Sökresultat

This paper investigates the stories that unfold and are created after an excavation in 1990s in Sweden of a few Late Viking Age burials. The excavation is followed by excavation reports, articles and an exhibition that also showcases a reconstruction made of one of the buried persons. The analysis is made from three perspectives; from the archaeological, the museum and the municipality. It is demo

The article analyses the stormy debate in Poland caused by the publication in 2000 of Neighbors, a book written by the Polish-born American scholar Jan Gross. The book, that deals with the war-time mass murder of the Jewish population in the Polish town Jedwabne, encouraged by the Nazi Germans but perpetrated by local Poles, brought about shock and created a challenge to Polish collective memory.

In September, 1708, for the first time ever in Sweden, an Agave americana (Aloe americana) was in bloom in Sweden. That event attracted much attention: four poets (Magnus Rönnow, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Tobias Schubarth and Olof Rudbeck the younger) wrote poems in honour of the plant (and its owner, Count Nils Gyldenstolpe). The article analyses the differences between the poems and tries to expl

This article presents an empirical study, which analyzes the characteristics of those social housing projects implemented in the medium-sized city of Liberia, in Costa Rica, and their relationship to the territorial distribution of inequality and urban poverty. The dynamic economic growth of the province of Guanacaste and in particular of its capital, the city of Liberia, is widely recognized in C

An analysis of the Turkish film Yol and the reception of it in Swedish media.

Titel: En investerares tidsperspektiv på nyintroduktioner - En studie om placeringshorisont på svenska marknadsplatser Seminariedatum: 2016-06-02 Kurs: FEKH89 Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete i finansiering på kandidatnivå, 15hp Författare: Fredrika Bengtsson, Victor Billing, Lovisa Falkenberg, Ludwig Övald Appelblad Handledare: Tore Eriksson Nyckelord: Börsintroduktion, Placeringshorisont, MTitle: An investor’s time perspective on IPOs - A study of investment horizons on Swedish stock markets Seminar date: 2016-06-02 Course: FEKH89, Degree Project Undergraduate level, Business Administration, 15 ECTS Authors: Fredrika Bengtsson, Victor Billing, Lovisa Falkenberg, Ludwig Övald Appelblad Advisor: Tore Eriksson Key words: IPO, Investment horizon, Market place, Industry affiliatio

Young girls and boys in Sweden can be ordered to compulsory care by the Administrative court if they are in psychosocially problematic situations. The purpose of our paper was to analyze how the socially destructive behavior of girls and boys was constructed in verdicts made by judges at the Administrative court. With a qualitative textual analysis we analyzed what kind of acts and social situatio

The Öresund region, or Greater Copenhagen as it also is represented as, is a cross-border region connecting Skåne with Copenhagen. Political initiatives have forced development towards a more integrated region with one regional identity. This has been complicated by border controls, redefining the national borders in an inconvenient way, especially for everyday transnational commuters. Through sem

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of social workers working with unaccompanied refugee minors during the autumn of 2015, commonly referred to as the “refugee crisis”. During this period, Sweden received approximately 156 400 refugees, putting Sweden’s social infrastructure under enormous pressure. As a result of the stressful working conditions, a large amount of social workers

I ett försök att begränsa bostadsproblem i Nairobi, som är så enorma att det blir en av Kenyas regerings "fyra stora agenda" som innebär topp regeringens prioriteringar när det gäller utveckling. Denna studie fokuserar på den största staden i Kenya (hänsyn till befolkningen), Nairobi. Nairobi växer i befolkning med en takt på över 4% vilket gör det till en av de snabbast växande städer pIn a bid to curb housing problems in Nairobi, which are so enormous to a point of becoming one of the Government of Kenya's 'Big four agenda' which entails the top government's priorities in terms of development. So, this case is perfectly fitted for the study. This study focuses on the largest city in Kenya (in terms of population), Nairobi. Nairobi is growing in population at a r

The reasons why people choose to access the criminal world are complex and sometimes hard to understand. The lack of understanding and knowledge within this subject leads to problems when it comes to preventing crime. The aim of this study was therefore to explore and understand how the individuals end up in criminal activity, based on a qualitative study of subjective stories. For this study we c

Taxing sugar-sweetened foods has become a relevant question in Sweden. Proofs of this are the population’s huge intake of added sugar, an increasing share of obesity and large related medical treatment costs. This thesis gives a hands-on suggestion of how a tax on sugar-sweetened foods in Sweden could be constructed. The goal of this study is to decrease the sugar intake by 70 percentages of five

This essay is about two of the most important surveys concerning cultural politics in Sweden. The first is the survey Boken – Litteraturutredningens huvudbetänkande/1968 års litteraturutredning from 1974, which was a part of the groundwork for the politics concerning literature in Sweden. The other one is Betänkande av Kulturutredningen 2009, which is an attempt to make great structural changes to