Sökning: "power knowledge relations"

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  1. 1. Governing Power, Knowledge and Conflict in Complex Commons Systems

    Författare :Christian Stöhr; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :Co-management; Power; Governance; Conflict; Wolf governance; Neo-institutionalism; Commons; Fisheries; Knowledge; Open Source Software governance; Participation; Science-policy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes theoretically and empirically to the research about complex commons governance systems that are characterized by numerous and diverse agents, complex distributions of power, incomplete and competing knowledge as well as diverse contestation and conflict processes. Governance refers to a system of public and/or private coordinating, steering and regulatory processes established and conducted for social (or collective) purposes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations

    Författare :Catherine A Odora Hoppers; Birgit Brock-Utne; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural violence; policy formation; power relations; aid; discourses; geo-politics; education; knowledge; neo-liberalism; Structural Adjustment Programmes; reflexivity; transdisciplinarity; Public Policy Dialogue.; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Maktlösa makthavare : En studie om kommunalt chefskap

    Författare :Örjan Högberg; Peter Gustavsson; Leif Jonsson; Rolf Solli; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; power; influence; critical realism; social structures; causality; makt; påverkan; kritisk realism; sociala strukturer; kausalitet; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Enligt den svenska förvaltningstraditionen, vilken bygger på den Weberianska byråkratimodellen, ska politiker fatta beslut och tjänstemännen verkställa dem. Men, relationen mellan politiker och tjänstemän i den kommunala vardagen förefaller inte vara så enkel. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Språk, diaspora, makt : Flerspråkiga resurser och diasporaidentiteter bland unga vuxna i Sverige

    Författare :Josefina Eliaso Magnusson; Christopher Stroud; Disa Bergnehr; Tommaso Milani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multilingualism; young adults; language ideology; linguistic anthropology; sociolinguistics; diaspora; power; habitus; identities; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

    Sammanfattning : Based on three separate studies, this thesis explores diaspora identities among young adult Assyrians/Syrians in Sweden, mediated through language. The focus is on how multilingual young adults use their languages and reflect on their use of language. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Organizing for Social Change : Worker Cooperatives as Resistance to Capitalism

    Författare :Kristin Wiksell; Satu Heikkinen; Andreas Henriksson; Åsa Wettergren; Roland Paulsen; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worker cooperatives; Capitalism; Resistance; Constructive resistance; Power; Social change; Organizing; Timebanks; Work relations; Temporality; Knowledge; Discourse; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic inequalities and declining democratization, often associated with the spread of globalized capitalism, it becomes difficult to defend a position of business as usual. Worker co-ops are economic associations equally owned and democratically governed by workers with the potential to contribute to economic democracy and social change. LÄS MER