This is a case study of Carlstad Comic Con 2011 and 2012.The purpose is to study the event in relation to a project management and a local culture policy perspective. This in order to analyze the organization of a popular culture event and see how such a local event may benefit Karlstad as a city. Besides studying the organization of Carlstad Comic Con and its outcomes I am sketching a short cultural history of popular culture media and its context within recent year?s globalization.The study shows that the events have had a great beneficial impact on the local industry; lacking any negative sides, and have put Karlstad in an international context which goes directly in line with the standard guidelines for project management of region culture policy. Concerning how to organize the event the organizers have not followed a strict project structure.

The main purpose of this paper is to examine how students in school year nine in the Swedish school come in contact with history outside of the school context. The paper also focuses on, if and how the students consider the contact with history as something different than, or similar to the history education that takes place during school hours, the student´s interest in history will also be examined. To gather the student?s opinions on these subjects, I have done interviews with eight students divided into two groups, with one group consisting of four girls and one group with two boys and two girls. The interviews took place at the students school located in a smaller city in Värmlands län, Sweden.

SammandragBostadsbrist och ohälsa har varit den problematik som främst präglat Sveriges stadsbyggnadsideal från sent 1800-taltill idag. En väldig befolkningsökning och omflyttning av befolkningen från landsbygd till tätort har ställt stora kravpå en omfattande bostadsproduktion. Under andra halvan av 1900-talet har logistik blivit ett stort bekymmer närstaden utökat sin yta och befolkningen bor på en plats medan arbete och service finns på en annan.Om man tittar på de stadsbyggnadsideal som präglat staden finns en tydlig vågrörelse och pendling mellan kvalitativavärden som är svåra att mäta och kvantitativa värden som baseras på ekonomiska aspekter. Ett stadsbyggnadsidealsom haft stort fokus på kvantitet följs av ett med fokus på kvalitet.De idévisioner som stadsbyggnadsidealen vilat på präglar lösningen på problemen men retorik och argumentationspelar en väsentlig roll för genomförandet av ett ideal. Det är genom slagkraftigheten hos idéerna som förespråkarnaav ett ideal gör sina åsikter hörda och får gehör eller inte för sina visioner..

Urbanization has for a long time been a threat to our biodiversity. Epiphytic organisms such as lichens have been negative affected by traffic pollution and the new urban environment surrounding their old habitat (van Her 2001). Another epiphytic organism is the green algae Desmococcus olivaceus. Unlike lichens the green algae is favoured by polluted areas. The aim of this study was to investigate if time in urban environments affected the cover of the green algae on old oaks.

"What's feminine about the Women's library?" This library, Kvinnobiblioteket, is abranchoffice at Björkskatan in the city of Luleå, and the introducing question is thestartingpoint of this essay. To find some possible answers is its object.One way of describing what's feminine about Kvinnobiblioteket is through presenting itsobjective, ambitions and methods of working. That is done mostly in a chapter headlined"Kvinnobiblioteket", and shows how the women's perspective concerns for exarnplepurchase of books and magazines, displaying of books, the opening hours, design etc.Although the focus in the survey is not in the former kind of description, but in the interviewsbeing made during a two week long period of time with ten women at Kvinnobiblioteket(both library user and personnel) at spring 1995. The results of the interviewsthen have been compared with theories from psychological-, feminist-, literature- andlibrary and information sciences, as we11 as to former surveys and essays.The material together leads to some keywords that seem to be important when trying tofind out what's female about the women's library.

The aim of this thesis is to, through an empirical study ofthe social tags in the City of Stockholm libraries? OPACwith critical discourse analysis, examine the social tags?linguistic design, usability, and communicative potential? all in relation to the context. It is a linguistic study andit is important to take into account that the tags are extremelyshort texts ? single-word-texts. My starting-pointis that the tags are a form of utility texts.What I find is that a clear majority of the tags are nounsand function as index terms, but that there are differencescompared to authorized index terms.

?Undersökning syftar mot att visa att det finns informella läroprocesser inom den kreativa praktiken graffiti och vilken roll de spelar när en utövare kommer in på en konsthögskola.Min frågeställning är, vilket inflytande denna informella läroprocess har haft för mina informanter, i deras val av utbildningsområde? För detta ställer jag också frågan, vilka moment som varit särskilt viktiga för mina informanter i den kreativa processen? Det ges en kortfattad beskrivning av graffitins historia. Undersökningsdelen är baserad på intervjuer med tre informanter som själva målar graffiti.Deras svar är sedan tolkade utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv med hjälp av Roger Säljö och Lev S Vygotskij texter Lärande i praktiken och Fantasi och kreativitet i barndomen. I slutdiskussionen berörs lätt den kriminella aspekten av graffiti och kampen om det offentliga rummet.Den gestaltande delen i examensarbetet utgörs av en graffitimålning som gjordes utifrån en skiss som var daterad 1993. Gestaltningen får utgöra en symbol för en graffitimålares resa från tåg och väggar in på en konsthögskola.Målningen gjordes i Vita havet på Konstfack..

Our planet is faced with enormous challenges as the extreme weather events related to the human-caused climate change continue to gain strength. The scale of the problem has made changing human behaviour the central focus of sustainable development, and both public and private sector are expected to gain relevant expertise and introduce this work in their agenda. Over its 40-year history, social marketing has become an established field providing tools for social change, but compared to health promotion, sustainability has not been a major focus of social marketing research so far. At the same time, sustainable lifestyles are embedded in complex systems where both individual factors and those of physical and social environment play a defining role in their adoption. Communities are a good example of such environments, and they became the key focus of Community-Based Social Marketing, which combines different insights from psychology to suggest a step-by-step framework for crafting behaviour change campaigns. However, it has not been applied to larger and diverse communities, like cities, and has not focused on sustaining new behaviour over time, which is crucial for creating sustainable lifestyles.

Uppsatsen undersöker hur externhandeln påverkar cityhandeln i Västerås utifrån både ett handlarperspektiv och ett konsumentperspektiv. Detta utförs med grund i en övergripande teori om platsens betydelse. En lojalitetsteori används för att kategorisera konsumenterna utifrån fyra olika lojalitetsbegrepp beroende på om de anses ha hög eller låg relativ attityd och besöksfrekvens. Handlarnas syn på kunderna kategoriseras utifrån en stege med fem olika lojalitetsnivåer. Undersökningen består av en kvantitativ undersökning i form av en konsumentenkät samt en kvalitativ undersökning där intervjuer med två handlare har utförts.

 The purpose of this study was to investigate registered nurses experiences about giving support to relatives to patients within palliative home care. This study was descriptive with qualitative approach. The data collection was made in the form of semi structured qualitative interviews which took place in a Swedish city of medium size, in an area for palliative homecare. Six registrated nurses were interviewed which all gave informed consent. The study suffered no losses and permission from the director of the concerned department had been given prior to the start of this study.

A brush of paint on a grey compound wall can mean so much more than simply an addition of colour. It can meanan appropriation of public space, a shared public space enclosed by a wall now ?owned? by someone. It can meanan arisen conflict leading to debate about the right to use public space.The Wall Project is a Mumbai based beautification project that uses paint and outdoor walls to brighten uptheir city. The Urban Typhoon workshop is an activity set up in self-evolving neighbourhoods where municipalinterference is scarce.

Analysis of the piece Pygmalion in set at the Gothenburg City Theatrefrom a gender perspective with the purpose to investigate which genders that arepresented and how the piece relates to the heterosexual norm. The method consists inthe analysis and discussion of how the pieces portrays females and males (with focuson feminine and masculine coded expression and presentation of desire) and whatconsequences it brings. This based on various method books of norm-breaking designwork for Aesthetic staff, and a theory based on Judith Butler's research. Primarymaterial consists in a piece analysis of Pygmalion, from a spectator's perspective.Main Results: The designing is consciously working with a set of norm-breakinggender expression, particularly female genders. The set translates socially criticalviews against patriarchal hierarchies.

Our main aim with this study is to shed a light over the social workers opinions about what they believe will be the consequences of introducing Housing First in the city of Stockholm. We wanted to examine the social workers perceptions about how Housing First could change their client?s autonomy and justice. Therefor we accomplished five qualitative interviews with social workers. We analyzed our empirical material with the theoretical terms; justice, autonomy and intern role-conflict.

Today, nine out of ten municipalities are active on social media and it has become increasingly popular among municipalities that make use of placemarketing to promote their particular region. A problem that is raised in this study is that the population of the municipalities in northern Sweden often is in decline. The purpose of this study is to investigate how a democratic-controlled organization such as Luleå Municipality uses the social media Facebook in its placemarketing, to highlight a place of scale and to attract new residents and stakeholders to move to or visit the city. In order to answer the purpose I have with the help of a critical discourse analysis examined how Luleå Municipality using social media Facebook in their marketing of Luleå as a place. The results were then analyzed using theories of placemarketing, Norrland and the market-oriented municipality.

This study, a document analysis with a qualitative approach, explores children, under 18years, who have been subject to measures of child welfare in the city of Malmö during theyears 1935-1937. It also explores the school's role in this context. The questions that the studyis guided by is: How was children described in the Child Welfare documents in Malmö duringthe years 1935-1937? And what role did the school have in Child Welfare work and whatmotivated this? The theoretical approaches are Foucaults theories of power, control anddisciplining.It appears from the study that the school and child welfare authorities had a close cooperationwith the purpose to control the upbringing and disciplining of the children. It was through theupbringing that the deviant child would become a "normal", docile and good, industriouscitizen.