Essays about: "capitalism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 271 essays containing the word capitalism.

1. 21. Privatization of Public Space: Tracing Spatial Epistemologies of Publicness in Sweden : Planning for all in a neoliberal economy

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Carlén; [2023]
   Keywords : Privatization; publicness; commodification; public space; accessibility;

   Abstract : Public spaces play an important role in urban planning for the creation of a vibrant and attractive city. When reaching for the aims of becoming a vibrant city with attractive urban realms, while boosting profit making under a proliferation of neoliberal capitalism, the question of publicness has arguably fallen behind. READ MORE

3. 22. Migration Through the Lens of Welfare Regimes : A Comparative Case Study of Migration Discourses in Sweden and the UK

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Meaghan Gordon; [2023]
   Keywords : Sweden; the UK; migration; welfare regime; WPR;

   Abstract : This thesis compares political constructions of migrants across different welfare regime types, based on Esping-Andersen’s (1999) Three worlds of welfare capitalism. Previous comparative research into welfare regimes has not included the Social Democratic regime, leaving a gap to further explore and clarify. READ MORE

4. 23. The Scientific Article: A Critical Interpretation of Twenty-First Century Scientific Communication

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Daniel Widén; [2023]
   Keywords : scientific article; practice of research; communication; paradigm; identity reason; commodity; capitalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study investigates the doing of research from the standpoint of communication. The ambition is to offer a historically specific critical interpretation of how to conceptualize the scientific article and its relation to contemporary sociological research. READ MORE

5. 24. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time

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

   Author : Rikke Jespersen; [2023]
   Keywords : NETs; Desire; Green Capitalism; Imaginaries; Storytelling; Pluriverse; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE

6. 25. Green Greed A Poststructural Policy Analysis of “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020”

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

   Author : Lisa Carlsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Capitalism; Circular Growth; Degrowth; Decoupling; Democratized fashion; Depoliticization; Ecomodernism; Green growth; Governmentality; Institutionalized knowledges; Neoliberalism; Poststructuralism; Power knowledge; Policy analysis; Social Constructivism; WPR approach; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how discursive formations of problem representations presented in the “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020” institutionalize and shape knowledge regarding strategies on combating climate change. The politics behind these formations are made visible by using Carol Bacchi’s Poststructural Policy Analysis What’s the problem represented to be?(WPR) as a methodological framework. READ MORE