Uppsatsens intentioner har varit att belysa förkristna kultplatser i Hälsingland och söka svara på frågorna: Var ägde den förkristna kulten rum? Hur gick kultutövningen till på dessa platser? I vilket förhållande stod den världsliga makten och religionen till varandra? Undersökningen har begränsats till Norr-, Söderala, Hög och Tuna samt Jättendal. Dessa betraktas som de mest centrala delarna av de större bebyggelseorter som menas varit rådande under yngre järnåldern. Man kan utan större svårighet se att traditionell utomhuskult funnits inom samtliga undersökningsområden. Kulten får antas på dessa platser ha letts av den något mera lokale stormannen/goden. Den form av kult som bedrevs torde ha varit av någorlunda likartad karaktär oberoende av plats. Vad man med fördel bör hålla åtskilt angående utomhuskult är dels, offrande och överlämnande vid Hargar och Lundar som kan visa på ett mera religiöst tänkande i modern bemärkelse. Där kan skönjas en ödmjukare och mera underkastande bön om nåd inför gudamakterna. Medan exempelvis processioner på kultåkrar i mitt tycke vittnar om ett försök till betvingande av makterna, alltså närmar man sig här magins område. Förfäderskult vid högar visar på ett behov av ättens stärkande och då är vi inne på ättesamhällets legitimering av makt.

Thesis (doctoral)--Lund University, Sweden, 1984. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement and errata slip inserted. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 284-288.

Thesis (doctoral)--Lund University, Sweden, 1984. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement and errata slip inserted. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 284-288.

Le concept de lieu fait partie intégrante de la musique country, genre musical traditionnellement associé à certaines aires géographiques, à des paysages ruraux et aux valeurs communautaires. Bien que la littérature sur la musique country ait bien cerné les liens entre ce genre musical et la notion de lieu, en particulier en ce qui concerne la géographie des origines du genre et de ses scènes importantes, on observe un intérêt scientifique croissant envers les chansons de plus en plus nombreuses explorant le thème du lieu. Cette tradition trouve ses racines dans les chansons hillbilly, les chansons de cowboys chantants, le bluegrass du Kentucky et le western swing, où les artistes ont exprimé la nostalgie des lieux familiers et du temps de leur enfance. Ces récits ne décrivent pas seulement le paysage et la culture d’aires géographiques données; plutôt, ils définissent la relation entre les individus et leur environnement, dévoilant ainsi le caractère, les valeurs et les croyances de l’artiste. En se concentrant sur la musique de l’artiste canadien de country alternatif Corb Lund, cette thèse vise à définir cette relation entre cet artiste de musique country et son environement, et à interroger la façon dont il utilise (à l’instar d’autres artistes du genre) ces chansons afin d’explorer plus à fond les liens avec ses origines albertaines. Plus précisément, il s’agit d’étudier comment ces récits de lieu contribuent à la construction de l’identité de l’artiste, ce que Simon Frith (1996) appelle la persona. Selon Richard Peterson (1997) et Pamela Fox (2009), les artistes country ont tendance à se référer à leurs origines dans un acte de « sincérité authentique », afin de construire une conception personnalisée du lieu (souvent autobiographique). Cette recherche a dû considérer les multiples couches de signification entourant l’artiste en tenant compte du genre, des niveaux identitaires et des rapports géoculturaux. Les approches géoculturelles et écomusicologiques permettent de mieux comprendre les façons dont les individus réagissent au lieu et aux liens intimes entre le « sentiment de soi » et le « sentiment de lieu » (Tuan 1974; Cantrill 1993; Solomon 2000). Le concept d’identité « géoculturelle », issu des sciences politiques (Talukder 2013), est invoqué pour décrire cette relation. Par l’analyse de la musique de Lund, cette thèse explore les manières dont l’artiste aborde la vie quotidienne, le travail et les questions socioculturelles propres à l’Alberta en proposant diverses conceptions du lieu, tout en construisant sa propre identité géoculturelle albertaine. / The concept of place is integral to country music, a genre conventionally associated with geographic regions, rural landscapes, and community values. While country music literature has defined the genre’s connection to place in relation to the geography of its origins and prominent scenes, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the place-themed songs that proliferate the genre. The tradition of place songs finds its roots in early hillbilly recordings, songs of the singing cowboy, Kentucky bluegrass, and western swing, where songwriters expressed nostalgia for the seemingly simpler places and times of their childhood. These narratives do not just describe the landscape and culture of geographic regions, but rather, they also define the relationship between individuals and their surrounding environment and community, unveiling elements of the artist’s character, values, and beliefs. Focusing on the music of Canadian alt-country artist Corb Lund, this dissertation seeks to define this relationship between country singer-songwriter and place, and interrogate how he (like many other country artists) uses place songs to explore more fully his ties to his Albertan origins. More specifically, it is interested in how place-based narratives contribute to the construction of an artist’s identity, what Simon Frith (1996) calls the artistic persona. As both Richard Peterson (1997) and Pamela Fox (2009) have noted, country artists tend to refer to their origins as an act of “authentic sincerity, ” constructing personalized (often autobiographical) conceptions of place. For a study of this nature, it was important to consider the multiple layers of signification surrounding a singer-songwriter including genre, levels of artistic identity, and geographic-cultural (“geo-cultural”) association. Cultural geographic and ecomusicological discourse offers a rich understanding of the ways in which individuals respond to place and the intimate connection between the “sense of self” and the “sense of place” (Tuan 1974; Cantrill 1993; Solomon 2000). The concept “geo-cultural” identity, drawn from the political sciences (Talukder 2013), is invoked to describe this connection and define the geographic-cultural elements of an artist’s identity. Through an interrogation of Lund’s music, this dissertation explores how the singer-songwriter describes life, work, and socio-cultural issues in his native Alberta, creating diverse conceptions of place, all while constructing his uniquely Albertan “geo-cultural” identity.

Barn ska få möjligheten att växa upp med, och uppleva, vuxna sammanhang samt visuell komplexitet i sin omgivning. Utan dessa utbyten och objekt i sin omgivning utvecklas barns delaktighet i samhället som ansvarsfulla medborgare långsammare. Detta är projektets utgångspunkt. Förskolan Bullerbyn är, precis som namnet tyder på, en liten by med olika verksamheter där förskolan ligger i fokus med en central gård. Barnen kommer i kontakt med vuxna som arbetar i byggnaderna intill: bageriet levererar bröd och fika, restaurangen lagar mat till lunchen, ett snickeri delas med ateljéerna, utställningslokalen drar till sig både vuxna och barn i sin verksamhet och kontorsfolket kommer och går genom uteplatsen. Den samhällskomplexitet som barnen förtjänar och växer av finns genom denna variation.   Den visuella uppbyggnaden av byn bygger på samma idé, att komplexitet är något som barnen behöver för att växa och förtjänar för att må bra. Med hjälp av platsens historiska kontext skapas en by med en basal men även abstraherande ornamentik för att dels fånga barnens intresse och dels skapa lager av ornament som leder till flera tankar och utforskningar. / Children should be given the opportunity to grow up with and experience an adult context and visual complexity in their surroundings. Without these exchanges and objects in their surroundings, the children’s ability to partake in society as responsible citizens is considerably diminished. This is the projects starting point. Kindergarden Bullerbyn is, just as the Swedish name Bullerbyn entails, a little village with different types of occupants and agencies where the kindergadren is the central occupant along with the large central square. The children come in contact with the adults that work in the adjacent buildings: the bakery comes with bread and snacks (fika), the restaurant prepares the food for their lunch, the woodshop is shared with the ateliers, the exhibition space draws in both adults and children to its happenings and the office workers come and go through the central space. It is through this variation that the children are given the societal complexity that they deserve and thrive in.   The visual composition of the village builds upon the same idea, that complexity is something that the children need to grow and deserve so that they can be glad. Through the use of the locations historical context, the village is created with a combination of abstract ornamentation to firstly interest the children and secondly to create several layers of ornamentation that lead to further thoughts and explorations of the space.

In 2011 Sweden introduced tuition fees for citizens of countries outside the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, choosing to study at Swedish universities. The purpose of this thesis has been to explore how institutions of higher education in Sweden has adapted to this change by studying the case of Lund University. Within Lund University we have studied both centrally placed functions and functions at the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Social Sciences, namely Graduate School. We have performed interviews with teachers as well as administrative staff on different levels. Our study is centred around organization pertaining to marketing and recruitment towards fee-paying students as well as services for fee-paying students during their time of study at Lund University. We have also been interested in finding out whether the relation between the university and the students has changed during the time passed and if there has been any adaptations of the offered education. Our study shows that the tuition fees contributed to a more focused attention on international marketing, the development of new practices within communication and service to international students and the creation of a wider range of international educational programmes. We have also found that administrative staff within the university, to a certain extent, think about students in terms of customers. / År 2011 infördes studieavgifter för studenter från tredjeland som valde att studera vid universitetet och högskolor Sverige. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att utforska hur lärosäten i Sverige anpassat sig till denna förändring genom att studera fallet Lunds universitet. Inom Lunds universitet har vi studerat funktioner både centralt och på fakultetsnivå, vi har genomfört intervjuer med lärare samt med personer på olika nivåer inom administrationen. Vi har inkluderat både Lunds Tekniska Högskola, LTH, och Graduate School som driver ett antal internationella mastersprogram vid den Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. I vår studie har vi fokuserat på̊ organisering som berör rekrytering av och marknadsföring mot betalande studenter till universitetet samt servicefunktioner riktade till betalande studenter under studietiden. Vi har även utforskat om relationen till studenterna har förändrats samt om det skett en anpassning av utbildningsutbudet. Vår studie visar att studieavgiftsreformen bidrog till ett ökat fokus på internationell marknadsföring och positionering, att nya praktiker inom kommunikation och service till internationella studenter utvecklats samt att antalet program med internationell rekrytering utökats. Studien visar även att tjänstemän inom universitetet i viss utsträckning tänker på studenter i termer av kunder.

The topic of climate adaptation has gained momentum in the last decade as a response to the increasing rate at which global climate is changing. There are two leading discourses to climate adaptation, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) perspectives, which focuses on adapting to specific climate hazards and scenarios, and Vulnerability Centred Adaptation (VCA), which focuses on the socio-economic and environmental factors that compound climate impacts. However, despite global inclusivity efforts to adaptation, the CCA approach is predominant in developing economies. This empirical study attempts to close this gap by using the VCA approach to a climate risk, impact, and vulnerability assessment of the Malmö Lund Region, Sweden, and to showcase the relevance of including a VCA approach within developing economies. The primary data comes from using a semi-structured interview method of twelve international women who have moved to the region in the last decade. Simultaneously, semi-structured interviews were also conducted with a secondary sample group which consisted of six urban professionals who either worked with environmental issues, planning, or social vulnerability. The latter climate and vulnerability conversations were used to situate the IW’s perspective in the discussion. The results demonstrated that: 1. Climate risk depended on the duration, intensity of temperature, wind, light levels, and precipitation, or climate barriers, and the women’s ability to protect themselves. 2. The barriers negatively impacted them socially, physically, and emotionally, but also allowed them to experience new climate-related experiences and activities. 3. Finally, their adaptive capacity depended on the socio-economic and cultural circumstances which enhanced their vulnerability, while their adaptive capacity relied on their ability to apply micro-adaptations, reach out to community support, and use their previous climate experience. The findings confirm the need for an intersectional and bottom-up approach to climate adaptation, as it showcased how climate did impact the women and influenced their adaptation process in region despite it not being a primary cause of concern for these women. Secondly, it raises awareness of the non-climate predispositions of these women to climate vulnerability. Thirdly, the findings also show that variations in climate assessments do not only depend on long-term climate data in relation to climate hazards and risks, but also the women’s past climate experience, their current life circumstances, and the time spent in the host country. Finally, this research calls for urban climate adaptation strategies to account for a vulnerability perspective within their initial risk, vulnerability, and impact assessment and use these valuable insights to inform the planning stages of climate adaptation process for urban citizen.

This investigative research has been prepared based on the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 24, 2010, issued in the case Gomes Lund. In it, the Inter-American Court finds, unanimously, the international responsibility of the Brazilian State for the enforced disappearance of members of the Guerrilla do Araguaia and violation of multiple human rights of the direct victims of disappearance, their families and Brazilian society as a whole. One of the central aspects of the judgment is it statement toward the ineffectiveness of the Amnesty Law (1979), thus eliminating the main obstacle that prevents the search for justice in domestic courts. However, in the Brazilian domestic level, the Supreme Federal Court reached a majority agreement within the framework of a constitutional action (complaint action of non-compliance of fundamental n°153, 2010), by which it declared that the Brazilian Amnesty Law is not subject to review, that it legal status is a quasi-law (law-measure) under which lacks the ability to be interpreted by a court of law. Notwithstanding which, the judgment of the majority in a new, mistaken and falsely way extended its scope until making match the Amnesty Law with the source from which emanates the legitimacy of the Brazilian constituent (1988). In other words, Brazilian democracy – this say by the highest authority of the judiciary of this country – is founded and based on impunity for serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity committed during the state terrorism that hit Brazil in its recent past. In order to reaffirm the juridical unsustainability of the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court already mentioned, this research is based on the hypothesis that the violation of human rights inevitably implies a violation of constitutional order, national and international. And this is so because the contemporary notes of human rights and the institutionalization of universal jurisdictions with a mandate to protect and promote them converge with regulatory and internal jurisdictions in the structural space of law. For this, through three chapters, is develop first, the conception of human rights that traces this investigative perspective and its housing in the core of universal institutional processes: culture and democracy. Second, this perspective is confronted with the practice of the organs of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, which is approached from the angle of the contentious jurisdiction of the Commission and Inter-American Court. Finally, the Inter-American patterns or standards are analyzed - inaugural, central and arguably consolidated for decades at the regional level - in the field of forced disappearance of persons, and illustrated its correct juridical incorporation by the judgment of the Supreme Court of Argentina in the cause Simón (2005). The study aims to demonstrate or rather reaffirm that the Federative Republic of Brazil is in possession of the juridical elements that will allow the country to fully comply with the judgment of the Inter-American Court pronounced in the case Gomes Lund and which is still pending compliance. That is, ultimately, this research bet, that Gomes Lund case will have a future; future that will have repercussions on the functioning of Justice, the strengthening of Social Democracy and the rule of law consolidation in Brazil. This research is conducted through the analytical method and the case study method. / O presente trabalho tem sido elaborado com base na sentença da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos de 24 de novembro de 2010, emitida no caso Gomes Lund. Nela, a Corte Interamericana verifica, por unanimidade, a responsabilidade internacional do Estado brasileiro pelo desaparecimento forçado dos membros da Guerrilha do Araguaia e a violação de múltiplos direitos humanos das vítimas diretas de desaparecimento, de seus familiares e da sociedade brasileira como um todo. Um dos aspetos centrais da decisão judicial encontra-se na declaração de ineficácia da Lei de Anistia brasileira (1979), eliminando, assim, o principal obstáculo que impede a busca por justiça na jurisdição interna. No entanto, no âmbito interno brasileiro, o Supremo Tribunal Federal alcançou um acordo por maioria no marco da ação de arguição de descumprimento de preceito fundamental n°153 (2010), pelo qual declarou que a Lei de Anistia brasileira não é suscetível de revisão, que o seu estatuto jurídico é o de uma quase-lei (lei-medida) em virtude do qual carece de possibilidade de ser interpretado por um tribunal de justiça. Não obstante o qual, esse acórdão da maioria estendeu nova, equivocada e falsamente o seu alcance até fazer coincidir a Lei de Anistia com a fonte de onde emana a legitimidade do constituinte brasileiro (1988). Ou seja, a democracia brasileira – segundo a mais alta autoridade do Judiciário desse país – se funda e assenta sobre a impunidade das graves violações dos direitos humanos e crimes contra a humanidade cometidos durante o terrorismo de Estado que assolou o Brasil no seu passado recente. A fim de reafirmar a insustentabilidade jurídica da decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal já mencionada, a presente pesquisa baseia-se na hipótese de que a violação dos direitos humanos implica, inevitavelmente, uma violação da ordem jurídica constitucional, nacional e internacional. E que isto é assim porque as notas contemporâneas dos direitos humanos e a institucionalização das jurisdições universais com mandato para proteger e promovê-los convergem com as normativas e as jurisdições internas no espaço estrutural do Direito. Para isso, por meio de três capítulos se desenvolve, primeiro, a conceição de direitos humanos que traça esta perspectiva investigativa e sua habitação no núcleo de processos institucionais universais: cultura e democracia. Em segundo lugar, essa perspectiva é confrontada com a prática dos órgãos do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos, que é abordada a partir do ângulo da competência contenciosa da Comissão e Corte Interamericanas. Finalmente, são analisados os padrões interamericanos – inaugurais, centrais e indiscutivelmente consolidados durante décadas no nível regional – em matéria de desaparecimento forçado de pessoas, sendo ilustrada sua correta incorporação jurídica através da sentença da Corte Suprema de Justiça da Nação Argentina na causa Simón (2005). O estudo tem por objetivo demonstrar ou, melhor, reafirmar que a República Federativa do Brasil está na posse dos elementos jurídicos que lhe permitirá cumprir integralmente a sentença da Corte Interamericana pronunciada no caso Gomes Lund e que ainda está pendente de cumprimento. Ou seja, em última análise, esta pesquisa aposta que o caso Gomes Lund terá um porvir; porvir que repercutirá no funcionamento da Justiça, no fortalecimento da Socialdemocracia e na consolidação do Estado de Direito no Brasil. Os métodos com recurso aos quais esta pesquisa é conduzida são o método analítico e do método de estudo de caso.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stockholms högskola, 1930. / Summary in German. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226).

Abstract Station-nearness principles as we will discuss in this paper, deals with the coordination of urban functions with the public transportation network. When we talk about functions, we mean residences, workplaces, commercial services, entertainment venues, places of culture, etc. These functions should be high density, there should be a mix of them and they should be pedestrian friendly in nature. Effective integration of functions around train stations brings many benefits and is one of the best means by which you can increase public transport use and increase the accessibility for people in a region. More and more, cities in North America, Europe and other places, are exploring the idea of how this concept can be applied. The Copenhagen region as we will discuss, has placed station-nearness principles at the forefront of their finger plan. Since the Copenhagen region has applied these principles, they have seen clear results with increased public transit ridership, as well on the overall, an increase in the standard of living. As many places are exploring the concept, not everyplace has been able to make the concept work. When we look at Scania, the concept is under utilized to a degree. There continues to be many populated and dense areas in Scania where the coordination of urban functions with public transit is lacking. The automobile is also gaining stronger competition over public transportation; this is a concern in terms of the sustainable future and quality of life for the region. It is not always the solution to simply expand the public transportation network, rather it can be significant to explore more upon the concept of station-nearness principles so that the existing public transit network can be made more effective. It is important to compare places, see in our case study how the concept has worked in the Copenhagen region and look into why the concept is lacking in Scania, as well, what can be done to implement it more in Scania. It is also important how the Öresund region as whole, can play a role with developing the concept, as well, how the concept can benefit the Öresund region vice versa.