Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / This thesis seeks to establish architecture’s role in Blackstone’s life and intellectual development. It also endeavours to determine the extent to which the use of architectural metaphor in his great legal text might offer a new perspective on his reputation as a conservative and upon the very genesis of the ’Commentaries’. --p. ii. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1284121 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2007

Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / This thesis seeks to establish architecture’s role in Blackstone’s life and intellectual development. It also endeavours to determine the extent to which the use of architectural metaphor in his great legal text might offer a new perspective on his reputation as a conservative and upon the very genesis of the ’Commentaries’. --p. ii. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1284121 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2007

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [148]-161).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 362-377).

Oatly and the Blackstone Crisis: A Rhetorical Analysis of Crisis Management on Instagram This study looks into the crisis that arose when Oatly announced Blackstone as their new investors. With their new investors Oatly got a backlash with a lot of criticism for the new investment, which affected Oatlys image as a sustainable company. We examine how the crisis was handled on Instagram, both by analyzing Oatly's posts and their response to recipient ́s comments. The purpose of the study is to examine Oatlys crisis management on Instagram during the Blackstone crisis. With rethorics and Image Repair Theory as a theoretical framework and the rhetoric analysis model of Renberg as method, we have been able to examine what strategies Oatly used in their communication on Instagram during the Blackstone crisis. The results showed that Oatly used different strategies in their Instagram post and in their comments to try to handle the crisis, maintain consumers' trust and save the company's reputation. Our conclusion of the study summarizes the strategies Oatly uses in their communication and discusses the importance of companies using distinct strategies on social media during a crisis.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the oat milk company Oatly applies crisis communication strategies and rhetorical components to maintain a good reputation and legitimacy in relation to the crisis regarding the investment firm Blackstone Growth. Creating a discrepancy between the way Oatly act and the way they present themselves; Oatly is presented as a sustainable company while Blackstone has been criticized to jeopardize environmental and human rights issues. The study provides three research questions: 1) How does Oatly apply CSR to their work and how can their sustainability work be related to the company’s crisis communication? 2) How is Oatly’s crisis communication portrayed in relation to the debated crisis regarding Blackstone Growth, based on IRT and SCCT? and 3) How does Oatly use rhetorical concepts in their crisis communication to maintain and construct their reputation? The material on which the study is based consists of press releases and sustainability reports published by Oatly as well as statements published in several articles made by the company CEO and communications manager. Based on a critical approach, the theoretical framework consists of the ideas from Corporate Social Responsibility, Image Repair Theory and Situational Crisis Communication Theory. Through a critical rhetorical analysis, the material is analyzed using the theoretical framework. The findings show that there is a correlation between Oatly’s crisis communication and their sustainability work, which is characterized by a persuasive rhetorical approach.

Les lacs de thermokarst sont principalement répartis dans les régions de pergélisol. Leur formation et développement sont principalement associés au dégel du pergélisol riche en glace ou à la fonte des coins de glace. Ces lacs peuvent s'assécher complètement ou partiellement par le biais de divers processus, tels que le débordement des berges, la formation de voies de drainage, la capture par les méandres des rivières. Le drainage des lacs de thermokarst est un aléa important lié au pergélisol. Malgré de nombreuses études portant sur les événements historiques de drainage des lacs de thermokarst, les études explorant le potentiel de drainage futur des lacs de thermokarst sont limitées. Ce mémoire présente une étude de cas menée sur le complexe morainique du lac Chapman, situé à km 116 de l’autoroute Dempster, dans le centre du Yukon, au Canada. De multiples perturbations du pergélisol signalées dans cette région indiquent que le pergélisol est en dégradation. Le lac Chapman, un grand lac de thermokarst d’origine glaciaire situé à environ 50 m du remblai de l’autoroute de Dempster, est choisi pour étudier son potentiel de drainage. Cette recherche a utilisé diverses approches et appliqué de multiples analyses, notamment le modèle numérique d'élévation, la bathymétrie du lac, la cryostratigraphie du pergélisol, la cristallographie de la glace, la tomographie de résistivité électrique et l'hydrochimie. Cette recherche vise à interpréter les conditions locales de pergélisol et de glace souterraine dans lesquelles le drainage lacustre pourrait se produire, ainsi qu'à élucider les mécanismes de drainage potentiels associés au paysage local, à la topographie, à la géomorphologie, aux propriétés du sol et aux conditions hydrologiques. Cette recherche révèle que le lac Chapman a tendance à se drainer partiellement par le biais de deux mécanismes possibles : la migration du chenal de la rivière Blackstone et la formation de chenaux de drainage de ravins. Ce drainage potentiel pourrait entraîner une érosion thermique sur l'environnement adjacent de pergélisol, en particulier sur le remblai de l’autoroute Dempster. / Thermokarst lakes are predominantly distributed across permafrost-affected areas. Their formation and development are primarily associated with thawing of ice-rich permafrost or melting of ice wedges. These lakes can drain completely or partially through various processes, such as bank overtopping, the formation of drainage pathways, or capture by river meandering. The drainage of thermokarst lake is an important permafrost-related geohazard. Despite numerous studies focusing on historical thermokarst lake drainage events, the studies exploring the future potential drainage of thermokarst lakes are limited. This thesis presents a case study conducted at the Chapman Lake moraine complex, located at km 116 of the Dempster Highway in central Yukon, Canada. Multiple permafrost disturbances reported in this region indicate that permafrost degradation is ongoing. Chapman Lake, a large glacial-thermokarst lake situated approximately 50 m from the road embankment of Dempster Highway, is selected to investigate its potential drainage. This research used various methods and applied multiple analyses including digital elevation model, lake bathymetry, permafrost cryostratigraphy, ice crystallography, electrical resistivity tomography, and hydrochemistry. This research aims to interpret the local permafrost and ground ice settings where lake drainage may occur and to elucidate the potential drainage mechanisms associated with the local landscape, topography, geomorphology, soil properties and hydrologic conditions. This research reveals that Chapman Lake tends to partially drain through two possible mechanisms: river channel migration of the Blackstone River and the formation of gully drainage channels. This potential drainage could lead to thermal erosion in adjacent permafrost environment, particularly in relation to the Dempster Highway.

One common approach to managing the inevitable erroneous convictions and erroneous acquittals produced by criminal justice systems is to employ various means (rules and procedures) to decrease the number of erroneous convictions at the expense of increasing, even many more times, the number of erroneous acquittals. Blackstone’s famous dictum (1765) that “[i]t is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer” (“the Blackstone ratio”), and others like it, have inspired this error distributing approach to error management. A mathematical analysis is provided demonstrating that, under certain conditions (“the R-conditions”), error distributing approaches result in criminal justice systems that function worse, by all quantitative measures (including the number of innocents convicted), than similar systems in which defendants are randomly acquitted. These results follow from one of a pair of derived fundamental equations applicable to all criminal justice systems, regardless of circumstance. Thus, the results hold irrespective of the means used to avoid convicting the guilty and challenge those who wish to engage in a particular error distributing approach to show that the R-conditions do not obtain for that approach (with reasonably convincing accuracy). Further, the results presented herein identify an upper bound to the Blackstone ratio, according to one conception of that ratio. / text

Vi har genomfört en retorisk analys av Oatlys externa kommunikation under tre politiskt orienterade kriser i syfte att undersöka hur de använder olika strategier och retoriska medel för att övertyga sin publik och upprätthålla sin image. Med förtroendekris, public relations, Image Repair Theory och retorik som teoretiskt ramverk har vi kunnat identifiera hur Oatlys kommunikation förhåller sig till olika normer och strategier inom dessa teorier. Resultatet visar att det i vissa fall finns ett glapp mellan vad företaget står för och hur det agerar. De håller en aktiv och personlig kommunikation med sin publik men under kriserna visar kommunikationen att den relation Oatly har med publiken bortprioriteras. Oatly har som mål att göra sitt bästa för klimatet och för att uppnå detta riskerar de att skada förtroendet och sitt etiska rykte hos sin publik. / We have conducted a rhetorical analysis of Oatly's external communication during three politically oriented crises in order to examine how their crisis communication uses different strategies and rhetorical means to convince its audience and maintain its image. With trust crisis, public relations, Image Repair Theory and rhetorics as a theoretical framework, we have been able to identify how Oatly's communication relates to different norms and strategies within these theories. The results show that in some cases there is a gap between what the company stands for and how it acts. They maintain an active and personal communication with their audience, but during the crises, the communication shows that Oatly's relationship with the audience is de-prioritized. Oatly aims to do their best for the climate and to achieve the goal, they risk damaging the trust and ethical reputation of their audience.

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