Essays about: "urban riots"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words urban riots.
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1. The day after the Stockholm 2013 riots : Järva as The Safe City?
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Urban riots have increased in the global-north in recent years. Previous research on riots identify causes and triggers, but also where they are more likely to happen. Rioters, residents and the police are commonly studied. READ MORE
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2. HIMA ! Revolutionary Park in Yerevan, Armenia
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : HIMA! / NOW! - translation from Armenian In light of recent and ongoing protests, demonstrations and riots in Ukraine, Egypt, Israel or Armenia, some actual questions arise such as how is the built environment used as an area of protest, how it is chosen as a focal point or path for resistance, what are the common characteristics of revolutionary spaces and how the environment effects on success. Lack of democracy from the government and in everyday life of Armenia society, total corruption and feeling of impunity oligarchy, the government and most of governmental institutions, weak economic growth accompanied by alarming number of emigration as well as successful scenarios in neighboring Georgia and Ukraine, force to predict a inescapable eruption of protests Armenia in near future. READ MORE
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3. Urban Riots in Sweden : Is there Continuity or Change in the Political Discourse?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In the last ten years several violent protests have emerged in Sweden´s largest cities. Some of them have developed into real riots, resulting in burned cars and large police operations. These violent events, or ‘urban riots’, are a relatively new phenomenon in Sweden. READ MORE
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4. Mapping the security networks - And the role of private security companies
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the local occurrence of two global trends on a local level in Sweden, the increased privatisation of security services and the increasing tension and security problems in urban areas. The local security networks in Angered (Gothenburg) and Rinkeby-Kista Stockholm are the cases examined in the thesis. READ MORE
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5. Mapping the security networks - And the role of private security companies
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the local occurrence of two global trends on a local level in Sweden, the increased privatisation of security services and the increasing tension and security problems in urban areas. The local security networks in Angered (Gothenburg) and Rinkeby-Kista Stockholm are the cases examined in the thesis. READ MORE
