Sökning: "Collective actions"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 112 avhandlingar innehållade orden Collective actions.
16. Lag eller ordning? : Polisens hantering av EU-toppmötet i Göteborg 2001
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the value conflict surrounding the police handling of political protest. During a political protest, the police are responsible for striking a balance between the maintenance of order and the protection of civil liberties. LÄS MER
17. Arguments for Access to Justice : Supra-individual Environmental Claims Before Administrative Courts
Sammanfattning : In the early 19th century, in the wake of industrialisation, complaints from people affected by pollution were considered a threat to industrial expansion and economic growth. Today, the right of access to justice is increasingly considered a legal vehicle for enhancing environmental protection. LÄS MER
18. Legitimized Refugees : A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law
Sammanfattning : This study focuses on asylum cases decided at Sweden’s migration courts. More precisely, it analyses how the highest legal instance, the Migration Court of Appeal (hereafter MCA), legitimizes decisions that concern asylum seekers. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study makes power relations visible. LÄS MER
19. Chains of Trust : Networks of Persistent Resistance in Digital Activism
Sammanfattning : Digital manifestations and their networks are seen as agile, but fragile, with the Internet facilitating fast, low-cost activism by bridging actors, distributing information, and circumventing gatekeepers. From this perspective, mediated collective action and digital activism are theorized through the understanding of the Internet as a medium which affords lowered costs and risks for activists. LÄS MER
20. Clustering Architectures: The Role of Materialities for Emerging Collectives in the Public Domain
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of social life, addressing issues concerning how and by what means people meet in urban public space. The main aim of this thesis is to is to investigate how certain artefacts and architectural features support the formation and temporal stabilisation of heterogeneous clusters and collectives, and thus, in order to the development of conceptual tools that can contribute to a more refined description and analysis of the role of architecture and artefacts for urban public life [a very long sentence…]. LÄS MER