Sökning: "malthusian"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet malthusian.
1. Nymalthusianism i svensk press : En studie om den offentliga svenska debatten gällande Knut Wicksells förespråkande av barnbegränsning, preventiva medel- och åtgärder
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013)Sammanfattning : This study aims to investigate Swedish newspaper’s takes and debates on professor Knut Wicksells outed opinions on reproductive restrictions and contraceptives. He, who was a liberal free thinker, endorsed contraceptives and claimed child restriction policy as a necessity for the welfare of the nation. LÄS MER
2. Analytical Narrative of Economical, Political, Intellectual and Maritime History of Europe from Late Medieval to Early Modern Age
D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiSammanfattning : The Malthusian cycle was broken in 19th century Western Europe. Industrial revolution was the underlying reason according to social scientists. However, further questions emerged. An obvious one is: why did Europe host the industrial revolution? Unquestionably, the everlasting and voluminous literacy over this issue is far from over. LÄS MER
3. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. LÄS MER
4. Between Continuity and Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development’s Program of Action
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narratives about coercive population control policies and programs abound. Questionable practices such as the wide sterilization campaigns as took place in India during its state of emergency period in the 1970s or the use of contraceptives in the developing world already banned from Western markets contributed in casting a shadow over the population control movement for years. LÄS MER
5. Äktenskapsideal i svenska giftermålstidningar 1914 och 1924 : föremål för liberal styrningspolitik
Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudierSammanfattning : This essay analyses two swedish magazines about marriage, called "giftermålstidningar", from 1914 and 1924. With ideology as theoretical basis the subject matter is to find words and expressions of ideological influence in the source material. LÄS MER
