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  1. 1. Re-presenting the West : NATO’s Security Discourse after the End of the Cold War

    Författare :Andreas Behnke; Jens Bartelson; Iver Neumann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATO; security; discourse; nomos; identity; West; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has re-produced a geopolitical order, or nomos, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. The thesis examines both the ontological as well as the epistemological aspects of these processes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Exploring the pleiotropic effects of technology on society or making social lemonade from technological lemons : six rules for marketers

    Författare :Philip DesAutels; Douglas West; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Science and Technology Studies; Unintended Consequences; Marketing; Industriell marknadsföring; Industrial Marketing;

    Sammanfattning : Since the 1960’s the customer has been at the focal point of business and the marketer’s job has been one of “identifying and meeting human and social needs” to create and deliver value to the customer. The result is that the marketer straddles the interface between technology and society, serving as both mediator and manager. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Skolans levda rum och lärandets villkor : Meningsskapande i montessoriskolans fysiska miljö

    Författare :Eva-Maria Tebano Ahlquist; Tore West; Christina Gustafsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Montessori education; Maria Montessori; the school’s physical environment; life-world; lived space; lived body; being-in-the-world; embodiment; meaning making; pre-school; lower secondary school; Montessoripedagogik; Maria; Montessori; skolans fysiska miljö; livsvärld; det levda rummet; den levda kroppen; vara-i-världen; införlivande; meningsskapande; förskola; grundskola; Didactics; didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the school’s physical environment as a place of learning, and takes its starting point in the phenomenology movement, inspired both by Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of man’s physical relation to the world and by the existential analysis represented by Heidegger which implies a mutual relationship between man and the world.Such a view rejects a standpoint which describes man as being divided between a material body and a thinking soul. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Spela leka eller låta bli : Guitar Hero som kommunikativ praktik för unga musiker

    Författare :Jens Ideland; Tore West; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Musikpedagogik; Music Education;

    Sammanfattning : Since 2005, the music related console game Guitar Hero has been sold in huge numbers and widely spread. Young people who study and/or play music often have experienced both gaming and music through taking on the game. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Hydrodynamic Modelling for a Point Absorbing Wave Energy Converter

    Författare :Jens Engström; Jan Isberg; Mats Leijon; Antonio Sarmento; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ocean wave energy; Point absorber; Wave energy converter; Wave energy transport; Polychromatic wave; Linear generator; Resonance; Finite depth; Modelling; Engineering Science with specialization in Electronics; Teknisk fysik med inriktning mot elektronik;

    Sammanfattning : Surface gravity waves in the world’s oceans contain a renewable source of free power on the order of terawatts that has to this date not been commercially utilized. The division of Electricity at Uppsala University is developing a technology to harvest this energy. LÄS MER