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Sweden vs Apartheid Putting Morality Ahead of Profit

Sweden vs Apartheid Putting Morality Ahead of Profit

'Sweden vs Apartheid' examines the effort by the Swedish government and civil society in Sweden to abolish the system of apartheid that was instituted in South Africa in 1948. There are many reasons why this book is important. It explores the foreign policy 'posture' of a state looks at Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups and examines the first Western state to adopt an active anti-apartheid stance when such a position was quite unpopular in the West. The analysis blends both international relations and comparative political approaches to take a critical look at the role played by Sweden in the defeat of the apartheid system. | Sweden vs Apartheid Putting Morality Ahead of Profit

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Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education Lessons from Sweden

Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education Lessons from Sweden

Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education provides a wide perspective on the dramatic transformation of education policy in Sweden that has taken place during the last 30 years with a specific focus on marketization. The marketization of education in Sweden is set in the wider international context of changes in education systems. With contributions from researchers across a wide range of scientific disciplines the book provides examples of the consequences of market orientation in education in terms of increase in inequality as well as in terms of what the market orientation means for principals teachers and students. It considers how Sweden has developed one of the most marketized education systems in the world and the possible consequences of such processes as identified by research. Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education will be of great interest to educational practitioners politicians scholars in the field and postgraduate and research students in education. | Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education Lessons from Sweden

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Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden militarily or economically. Nevertheless Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality. | Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

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Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Informed by his profound knowledge of contemporary political affairs and the current debate on European integration in Sweden Lee Miles investigates Sweden's experiences of being a full member of the European Union since 1995. Widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on Scandinavian relations with the European Union (EU) the author proposes a micro fusion perspective offering an insightful new conceptual framework through which to understand Swedish views on European integration and the influences on national EU policy. The volume also includes a Foreword by Wolfgang Wessels Jean Monnet Professor and the founder of the fusion theory. | Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

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Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy

Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy

Emerging from a Marxist perspective this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its inception to its current neoliberalisation Maisuria explores the contours of class as part of social democratic history culture and education especially against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research on class consciousness within a higher education context Maisuria analyses student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and ‘Swedishness’ with ethno-racial dynamics which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation. | Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy

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Made in Sweden Studies in Popular Music

Made in Sweden Studies in Popular Music

Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history sociology and musicology of twentieth-century Swedish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Swedish popular music and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of pop music in Swedish. Although the vast majority of the contributors are Swedish the essays are expressly written for an international English-speaking audience. No knowledge of Swedish music or culture will be assumed. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Swedish popular music; each section features a brief introduction by the volume editors. The book presents a general description of the history and background of Swedish popular music followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Historical Development of the Swedish Popular-Music Mainstream; The Swedishness of Swedish Popular-Music Genres; Professionalization and Diversification; and Swedish Artist Personas. Contributors:Jonas BjälesjöAlf BjörnbergThomas BossiusPeter DahlénOlle EdströmKarin L. ErikssonRasmus FleischerSverker Hyltén-CavalliusLars LilliestamUlf LindbergMorten MichelsenSusanna NordströmMarita RhedinHenrik Smith-SivertsenAnn WernerKajsa Widegren | Made in Sweden Studies in Popular Music

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The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to Sweden‘s most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and passage graves which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago. The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in which they related to economy and landscape politics ceremony symbolism and belief. This is followed by a systematic regional guide to all the major monuments in Sk Halland V ergotland and and Bohusl illustrated by numerous photographs plans and maps. | The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

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Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

Race in Sweden is an introduction to and a critical investigation of the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday language use and in practice forbidden in official and institutional language. A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become extremely diverse yet where the legacy of Swedish whiteness co-exists with a radical colourblind antiracist ideology Race in Sweden will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity whiteness and Nordic studies. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Race in Sweden Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First ‘Colourblind’ Nation

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Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe Denmark and Sweden 1970–2010

Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe Denmark and Sweden 1970–2010

This book analyzes contemporary changes in immigration and integration policy in the wake of populism and rise of right-wing parties across the world. It examines how in the face of substantial migratory flows rising security concerns regarding immigration and a refugee crisis of unprecedented levels member states of the European Union have responded by calling for restrictive immigration policies border patrolling and intensified integration programs. Focusing on Denmark and Sweden the volume employs a unified theoretical framework to look at how internal political debates institutional patterns constitutional frameworks and political competition are key to a systematic explanation of immigration and integration policy changes in Europe. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies public policy politics and international relations sociology and social anthropology as well as government officials think tanks and policymakers. | Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe Denmark and Sweden 1970–2010

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Autonomy and Dependence in the Family Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective

Autonomy and Dependence in the Family Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective

What are the future prospects of the modern family? For a long time the common image in the West has been to see the nuclear family consisting of two economically independent spouses and their children as the natural outcome of the modernization process. As the hierarchies of patriarchal society vanish a social order based on equal and autonomous individuals all set for self-realisation has been assumed. However high rates of divorce often reported domestic violence teenagers left on their own at an early age do not harmonize very well with this idealized image. Critical analysis of family order in two countries at the opposite edges of the European continent - Turkey and Sweden - approaches these problems and attempts to create a more realistic picture of family life in the modern world. | Autonomy and Dependence in the Family Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective

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Local Elites In Western Democracies A Comparative Analysis Of Urban Political Leaders In The U.s. Sweden And The Netherlands

Local Elites In Western Democracies A Comparative Analysis Of Urban Political Leaders In The U.s. Sweden And The Netherlands

This book provides a clear candid picture of urban political leaders' political and social backgrounds their perceptions of problems their political values and their past and current experience in mobilizing support for their policies in Western democracies. | Local Elites In Western Democracies A Comparative Analysis Of Urban Political Leaders In The U. s. Sweden And The Netherlands

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The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

First published in 1978 The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism looks at the position of the working class in the Swedish pattern of welfare capitalism and compares it with other capitalist industrial countries. Beginning with an analysis of class class conflict power and social change in classical and modern social theory Professor Korpi discusses the development of the Swedish labour movement and its strategies of class conflict. He focuses on the situation of the worker at the workplace and in the community on the functioning of the labour union on industrial conflict and on the political views and standpoints of the workers. He also examines political developments in Sweden and discusses the prospects for a development towards economic democracy. A challenging and comprehensive study of Swedish social democracy in action carried out by a Swede within a comparative frame of reference the book presents an analysis which is of central relevance to all capitalist societies especially when mass communist parties in Europe appear to be moving towards reformistic socialism. This book will be of interest to students of sociology social class economy and history. | The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism Work Unions and Politics in Sweden

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Housing Policy in the Developed Economy The United Kingdom Sweden and The United States

Housing Policy in the Developed Economy The United Kingdom Sweden and The United States

Originally published in 1978 this book analyses three main approaches to national housing policy in the 20th Century in Sweden the UK and USA. It reviews policy developments and considers the impact of policy on the housing conditions and costs of different sections of the community. A major theme is that British and American governments contrary to their stated objectives have actually increased housing inequality by allowing homeowners tax concessions which are more generous than the housing welfare programmes available to tenants. The political pressures which produced this outcome in Britain and the USA but a quite different and more egalitarian outcome in Sweden are carefully discussed. Throughout the book policy making is regarded as involving trade-offs between what is politically feasible and what is operationally feasible. This framework enables readers to view policy making from the perspective of politicians and civil servants as they react to diverse demands and pressures and seek to devise housing programmes which embody incentives to which housing financiers builders and consumers will respond. | Housing Policy in the Developed Economy The United Kingdom Sweden and The United States

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The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

This title was first published in 2001. The development of gender relations during the post-war period in Sweden Germany and the US forms the core of this work. It looks at the hierarchical relations between men and women based on economic political social and biological differentiations. The analytical focus is primarily on how actors cultural norms and institutional arrangements interrelate and affect the relative position of men and women to create patterns/forms of gender relations that vary across countries and change through time. The main advantages of a comparative study is that it highlights the differences and similarities of the countries being compared. This book argues that social blocks involving a stable system of relations that have challenged and become embedded into institutional arrangements are the main force creating differences in the patterns of gender relations across the countries. | The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

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The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

This title was first published in 2001. The development of gender relations during the post-war period in Sweden Germany and the US forms the core of this work. It looks at the hierarchical relations between men and women based on economic political social and biological differentiations. The analytical focus is primarily on how actors cultural norms and institutional arrangements interrelate and affect the relative position of men and women to create patterns/forms of gender relations that vary across countries and change through time. The main advantages of a comparative study is that it highlights the differences and similarities of the countries being compared. This book argues that social blocks involving a stable system of relations that have challenged and become embedded into institutional arrangements are the main force creating differences in the patterns of gender relations across the countries. | The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

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European Integration and Nordic Alcohol Policies Changes in Alcohol Controls and Consequences in Finland Norway and Sweden 1980-97

European Integration and Nordic Alcohol Policies Changes in Alcohol Controls and Consequences in Finland Norway and Sweden 1980-97

First published in 1998 this volume constitutes a fascinating analysis of the clash of the alcohol control systems of three Nordic countries – Finland Norway and Sweden – with the free-market of the European Union. It examines of the impact of joining the EU and of remaining outside the trade area providing a detailed review from a number of perspectives that will interest not only alcohol experts but all social scientists along with all those interested in links and conflicts between public health interests market forces and trade agreements. Topics discussed include national systems of alcohol production and distribution taxation retail prices patterns of alcohol consumption economic actors social and health consequences and changes in attitudes to alcohol policy in the Nordic countries. | European Integration and Nordic Alcohol Policies Changes in Alcohol Controls and Consequences in Finland Norway and Sweden 1980-97

GBP 21.99
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Attention and Performance VI Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance Stockholm Sweden July 28–August 1 1975

Attention and Performance VI Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance Stockholm Sweden July 28–August 1 1975

Originally published in 1977 this sixth volume of an international series presented new and original material in the broad area of human performance. Included are the most recent findings modern methodologies and latest models and theories that indicate the trends and focus on recent points of debate. Among the topics covered are reaction processes perceptual encoding selective attention visual search processing a recognition of words as well as the reading process and memory. This volume will be of paramount interest to experimental psychologists from graduate students to post-graduate research workers. | Attention and Performance VI Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance Stockholm Sweden July 28–August 1 1975

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Squeezing Birth into Working Life Household Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany Great Britain Sweden and The Netherlands

Squeezing Birth into Working Life Household Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany Great Britain Sweden and The Netherlands

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So where does birth fit into a young woman's curriculum vitae? This book takes a welfare state comparative perspective on this issue analyzing relevant macro policies from four countries whose political views on the combination of work and family differ namely Germany Britain the Netherlands and Sweden. The effects of these macro policies on the micro economic labour market and fertility behaviour are also examined using household panel data from each country. For this purpose all available information from the four countries has been organized into fertility and work histories on a month-to-month basis around the date of giving birth. Within the welfare state comparative framework hypotheses on women's labour market transitions in connection with childbirth women's share in joint family earnings around the birth of the first and the second child the timing of having a first and subsequent child are derived from economic theory on human capital and labour supply. | Squeezing Birth into Working Life Household Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany Great Britain Sweden and The Netherlands

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Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to vent their frustrations anger hostility against (non-white) immigrants and the evolution of British society in the late 1960s. Each chapter unpacks one facet of a 10 000-letter sample out of the approximately 100 000 letters Powell received: Race State War Empire America Class Gender Elites Parties ‘Against’ - with this last chapter analysing letters of protest against Powell. This extraordinary archival material provides an altogether unique window into British society in the late 1960s and reads like a (white) anthropology of nativist Britons in times of swift change. The book will be of interest to both students and academics of race immigration and ethnicity as well as by the general public. Olivier Esteves appears in this short video about the book: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=o0lA5Nb9cso | Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

GBP 120.00
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Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated by examining opera-related matters in publication and performance in both musical and non-musical genres outside the traditional approaches to transmission of operatic works and associated concepts. As a group they exemplify the broad array of questions to be grappled with in seeking to identify commonalities that might shed light in new and imaginative ways on the experiences and manifestations of opera and notions of opera in Victorian Britain. In unpacking the significance relevance uses and impacts of opera within British society the collection seeks to enhance understanding of a few of the manifold ways in which the population learned about and experienced opera how audiences and the broader public understood the genre and the aesthetics surrounding it how familiarity with opera played out in British culture and how British customs values and principles affected the genre of opera and perceptions of it. | Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

GBP 120.00
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Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max Thinking Outside of the Box

Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max Thinking Outside of the Box

Learn how to create professional models for advertising on TV and the web. Blending real-world experience and the technical aspects of poly-modeling this book shows how to ultimately create content in a dynamic efficient manner. This collection of tips tricks and techniques will give you the freedom to determine the edge flow and overall mass of your models through this free-form digital sculpting method. The accompanying website offers instructional files that show the models in progressive stages of development. In addition there is a free user forum for interactive feedback and information. | Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max Thinking Outside of the Box

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Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Low-level river crossings including culverts are important for delivering a range of valuable socioeconomic services including transportation and hydrological control. These structures are also known to have negative impacts on freshwater river system morphology and ecology including the blockage of upstream fish passage particularly small-body-mass fish species. Given the enormous environmental problems created by road crossings new hydraulic engineering guidelines are proposed for fish-friendly multi-cell box culvert designs. The focus of these guidelines is on smooth box culverts without appurtenance with a novel approach based upon three basic concepts: (I) the culvert design is optimized for fish passage for small to medium water discharges and for flood capacity for larger discharges (II) low-velocity zones are provided along the wetted perimeter in the culvert barrel and quantified in terms of a fraction of the wetted flow area where the local longitudinal velocity is less than a characteristic fish speed linked to swimming performances of targeted fish species and (III) the culvert barrel is smooth without any other form of boundary treatment and appurtenance. The present monograph develops a number of practical considerations in particular relevant to box culvert operations for less-than-design discharges. It is argued that upstream fish passage capabilities would imply a revised approach to maintenance in part linked to the targeted fish species. This reference work is authored for civil and environmental engineers as well as biology and ecology scientists interested in culvert design. While the book is aimed to professionals the material is also lectured in postgraduate courses and in professional short courses. | Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

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Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

First published in 1998 this book examines how established policy networks and the broader context within which they are embedded influence the choice of policy when change has been put on the agenda. It criticises the existing network literature for being predominantly descriptive for having little to say on the choice of policy and for omitting the analysis of the broader political structures which have consequences for meso-level policy making. In order to reinforce the explanatory power of policy network analysis the book develops both a meso and a macro-level theoretical model. They help to explain why policy change is more radical in some settings than in others. The theoretical arguments are tested by the use of detailed comparisons of agri-environmental policy making in Denmark and Sweden and of agricultural policy reforms in the European Union and Sweden. | Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

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