Sökning: "vantage point"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 39 avhandlingar innehållade orden vantage point.

  1. 6. Re-presenting the West : NATO’s Security Discourse after the End of the Cold War

    Författare :Andreas Behnke; Jens Bartelson; Iver Neumann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATO; security; discourse; nomos; identity; West; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has re-produced a geopolitical order, or nomos, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. The thesis examines both the ontological as well as the epistemological aspects of these processes. LÄS MER

  2. 7. Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre

    Författare :Mikael Sandgren; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU; Europeanization; passport; external borders; banal nationalism; spectacular nationalism; Gemeinschaft; Gesellschaft;

    Sammanfattning : The vantage point for this thesis is the passport as it was understood and used in the European Union from 1999 to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, every nation should have its own state, and every state should be legitimized by a nation. LÄS MER

  3. 8. Möjligheternas horisont : Etnicitet, utbildning och arbete i ungas berättelser om karriärer

    Författare :Catarina Lundqvist; Aleksandra Ålund; Erik Olsson; Mats Trondman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Career choice; career; youth; ethnicity; education; school; work; transition; narrative; horizon of opportunity; discrimination; transnationalism; Karriärval; karriär; ungdomar; etnicitet; utbildning; skola; arbete; övergångar; narrativ; möjlighetshorisont; diskriminering; transnationalism; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Sociology; Ethnicity; Youth research;

    Sammanfattning : Den här avhandlingen handlar om hur unga med utländsk bakgrund berättar om sina liv och om hur de föreställer sig sina karriärval avseende utbildning och arbete. Syftet med avhandlingen är att analysera hur möjlighetshorisonter i relation till karriärskapet – de processer som genererar olika typer av karriärval – framträder i individuella berättelser. LÄS MER

  4. 9. The Valuable Organisation : A study of how activities are calculated, controlled and made valuable

    Författare :Carl Henning Christner; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis asks the question: how do organisational activities become valuable? This is one of the most central questions in organisational life. Members and students of organisations devote a great deal of time pondering what activities and strategies organisations should pursue. LÄS MER

  5. 10. Seeing and Knowing the Earth as a System : An Effective History of Global Environmental Change Research as Scientific and Political Practice

    Författare :Ola Uhrqvist; Eva Lövbrand; Bjön-Ola Linnér; Sabine Höhler; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Earth system; Global change; Governmentality; History of the present; history of environmental science; Jordsystemet; Globala miljöförändringar; Governmentality; nuets historia; miljövetenskapernas historia; internationella forskningsprogram; miljöpolitik;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research connecting scientific knowledge production with governing of the global environment usually start in international climate change negotiations and related assessments. From that vantage point Earth system science and models are studied as an expansion of Global Circulation Models. LÄS MER