Emigrants from Qingtian County (Zhejiang province, China) have a long and rich history in Europe, but to date, little research has been done on their unique language, or its role in Qingtianese diaspora communities. Drawing inspiration from other studies about attitudes towards, and use of, Chinese heritage dialects in China and overseas, the autho...
Occurrences of extreme weather events are increasing due to the ongoing climate change driven by human actions. In parallel, this triggers a growing need for humanitarian action in the future to help those impacted by disasters. Disaster risk reduction and management has hereby become a central element of today's national and global governance in t...
The purpose of this essay was to investigate whether reading or the discussion of reading literature can enhance the psychological well-being from a user-perspective. The essay used the theory of Hynes and Hynes-Berry´s (2012) two distinctions of bibliotherapy; interactive- and reading bibliotherapy, to investigate reading and the use of reading as...
Introduction This thesis deals with the potential similarities between cemeteries and archives and the potential similarities between gravestones and documents. To give context, a background on the evolution of Swedish cemeteries is provided. The potential similarities are then explored from a practical and an operational perspective, respectively,...
The purpose of this master’s thesis in archival science was to provide a picture of what archiving of mental health records looks like in Sweden, and what rights private individuals have to their own mental health records. It fills a void in archival science research, as there is very little written about this specific type of document from an arch...
"Med begreppet 'kunskapscirkulation' vill Larsson Heidenblad konkretisera hur kunskapsprids mellan aktörer i samhället. Det aktörsnära perspektivet motiveras av författaren som en sorts medelväg mellan å ena sidan abstrakta, diskursteoretiska analyser och å andra sidan tematiskt snäva miljöhistoriska studier." Läs Simon Haikolas recension af boken ...
This thesis explores in which ways the EUs border management agency Frontex was represented as a ‘humanitarian’ actor in the Swedish news media during Operation Triton 2014-2017 in the Central Mediterranean. It conducts a critical discourse analysis of Sweden’s largest newspaper Aftonbladet, using traditional and contemporary understandings of huma...
It has often been said that the problem with climate change is its invisibility. People do not mobilize about climate change because they cannot see it; even less can they see CO2 emissions—that is, the most relevant material element causing climate alternations. Although I would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for ot...
Kungl. Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala, grundad 1710, går in i 1800-talet som ägare av en landets största naturaliesamlingar, en av dåtidens viktigaste infrastrukturer. En adjunkt anställs för samlingarnas vårdande och det är ett styvt jobb att ordna materialet på ett systematiskt sätt. Den egensinnige Göran Wahlenberg sköter uppgiften en period l...
