Essays about: "State Intervention"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 184 essays containing the words State Intervention.

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. Family reunification as a Swedish citizen sponsor : A case study of intimate citizenship and mixed-status families

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Amanda Tydesjö; [2023]
   Keywords : Migration; Mixed-status family; Intimate citizenship; Intersectionality; Belongingness;

   Abstract : Global migration has increased the number of binational, mixed-status families that encounter family reunification processes and restrictive migration law. However, limited research exists on how the citizen partner in such family constellations is affected by the phenomenon. READ MORE

4. 3. Democratization of Intelligence? Comparing Vietnam and Ukraine

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Björn Erik Almroth; [2023]
   Keywords : Covert intervention; Vietnam War; Russia-Ukraine War; implausible deniability; democratization of intelligence; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study explores how a contemporary systemic shift regarding secrecy and intelligence is affecting the strategic performance of states engaged in overt or covert intervention. These changes are conceptualized by researchers as “implausible deniability”, “delayed disclosure” and “the democratization of intelligence” and their significance are applied to limited-war theory with a theoretical focus on acknowledgment and open secrets. READ MORE

5. 4. Learning a foreign language in the outdoors : Perceptions of foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment of primary students and teachers when learning English in an outdoor setting

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande

   Author : Alba Besora Morlans; [2023]
   Keywords : Outdoor Education; Foreign Language Learning; Foreign Language Anxiety; Foreign Language Enjoyment; Outdoor Language Learning;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore how outdoor education (OE) can influence foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) when primary students are learning English as a foreign language (EFL). The design was a pre-post intervention study with two experimental groups of 3rd graders of a Catalan state school that participated in an outdoor English session. READ MORE

6. 5. Telling a different story: Farming resilience in hay-milk farms in Salzburg province

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Julia Fritzsche; [2023]
   Keywords : farming resilience; Salzburg; hay-milk farming;

   Abstract : Foregrounding relations and processes in resilience thinking has the potential to enable more holistic analyses and account for complexity, which could lead to more resilient actions, interventions, or ways of being. The concept of farming resilience builds on a process-relational understanding of resilience and thus offers a move away from more substance-based understandings of resilience as outcome. READ MORE