘participation’ has been promoted to support principles such as ownership and sustainability. Unfortunately, participatory approaches largely fail to engage in and incorporate people’s different understandings of the world. Appreciating that when engaging in these differences, d

The universalistic understanding of the subject embedded in the Liberal and Marxist traditions together with contrasting accounts of unconstrained agency fail to explain the contingencies of ground responses that call for social change. The paper makes a case for the opening of the understanding of the human subject when placed in the theoretical terrain of radical political philosophy elaborated

The purpose of this thesis was to examine women’s pathways into the Indonesian national parliament. Pathways constitute of both barriers and enablers, which were identified and discussed in the case of women’s access to the Indonesian parliament. This was examined by answering the research question: “What do female MPs’ narratives tell us about pathways into the Indonesian national parliament?”, u

It is of paramount interest for insurance companies to have an estimate of the probability of being exposed to extremely large claims that could render them directly insolvent or decrease the size of their regulatory capital to the point of non-viability. The difficulty with finding such an estimate is that extreme events are by definition rare and therefore difficult to model. This study approach

This thesis presented an in-depth qualitative case study of the peace process between the Colombian state and the FARC guerrilla from 2012 and onwards. The purpose of it was to problematize the peace process by investigating the prospects and pitfalls of negotiating peace within a neoliberal development model, by asking what reasons there are to believe that the process will lead to peace, contras

Idag har samhället en ständig teknisk utveckling och användandet av positionering växer hela tiden. Vår position kan enkelt visas med hjälp av koordinater, i t.ex. mobiltelefonen, och används till allt från att räkna ut och ange din joggingrunda till att visa hur trafiken ser ut. Lantmäteriet håller nu på med en utredning gällande ifall ett fastighetssystem med koordinatbestämda fastighetsgränser Today there is a constant technical development in the society, and the use of GPS devices and various positioning applications is growing. Lantmäteriet, the Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority, is now about to initiate a pilot project on how a coordinate based cadastral system could work in Sweden. The overall purpose of introducing this type of system in Sweden is to creat

The puzzle is long lasting conflicts. The conflict in Northern Ireland lasted from 1968 until 2007. Although there appeared to be a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants it was a much more complex situation. My hypothesis is that Northern Ireland had a structural inequality that hindered the peace process. My aim is to test the Copenhagen school theory of social security with Northe