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1. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. LÄS MER
2. Circling Concepts : A Critical Archaeological Analysis of the Notion of Stone Circles as Sami Offering Sites
Sammanfattning : The thesis discusses a category of cultural heritage that has been labelled "Sami circular offering sites", aiming to establish some basic facts about their origin, distribution and use, as well as their cultural and socio-political context and influence. The stone enclosures in question have been interpreted as Sami offering sites since the mid-19th century, but a discourse analysis of the research history indicates that this may have been based on a scholarly hypothesis rather than ethnographic or archaeological evidence. LÄS MER
3. Alternativa anspråksvägar i skadeståndsrätten : Om förhållandet mellan kontrakts- och deliktsansvar i avtalsförhållanden och kontraktskedjor
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the possibility in Swedish law for an injured party to claim damages under two different sets of rules, namely contract law and tort law, with emphasis on possible alternative routes to compensatory damages. Liability for damages can be based on contractual liability rules or non-contractual liability rules (tort law). LÄS MER
4. ALTERNATIVE POLYETHYLENE CROSSLINKING CONCEPTS FOR POWER CABLE INSULATION
Sammanfattning : We currently witness an accelerating shift from fossil energy sources to renewables driven by the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions. Wind, solar and hydro power is most abundant in places far away from the end user, which necessitates the efficient transport of electricity over long distances. LÄS MER
5. Peace by repatriation : Concepts, cases, and conditions
Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the assumption that the return of refugees is a necessary condition for the establishment of sustainable peace after armed conflict. This assumption is often made in the peacebuilding literature as well as by policy makers, but it has rarely been the object of systematic analysis. LÄS MER