Essays about: "neoliberal capitalism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words neoliberal capitalism.

  1. 1. Social class representations and construction of entrepreneurial identities in Swedish ELT textbooks

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Cristina Elena Staicu; [2023]
    Keywords : Neoliberalism; social class; social inequality; entrepreneurialism; English textbooks; ELT; Sweden;

    Abstract : Modern societies across the globe have been deeply transformed by the rise of capitalism and neoliberalism in the last century. This has had a significant impact on education which has been reconfigured to meet the needs of the market rather than the needs of the learner. READ MORE

  3. 2. Accessing Housing : How the political-economy of Sweden’s Housing Market impacts the accessibility for marginalized groups in Malmö

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Pauline Wedepohl; [2023]
    Keywords : housing; accessibility; discrimination; marginalized groups; radical right to housing; political-economy; urban studies; Malmö; Sweden;

    Abstract : Under urban neoliberal policies, housing has become a vehicle for wealth accumulation, detached from its social function, leading to a shortage of adequate and affordable housing. The lack of adequate housing is perceived as an issue of availability. READ MORE

  4. 3. Between hope and resignation. Three collective initiatives on climate change’s understandings of agency for societal transformation.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lisa Conzemius; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; social change; structure agency; collective action; anti-capitalism; radical change; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Addressing climate change will entail groups of people working together to bring about changes in fundamental societal structures. This research investigates how the members of three collective initiatives on climate change in Sweden envision the process of change, based on their understandings of structures and agency. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Popular and Contextual Trans Representation : A Case Study of Normative Trans Representation in the Media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Kim Cannerstad; [2023]
    Keywords : Anti-gender ideology; Capitalism; ContraPoints; Disclosure; Gutsy; Tiffany Moore; Transfeminism;

    Abstract : This thesis represents an investigative critique of ethics in mass media representation of trans people. It advances its respective set of ethics regarding trans representation by critically examining how contemporary capitalist media produces a more "sanitized" trans representation that fails to reflect the material living conditions of the immense majority of trans people underneath the regime of capitalism. READ MORE