• New Paradigm of Mobility, Public Transport, and Sharing Economy
  Nazari, zahra  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2020)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  Abstract This study aims to contribute to getting more knowledge about how promoting and strengthening the new paradigm of mobility in a deprived area led to social inclusion. The advent of women's transport on a global scale is only a sign of greater gender inequality in cities being manifested by their limited access to urban resources. Integrating a theoretical framework of mobility justice and social justice with the methodological praxis of focus group, semi-structured interview, and statistics that the research has been conducted an in-depth interview with 9 participating women which are subsequently implemented through feminist research. The analytical part of the study is illustrated within three critical considerations of gendered daily mobilities: temporal, spatial, and those relating to wider concerns of policy and transport planning. Ultimately, the research suggests that the new paradigm of mobility expands the sharing mobility opportunities of women in the district, and a step towards reducing wider inequity in public health in form of increasing knowledge alliance and culture of learning.

  Zahra Nazari Thesis.pdf   (1.192Mb)

• contradictions of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in low-income Ne...
  Laleh, derakhti  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2019)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is known as a mixed-use development near and oriented to public transport facilities. While TOD has become a predominant model of urban planning based on the idea that there will be both social and economic benefits of implementation, the recent popularity of TOD in many cities has provided a new focus for the gentrification–displacement debate as well as affordability paradox. Furthermore, whereas transportation access is often seen as a pivotal strategy to mitigate neighborhood segregation, equity advocates argue that TOD is a place-based strategy which often neglects low-income resident’s need and thus fails to reduce socio-economic segregation. In this study, the author tries to shed light on these issues by bringing together previously disparate literature on mentioned contradictions and discuss the critic’s concern regarding the newly started TOD project in Rosengård, a low-income neighborhood in Malmö, Sweden, using mixed-method research. The research illustrates how the area has gradually entered into the gentrification process due to the establishment of the new train station, the transformation of the public housing system to the market-led housing stock, and using the ‘Starchitecture’ strategy in designing a spectacular signature architecture. More importantly, in contrast to the media acclamation and vast technical adherence of the planned TOD, the study demonstrates that there is a growing concern of gentrification-induced displacement and shows even at this early stage, how living condition in the area is more inconvenient for original dwellers due to the gradually cutting off parts of necessities.

  Master thesis Laleh Derakhti.pdf   (2.881Mb)

• Perceived Residential Environment Quality in Relation to Gender; An E...
  Shams, Elahe  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2020)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  This master’s thesis deals with some concepts and theories related to public space and everyday life and points to how neglecting women’s needs and preferences in public spaces can lead to the formation of gendered urban spaces which prevent women from earning their right to the city. Concepts such as quality of life, quality of place, living environment, residential perception and satisfaction, and place attachment overlap and have many interrelations. One cannot consider, for example, the quality of residential environment independent of residential satisfaction or ignore its influence on the quality of life. This study focuses specifically on the perception of residential environment quality, in the medium scale (neighborhood). Despite a wide range of studies in the field of perceived residential environment quality, the review of literature reveals that studies in this field lack sufficient attention to power relations which among others (cultural, ethnic, etc.), can be gender related. Given the mentioned issues, this study explores women’s perceptions of residential environment quality in the Lindängen neighborhood in Malmö, Sweden. Drawing upon the analysis of a questionnaire, the study presents four scales of REQ in which women’s perceptions have been different from men’s: Recreational services, Safety, Public furniture and Commercial services. In the next stage, a set of semi-structured interviews were done with five women living in the neighborhood. These interviews explore the way women’s ideas and perceptions about their neighborhood, more specifically about the four aforementioned scales, affect their daily lives. The findings of this study highlight the influence of the residential environment quality on everyday lives of women and indicates their different needs for urban facilities and infrastructures (such as recreational or commercial services, as this study indicates) as compared to men.

  Elahe Shams - P ... in Relation to Gender.pdf   (1.709Mb)

• REVITALISING URBAN SPACE, AN ANT-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONING OF...
  Hamidi, Fatemeh  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2020)	Master thesis (two year)

  

  

  English abstract:

  Public space functions are essential for society to function because they can support social exchanges and building public life. This master thesis is a study of public life that unfolds in the setting of three redesigned public spaces in Rosengård, including Bokalerna, Rosens Röda Matta, and Rosengård Centrum. Drawing on a conceptual toolbox developed from a territorial actor-network theory (ANT) I examine the socio-material exchanges that take place because of the redesigned materialities of space and explore their impact on the quality of the selected public places. I employ qualitative methods - visual ethnography and interviews - to address the questions of 1) how material topographies mediate social exchange and 2) What actors or events are important for assembling everyday sociality in the selected three public spaces. I made use of six operative concepts of anchors, base camps, multicore and monocore spaces, tickets and rides, ladders, and finally punctiform, linear and field seating to explore their impact on the quality of the selected public places in terms of affording or hindering social exchanges. My field observations of the three sites and interviews indicate that the Rosengård Centrum accommodate a more pronounced public life compared the other, and perhaps the most popular one in the district. The programmed materialities and multiple points of organised activities allow space to facilitate heterogeneous clusterings of humans and non-human entities and the formation of a diverse collective. Moreover, the organization of a mixture of monocore and multicore space in combination with sheltered anchor spots appears to be essential for assembling and stabilising human collectives and everyday sociality in Rosengård. My findings suggest that, while many of the discussions in the literature concentrate on centres of cities or large metropolitan areas, much could still be learned from a thorough study of public spaces at a finer scale and neighbourhood level.

  Hamidi_Master_Thesis_2020.pdf   (4.925Mb)

• Motståndets ansikte
  Laier, Maja; Lindqvist, Sofie  : Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle (2020)	Bachelor thesis

  

  

  Swedish abstract:

  Organisationsförändringar är vanliga fenomen inom dagens organisationer och förändringarna skapar ofta stort engagemang hos medarbetare, inte sällan leder organisationsförändringar till motstånd. Forskningen som finns idag domineras av synen på individen samt chefernas roll och möjlighet till att påverka motståndet och behandlar således inte de anställdas motstånd som ett relationellt fenomen. Det som i mindre utsträckning når ut är motstånd ur ett medarbetarperspektiv, hur motstånd manifesteras under en omorganisering. Syftet med denna studie är således att undersöka hur motstånd manifesteras vid en organisationsförändring. Vi har valt att studera medarbetarnas motstånd vid en organisationsförändring som genomdrevs vid ett svenskt lärosäte med start 2012. Organisationen genomgick en förändring där medarbetarna gick från att övervägande ha enskilda cellkontor till en öppen aktivitetsbaserad arbetsplatslösning. Empirin samlades in genom kvalitativa intervjuer med 13 medarbetare anställda vid tiden för omorganiseringen. Därefter har empirin analyserats utifrån två teoretiska ramverk, Organisationsbeteende- och Arbetssociologiskt perspektiv. Resultatet av analysen visar att båda perspektiven är nödvändiga för att förstå hur motstånd manifesteras. Således är ett resultat av denna studie att det behövs ytterligare forskning för att fylla luckan inom den existerande motståndsforskningen. Slutligen kan studien tillsammans med annan motstånds- och ledarskapsforskning bidra till ökad kunskap om hur medarbetares engagemang kan nyttiggöras vid förändringsarbete.

  C-uppsats Maja ... indqvist arkivexemplar.pdf   (293.9Kb)

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