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  1. 1. The Kampala Convention vs. Bare Life : A Qualitative Analysis of the Kampala Convention and its Impact on IDPs’ Quality of Life

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Clara Ternström; [2024]
    Keywords : Kampala Convention; bare life; IDPs; quality of life; legislation; biopolitics; displacement;

    Abstract : This study aims to identify potential ways in which the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) improves the quality of life for IDPs. Relying on the concept of bare life, it answers if and how the convention prevents bare life. READ MORE

  3. 2. END-OF-LIFE FOR A QUARRY, WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Kimia Golamian Yosaf Abadi; [2023-06-21]
    Keywords : Quarrying; Aggregates; Life cycle; Environmental impact; Restoration; Permit;

    Abstract : Aggregates products are the largest non-energy mining industry in the world, which is the most extracted materials after water. The most prevalent source of aggregates is from quarries, or mines that target the rock itself. READ MORE

  4. 3. “People, Corrupted”: Monstrous Transformations in “The Whistlers” and “Whitefall”

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Charles Perseus D'Aniello; [2023]
    Keywords : monster theory; monstrosity; gothic; internet horror; bare life; zombies; heterotopia; cannibalism;

    Abstract : This essay explores monstrosity in two contemporary horror stories: “The Whistlers” by Amity Argot, and “Whitefall” by C.K. Walker, focusing on how the humans in these texts are monstrously transformed. READ MORE

  5. 4. SPHAGNUM RE-ESTABLISHMENT ON BARE PEAT - an evaluation of restoration results

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Emma Stenlund; [2022-07-06]
    Keywords : Sphagnum; establishment; bare peat; restoration;

    Abstract : Restoration of former peat extraction sites is a rather young practice in Sweden. As part of the EU-funded project Life to Ad(d)mire, the County Administrative Board of Jönköping have restored a number of areas affected by peat extraction, with the purpose of achieving a favorable conservation status for the habitats and the species that depend on them. READ MORE

  6. 5. The bare life in the al-Hol camp in Syria: The case of the Swedish children

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Fadi Azzo; [2022]
    Keywords : Al-Hol camp; Swedish Children; ISIS; Syria; Sweden; Bare Life; State of Exception; Giorgio Agamben; Biopolitics; Political Theory; International Relations.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This paper aims to understand the constitution of the al-Hol camp in Syria, where thousands of women and children from 57 different countries are detained in subhuman conditions. I did that by studying the case of the Swedish children, motivated by the contradiction that those children did not get help even though they belong to one of the most liberal welfare states in the world. READ MORE