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1. 11. Dystopian Narratives:Testing Qualitative Story Completion Method with Theory from Degrowth

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

   Author : Michelle Appelros; [2022]
   Keywords : Story Completion; Method; Degrowth; Climate crisis; Decolonization of the Imaginary; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the global north, we seem well informed of the pending climate crisis, but despite criticism of un-sustainability, it seems as if we lack alternatives to eco-modernist solutions. Although not unproblematic, degrowth and other alternatives do exist, but are somehow non-existing in the public debate. READ MORE

3. 12. Going towards a ‘perfect’ life : A qualitative study on urban middle-class young married women’s experiences and prospects on marriage life in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Jiayu Xu; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban middle-class young women; Marriage; Suzhi; Governance ideology; China; Critical discursive psychology; Interpretative repertoires; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The self-evident contradictory governance ideology of the Chinese Communist Party leads to urban-born young middle-class Chinese women struggling between seeking one’s own path with the discourse of ‘individualism’ under the neoliberal market economy and conforming to the traditional role in the family of patriarchal culture. This is reflected in the increasing prominent phenomena of getting married later (after age 25). READ MORE

4. 13. Chugging along, going with the flow, collegiality and chaos: A micro-political essay on interpersonal troubles within care situations in Sweden

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

   Author : Tova Lundquist; [2022]
   Keywords : Challenging behavior; troubling interactions; micropolitics; conflict sociology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : A lot of time and care have been put into exploring and explaining the power relations between nurses and nursing assistants, the emotional investment appropriate in care work, different views on leisure time for staff in this context (Warming, 2019; Habel, 2021; Jervis, 2002; Crocker, 2019). Less work has been done in exploring the complex relationships care workers have with their patients and how staff navigate troubling situations that arise in these relationships as well as how staff feel when these troubling situations occur. READ MORE

5. 14. Academically skilled refugees’ experience of discrimination while integrating through the Danish and Swedish labor market

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Sandra Fröberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Discrimination; Human Capital; Danishness and Swedishness; Labor Market policy; Immigration and Integration policies; Sweden; Denmark; Öresund; European Studies; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : From empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews, this master’s thesis is conducting a critical discourse analysis, investigating to what extent discoursive structures entails discriminatory treatments of academically skilled refugees in the integration process of entering the Danish and Swedish labor market. Academically skilled refugees and relevant caseworkers from both Denmark and Sweden have been interviewed to investigate individual experiences related to the integration process. READ MORE

6. 15. Drudgingly the squirrel feeds itself- Performatively collective action influences oppressive norms: Mixed-Method Study on the Subversion of Oppressive Norms in Activist and Policy Discourse

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

   Author : Manon Bisdorf; [2021]
   Keywords : oppressive norms; collective action; performativity; mixed methods; feminist research; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Like a squirrel that slowly collects nuts for the winter, this thesis emphasizes the importance of small acts in the collective struggle for a just world. Currently, oppressive norms confine certain ways of being. READ MORE