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1	Härliga Härjedalen? : En studie om medborgares uppfattningar om Härjedalens kommuns arbete med kommunikation Amao, Shade, Mattsson Wallin, Frida January 2015 (has links) The role of a municipality is to make sure that their citizens are pleased and that the community is constantly evolving. The number of municipalities that are actively working with their communication is increasing as well as the municipalities acknowledging the opportunities with social media. The municipality of Härjedalen is facing different challenges while at the same time not having a presence on social media. It is, therefore, interesting to explore how the municipality work to further develop their community. The aim of this study is to highlight and problematize a group of Härjedalen’s citizens’ different views and opinions on their municipality, their work with communication and the function of the community in general. It strives to understand the citizen’s expectations on the municipality and research how big the support for the organization’s use of social media is. Four focus groups with the citizens of the municipality were held for this study and were furthermore analyzed with the help of Grunig and Hunts models on Public Relations, Habermas theory of communicative action and Sztompkas theory on trust. The study shows that the citizens in general have negative views on the municipality and their communication. They perceive it as unmodern, difficult to understand and that the municipality lack a dialogue with its citizens. Moreover, they would prefer that the municipality began to use social media as it would lead to a better communication between the two parties. The results imply that for communities to function well it is important for them to actively work with their communication. They also show how digital platforms are popular among the citizens of Härjedalen and that organization’s in the public sector should utilize them for their success. Strategisk kommunikation PR sociala medier kommun Härjedalen förtroende Habermas Grunig
2	Finns en plats för mig här? : En studie om ungdomars platsanknytning i Härjedalen Saengsee Eskilsson, Kristoffer January 2021 (has links) Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka unga vuxnas platsanknytning till den glesbygdskommun där de vuxit upp. Tolkning av platsanknytning och annan teoribildning har genomförts med ett humanistiskt synsätt och en fenomenologisk utgångspunkt. Den metod som använts i fältarbetet är semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Metoden utformades och genomfördes baserade på principer och värdegrund hämtade ur feministisk metodologi. Totalt har sex intervjuer genomförts, två i var och en av orterna Sveg, Hede och Funäsdalen, de tre största orterna i Härjedalens kommun. Från varje ort intervjuades en kvinna och en man. Studiens resultat indikerar att maskulina attribut och egenskaper tar mycket utrymme i de berörda orterna. Omvandlingen från att vara en jord- och skogsbrukskommun till besöksnäringskommun skapar en situation där identiteter ifrågasätts. Som en påföljd av detta indikerar studiens resultat att det saknas mötesplatser för ett bredare utrymme av åsikter och värdering och preferenser inom vissa berörda orter. Vilket kan leda till en mindre förankrad relation till platsens människor och kultur. Härjedalen ungdomar platsanknytning fenomenologi feministisk metodologi Human Geography Kulturgeografi
3	Evaluation of car engine heating systems in the Jämtland-Härjedalen region, northern Sweden Hoenderboom, Stan January 2016 (has links) Objective of this thesis is to identify potential energy savings regarding engine heating of cars within the Jämtland-Härjedalen county, northern Sweden. This could contribute to energy consumption reduction goals of Sweden. Potential energy savings are defined by comparing the current energy consumption with the energy consumption of different energy saving scenarios in terms of behavioural change and technological choices. Energy consumption, both current and potential is modeled in excel based on data derived from quantitative investigation and literature review. Engine heating is identified as an energy consumer, the energy saved by fuel consumption reduction (7,77 TJ/year) does not overcome the invested energy to heat engines (26,36 TJ/year). Engine heating reduces engine wear, fossil fuel consumption (0,34 TJ/year) and emissions currently. Regarding the choice of technology using more automatic time adjustment reduces energy consumption, engine wear, emissions and fossil fuel consumption. Other scenarios show a compromise between energy consumption reduction on one side and fossil fuel consumption reduction in combination with reduced engine wear and emissions on the other side. Engine heating Energy consumption Behavioural change Technological choices Emissions Engine wear Jämtland-Härjedalen
4	Vendeltida redskapsdepåer i södra Jämtlands län / Depositions of tools and weapons from the Vendel Period, found in southern Jämtland Sehlin, Margareta January 2020 (has links) In the southern part of the county of Jämtland seven rich finds of iron artefacts from the Vendel Period have been found. These finds contain similar sets of hunting weapons and tools of iron and they are all found close to lakes or river banks in the hunting ground area. In most cases no human bones or grave structures have been found in connection with the finds. The combination of artefacts is similar to combinations found in hunting ground graves in Dalarna and Norway. Therefore, archaeologists have discussed whether the finds in Jämtland should be classified as graves or hoards. The purpose of this thesis is to widen the discussion. An important point of departure has been to refrain from classifying the archaeological material in advance as graves or hoards, as sacred or profane, or as anything else, since such assumptions risk leading to circular reasoning. The analysis and discussion in the thesis are inspired by practice theory and focus on how actions performed can reflect people's relationships. Symbolism and beliefs, or what people thought, are of secondary importance. The results suggest that the finds of iron artefacts discussed in this thesis can be considered remains of ritualised activities. These activities may have been performed for a variety of reasons. For the moment, it may be fruitful to shift the focus from the classification problem to a discussion where these rich finds of iron artefacts are considered in a broader context. The results also suggest that these iron artefacts were deposited in the ground during a time when there was an increase in the construction of trapping pit systems in Jämtland. The rich finds of iron artefacts may well reflect changes taking place in the organisation of the surrounding community as a result of the increasing importance of hunting. deposition grave vendel period depåfynd grav Jämtland Härjedalen vendeltid Archaeology Arkeologi
5	Identifying and Situating the Medieval Ragundaskogen: A Tale of Forest, Fish and Farmers / Identifiera och lokalisera den medeltida Ragundaskogen: En berättelse om skogen, fisket och bönderna som levde där Cochrane, Alexandra January 2021 (has links) In several medieval written sources an area called Ragundaskogen (Eng: Ragunda Forest) is documented in eastern Jämtland. The references in the sources are general and lack specific information about location, meaning and the extent of this area. This thesis uses a theoretical framework based on niche construction and a method employing written sources, place names and archaeological remains to better understand the medieval concept of the Ragunda Forest. The study will reconstruct and discuss the area’s geography, but also provide insight into the people who lived there, their relationships with each other and places in the landscape, as well as their relationship to the church in Uppsala and the monarchy in Norway. The Ragunda Forest was a niche in a border area and during certain periods seems to have had a certain form of independence. The Middle Ages are a period characterised by a series of crises due to climate change and diseases such as the plague. The Ragunda Forest will be used as a background to discuss how the medieval population and landscapes were affected. The thesis suggests that interdisciplinary studies of delimited and local landscape spaces are an effective method for better understanding historical human-environment relations. / I flera skriftliga källor från medeltiden omnämns Ragundaskogen i östra Jämtland. Hänvisningarna i källorna är generella så det är svårt att avgöra Ragundaskogens exakta betydelse, läge och utbredning. Denna uppsats använder ett teoretiskt ramverk som bygger på nischkonstruktion och en metod som omfattar skriftliga källor, platsnamn och arkeologiska lämningar för att bättre förstå det medeltida begreppet Ragundaskogen. Studien kommer att rekonstruera och diskutera områdets geografi, men också ge insikt till människorna som levde där, till deras relationer sinsemellan och till platser i landskapet, samt till deras förhållanden till kyrkan i Uppsala och kungamakten i Norge. Ragundaskogen var en nisch i ett gränsområde och verkar under vissa perioder också haft en viss form av självständighet. Medeltiden är en tidsperiod som kännetecknas av en rad kriser till följd av klimatförändring och sjukdomar som pesten. Ragundaskogen kommer att användas som en bakgrund för att diskutera hur medeltidens människor och landskap påverkades. Uppsatsen föreslår att tvärvetenskapliga studier av avgränsade och lokala landskapsrum är en effektiv metod för att bättre förstå historiska människa-miljö relationer. Eastern Jämtland Medieval Marginality Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis Abandoned Farms Ragundaskogen Resource Use Jämtland and Härjedalen Diplomatarium Niche Construction Archaeology Östra Jämtland Medeltiden Marginalitet Medeltiden Agrarkris Ödesböle Ragundaskogen Användandet av resurser Jämtland och Härjedalen Diplomatarium Nischkonstruktion Arkeologi History and Archaeology Historia och arkeologi
6	Örebro läns turism: en jämförande studie emot övriga stora turistregioner Jönsson, Jon January 2008 (has links) No description available. turism marknadsföring benchmarking kvalitativ competitive identity glasriket gästrikland härjedalen höga kusten jämtlands län siljan västsverige örebro län Business studies Företagsekonomi
7	Örebro läns turism: en jämförande studie emot övriga stora turistregioner Jönsson, Jon January 2008 (has links) No description available. turism marknadsföring benchmarking kvalitativ competitive identity glasriket gästrikland härjedalen höga kusten jämtlands län siljan västsverige örebro län Business studies Företagsekonomi
8	Kvarboende vid vägs ände : Människors försörjning i det inre av södra Norrland under svensk efterkrigstid / Living in the Middle of Nowhere : How to earn a living in the Southern part of Northern Sweden 1950–1990 Lagerqvist, Christopher January 2008 (has links) In this dissertation the question of why people want to stay in the county-side has been analysed from an economic-historic perspective. The specific research question has been: Using which formal economic means of sustenance could those who remained in Ängersjö parish ensure their survival in the years 1950 to 1990? A number of different types of sources have been used, including income tax registers, data on migration, agricultural statistics, parish registers, interviews, and printed public statistics. The population of Ängersjö parish decreased through the entire period of investigation. In the early 1950s the population pyramid in Ängersjö resembled Sweden’s quite considerably. After this point, the tendencies towards depopulation grew stronger. By the early 1990s, the population had returned to the levels of the early 1800s, i.e. before the forest became valuable. This time, however, the proportion of older inhabitants was much larger. Most of the remaining households supported themselves through wage labour in the forestry sector, which essentially was a male preoccupation. At the margin, supplementary incomes, such as the renting of cottages and capital revenues, could add to household earnings, and contributions by women probably played an important part in that context. In addition, informal economic activities, such as berry-picking and the exchange of labour, could expand the means of support by a maximum of 20 percent. In spite of all these efforts, most of the remaining households earned less than an average Swedish industrial worker. The income differences could to some degree be compensated by lower housing and living costs, but many households probably enjoyed a lower material standard of living. Demonstrably, most of the remaining inhabitants of Ängersjö were willing to pay the economic price associated with the “feelings of freedom” or the upkeep of their ancestral home of which many inhabitants spoke. / Flexibilitet som tradition Economic history Ängersjö Härjedalen Jämtlands län formal economy informal economy economic activities feelins of freedom household remaining households people who stayed on means of sustenance forestry sector farming migration Ekonomisk historia Economic history Ekonomisk historia
9	Contested Landscapes/Contested Heritage : history and heritage in Sweden and their archaeological implications concerning the interpretation of the Norrlandian past Loeffler, David January 2005 (has links) <p>This case study explores how geo-political power structures influence and/or determine the conception, acceptance and maintenance of what is considered to be valid archaeological knowledge. The nature of this contingency is exemplified through an examination of how the prehistory of Norrland, a region traditionally considered and portrayed as peripheral vis-à-vis the centre-South, was interpreted and presented by Swedish archaeologists during the 20th century. This contextual situation is analysed through the implementation of three interrelated and complimentary perspectives;</p><p>1) The relationship between northern and southern Sweden is examined using concepts concerning the nature of colonialism, resulting in the formulation of 20 particulars that typify the colonial experience, circumstances that characterise the historical, and unequal, association that has existed between these two regions for the last 600 years.</p><p>2) Ideals of national identity and heritage as manufactured and employed by the kingdom and later by the nation-state, with the assistance of antiquarianism, archaeology and/or centralised cultural management, are outlined. The creation of these various concepts have reinforced and perpetuated the colonial and asymmetrical association between what has naturally come to be viewed as the peripheral-North and the centre-South.</p><p>3) A century of archaeological research into the Norrlandian past is studied using the concepts ‘thoughtstyle’ and ‘thought-collective’ as devised by Ludwik Fleck. This analysis disclosed a persistent set of reoccurring explanations that have constantly been invoked when interpreting and presenting the prehistory of Norrland. This archaeological thought-style has normalised the unbalanced power relationship between North and South that has existed for the last 600 years by projecting it far back into the prehistoric past.</p><p>This case study has demonstrated that archaeologists, unless acutely aware of the historical context in which they themselves move and work, risk legitimising debilitating economic and political power relationships in the present through their study and presentation of the past.</p> Archaeology Scandinavia Sweden Norrland Norrbotten Västerbotten Lappland Ångermanland Medelpad Jämtland Härjedalen Hälsingland Gästrikland history prehistory archaeology philosophy antiquarianism heritage cultural management identity Fleck thought-collective thought-style colonialism colony periphery hinterland kingdom empire industrialism nationalism romanticism Sámi Stone Age Mesolithic Neolithic semi-subterranean dwelling typology C14 shoreline displacement Arkeologi Archaeology subjects Arkeologiämnen
10	Contested Landscapes/Contested Heritage : history and heritage in Sweden and their archaeological implications concerning the interpretation of the Norrlandian past Loeffler, David January 2005 (has links) This case study explores how geo-political power structures influence and/or determine the conception, acceptance and maintenance of what is considered to be valid archaeological knowledge. The nature of this contingency is exemplified through an examination of how the prehistory of Norrland, a region traditionally considered and portrayed as peripheral vis-à-vis the centre-South, was interpreted and presented by Swedish archaeologists during the 20th century. This contextual situation is analysed through the implementation of three interrelated and complimentary perspectives; 1) The relationship between northern and southern Sweden is examined using concepts concerning the nature of colonialism, resulting in the formulation of 20 particulars that typify the colonial experience, circumstances that characterise the historical, and unequal, association that has existed between these two regions for the last 600 years. 2) Ideals of national identity and heritage as manufactured and employed by the kingdom and later by the nation-state, with the assistance of antiquarianism, archaeology and/or centralised cultural management, are outlined. The creation of these various concepts have reinforced and perpetuated the colonial and asymmetrical association between what has naturally come to be viewed as the peripheral-North and the centre-South. 3) A century of archaeological research into the Norrlandian past is studied using the concepts ‘thoughtstyle’ and ‘thought-collective’ as devised by Ludwik Fleck. This analysis disclosed a persistent set of reoccurring explanations that have constantly been invoked when interpreting and presenting the prehistory of Norrland. This archaeological thought-style has normalised the unbalanced power relationship between North and South that has existed for the last 600 years by projecting it far back into the prehistoric past. This case study has demonstrated that archaeologists, unless acutely aware of the historical context in which they themselves move and work, risk legitimising debilitating economic and political power relationships in the present through their study and presentation of the past. Archaeology Scandinavia Sweden Norrland Norrbotten Västerbotten Lappland Ångermanland Medelpad Jämtland Härjedalen Hälsingland Gästrikland history prehistory archaeology philosophy antiquarianism heritage cultural management identity Fleck thought-collective thought-style colonialism colony periphery hinterland kingdom empire industrialism nationalism romanticism Sámi Stone Age Mesolithic Neolithic semi-subterranean dwelling typology C14 shoreline displacement Arkeologi Archaeology subjects Arkeologiämnen

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