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11. Social rörlighet i en socialt rörig tid : Eleverna och deras utbildning vid Brunnsvik, Väddö och Hola folkhögskolor, 1906–1921
Sammanfattning : In Sweden during the late 1800s, access to secondary education was not attainable for everyone. The school system separated pupils with parents who could afford to pay for tuition and boarding from those that came from less resourceful backgrounds.However, in a society in the throes of industrialization, this system was rapidly changing. LÄS MER
12. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse
Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER
13. Reclaiming Territory from Below : Grassroots Environmentalism and Waste Conflicts in Campania, Italy
Sammanfattning : In the course of 2000s, the region of Campania in southern Italy and its capital city Naples became global icons of waste mismanagement after the images of piles of rubbish occluding their urban areas hit the headlines. Conventional explanations, in Italy and elsewhere, pointed to administrative failure, cultural backwardness and mafia infiltration as the main causes of waste mishandling. LÄS MER
14. Ecology and conservation of the moth Dysauxes ancilla
Sammanfattning : The ecology of the moth Dysauxes ancilla was studied in the only Swedish breeding area at Beijershamn, situated on the Baltic island of Öland. The population is a northern outpost, separated from the species´ continous distribution area in middle- and southeast Europe. LÄS MER
15. Näten på Limhamn : Sociala relationer i ett lokalsamhälle 1870-1914
Sammanfattning : The aim of the study is to examine, using the social networks as a starting-point, the way a local community is constructed in a specific historical context, namely the industrial community of Limhamn in southern Sweden at the time of the Industrial Revolution 1870-1914. In 1870 the Skånska Cement Company initiated a large-scale extraction of limestone in the area and soon had cement works built in the village, making Limhamn undergo a rapid urbanization. LÄS MER