Essays about: "Neoliberalization"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the word Neoliberalization.

  1. 11. Double Bind Tying Breastfeeding Women to a Liminal Position : Discourses about Public Breastfeeding in the Swedish Media Debate 1980-2016

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Jennie Sjödin; [2018]
    Keywords : Public Breastfeeding; Gender Equality; Swedishness; Neoliberalization; Taboo; Female Bodies; Binary Oppositions; Inappropriate Women; Prudishness.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates cultural associations and values connected to women in Swedish society, with regard to action space, autonomy and social position. This is done through a discourse analysis of the media debate about public breastfeeding between the years 1980-2016, especially putting focus on the female body, motherhood, and women's access to public space. READ MORE

  3. 12. No Care for Distance : The (Market) Logic of Regionalizing Maternity Care

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Westin; [2017]
    Keywords : Social Reproduction; Neoliberalism; Maternity Care; Regionalization; Spatial Inequality;

    Abstract : A wave of maternity unit closure is sweeping through the North Atlantic zone, leaving rural communities without the care they crucially need. In its wake resistance grows, mobilizing against closures in the face of a discourse of economic efficiency and neoliberal austerity. READ MORE

  4. 13. Becoming an agri-food super power: Exploring the politicization of the Chilean Food System

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Pedro Glatz; [2017]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the creation and development of the modern Chilean Food System. Providing a description of the system focused on the production and consumption areas, the fruit export complex and the salmon industry are characterized. READ MORE

  5. 14. There Goes the Neighborhood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Oscar Helleday Melander; [2016]
    Keywords : Malmö; Education; Housing; Neoliberalism; Neoliberalization; The Neoliberal city; Risk downloading; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay inquires into the possible relationship between market oriented reforms in Swedish housing and education policy and Malmö’s sociospatial development by posing the question has Malmö become a neoliberal city? If so, how? Asserting David Harvey and Jamie Peck’s theories, and the concepts neoliberalism, neoliberalization, and risk downloading, the text argues that the central state has, since the 1970s, gradually shifted costs and risks and surrendered steering tools to institutions at subordinate scales by means of decentralization, deregulation and commodification in a rollback/rollout dynamism. Meanwhile, Malmö materialized as an expanding industrial city during the 1960s and early 70s. READ MORE

  6. 15. Att bygga Malmö helt : en kritisk diskursanalys av social hållbarhet som den sista pusselbiten i Malmös stadsomvandling, genom exemplet Amiralsstaden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Ylva Hartman Magnusson; Elsa Karlberg; [2016]
    Keywords : social hållbarhet; attraktivitet; kommunal planering; governance; Malmö; Amiralsstaden; kritisk diskursanalys; kritisk urbangeografi; planeringsteori;

    Abstract : This Master’s thesis is based on a text study of public documents concerning social sustainability and urban development through the densification project of Amiralsstaden in eastern Malmö. Amiralsstaden is the focus because of the municipal ambition of it being a ‘model project’ for socially sustainable urban development. READ MORE