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Within International Relations, the phenomenon of land grabbing has become a key developmental issue. After reading the existing literature and research on land grabbing, the lack of empirical examples through case selection is clearly noticed. There are many perspectives in which one can analyze the consequences of land grabbing, through vulnerabilities to environmental ramifications. The world-systems theory argues that there have always been a variety of forms of labor within the functioning divisions of labor the world economy from a capitalist position. This theory supports the claim that foreign investors in the core countries exploit the land and labor of the countries in the semi-periphery and periphery zones. This thesis presents an analysis of the findings through consideration from the theoretical framework of the world-systems theory and its relation to the characteristics of exploitation and development in Brazil and Ethiopia comparatively. Moreover, through highlighting the variables in which land grabbing can be examined by, these empirical investigations will deepen our understanding of development and exploitation in relation to contemporary globalization.

This essay goes through how the board game Prepper - Var inte rädd, var förberedd! Visualizes crisis information. By using perform a semiotic analysis, you can see how the game visualizes crisis information for the player. With communication perspective and representation theory, one can see how the game's cards and game pieces relate to the themes of crisis and crisis information. You can see that the game succeeds in visualizing crisis information, by putting the player in different crisis scenarios. It comes in the form of crisis cards. There, the player gets through a short narrative text about what must be done, the player gets the solution visualized. The player also receives information on how different tools can be used. Prepper graphic design uses characters that the viewer already recognizes or will easily interpret as warning signs and warning signs. This means that the spectator can easily live in the different situations.

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Culture is made up of numerous components that interact upon the individual to help form and shape his/her perspectives about the world. Two such components are machismo (the degree to which a population views gender roles as particularly male oriented) and self-construal (the internal attributions of individualism/collectivism). In a survey conducted among native English speaking individuals and native Spanish speaking individuals within the Midwestern United States, a measure of both of these components was used to determine whether there are differences in scores for selfconstrual and machismo between two samples. The results indicate that in the samples included, the native Spanish speaking group scored significantly higher on machismo, and the native English speaking cohort scored significantly higher on independent selfconstrual. Differences between the two groups for mean age and gender composition may explain the lack of significance for the measure of interdependent self-construal. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Thesis (Ph. D. )--University of Technology Sydney, 2008.