Sökning: "Politisk geografi"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Politisk geografi.

1. 1. Arctic geographies in the making : understanding political economy, institutional strategic selectivity, and agency in tourism pathway development

   Författare :Dorothee Bohn; Doris A. Carson; Linda Lundmark; E. Carina H. Keskitalo; Dimitri Ioannides; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arctic tourism; political economy; institutional strategic selectivity; agency; tourism pathways; uneven development; metagovernance; regional development funding; resort enclave; firm financing;

   Sammanfattning : Tourism has long been promoted as a catalyst for socio-economic development in sparsely populated areas based on the commodification of culture and natural environments. This thesis examines the case of Arctic tourism in the two neighbouring northern counties of Finnish Lapland and Norrbotten (Sweden). LÄS MER

3. 2. Political geographies of region work

   Författare :Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Regions; Regionalisation; Political geography; Norway; Regioner; Regionalisering; Politisk geografi; Norge;

   Sammanfattning : Regionalisation processes and regionalist contestation have been the subjects of long-standing debates on state rescaling and political geographies of discontent. Similar dynamics are also present in Norway, where a recent regional reform has faced opposition along centre-periphery lines. LÄS MER

4. 3. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates

   Författare :Pernilla Ouis; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecological modernization; environmentalism; phenomenology; Bedouin identity; camel pastoralism; dependency; theories of value; unequal exchange; extractive economy; oil; pearls; social constructionism; Islam; modernization; United Arab Emirates; Human Ecology; glocalization; reflexivity.; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER

5. 4. Från fyrk till urna : om rösträtt, valdeltagande och politisk rekrytering i småländska byar 1875-1946

   Författare :Anders Wigren; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Politik; Historia; Rösträtt; Locknevi; Småland; Sverige;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

7. 5. Fields of Green and Gold : Territorial hunger, rural planning, and the political ecologies of high-end golf

   Författare :Erik Jönsson; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political ecology; Tourism; Leisure; Rural Planning; Golf;

   Sammanfattning : Fields of Green and Gold is a multiple case study analysing the placing and establishment of two large-scale, high-profile, upmarket golf developments with the aim of exploring a political ecology of high-end golf. The cases studied are Bro Hof Slott Golf Club in Upplands-Bro, opened in 2007, and Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire, opened in 2012. LÄS MER