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11. Folkbildning i global (o)rättvisa : Makt och motstånd i folkhögskolans internationalisering och transnationella kurser
Sammanfattning : I den här avhandlingen undersöks den svenska folkhögskolans engagemang i global (o)rättvisa, dess uppkomst och nutida verksamheter, med fokus på transnationella kurser i global utveckling. Studien behandlar sociala, politiska och historiska aspekter av engagemanget, med folkhögskolan som utbildningsinstitution i centrum. LÄS MER
12. Global rörelse : Den globala rättviserörelsen och modernitetens omvandlingar
Sammanfattning : A basic premise of this dissertation is that social movements are political and social actors expressing the centrality of autonomy in modernity. To grasp the nature of the relation between politics and social movements, the latter has to be related to the profound transformation in the forms of politics implied by the breakthrough of modernity, and the subsequent transformations within modernity. LÄS MER
13. Världsarvets villkor : Intressen, förhandlingar och bruk i internationell politik
Sammanfattning : This thesis depicts the UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972), an international law for the protection of natural and cultural heritage sites, as an example of the multiple practices within international policy making. By analysing its transnational constitution, I show how the Convention is constructed in and between locales through bureaucratic and diplomatic procedures characterised by intersecting political and economic interests. LÄS MER
14. Imported infections’ importance : global change driving Dengue dynamics
Sammanfattning : Background Dengue is a significant problem of international health concern. According to the World Health Organization in 2012, globally, dengue is “the most important mosquito borne viral disease” with incidence 30 higher than it had been 50 years ago. LÄS MER
15. Global infatuation : Explorations in transnational publishing and texts : the case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the Canadian category publisher Harlequin Enterprises.Operating in a hundred markets and publishing in twenty-four languages around the world,Harlequin Enterprises exemplifies the increasingly transnational character of publishing andthe media. LÄS MER