• The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya 

  van der Hoeven, Sara (2023-06-08)

  Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ...

• Building futures through Refugee Education: Aspirations, Navigation, and (Non- )citizenship 

  Aden, Hassan (2023-05-23)

  This study explores how Somali secondary school and graduate-level youth in Kenya’s Dadaab camps attempt to build their futures through education, despite challenges posed by their non-citizen status. Using ethnographic ...

• Working towards Modernity. Migration and Skills Development at the Frontiers of Racial Capitalism in Tunisia 

  Jung, Alexander (2023-05-02)

  In the wake of the political salience of migration, projects that target employability and/or entrepreneurial thinking have become important components of European development interventions that address ‘irregular’ ...

• Regional citizenship regimes: Comparing ECOWAS and ASEAN 

  Weinrich, Amalie Ravn (2023-03-28)

  This thesis investigates the relationship between citizenship and regional organisations in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Specifically, it ...

• Forest Governance: Gendered Institutions, Practices, and Resource Struggles in Burkina Faso 

  Friman, Jenny (2022-12-08)

  This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of forest governance and practices in rural Burkina Faso. Approximately, three billion people worldwide rely on trees for their everyday life. In West Africa, women, are often ...

• Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya 

  Kilaka, Benard Musembi (2022-11-23)

  This Ph.D. thesis accounts for the changing political relations between different actors in northern Kenya through a focus on controversies emerging from the securing of the LAPS-SET mega project. Through the controversies, ...

• Förändring och kontinuitet: Giftermål, släktskap, identitet och generationsskiften i den assyriska diasporan 

  Garis Guttman, Maryam Maria; Guttman, Maryam (2022-11-16)

  Denna avhandling undersöker uppfattningar om släktskap och giftermål bland assyrier i Sverige, i relation till gruppens diasporaidentitet. Den tar sitt avstamp i historiska processer under mitten av 1970- talet vilka ...

• The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States 

  Kristiansen, Mathias (2022-10-26)

  This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand ...

• The intergovernmental epistemologies of soil and land degradation 

  De Donà, Matteo (2022-09-28)

  The role of science and scientific advice is crucial in global environmental governance. This thesis investigates this role by focusing on the practices and framings of the relationship between scientific advice and policy ...

• Even flows and deferred lives: The logistification of migrant settlement in Sweden 

  Rogat, Mauricio (2022-09-14)

  In 2016, rebuilt containers and barracks accommodating so-called ‘newly arrived immigrants’ started to appear in Stockholm, Sweden. People who had been on the move for an extensive time, staying in refugee camps, and ...

• Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia 

  Sirik, Savina (2022-08-30)

  This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and ...

• Under Construction: Making Meaning of Social Sustainability in Strategic Planning Practice 

  Saldert, Hannah (2022-08-21)

  While social sustainability is attracting attention in both policy and academia, there are still challenges when turning social sustainability policy into practice. Instead of making cities more socially sustainable, the ...

• Political Imaginaries Amidst a Peace Deferred. The Politics of Human Rights Activism in the 2016 Colombian Peace Process 

  Georgi, F. Richard (2021-12-17)

  The Colombian government and the FARC-EP envisioned to make history when they sealed the 2016 Peace Agreement, ending one of the longest standing armed confrontations in human history, and promised the cessation of protracted ...

• Röster från svenskt yrkesfiske. Rapport om uppföljningsintervjuer 

  Boyd Gillette, Maris; Arias Schreiber, Milena; Siegrist, Nathan (University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2021)

• Constructive Conflict in Classrooms and Beyond 

  Olsson, Elizabeth M. (2021-05-12)

  Conflict has exercised the minds of scholars since the establishment of the academy. Yet, those studying conflict continue to struggle over what, precisely, it is, and how and why it occurs. While theorists have made ...

• Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal 

  Lundqvist, Martin (2021-02-04)

  This thesis aims to further our understanding of the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal. Building on the ethnographic turn of the everyday peace literature, I treat everyday life as a site of political ...

• Governing the European Asylum System at the Greek Border Islands 

  Bousiou, Alexandra (2020-12-17)

  This thesis provides an understanding of the governance of the European asylum regime at the Greek border islands from a multi-level governance perspective. Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Leros are the islands which, over ...

• THE INITIATION OF A NORM FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH Rwanda’s Gacaca, Pioneering the “Traditional” Transitional Justice Norm 

  KAREKEZI, ALICE URUSARO UWAGAGA (2020-11-27)

  This thesis investigates the pre-emergence phase of an internationalized norm by focusing on Rwanda’s creation of Gacaca. It argues that the Gacaca pioneered the “traditional” transitional justice norm. It thus, addresses ...

• The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness 

  Kehl, Katharina (2020-11-12)

  Recent years have seen an increased mobilisation of LGBT rights in nationalist projects of (non-)belonging. This thesis provides new insights into the role played by race, sexuality, and gender in these projects by examining ...

• Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya 

  Aalders, Johannes Theodor (2020-10-15)

  The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) corridor is a partly completed development corridor in Kenya that will connect the eponymous places via roads, pipelines and railway lines, if completed. This thesis ...

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