This thesis explores the development of public policy aimed at achieving adult life-long participation in sport in Australia, Finland and New Zealand. Adult life-long participation has frequently been claimed as an aspiration of sport policy in Australia, Finland and New Zealand…
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This research investigates organisational capabilities and cultures of both partners as potential explanatory factors of co-operative R&D projects outcomes. Contributions to theory are (1) a justification for the existence of organisational capabilities and 'world views', (2) a …
This thesis examines the question of the extent to which the concept of a National Style dominated architectural production in Finland between 1890 and 1916. The thesis maintains that National Style ideas should be understood as one of a number of impulses emerging in Finnish ar…
This thesis examines the determinants of success and failure in cases of autonomous deterrence by middle powers threatened with attack by much stronger states, and the impact of external constraints upon deterrence strategy choice under such asymmetric conditions. It addresses b…
This dissertation is a colonial discourse analysis of the construction of Sápmi (Sámiland) as colonized territory and the Sámi as colonized subjects, and an exploration of some oppositional responses to that construction. Beginning with classical representations of the wildernes…
The emergence of such a phenomenon as soft power has activated scholarly efforts to analyze its specific and impact on international relations. This thesis is an analysis of soft power strategies of Austria, Germany, Sweden and Finland. Its aim is to identify the main features a…
This dissertation examines several ways in which Finnish youth reimagined 1950s America in the 1970s and how the conscious consumption and performance of America, as well as the adoption of the Confederate flag and its multiple indexical signs, contributed to the dominance of Am…
When is a sock more than simply a sock? Two key types of clothing are present in this dataset of pre-modern northern Finnish burials: (1) re-purposed items used in life and then used as burial clothes (2) re-made items crafted from second-hand materials specifically for burial. …