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Att uppnå de tre dimensionerna av hållbarhet är ett av samhällsplaneringens övergripande mål, men trots det har den sociala hållbarheten fått minst uppmärksamhet och sociala aspekter åsidosatts. Samtidigt föreligger det maktstrukturer som ett hinder. Mot denna bakgrund är syftet uppsats är att kritisk granska och analysera hur social hållbarhet görs inom samhällsplaneringen i Norrköping kommun. Detta genomfördes huvudsakligen genom undersökning av 5 kommunala policydokument med Bacchis kritiska policyanalys som kompletteras med intervjuer, utifrån intersektionalitet. Vårt resultat indikerar att social hållbarhet genomgående saknar definition och är således ett abstrakt koncept, istället utgörs det av underliggande termer exempelvis trygghet eller tillgänglighet. Underliggande maktordningar tas inte hänsyn till och det förekommer en risk att problemen produceras och reproduceras i stället för att hanteras, således kan inte social hållbarhet uppnås. / Achieving the three dimensions of sustainability is among the ultimate goals of planning, despite this social sustainability has received the least attention and social aspects have been neglected. In addition, the prevailing power structures act as a hindrance. Against this backdrop, the following thesis critically examines and analyses how social sustainability is constructed in urban planning in Norrköping municipality. This was accomplished, through the lens of intersectionality, by examining 5 policy documents with Bacchi's critical policy analysis which was complemented with interviews. Our results indicate that social sustainability consistently lacks definition and is thus an abstract concept, consisting of underlying terms such as security or accessibility. Furthermore, the underlying power structures are overlooked, and the municipality is in peril of producing and reproducing them. Social sustainability thus cannot be achieved.

Initiated in California in 2011, the Seal of Biliteracy is a distinguishing graduation recognition honoring the academic success of bilingual biliterate high school seniors. The purpose of this study was to illuminate and describe Texas language education policy discourse by critically examining policies including the Seal of Biliteracy and Texas' House Bill 5 Performance Acknowledgment. This study used the discourse of language policy frameworks, global human capital (GHC), and equity heritage (EH). Viewed as a hegemonic discourse adversely affecting current landscapes of dual language education, GHC is demonstrated by a rise in elite bilingualism and neoliberal effects on language education, including an inclination to commodify and marketize language learning. The EH discourse is focused on language programming and support of emergent bilinguals developing multiple linguistic systems simultaneously, for heritage language maintenance and growth in English. This study critically analyzed Texas macro language policies and discourse alongside the school district's micro level implementation of these policies. Using critical policy analysis, this research explored the interpretation and implementation of Texas language policies, and their impact on language minoritized students. Analytical methods also included a critical discourse and content analysis. Findings revealed an enlightened understanding of the Texas context for the biliteracy seal initiative and how language policy, power, and discourse operate within bilingual education on various levels. Evidence of EH discourse was found, in addition to opposing policies which countered the equity language framework. Implications and recommendations are suggested to minimize language inequalities, prioritizing educational access and equity for marginalized and linguistically diverse students.

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In post-conflict settings real and imagined boundaries do a great deal to determine who is inside and who is outside of state-based narratives of peace and prosperity. Based on case studies in Rwanda and Northern Ireland, I provide an analysis of the post-conflict periods and the impact of neoliberal-styled governance on the dynamics of power. I argue that as power shifted, ‘peace’ also entailed a general social pacification, and prosperity equated to greater private profit. However, top-down social engineering has not contained the entire field of social struggle. I examine micro-level interventions taking place on the margins of mainstream discourse that trouble the moralizing state-narratives that seek to legitimate structural violence. Such spaces facilitate alternative values and practices that contribute to sustained social and cultural resilience, as well as forms of resistance. Post-conflict Rwanda and Northern Ireland have been impacted by both coercive and consensual forms of social engineering. In Rwanda, state-based framework laws and forceful regimes of local implementation rely on stark contingencies of reward and punishment to shape and control behaviour in the public sphere. In Northern Ireland, the power-sharing structure of the Belfast Agreement has reinforced ethnic politics, while depoliticizing and instrumentalizing civil society in support of its neoliberal policies. I present ethnographic research and interviews conducted with community organizations in Northern Ireland (Ikon) and Rwanda (Student Association of Genocide Survivors - AERG) that demonstrates how alternative discourses and practices are emerging in the cracks of these top-down systems. I explore Ikon’s use of creative performances and radical theology to create socially resonant cultural spaces that function as temporary autonomous zones. These TAZs unsettle aspects of individual identity while intentionally seeking to destabilize mainstream power dynamics. Unlike Ikon, AERG faces greater public scrutiny and higher political stakes. They demonstrate an adherence to the dominant social script in the public sphere, while exhibiting micro- level agency through trauma healing, and material support in private day-to-day practices. AERG’s performance in the public sphere creates temporary spaces of encounter that exceed the boundaries of official discourse, making their alternative presence felt while remaining illegible to the dominant surveillance frameworks. / Thesis (Ph.D, Cultural Studies) -- Queen's University, 2014-06-02 11:02:09.033