Essays about: "Centre-Periphery"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the word Centre-Periphery.

  1. 6. Structural Change Deconstructed: A Centre-Periphery Divide in Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Bertus Markus Melles; [2019]
    Keywords : Centre-Periphery Eurozone; Structural Asymmetries; Services Economic Complexity Index; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : After more than a decade since the outbreak of the financial crisis, overall economic growth in the Eurozone is still disappointing. An increasing group of economists attributes the inadequate economic performance to large and deeply engrained differences between the productive structures of the Northern and Southern Eurozone. READ MORE

  3. 7. "There's no I in team" : A study of roles of civil society in Holmsund, and it’s connection to constructions of Holmsund

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Irma Olofsson; [2018]
    Keywords : civic engagement; civil society; centre-periphery; radical democracy; spatialized power relations;

    Abstract : The civil society and civic engagement is a prerequisite for democracy (Putnam, 1994), and in the form of the popular movements it has in many ways defined the Swedish democracy. This thesis focuses on the locality Holmsund located in the municipality of Umeå, Holmsund has a history that are in ways defined by activeness from civil society in similarity with many other places in Sweden (Ambjörnsson, 2001). READ MORE

  4. 8. Unsolved Asymmetries and Complex Productive Structures in the Eurozone

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Bertus Markus Melles; [2018]
    Keywords : productive asymmetries; centre-periphery; Eurozone crisis; ECI; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract: The severity of the crisis in the Southern Eurozone countries is frequently attributed to inflated economies and reckless spending. Thus, it isn’t surprising that the main interpretation is that the crisis ought to be solved by decreasing government spending and lowering wages. READ MORE

  5. 9. Sustainable Development on Colonised Land : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sustainability of Wind-Power

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Oskar Waara; [2017]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Critical Discourse Analysis; Colonialism; Sámi; Indigenous; Centre-Periphery;

    Abstract : Sustainable development is major post of global and national political agendas, and notions of sustainability permeate whole societies. Sweden is heavily influenced by sustainable development which can be exemplified by the ambitious goal of fossil-free energy and the current phase of rapid wind-power developments. READ MORE

  6. 10. Don’t Mess with My Milk! The Mystery of Spectacular Mundane Consumption

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Katrin Humal; Julia Schönström; [2016]
    Keywords : mundane consumption; everyday consumption; local identity; centre-periphery; milk; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study aims to deepen the understanding of mundane consumption by examining hidden meanings in the case of the Milk Uprising, when sharp decreases in the availability of Skånemejerier’s milk in Scania, Sweden, in 2009 ignited a major consumer revolt. We argue that existing literature is inadequate to explain this case where mundane consumption all of a sudden became spectacular, and that such a case presents a great opportunity for deeper exploration of the role that everyday consumption has in people’s lives. READ MORE