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Abstract This thesis aims to examine the development cooperation between Sweden and Kenya, focusing on how aid is used, the norms and values Sweden seeks to promote, and the potential consequences for Kenya’s political and institutional independence. Using a qualitative research design, the study is based on secondary sources, including academic literature, government reports, and reliable databa
This study explores the perceived significance of Sida’s funding in Cambodia’s education sector and how education-related organisations have adapted to the financial shortfall following Sida’s withdrawal. Drawing on Resource Dependence Theory (RDT), the research highlights the critical role Sida played as a valued donor, supporting a wide range of educational initiatives from primary to higher edu
In the Philippines, being labeled as “red” is akin to being given a death sentence. Red-tagging is a political strategy, most notably employed by national security forces, to accuse, denounce, and persecute individuals and civil society organizations as members or supporters of front organizations of communist guerrilla groups. It is the act of indiscriminately associating individuals or organizat
This thesis focuses on the concept “sustainable consumption” and how it is conceptually constructed by Swedish secondhand actors, specifically non-profit actors who actively engage in the resale of clothing. Our current excessive overconsumption of fashion and pressing need to shift to a more sustainable mode of consumption requires us to critically assess the definition of our sustainability idea
This thesis examines how state strategies and transnational lifestyles co-produce identities in Hong Kong and Singapore. Both global city-states share colonial legacies, open economies, and roles as regional hubs, yet differ in nation-building trajectories and governance structures. Drawing on Bourdieu’s habitus and field theory and Jessop’s strategic-relational approach, the study conceptualises
Refugee women are particularly at risk of having their sexual and reproductive health and rights compromised due to a high unmet need for contraception. Through fifteen individual interviews in Pagirinya refugee settlement, Northern Uganda, this thesis documents the gendered structures regarding contraceptive usage among South Sudanese refugee women and how they negotiate these structures. The the
This study examines whether formal state authority determines governance zone placement and whether governance zones shift (“zone migration”) across the ANIME stages, Agenda-Setting, Negotiation, Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement, in Indonesia’s female domestic worker migration to the GCC. Drawing on qualitative interviews with meso-level actors, it combines the ANIME framework with the
State-controlled social media platforms can result in authoritarian soft power assets when the users' mediated communication extends across borders. Especially in times of hostile conflict and narrative divide, these transnational communication networks – without the coordination of the authoritarian state – can promote authoritarian narratives to non-domestic audiences when multilingual users
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how queer students in Danish upper-secondary schools expe- rience and navigate their school environments and how this is influenced by institutional practices. As such, this thesis adopts a dual perspective on queer students by investigating experiences of and agency within school environments, in the form of how they choose to respond to situations of dis-
This thesis examines how labour exploitation in Sicily’s tomato sector is legitimised through both the Italian labour migration policy and agri-food industry discourse. It argues that exploitation is not the result of policy failure, but rather a structural feature of capitalist agriculture, normalised through public and private narratives that present inherently exploitative labour relations as e
This research analyses the communication strategies of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades on Telegram following the October 7th, 2023, attack. Focusing on 40 images and videos posted between October and December 2023, it investigates how visual content is used to perform violence, shape narratives, and legitimise actions. The study adopts a qualitative, social construct
Some young foreign/second language (L2) learners of English hardly know a single English word when starting school instruction. Others know many thanks to extensive English use outside of school, extramural English (EE). By investigating young L2 learners’ vocabulary knowledge at the onset of formal instruction, we can explore what roles EE may have for incidental learning prior to instruction. To
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a dietary transition with both undernutrition and rising rates of non-communicable diseases. Adopting the reference diet proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission can reduce both the environmental burden and improve health outcomes. However, whether this diet provides micronutrient adequacy in older adults in low-income settings has not been investigated. This
Bladder cancer is the ninth most common type of cancer globally, and the projected number of deaths is estimated to almost double by the year 2040. Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized treatment of bladder cancer and can achieve durable responses; however, only a minority of patients respond. By identifying additional targets and treatment combinations, more patients could b
The currant bud moth, Euhyponomeutoides albithoracellus, the currant shoot borer, Lampronia capitella and the currant clearwing, Synanthedon tipuliformis, are destructive pests on currants in the Nordic countries, but detailed information about their relative abundance in commercial crop fields is lacking. We used pheromone-baited monitoring traps to analyse the presence and flight period of the t
