Fairness or Possibilities - Equal opportunities in Swedish sports
In this thesis I will study and analyze official policy documents from the Swedish Sports Confederation(RF). I will be performing a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on these documents from a gender theory perspective, also influenced by queer theory. Sports remain one of the most gendered institutions in society. It is the purpose of this study to ascertain the way RF treats gender in its official policy documents. This is important because RF has a very powerful position within Swedish sports, in comparison to other countries, with the power to directly influence and coerce lower level sports organizations to adopt their philosophies. I find in my study that RF hold very naturalist views of gender, that are not in phase with current research being done in the area of gender constructions in sports. That RF is not accepting responsibility in constructing gender and adding to the sexualization of our public spaces. There is a great deal of work put into gender equality within RF, however this work is so far only being done on a very formal level focusing on fairness between groups rather than questioning the construction of these groups. I also try to provide ideas for how RF could try to weaken the strong gender structure of sports.
Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction
Conclusion the limits of political science and the ethics of political analysis --3 Beyond Structure versus Agency, Context versus Conduct -- What is - and what is not - at stake in the structure- agency debate? -- Conceptualising structure and agency -- Operationalising structure and agency: the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s -- Positions in the structure-agency debate -- The centrality of structure and agency to political explanation -- Beyond structure versus agency --4 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change -- Time for change? -- Analytical strategies for conceptualising change -- Time, timing and temporality -- Conclusion: structural, agential and ideational factors in the analysis of political change --5 Divided by a Common Language? -- Conceptualising Power -- The 'faces of power' controversy -- Power: analytical and critical perspectives -- Foucault and the 'microphysics of power' --6 The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary --^
APPLICATION OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD TO ROTARY-WING AEROELASTICITY.
Recent research in rotary-wing aeroelasticity has indicated that all fundamental problems in this area are inherently nonlinear. The non-linearities in this problem are due to the inclusion of finite slopes, due to moderate deflections, in the structural, inertia and aerodynamic operators associated with this aeroelastic problem. In this paper the equations of motion, which are both time and space dependent, for the aeroelastic problem are first formulated in P.D.E. form. Next the equations are linearized about a suitable equilibrium position. The spatial dependence in these equations is discretized using a local Galerkin method of weighted residuals resulting in a finite element formulation of the aeroelastic problem. As an illustration the method is applied to the coupled flap-lag problem of a helicopter rotor blade in hover. Comparison of the solutions with previously published solutions establishes the convergence properties of the method. It is concluded that this formulation is a practical tool for solving rotary-wing aeroelastic stability or response problems.