Essays about: "social policy analysis."

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  1. 1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Melissa Lennartsson; [2024-01-26]
    Keywords : Vulnerable areas; urban policy; place-making; advanced urban marginality; safety security nexus; neoliberalism; Gothenburg;

    Abstract : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sweden's relationship to NATO - How the government legitimizes its foreign security policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Victoria Karlsson; [2024]
    Keywords : NATO; securitization; legitimization; non-alignment; NATO-membership; speech acts.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how different political orientations in Swedish foreign security policy have been legitimized. After having pursued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment for 200 years, Sweden made a decision to apply for membership in the military alliance NATO. READ MORE

  4. 3. Navigating Social Sustainability: : Revealing Contemporary Laws and Policies in Public Procurement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mirjam Chahed; [2024]
    Keywords : Socially Sustainable Public Procurement; EU Directive 2014 24 EU; The Swedish Public Procurement Act; The National Public Procurement Strategy; Sweden; WPR-approach; Poststructuralism;

    Abstract : The thesis is about Sweden’s approach on social sustainability in public policy. The Swedish New Reform derives from the EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement, including policies and legislations on social aspects, labor-law, and environmental considerations. READ MORE

  5. 4. Policing Möllevången - A critical discourse analysis of policing in the neoliberal city

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Carolina Pettersson; [2024]
    Keywords : Critical realism; Critical discourse analysis; Malmö; Policing; Urban neoliberalization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the ideological conditions for policing in Malmö, Sweden. It takes its theoretical point of departure in the rise of urban neoliberalism, and how urban neoliberalization alters policy and practices of policing. READ MORE

  6. 5. Joining NATO : A qualitative case study of Sweden’s autobiographical narrative 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ragna Stertman; [2024]
    Keywords : delaktighet; inkludering; Flemingsberg; unga vuxna; social kapital;

    Abstract : In May 2022 the Swedish government took the momentous decision to apply for membership in NATO, putting an end to what had constituted Sweden’s foreign and security policy identity for over half a century. In order to make sense of this historical shift and its entailing implications for Sweden’s identity in the international sphere, I turned to the literature on ontological security and autobiographical narratives. READ MORE