The diploma thesis "The Anthology of National Geography and History North Moravia" is handling the issue of publishing this book title which is a significant representative of its kind. Anthologies of National Geography and History have a unique position among other printed documents. And in addition, the anthology North Moravia is, as the only one of its kind, published in the whole Czech Republic almost continuously from 1957 when the museums of Zábřeh, Mohelnice and Loštice started to publish it together. The diploma thesis presents the anthology, introduces its 50 years history, characteristics of this type of a journal. It is going to refer to the specifics which differentiate the anthology from other journals. The thesis includes a quantitative research, in the form of a content analysis which examines the content of the anthology in the course of 50 years. The thesis follows processed topics, regular columns, types of contributions and development of the anthology in the mentioned period. It wants to answer the questions whether such anthology is able to inform - through popular form - readers from among experts as well as among layman public about geographical themes, whether it is its aim to educate as well, what is its reaction to current events and whether it is able to attract nowadays...

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att redogöra för hur fyra svensksomalier ser på svenskhet och undersöka eventuella hinder de identifierar för att bli betraktade som svenska. Jag har tittat närmare på hur de ser på sin identitet och vilket samband det har med vad de betraktar som sitt hem respektive hemland. Jag visar att mina informanter förhåller sig på ett delvis varierande sätt till svenskhet och att det bland dem också finns flera gemensamma sätt att resonera på. Att bli helt svensk är något de både väljer bort och något de inte anser sig ha möjlighet att bli. Hur de betraktar sig själva är i högsta grad beroende inte bara av andras bemötande utan även vad de antar att andra har för uppfattning om dem. För att förstå mina informanters upplevda utanförskap diskuterar jag vad det är de känner sig utanför och i vilka situationer utanförskapet blir aktuellt. Upplevelsen att vara utanför det svenska kan i sin tur skapa andra identiteter och tillhandahålla nya gemenskaper. / The purpose of this thesis is to give an account of how four Swedish Somalis view Swedishness and to examine possible obstacles they identify to be considered as Swedish. I have examined how they look at their identities and how this relates to how they view home and homeland. I show that my informants responds to Swedishness in partially varying ways and that there are also several common ways of reasoning among them. Becoming totally Swedish is something my informants both choose not to be and something they do not feel they have the opportunity to become. How my informants consider themselves is highly dependent not only of others' dealing with them, but also what they suppose others think of them. In order to understand my informants perceived exclusion, I discuss what they feel excluded from and in which situations the exclusion comes into question. The experience of being excluded from Swedishness can in turn create other identities and provide new solidarities.

Security is a term that appears to be used in a variety of ways and to have a number of meanings. In policy discussions, there may be reference to information security, national security, network security, online security, and other kinds of security. In an environment where technological innovation appears to be occurring at an ever increasing rate, policy makers look to technological experts for advice, and information security policy is developed, it seems to be important to consider these variations in meaning. This constructivist inquiry explores the context in which information security policy is developed and inquires into the meanings, assumptions, and values of those who engage in policy discourse. The guiding research question, "What is the meaning of security?" asks participants in federal and state government, colleges and universities, and the private and non-profit sectors about their understandings of security. The findings of this inquiry, presented in a narrative case study report, and the implications of this case study provide a richer understanding of the multiple meanings of security in the context in which information is selected and presented to policy makers, advice is given, and policy decisions are made. The multiple perspectives offered by diverse research participants offer valuable insights into the complex world in which information security policy development takes place. While the goal of this research is understanding, the use of thick description in the narrative may aid in the transferability necessary for the reader to make use of this research in other settings. Lessons learned are included, along with implications for policy makers and for future research.

Cette thèse examine la façon dont une notion ancienne, la notion de pays, réactualisée par l'École vidalienne de géographie française et transmise par l'École de la Troisième République, a innervé et, pour ainsi dire, dynamisé la production romanesque rustique de l'entre-deux-guerres en France. Nous constatons, en effet, une forte corrélation entre cette géographie humaine et républicaine du début du siècle et la production littéraire de l'entre-deux-guerres. La configuration d'un cadre générique, le roman de pays, dans le champ littéraire français de l'entre-deux-guerres est donc l'hypothèse globale de ce travail. Le rôle du motif du pays est étudié dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Aymé, Henri Bachelin, André Chamson, Maurice Genevoix, Jean Giono, Henri Pourrat et C.-F. Ramuz, pour ne citer que les principaux auteurs de notre corpus. Une mise en perspective historique de cette production textuelle nous permet d'étudier les relations de cette littérature aux discours de savoirs qui la portent, avant d'examiner la portée sociologique et socio-politique d'un genre fortement corrélé à un appareil pédagogique républicain. Enfin, nous sommes sensible à la construction progressive d'une poétique du genre qui permet de dégager des intrigues-types et leur signification historique. Ce travail entend ainsi démontrer que la passion de la terre a pu être une source de renouvellement du genre romanesque en un temps de crise et de mutations accélérées. / This dissertation examines how a long-standing notion, the notion of the homeland, modernized by the French school of Vidalian geography and edified by the School of the Third Republic, invaded and, so to speak, resuscitated the French peasant novel in the inter-war period. One can easily deduce a close connection between both the human and the republican geography of the beginning of the XXth century and the literary production of the inter-war period. Therefore, our general hypothesis is that a new literary genre, the homeland novel, was born in the French literary field in this period. The role of the pattern of the homeland is considered in the works of Marcel Aymé, Henri Bachelin, André Chamson, Maurice Genevoix, Jean Giono, Henri Pourrat and C.-F. Ramuz, and we only mention here the main authors of our corpus. A historical point of view first enables us to study the relations between this literature and the scientific discourses supporting it. Then we focus on the sociological and socio-political meaning of a genre closely related to a republican pedagogic system. Furthermore, we take into account the gradual founding of a poetics which enables us to recognize representative plot points and their historical implications. This dissertation thus intends to demonstrate that the passion for the land might have been the origin of a renewal of the novel in a time of doubts, crisis and rapid change.

Cette thèse étudie la politique de lutte antiterroriste dans la France des années 1980 en analysant le terrorisme en tant que processus de communication entre trois groupes d’acteurs: les terroristes, l’État et la société. Épargnés par les années de plomb à la suite des troubles de 1968, les Français sont confrontés à partir de 1982 à une vague terroriste sans précédant: simultanément, des terroristes d’extrême-gauche, des séparatistes et des groupes internationaux et islamistes attaquent le pays. Par la suite, la manière dont l’État et la société française répondent au terrorisme subit une transformation fondamentale. Alors que, jusqu’à la fin des années 1970, la violence politique avait bénéficié d’une certaine tolérance, un consensus national « contre le terrorisme » émerge au cours des années 1980. La France développe son propre modèle de l’antiterrorisme qui se caractérise par son efficacité et sa flexibilité et dont les principaux fondements n’ont que peu changé depuis. Parallèlement, un discours sécuritaire s’installe. De même, sous l’impact du terrorisme international, les représentations de la minorité arabe et musulmane changent, tout comme le font en parallèle la politique française d’asile et d’immigration. / This thesis traces France’s fight against terrorism in the 1980s, when the country was hit by an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks. Largely spared from the “years of led” that had haunted most of Europe during the 1970s, France was suddenly faced with simultaneous attacks by left-wing extremists, violent separatists and international terrorists, including the first terrorist attacks perpetrated by islamic extremists on European soil. This thesis builds up on a theoretical framework that looks at terrorism as a communication process between three groups of actors: the terrorists, society and the state. During the 1980s, the way the French state and society perceived and reacted to terrorism underwent a fundamental change: Whereas, until the late 1970s, political violence had been met with a certain tolerance, a new antiterrorist consensus emerged during the subsequent decade. France developed its own counterterrorist approach - a highly effective and flexible model whose principal foundations have barely changed to the present day. Simultaneously, a new security discourse replaced the liberal atmosphere of the 1970s. The terrorism of the 1980s also contributed to a change of the perception of the Arabic and Muslim minority in France.

This PhD thesis focuses on determinants of labour market outcomes in development economics with a special interest in South Africa and China. After an introduction in chapter 1, the key chapter 2, Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa joint with Sara Tonini, investigates how ethnic diversity amongst black South Africans affects their employment opportunities in the post-Apartheid era. We find that ethnic diversity has a positive impact on the employment rate of the black South Africans, and it only affects ethnic groups with relatively large population size. To address the endogeneity of ethnic composition, we explore the location of historical “black homelands” and argue that districts more equally distant to multiple homelands are more ethnically diverse. In our instrumental variable regressions, a one standard deviation increase in ethnic diversity index increases employment rate by 3 (5) percentage point in 1996 (2001), which is around 8% (13%) of the average employment rate. We then propose a model of a coordination game to explain these findings. A more ethnically diverse place requires a higher rate of inter-ethnic communication to maintain social connection. As inter-ethnic communication requires more skills than intra-ethnic connection, people in ethnically diverse districts are motivated to invest more in social skills to be able to communicate with those outside their own group. The acquisition of these social skills makes them better equipped for the labour market. The remaining two chapters look into the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status in South Africa and China. Chapter 3, Returns to Education, Marital Sorting and Family Background in South Africa joint with Patrizio Piraino, applies the model of Lam (1993, JPE) which combines intergenerational transmission of ability and assortative mating to investigate the relative explanatory power of father-in-law’s and father’s background for male wages. In the empirical analysis, after correcting for potential measurement errors in earnings and education, we find that father-in-law’s schooling is more correlated with male workers’ labour market earnings, employment rate and labour force participation than own father’s schooling in contemporary South Africa. This difference is more obvious when parental educational levels are higher. Chapter 4, Higher Education Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in Contemporary China, studies how higher education affects the upward mobility of people from relatively disadvantaged families. Intergenerational occupational mobility is stimulated when children from different social classes end up in similar occupations. Whether or not they have similar occupational status depends not only on their level of education but also the occupational returns to education. Given there is already a convergence in educational achievements between children from different social classes in contemporary China, in this paper, I focus on their occupational returns to education. Occupational status is measured by the widely-accepted ISEI scaling system ranging from 16 to 90 points with large number indicating higher occupational status. I take advantage of an exogenous college expansion policy in 1999 as a natural experiment and find that one additional year of education increases the occupational status of their first job by 2.243 (2.774) points on average along the ISEI scale in OLS (IV) regressions. And children from upper-class families do not necessarily have higher returns to education than children from other social classes. The average occupational returns to education are higher for the most recent job than the first job, but the difference among social classes is still not significant.

Research has established that national homeland security policy requires a whole community or all-of-nation approach to national security preparedness. What is less clear is whether all stakeholders are integrated into or benefit from this collective effort. This narrative policy analysis examined the relationship between a federally-recognized group of Native American tribal nations and homeland security national preparedness to explore whether tribal nations are effectively integrated with the collective effort for national preparedness. The theoretical framework stemmed from a convergence of social contract theory and conflict theory. Interviews (n = 21) were conducted with preparedness authorities from government agencies, and from tribal nations and nongovernmental organizations that advocate on behalf of tribal nations. Data were analyzed using Roe's narrative policy analysis technique. Results revealed areas of convergence of the government and tribal narratives on the historical disenfranchisement of tribal nations; findings also showed areas of divergence on how to better integrate tribal nations in homeland security national preparedness. The study concludes with a number of recommendations highlighting the manner in which national interests and tribal nation preparedness interests are intertwined. This study suggests that the nation's homeland security may be better served by greater inclusion of tribal nations in national preparedness efforts. The results of this study contribute to positive social change by giving voice to a heretofore disenfranchised social group, Native Americans, and by allowing them to strengthen the metanarrative of homeland security national preparedness.

<p>This thesis in social anthropology is based on a field study on the Internet exploring Tibetan identity. With a post-modern approach the thesis explores the possibility fora non-tibetan to create a Tibetan Internet identity and become a part of the Tibetan community that exist on the Internet.</p> / <p>Denna uppsats i socialantropologi är baserad på ett fältarbete av tibetansk identitet på Internet. Med en postmodern ansats på identitetsbegreppet utforskar uppsatsen möjligheten för en icke-tibetan att skapa en tibetansk Internet-identitet och på detta sätt ta del av den tibetanska gemenskap som finns på Internet.</p>

Bridges in the US are severely damaged or suffer collapse from fires at significant rates, even when compared to other hazards such as earthquakes. Fire-induced bridge collapses are perpetuated by the general lack of installed fire protection systems. Therefore, new materials and applications are needed to mitigate structural damage that can be caused to civil infrastructure by severe fires. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to further the development of new fire protection applications in transportation structures. Specifically, the investigation centers on the development of new applications in passive fire protection materials, within the context of shielding steel-girder bridges against severe fire effects. A steel-girder bridge has been selected for study, and a high-resolution finite element model has been formed based on the corresponding bridge structural drawings. Temperature-dependent structural material properties and thermal properties have been synthesized and incorporated into the model. Additionally, a representative fire scenario has been formed (in part) based on a recent fire incident that occurred at the selected bridge site. The fire scenario also incorporates the characteristics of a fully loaded gasoline tank truck fire, where a means of incorporating the severe fire into the finite element model (as thermal loading) has been identified and enacted. Coupled thermal-mechanical finite element analyses have been carried out using the (unprotected) steel-girder bridge model. An additional finite element simulation has been carried out, where the steel-girder bridge model has been fitted with a refractory cement material that insulates the underside of the bridge spans. Also, a finite element simulation has been carried out where the steel-girder bridge model has been fitted with intumescent coating material as insulation against fire effects. Both the refractory cement and the intumescent coating materials have been found to possess robust insulation characteristics from the simulation results. Namely, the finite element analysis results indicate that, in the event of a bridge fire, both materials are capable of preventing the buildup of damaging temperatures in underlying structural members. Accordingly, the refractory cement and intumescent coating materials have been identified as successful passive fire protection materials for the fire scenario and bridge case considered.

This thesis in social anthropology is based on a field study on the Internet exploring Tibetan identity. With a post-modern approach the thesis explores the possibility fora non-tibetan to create a Tibetan Internet identity and become a part of the Tibetan community that exist on the Internet. / Denna uppsats i socialantropologi är baserad på ett fältarbete av tibetansk identitet på Internet. Med en postmodern ansats på identitetsbegreppet utforskar uppsatsen möjligheten för en icke-tibetan att skapa en tibetansk Internet-identitet och på detta sätt ta del av den tibetanska gemenskap som finns på Internet.