Essays about: "CROATIA"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 59 essays containing the word CROATIA.

  1. 21. The Influence of Social Media Content on Youth Tourism: Can Culture Play a Role?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Nadezhda Tsankova; Iva Pervan; [2020]
    Keywords : social media; youth tourism; cultural differences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate the influence of social media content on youth tourism by assessing the perceptions of youth travelers from four countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to examine the cultural differences of youngsters’ attitudes towards social media use in travel planning. READ MORE

  2. 22. Yugoslavia Revisited : Contested Histories through Public Memories of President Tito

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Ana Cicic; [2020]
    Keywords : collective memory; politics of memory; nostalgia; remembering; forgetting; nationalism; ethnicity; Josip Broz Tito; Yugoslavia;

    Abstract : In the thesis, I aim to analyze how people remember their past in changed political circumstances, what and who affect that memory, and why and how does rapture between social memory and historical narratives come about. My subject of inquiry is the personality of Josip Broz Tito and above that the period of socialism and the years of his reign. READ MORE

  3. 23. “The grandiosity of tasks and mediocrity of tools”: Confronting the transnational social question with mobile CEE citizens’ experiences in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristin Clay; [2019-05-08]
    Keywords : Transnational Social Question; Intra-EU Mobility; European Citizenship; European Dis integration; Coloniality; Decolonial Option;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the debate surrounding east-west intra-EU mobility, the transnational social question and European citizenship by uncovering often undervalued and stigmatized histories, experiences, and knowledge from the EU’s central and eastern member states by highlighting the voices of mobile CEE citizens in Sweden. Taking a problem-driven, adaptive approach, this thesis draws on qualitative interviews—with twelve respondents representing Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, and Estonia—contextualized by official documents from the EU and Sweden, including a European Commission communication and press release, a report prepared by Sweden’s National Board of Trade, and a letter from the EU Affairs ministers of Sweden, Finland, and Norway defending the freedom of movement. READ MORE

  4. 24. “The grandiosity of tasks and mediocrity of tools”: Confronting the transnational social question with mobile CEE citizens’ experiences in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristin Clay; [2019-01-17]
    Keywords : Transnational Social Question; Intra-EU Mobility; European Citizenship; European Dis integration; Coloniality; Decolonial Option;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the debate surrounding east-west intra-EU mobility, the transnational social question and European citizenship by uncovering often undervalued and stigmatized histories, periences, and knowledge from the EU’s central and eastern member states by highlighting the voices of mobile CEE citizens in Sweden. Taking a problem-driven, adaptive approach, this thesis draws on qualitative interviews—with twelve respondents representing Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, and Estonia—contextualized by official documents from the EU and Sweden, including a European Commission communication and press release, a report prepared by Sweden’s National Board of Trade, and a letter from the EU Affairs ministers of Sweden, Finland, and Norway defending the freedom of movement. READ MORE

  5. 25. Does Joining the European Union Affect Institutional Trust in Post-Communist Countries? An Application of the Synthetic Control Method

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Paula Dahlman; [2019]
    Keywords : trust; institutions; European Union; synthetic control method; Eastern Europe;

    Abstract : This paper applies the synthetic control method, a statistical methodology for empirical case studies, to examine the effect of EU accession and EU negotiation status on trust in institutions in post-communist European countries. For each examined unit, the method produces a synthetic control unit from a pool of similar countries. READ MORE