This thesis is concerned with establishing a theoretical position regarding the state as a cartographic author. Critical cartography provides an understanding of the profound connection between the state and the map. I am adopting a classical state-as-actor IR-perspective in order to ascribe the state agency, and I situate this perspective in the ontological debate of structure contra agency. The

Most of the things that we know about stars come from their spectrum. The properties of the atomic lines, e.g. energy levels, wavelengths, oscillator strengths, must be known to understand the observed spectrum and to perform quantitative analyses. Atomic data of some elements are incomplete, especially in the near-infrared region, which makes it difficult or even impossible to analyze a stellar s

The Living Table is the result of my master thesis, a study about the table culture of our modern lifestyle. My aim was to create a concept that communicates values, motivates to share values and traditions that are related to food and table culture. The project was divided in two parts; the theoretical part, where I explored the development of the table and food culture within Europe and analysed

This Master thesis report contains the whole development process of an automatic tool changer device for a CNC milling machine. All aspects of an integral development of a product are included in it. The automatic tool changer is methodically developed through a series of stages, finally leading to an in-detail design of a working piece of machinery ready to be built. For the development of this

This is an inquiry into how aspects of the present human reality came to being and thereby also an investigation into limitations and potentialities of this “present”. An important argument in this essay is that there exists a mutually affective relationship between culture and politics and that this relationship implies both possibilities and constraints. With this in mind I try to critically inv

Human trafficking is an alarming issue that has been discussed by many scholars and policy makers from different fields. It has been argued that poverty is one of the root causes of trafficking, making people to take any risks to improve life. The severe exploitation that occurs during trafficking experience has put victims of trafficking in a difficult situation where they are often seen as objec

Internal immigration in China has experienced a huge increase since the economic reform was launched in the late 1970s. While contemporary Hukou (household registration) system has contributed to stop the immigrants from sharing the local welfare benefits, especially the public education resources. This research focuses on the children of all immigrants, more precisely, on the non-local hukou chil

This text tries to explore the issue of knowledge in relation to ‘participatory processes of decision making’. Writing from an interdisciplinary perspective, the text revises both theories on democracy and on knowledge trying to bridge them in order to highlight the importance of the knowledge dimension for understanding the ‘participatory processes of decision making’(PPDM). The text suggests 3 a

Mediemarknaden i Sverige har förändrats mycket de senaste decennierna och där har en ökad marknadsorientering spelat en stor roll. Under samma tid har också ägarkoncentrationen inom media ökat. En fungerande media spelar en viktig roll i en demokrati och mediekoncentration anses från de flesta håll ha negativa konsekvenser på mediemarknaden. Mångfalden samt yttrandefriheten skadas och i förlängnin

This is a case study that aims to explain social media's impact on the outcome of the Egyptian revolution by examining the social and political issues. The social mobilization process intends to seek citizens' rights to sustain a civil society. Two main theories about the role of media from a social perspective and civil society are used in order to understand the rise of revolution and w

The relationship between the social political constructions; The Orient and The Occident; The East and The West; Them and Us is not a new mental synthesis. However, it was during the colonial era the idea of The Other manifested itself within the narrative. The colonial heritage is still evident in today’s discourse regarding the Diaspora. Postcolonial theory aim to create awareness around the cir

The topic for this research is the Kennedymyth in the context of the American dream. The posed question is, in what way this Kennedymyth in American politics, is part of the myth of the American dream. There are a number of theories regarding myth in the academic world. We refer to theoreticians and what they have written. In the analytical part we see in what way these different theories could co

The increasing multinational societies brought the issue of political recognition and accomodation of ethnic minority groups, and adoption of multicultural policies are found to be facilitator in this process. Both as a political idea and set of public policies, multiculturalism is highly contested on whether it is responsible for failed integration and segregated ethnic communities. Nonetheless,

Internet Piracy has become a phenomenon as a result of developed Internet technologies and file-sharing applications. With the growth of the Internet and the increased number of Internet users around the globe, the world is becoming ever more digitalized. Users are expecting digital information to be readily available at the touch of a button. This has caused an immense demand for digital goods, w

Ämnet för denna magisteruppsats är Hylands hörna, närmare bestämt den första tv-säsongen av programmet, som visades 1962-63. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur svensk självbild iscensätts rituellt i denna första tv-säsong. De viktigaste teoretiska verktygen har hämtats från Erving Goffmans Jaget och maskerna enligt vilken mänsklig aktivitet är teatralt utformad; vi spelar roller på en scen infö

Titel: Flexibilitetens fram- & baksida: En uppsats om effektivisering och tjänstekvalitet i en hotellverksamhet Universitet: Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, Institutionen för Service Management Kurs: SMKK01 Service Management: Examensarbete kandidatexamen, 15 hp, 2012 Seminariedatum: 29 maj 2012 Författare: Linnéa Hultén, Madelaine Levander & Josefine Marklund Handledare: Torleif Br

High levels of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon can affect odor, taste, color and chemical oxygen demand of distributed drinking water as a consequence of bacterial growth (Frias et al, 1995; Escobar, I.C. and Randall, A.A., 2001). The water industry would be able to improve the quality of distributed drinking water if spatial and temporal variations of BDOC could be mapped in the distributi

Många marknader präglas idag av hård konkurrens. Företagen måste fokusera på skapandet av enastående kundvärde för att säkra långsiktig framgång. Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge ökad förståelse för och bidra med aktuell kunskap till fenomenet upplevt kundvärde. För att belysa detta genomfördes en undersökning med flygplatsen som exempel på ett tjänsteföretag för att ta reda på i vad flygresenär

Föreliggande uppsats behandlar lönediskriminering och osakliga löneskillnader på grund av kön på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Rättsdogmatisk metod har legat till grund för uppsatsens underlag genom rättskälleläran samt empiriskt material i form av statistik från Medlingsinstitutet och rapporter från motparter på arbetsmarknaden. Praxis har visat att den mest problematiska och svåråtkomliga lönedis