Thesis--Freiburg i. B. / Mimeographed copy of typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-550).

The Swedish armed forces deterrent strategy today has a lot of similarities with the deterrent strategy applied by Sweden’s armed forces during the cold war era. However the resources, which constitutes the foundation on which the deterrent threats are based, differ a lot and have decreased severely since the 1960s.   This paper compares the deterrence strategy applied by the Swedish armed forces from the 60s with the one today and examines similarities and differences in order to put a military perspective on Swedish deterrence strategies and shine a light on problems regarding the Swedish deterrence strategy and its limited resources.   The result shows a lot of similarities within the deterrent threat issued by Sweden from the two eras and concludes that the biggest difference lies within the change towards a more collective actor deterrence. Which in turn constitutes a problem because it implicitly undermines Sweden’s military capability and doesn’t guarantee any kind of military support from another state, if attacked, what so ever.

This study uses topographic profiles, washover fan volumes, and shoreline retreat rates to explore relationships between barrier types and Hurricane Harvey storm washover sedimentation. Pre- and post-Hurricane Harvey topographic profiles were created on 15 transects using Bare Earth LiDAR (2016) and surveyed elevations (2019). Depth and area of washover fan measurements were collected to estimate washover fan volumes. An inverse relationship was found between washover fan volume and pre- and post-storm barrier heights. Based on the topographic profiles, one section of shoreline had a scarp up to 3m high which blocked overwash, but appears to have increased shoreline erosion. In contrast, a low-lying section of shoreline generated relatively large washover fans, but experienced less shoreline retreat. Shoreline retreat was further quantified between 2014 and 2019 using Google Earth Imagery from 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 to track migration of the shoreline. The entire shoreline in the study area is undergoing relatively rapid retreat, but the results suggest that Hurricane Harvey increased erosional rates. The Colorado River Jetty borders the study area and may have acted as an anthropogenic barrier, likely reducing storm surge energy and contributing to marsh aggradation on transects in its close proximity. The study findings indicate that the identification and incorporation of other variables that influence washover magnitude would further the understanding of this complex natural system. The research results provide valuable information on the interaction of hurricane storm surge with natural and anthropogenic barriers, beach and dune erosion, and marsh aggradation along the coast of Texas.

Projektet utgår från två böcker; Momo-eller kampen om tiden av Michael Ende och Ojämlikhetens nya geografi av David Harvey. De två böckerna har varit motorer för hur en ny cirkushall i Alby för Cirkör utformats. Rummen som Momo rör sig genom i berättelsen har fått stå som förebilder för det givna programmets rum, Harveys bok har sedan bredatt projektet i en mer teoretisk riktning; det är mer än bara den fysiska byggnaden som avgör hur vi förstår byggnaden.

Notre thèse de maîtrise en histoire de la philosophie s’intéresse au débat esthétique, sociologique, politique et philosophique qu’a suscité l’apparition de la notion de « postmoderne ». Plus précisément, nous nous penchons sur l’intervention marxiste anglo-américaine dans ce débat au cours des années 1980 à travers l’examen de trois auteurs — Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey — qui y ont contribué de manière significative. Afin de lever le voile de la confusion quant aux diverses significations attachées au champ lexical de « postmoderne », nous aurons recours au concept heuristique de la « question postmoderne » qui permet de distinguer trois niveaux de signification — culturel-esthétique, théorie du changement social, philosophico-historique —, mais aussi de les rassembler et de discuter du « postmoderne » dans sa généralité. La réponse marxiste à la question postmoderne fut hautement dépendante des interventions de Daniel Bell et Jean-François Lyotard et leur présence dans ce travail permettra de comprendre le contexte intellectuel et conceptuel avec, notamment, la nature de la transition entre le modernisme et le postmodernisme esthétiques, l’émergence d’une société postindustrielle et l’idée d’une postmodernité comme crise de légitimation des métarécits de la modernité. Nous examinons de quelle manière Berman, Jameson et Harvey ont traité de la question postmoderne dans leurs écrits s’étendant du début des années 1980 à la fin de cette décennie. L’on pourra voir que ce marxisme anglo-américain ne s’oppose pas de prime abord aux notions de « postmodernisme » ou de « postmodernité », bien qu’il craigne les illusions idéologiques qui accompagnent ces notions et tendent à obscurcir le rôle joué par le capitalisme dans les transformations sociales et culturelles.

Resiliency measurement is a great tool for evaluating system performance and proposing solutions to prevent damage and to recover from disruptive events. This study proposes an analytic approach to quantify narrow waterway systems’ resiliency during disasters. First, metrics are introduced to quantify the resiliency before, during, and after a disruption. The existing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Maritime Transportation Systems (MTS) are examined, and two metrics, 1) the number of inbound and outbound vessels and 2) Total Stopped Vessel-Hours, are selected to measure the resiliency of a waterway system. Second, a heuristic method is developed to derive the KPIs from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. Finally, the proposed methodology is performed for the Houston Ship Channel (HSC) AIS data before, during, and after Hurricane Harvey, in August 2017. The results are presented for the entire channel and highlight useful information about the performance of individual docks, terminals, and waterway zones within HSC. This study helps decision-makers identify the weaknesses and potential bottlenecks in a waterway confronting a disruption and come up with remedies.

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Communicating Legacy: Media, Memory, and Harvey Milk examines publicly available media, artifacts and events in service of remembering Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. Although he addressed issues of a diverse constituency, Milk is often remembered for demanding gay rights, his co-authorship of the San Francisco’s Human Rights Ordinance, and a successful campaign against the passage of Proposition 6 in 1978, a state proposition to prohibit gay men and lesbian women from working in public schools. His political career ended weeks later, when Milk was assassinated, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, by former city supervisor and colleague Dan White. Forms of public and popular media addressing the remembrance of Milk and communicating his legacy include: journalism, books, documentary and fiction film, public art, theatrical and musical performances, memorials, commemorations, public history exhibitions, as well as types of legacy-naming. I term this media material media memoria – material in service of remembering. Through a mix of textual methods (visual/narrative/discourse), fieldwork (participant observation, interviewing) and archival/historical research methods, I examine how Milk media memoria create representations and narratives of Harvey Milk. I focus on how these representations narratives are used over time in the construction, negotiation and maintenance of local, LGBTQIA+ and eventually a larger public memory of Harvey Milk. This project is a mix of history, memory, and media analysis. It is written as an overlapping chronology, so the reader can experience the mediated communication of Milk’s legacy as it moves forward through time. It is situated within the study of media and communication but is interdisciplinary in that it finds inspiration from memory studies, film and media studies, museum and exhibition studies, and public history – all areas in which communication with a public, and mediated communication, play integral parts of collective memory narrative building. Communicating Legacy: Media, Memory and Harvey Milk aspires to be a contribution toward a more comprehensive history of the memory of Milk. The project concludes with a summary of the core and layered Milk memory narratives, a look at the key memory keepers and institutional players in Milk memory maintenance, and a discussion of the future of Milk memory. Through a discussion of how media memoria communicate the legacy of Harvey Milk, the dissertation adds to scholarly knowledge about how collective memory of public figures is constructed in American culture. Additionally, the dissertation works toward resolving deficiencies in research addressing LGBTQIA+ collective memory studies. / Media & Communication

This thesis contains a detailed academic analysis of the complete rise and fall of Christopher Skase and his Qintex group mirage. It uses David Harvey's 'Condition of Postmodernity' to locate the collapse within the Australian political economic context of the period (1974-1989). It does so in order to answer questions about why and how the mirage developed, why and how it failed, and why Skase became the scapegoat for the Australian corporate excesses of the 1980s. I take a multi-disciplinary approach and consider corporate collapse, corporate regulation and the role of accounting, and corporate deviance.

Notre essai critique se penche sur la contribution de Jean-Charles Harvey à la lutte pour les libertés et la modernisation du Canada français, et cela tout au long de l'existence de son journal de combat, Le Jour, qu'il dirigea de 1937 à 1946. Libre penseur aux idées empreintes de l'esprit des Lumières, Harvey fut le principal porte-voix du libéralisme moderne du Canada français durant une époque marquée par l'influence de l'idéologie traditionaliste et cléricale. Nous soulignons notamment le contexte et la nature des combats d'Harvey contre les tenants du traditionalisme, parmi lesquels nous avons pu identifier Lionel Groulx en tant que l'un des principaux adversaires idéologiques d'Harvey. Notre recherche nous a permis de constater que l'idéologie traditionaliste constituait un frein à l'avènement de la modernité au Canada français, devant quoi nous avons voulu cerner le rôle d'aiguillon que jouait Jean-Charles Harvey en tant que précurseur important de la modernisation que le Québec a fini par embrasser lors de l'avènement de la Révolution tranquille. Nous entendons également mesurer la contribution de Jean-Charles Harvey vis-à-vis les principaux enjeux et causes dont il fit du Jour un véhicule privilégié: l'éducation laïque, gratuite et obligatoire, le suffrage féminin, la laïcité, la lutte contre le traditionalisme -y compris le type de nationalisme instillé par ce dernier, la participation canadienne à la Deuxième guerre mondiale et l'unité canadienne. Nous abordons donc globalement l'héritage de Harvey en tant que précurseur de la modernisation de la société québécoise, de même que les interprétations émises par certains auteurs quant à l'oeuvre d'Harvey durant l'époque du Jour. Enfin, nous livrons l'évaluation que l'ensemble de notre recherche nous a permis de tirer quant à son bilan et à son impact sur la société québécoise telle qu'elle aura évolué après l'époque du Jour.