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1. Hållbar dialog? : Retorik i möten om svensk kärnavfallshantering
Sammanfattning : Rhetorical choices and strategies are central to democratic decision-making, especially regarding decisions on matters that are open for argumentation depending on perspective. The thesis considers public meetings on Swedish nuclear waste management as an example of rhetorical argumentation, specifically in relation to the project of finding a place for final deposition of the high-level spent nuclear fuel – with local geological investigation as a critical part of that project. LÄS MER
2. Restricting participation : Unaccompanied children in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The overall goal of this thesis was to highlight different communicative aspects of participation in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings with unaccompanied Russianspeaking children who had applied for asylum in Sweden between 2001 and 2005. Participation in the asylum process is guaranteed to these children by the Swedish Administrative Law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which are incorporated in the Swedish Aliens Act. LÄS MER
3. Interpreting as interaction : On dialogue-interpreting in immigration hearings and medical encounters
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on twenty recorded encounters involving, on the one hand Russian speaking laymen, on the other Swedish-speaking representatives of public institutions -- police-officers, nurses and doctors -- and, "in the middle" Dialogue Interpreters.The normative role (Goffman) of a professional Dialogue Interpreter, i.e. LÄS MER
4. Party or patient? : Discursive practices relating to coercion in psychiatric and legal settings
Sammanfattning : The subject matter of this study is professional discourse concerning psychiatric assessments, particularly those relating to compulsory care. Discursive practices in two institutional settings are compared, namely a psychiatric clinic and an administrative court. LÄS MER
5. Terapeutens rätt : rättslig och terapeutisk logik i domstolsförhandlingar
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I explore a quite unique legal situation, namely administrative court hearings relating to coercive interventions: the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU), Care of Abusers (Special Provisions) Act (LVM), and the Compulsory Psychiatric Care Act (LPT). There are three central participatory roles in the court hearings: The official party is the authority who files the application for coercive intervention – either a chief psychiatrist or a social welfare board (typically represented by a social worker or sometimes a lawyer assisted by a social worker), whereas the citizen party is the person about whom the application is brought. LÄS MER