Denna uppsats tar upp mönster och skillnader mellan rödockra, kroppsställningar och kön hos trettio av individerna i gravarna i Skateholm I, samt vad ockran och de olika kroppsställningarna kan ha för betydelse i sammanhanget. Undersökningen har visat att det finns många olika möjligheter till hur ockran hamnat i gravarna och vad ockran och ställningarna haft för betydelse.

The purpose of this project was to find an understanding for why public agents working with introduction of immigrants have decided to co-operate and co-ordinate their efforts. Another purpose was to gain insights in what characterizes this co-operation. Seven interviews were made with practitioners working with these questions on national-, regional- and local levels. The material gathered in th

In this paper, we strive to analytically debate through dialogue, the question of positive rights and whether or not positive rights are the preferable way to interpret and practically implement rights. We present our own definition of rights influenced by Wesley Newcomb Hohfelds idea of relational rights. And use it as a base for discussion in the second half of the paper. The discussion is cente

Thousands of immigrants are currently residing in Sweden on illegal grounds. These people, along with asylum seekers, have very restricted access to state subsidized healthcare. The Swedish government has presented no clear motivation for this policy. The purpose of our study is to argue that all immigrants should get access to complete state subsidized healthcare. We will, as a basis for our argu

The appointing of Swedish governmental officials has gone through a dramatic change the last nine years. The tradition of officials appointed due to their political experience has been traded against the appointing of experts. In this study I ask questions about this new way of appointing representatives effects how these officials interpret their role. An official that who has never been in the p

This essay focuses on the implementation of the strategy gender mainstreaming in the European Union and the member states. It starts to identify problems connected to the implementation process and recognizes significant prerequisites for an efficient implementation of the strategy. The main problems and prerequisites are: political will, governance and structure and knowledge about gender equalit

This thesis takes as its starting-point the different stands on the ever ongoing growth of multinational corporations (MNCs) and its consequences. Two opposing branches of theories, arguing that the establishment of MNCs in developing countries is good respectively bad for these countries, are tested for the aspect of state capacity. A quantitative method is then used to test if there exists such

This study analyzes how civil society contributes to the democratic development in a Nicaragua governed by the sandinist party FSLN. The empirical focus lays at the relationship between state and the civil society. By using a conceptual framework outlined by Caroline Boussard, the civil society is being analyzed as an actor with a democracy-building potential that is supported or constrained by a

Den här uppsatsen har för avsikt att göra en kvalitativ undersökning av hur arkeologer och arkeologi presenteras i filmer och på tv för att sedan jämföra detta med hur yrkesverksamma arkeologer själva ser på sig och sitt ämne. För detta ändamål har jag tittat igenom ett antal filmer, dokumentärer, tv-serier samt tittat på Internet och gjort intervjuer. Jag kom fram till att det finns tre huvudtyp

The purpose of this essay was to find out if it is possible to: ? Detect different groups of gender among children in grave materiel and church art and if that was the case, in what way? ? What different groups of children can be seen in these two categories? ? What does the material say about children's position in society? The time span is from early Christian time to 17-th century and th

Conflict prevention is a term which has gained much influence during the last decades. To prevent conflicts from occuring have both humanitarian and economic incentives as the cost for war are much greater than the cost of acting preventive. To act in this matter has been regarded a priority for the United Nations during several years, and the European Union have also expressed a wish of playing a

Med uppsatsen försöker jag belysa den komplexa värld som ett så kallat Friluftsmuseum ofta existerar i. Genom att stycka upp det innehåll en vikingatida rekonstruktion rymmer (förmedling, ekonomi, nationell identitet samt nutidsprägel på historisk empiri) och genom nutida exempel på var och ett område försöka med egna invävda frågeställningar diskutera de problem som kan uppstå i försöket att reko

The authoritarian Ba?th regime in power in Syria since 1966 has been challenged twice by popular contention. In the first case, ?The Islamic rebellion?, the episode of contention erupted into violence, in the second case, ?The Damascus Spring?, it did not. In both cases the challengers changed strategies and methods of contention adapting to their counterparts and the external environment. This s

This paper concerns the divide between secularist and anti-secularist groups in Turkey, which is related to a greater antagonism between a Kemalist and an Islamic political discourse, dominant in Turkish politics since the 1980s. The main aim of the paper is to analyse the causes of the conflict using the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The second aim is to analyse the contents of each disc

By utilizing a theoretical framework developed by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) we have been able to identify developments in South African press freedom with a special focus on the printed press, between the years of 2003-2007. The purpose of this thesis has been (1) to determine whether there has been an actual decrease in the South African press freedom and (2) to establish a nuanced pic

Using an analytical framework of three aspects of ecological modernisation to test the theory in the carbon trading scheme of the European union.

Two schematic modes of political mobilization of the electorate, and patterns of patronage, have been historically common in Indian politics; indirect vertical mobilization and broad horizontal mobilization. This thesis examines the impact of these modes of mobilization on socioeconomic development among the larger states of India. It also attempts to put this impact in relation to other factors.

The thesis Den ?fria? rörligheten aims to give deeper knowledge to the notion of social sustainable mobility. My previous knowledge within the subject is focused around mobility being biased and therefore gaining particular groups of actors within society and leaving others worse off. Therefore I chose to do a critical analysis of social sustainable mobility and more precisely show which problems

Energy, being a very important aspect of international relations and a crucial element for the enhancement of national security, has both economic and geopolitical signifi-cance for consumer, producer and transit countries. In the course of last years the European Union (EU) ? Russia energy relations, and in particular the conflictual as-pects of the Energy Dialogue (ED) and the Energy Charter Tre

This thesis is an attempt to discuss the proposals to improve the statuses and rights of the legally resident third country nationals living in the European Union. As denizens, third country nationals have full civil and social rights but they do not have any political rights. This is believed to denote an anomaly, which can be corrected through the grant of political rights. However, political ri