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16. Debating Swedish : Language Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with three language debates that reached their most crucial peaks in Sweden at the beginning of the twenty-first century: (i) the debate on the promotion of the Swedish language, (ii) the debate on language testing for citizenship, and (iii) the debate on mother tongue instruction. The main scope of the thesis is to take a theoretically multi-pronged approach to these debates trying to shed light on the following aspects: Why did such debates emerge when they did? Which discourses were available in those specific historical moments? Who are the social actors that intervened in these debates? What is at stake for them? What do they claim? What systems of values, ideas and beliefs – i. LÄS MER
17. Barn som riskerar att fara illa i sin hemmiljö : Utmaningar i ett förebyggande perspektiv
Sammanfattning : BaksidestextBarnmisshandel är ett omfattande folkhälsoproblem med långsiktiga negativa konsekvenser för den enskilda individen och för samhället i stort. Förebyggande insatser kan vara livsavgörande för de utsatta barnen. LÄS MER
18. The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the role of science in the earliest stages of the political process. It does this by studying the emergence of ‘geoengineering’ on the political agenda. LÄS MER
19. Forests, Spirits and High Modernist Development : A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and Vietnam
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how Katuic-speaking indigenous groups in the Central Annamitic Cordillera of Vietnam and Laos understand their environment – hills, streams and forest. Katuic eco-cosmology assumes that the natural landscape is imbued with spirit agents, with whom people must continuously communicate lest misfortune will strike and their livelihoods fail. LÄS MER
20. Doktoranden och forskningsmiljön : En empirisk livsåskådningsstudie
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents an empirical study of the meeting between a group of doctoral students and their research milieus, understood as a web of values in the social rooms. The purpose is to explore what these research milieus mean for the doctoral students and their questions about views of life. LÄS MER