This thesis suggests an explanation for how it is possible for individuals living in an unsafe neighborhood to expressa highlevel of security. Araby is the district in Växjö municipality withthe highest level of insecurity. Within the district, there is acategory of individuals in security-measurements showing a high degree of security. Inhabitants living in house in Araby also seem to show a higher level of security than inhabitants in the same accommodation in other neighborhoods in the municipality.The study's purpose is to understand how individuals belonging to an unsafe neighborhood can experience a high degree of security.Qualitative data were collected from an observation in Araby and from interviews with individuals living in house in the district. Previous research has shown that security in the surrounding area depends on several factors, such as disorders, the degree of social control and personal opinions. Thestudy shows how a distinction to places and people in the district can explain the degree of security. When security is related to something more insecure, the level of security seems toincrease. The conclusion is therefor that individuals in an unsafe neighborhood can expressa high degree of security because security is seen in relation to something that describes asmore insecure.

Many neighbourhoods in Sweden are often portrayed in the media as violent and chaotic. Media has an eminent role in our daily lives as they further news stories to us and chooses which ones to write about and in what way to write about them. In this qualitative study, nine articles from Aftonbladet and Smålandsposten regarding some violent stonethrowing actions by teenagers were analyzed. The purpose was to see if there were any occurring stereotypes and notions about Araby and the youths that participated in the violent acts. Four framing theories were used; stereotyping frame, responsibility frame, conflict frame and human interest frame. Through these frames the conclusion was drawn that the articles subconsciously promoted negative stereotypes regarding Araby as a neighbourhood and the inhabitatns of Araby including the youth that participated during the riots. Stereotypes such as criminial, ghetto, unemployed were found.

The aim of the study was to compare how young adults experience their identity formation in relation to both their own as well as to another residential areas class character. The study had a comparative approach and two socioeconomically diverse areas in the Municipality of Växjö were studied. The study's empirical work consists of qualitative interviews with young adults from the residential areas Araby and Öjaby. The empirical data were analysed with the help of Erik H Erikson's theory of identity, Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social class and John L Scotsons and Norbert Elias's theory of established and outsiders. The results of the study showed that young adults feel that their residential area has a considerable impact regarding to their identity formation. The results also showed that an area's reputation has a strong impact on how individuals in the area are perceived. All respondents in the study felt that people from the socioeconomically privileged area had better life conditions than people from the socioeconomically disadvantaged area. These conditions include the school situation as well as the labour market.

The thesis considers Joyce's short stories "Araby," "A Painful Case," and the "The Dead," illustrating how these works present three intellectually and emotionally similar protagonists, but at different stages of life, with the final tale "The Dead" suggesting a sort of limited solution to the conflicts that define the earlier works. Taken together, "Araby" and "A Painful Case," represent a sort of life cycle of alienation: the boy of "Araby" is an isolated, deeply introspective youth who lives primarily within his own idealized mental world before discovering, through a failed romantic quest at the story's end, the complete impracticality of his own highly abstracted desires. In contrast, Duffy of "A Painful Case" is an extremely rigid, middle-aged bachelor who lives in a self-imposed exile from Irish society in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to escape the sort of mental and emotional pain that affects the boy, with his final epiphany being that such ideals still exist within him, but he now no longer has any hope of changing his life or taking part in society. The stories suggest that such idealized desires can neither be ignored nor fulfilled, and it is not until the chronologically final story "The Dead" that Joyce suggests any sort of limited solution to the dilemma. Gabriel of "The Dead" again displays the introversion, emotional fragility and extreme idealism of the earlier protagonists, but he, as a young, adult man, presents a break in the cycle and an alternate path. In contrast to the earlier protagonists, Gabriel refuses to exist within his own mental world alone, and instead takes part in and attempts to accommodate the desires of both society as a whole, and of specific individuals close to him, such as his aunts and his wife Gretta. Though Gabriel's attempts are not an unmitigated success, he earns a degree of satisfaction for his efforts, with his final revelation being of his connection to the rest of humanity, in contrast to the self-absorbed and hopeless reflections of the earlier protagonists.

The aim of this study is to shed light on the efforts of the municipality to counteract segregation during the period 2019 until 2022. Thus, to see the efforts of the municipality and what previous research has shown and whether the municipality's efforts have been successful. This study has shown that the municipality has carried out the necessary efforts to counter residential segregation, but they were not significant enough to conclude that they were asuccess. Because firstly, the construction of the numbers of the different types of housing, some of which are complete, is considered low compared to the number of rental properties in the district. Then also a lack of meeting places for young people in the district. Finally, this study also showed that the living conditions of the inhabitants of the district which were low during the year 2020,as well as the unemployment rate in the district that same year. as a result, the efforts of the municipality during the period 2019 until 2022 are considered insufficient to counter housing segregation in Araby.

Studien analyserar hur tillämpning av genomtänkt samhällsplanering kan minimera brottslighet och öka trygghet i särskilt utsatta områden. Vikten av medborgarnas delaktighet för en socialt hållbar samhällsutveckling poängteras. Arbetets syfte är att med hjälp av åsikter från ungdomar bosatta i området ta fram ett förslag på hur området skulle kunna utvecklas positivt vid nybyggnation. Målet är att ta fram ett hållbart förslag som ska bidra till att minska kriminalitet i ett utsatt område. Ungdomarnas åsikter kombineras med polisens förslag på hur området bör utformas. För att få fram resultatet genomfördes en djupintervju med polis, och två workshops med ungdomar. Utformningsförslaget tillgodoser behovet av belysning, siktlinjer och samlingsplatser som efterfrågas. Arbetet kan användas som underlag vid förbättring av den offentliga miljön i utsatta områden. / This study is analyzing how well executed community planning might minimize crime and increase safety in segregated city areas. The importance of actively involving citizens in decision making is vital to achieve social sustainability in a community. The purpose of the study is to create an exemplifying idea of how the district area could develop and excel in a positive way. The study is based on opinions from adolescents living in the area in question and will be compared and used in relation to police officers needs to be able to do their job in the area. To reach the results, workshops with the adolescents and an interview with a police officer took place. The goal is to develop an example of how to minimize crime in a segregated city district. The proposal of how to design the area is focused on the need for lighting, openness and sightlines as is asked for. It also includes places to gather, which also is needed in the area. The study can be used to form ideas of ways to form public spaces in socially problematic areas.

My dissertation challenges the longstanding dismissal of love in James Joyce's texts by examining the ethical and political implications of his love stories. Primarily using Martin Buber's works (but also including perspectives derived from bell hooks and Julia Kristeva), I define love as an affirmation of otherness and adopt a critical framework that promotes the love of others over the narcissistic devotion to oneself. In so doing, I highlight love as the ultimate challenge to authoritarian systems because the embrace of the other is necessary to transcend the boundaries that alienate individuals from each other and that justify imperialist and racist political structures. I thus offer a love ethic that not only compels meaningful individual interaction, but also establishes a model for effective social and civic participation, encouraging a climate of cooperation that embraces the solidarity and empathy needed for progressive politics. I also argue that analyzing Joyce's works provides a fruitful opportunity to recognize the individual and political viability of this love ethic. Focusing on Dubliners, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, and Ulysses, I examine the relationships between his characters' pursuits of love and their socio-political struggles, arguing that their love for others directly influences their acceptance of otherness within the colonialist discourses of Joyce's Dublin. For example, James Duffy's refusal of Emily Sinico in "A Painful Case" also rejects her advice to engage in the political cooperation that would promote his socialist ideas. Similarly, Stephen Dedalus's promotion of symbolic romance over real-world attachments focuses his aesthetics on ideal beauty instead of everyday Dublin, which alienates him from his audience and limits the practical success of his art. By contrast, Leopold Bloom's love for his wife Molly reflects a broader empathy for others that encourages social dialogue and counteracts what Joyce called "the old pap of racial hatred," an element in both British imperialism and Irish nationalism. My dissertation's afterword anticipates the amorous potential of Finnegans Wake, reading ALP's concluding soliloquy as a demonstration of her enduring affection for HCE that is reignited through each iteration of the text's cyclical narrative.