Sökning: "Sparsely populated areas"

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  1. 16. Man ska ju vara två : Män och kärlekslängtan i norrländsk glesbygd

    Författare :Lissa Nordin; Mark Graham; Dag Stenvoll; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Heteronormativity; sexuality; masculinity; romantic love; place; rural and sparsely populated areas; Västerbotten; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with single, middle-aged heterosexual men in northern Sweden and their search for contact with women. It is based on two years of fieldwork in the sparsely populated inland area of Västerbotten. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Contentious countrysides : social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden

    Författare :Desirée Enlund; Aina Tollefsen; Madeleine Eriksson; Linda Sandberg; Cindi Katz; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state retrenchment; public healthcare restructuring; contentious politics; social movements; cooperatives; self-organization; social reproduction; Sweden; rural areas; New Public Management; neoliberalism; välfärdsstaten; sjukvårdens omvandling; motstånd; sociala rörelser; kooperativ; självorganisering; social reproduktion; landsbygd; glesbygd; New Public Management; nyliberalism; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

    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

  4. 18. Vilhelmina & MRF Assistance : mötet mellan ungdomar i glesbygd och ett modernt tjänsteföretag speglat i en klassisk tankefigur

    Författare :Lena Dahlgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Company establisment; rural areas; youth; modernisation;

    Sammanfattning : In focus for this thesis is a village in a sparsely populated area in the county of Västerbotten, Vil­helmina, and its encounter with a relatively large, unusual, and modern company within the service sector, MRF Assistance, that established itself in Vilhelmina. This event is interesting because it implies the encroachment of "the informati on-age" on the local labour market of Vilhelmina. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Livets händelser i glesbygd och tätbygd : En livsbanestudie av ålderskohorten 1968–1971

    Författare :Per Kristmansson; Lena Magnusson Turner; John Östh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Livsbana; livsbaneperspektiv; glesbygd; storstad; tätbygd; flytta hemifrån; gifta sig; samboende; barnafödande; skilsmässa; separation; bostadsmarknad; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, from a life course perspective I´m going to study thetiming of a number of life course events in sparsely populated areas and urban areas in acohort of people born 1968-1971. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Mobility management i glesbygd : samordning av gods- och persontransporter i Pajala kommun

    Författare :Charlotte Reinholdt Hageback; Kenth Lumsden; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industriell logistik; Industrial Logistics;

    Sammanfattning : The recent developments regarding passenger and goods transportation in sparsely populated areas with increasingly longer distances to daily services and work constitute the starting point of the present thesis. The overall purpose is to identify coordination possibilities that can make the transport of goods and people in sparsely populated areas more effective, with a maintained or improved service level. LÄS MER