Sökning: "contestation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade ordet contestation.

1. 1. Stadens gränsplatser : Kungliga Poliskammaren och vardagens omstridda rum i Stockholm, 1776–1835

   Författare :Tobias Osvald; Dag Lindström; Henrik Ågren; Magnus Linnarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Police; policing; borders; Stockholm; urban space; public; private; 18th century; 19th century; contestation; negotiation; everyday life; micro-geographies; homelessness; sleeping rough; keeping pub; sanitation; order; control; social practice theory; flows; transgressions; closure; stabilization; movement; Historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the interaction between the inhabitants of Stockholm and the constables of the Royal Police Chamber—Sweden’s first police force—during a period in the city’s history that is associated with stagnation from the perspectives of demography and economy. The aim is to understand how space was negotiated and changed over time through everyday interactions and practices. LÄS MER

3. 2. Before the "European Miracles". Four Essays on Swedish Preconditions for Conquest, Growth, andVoice

   Författare :Erik Örjan Emilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aristocracy; agrarian history; comparative history; Early Modern Sweden; economic dynamics; evolutionary social science theories; institutional theories; jurisdictional system; lawspeakers lagmän ; Medieval Sweden; parliamentary politics; peasant categories; peasant rebellions; political contestation; political representation; property taxations; Sweden’s Great Power Age; theories of feudalism; transition to capitalism;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four studies that further develop the perspectives introduced in the author’s licential dissertation, Sweden and the European Miracles: Conquest, Growth and Voice (1996). The dynamic properties of the European system of independent but interacting societies are traced back to the institutional polystruc-turality of European feudalism and the peculiarities of Sweden’s historical experience are asserted to be part of this intersocietal heritage. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Big Bad EU? Species Protection and European Federalism : A Case Study of Wolf Conservation and Contestation in Sweden

   Författare :Yaffa Epstein; Jan Darpö; An Cliquet; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Habitats Directive; species protection; subsidiarity; Endangered Species Act;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines how eco-knowledge intersects with the changes to EU legal cultures and practices known as eurolegalism. This conjunction has created a mechanism for the extension of EU law in the Member States even in the face of a weakened EU. LÄS MER

5. 4. Challenging Rightlessness : On Irregular Migrants and the Contestation of Welfare State Demarcation in Sweden

   Författare :Amanda Nielsen; Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta; Per Strömblad; Ulf Mörkenstam; Mikael Spång; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; irregular migrants; undocumented migrants; amnesty; regularisation; social rights; welfare state; citizenship; human rights; discourse theory; Sweden; Statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the political struggles that followed after the appearance of irregular migrants in Sweden. The analysis starts from the assumption that the group’s precarious circumstances of living disrupted the understanding of Sweden as an inclusive society and shed light on the limits of the welfare state’s inclusionary ambitions. LÄS MER

7. 5. Becoming a smart student. The construction and contestation of smartness in a Danish primary school: PhD dissertation

   Författare :Ulla Lundqvist; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : When teachers and students interact in everyday academic activities, some students are ascribed social roles as “smart”, which lead other students to contest these roles. Such struggles around what it means to be smart and which students come to be viewed as smart are a pertinent problem for students, teachers and educational scholars, because they create social inequities in schools. LÄS MER