Sökning: "Neoliberalism"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 62 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Neoliberalism.
11. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Sammanfattning : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. LÄS MER
12. Subjects of Feminism : The Production and Practice of Anxiety in a Swedish Activist Community
Sammanfattning : Anxiety is a zeitgeist of our time. The range of themes to which anxiety attaches today are truly vast, but anxiety arises and is cultivated in specific ways among different groups of people. LÄS MER
13. Governing migrants through the Norwegian Introduction Programme
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the Norwegian Introduction Programme for newly arrived immigrants and refugees. With its implementation in 2004, the Introduction Programme represents one of the most significant policy measures initiated by the state for new migrants in Norway. LÄS MER
14. Fair Enough? : Ecologically Unequal Exchange, International Trade, and Environmental Justice
Sammanfattning : The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral global South to feed industrial processes and capital accumulation in the core North. This situation, it is argued, imperils the development of the South. LÄS MER
15. Contentious countrysides : social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden
Sammanfattning : The broader aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities following from the restructuring of the public healthcare system. More specifically, by analyzing the contention around healthcare restructuring related to two cases spanning a longer period in northern Sweden, I aim to investigate the changing conditions for healthcare provision in rural and sparsely populated areas, and I explore the forms of collective action that local people engage in to sustain the access to healthcare, as well as how state authorities’ attitudes towards such collective action have shifted. LÄS MER