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Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states
(2015-04-16)Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel ... -
Being in between? Exploring identity construction among Rwandophone Congolese
(2018-05-04)This thesis is a compilation of a ‘Kappa’ (with six chapters) and four articles. It explores how civilian Rwandophone Congolese construct their identity in various settings in the North Kivu area. To achieve this aim, the ... -
Bombay Going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers
(2016-09-12)Set against the background of a critical examination of anti-trafficking organisations’ dominant discourses of sex trafficking in the Nepali context, this dissertation provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women ... -
Building futures through Refugee Education: Aspirations, Navigation, and (Non- )citizenship
(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 ... -
Caste and Nation-Building: Constructing Vellalah Identity in Jaffna
(2015-11-13)This doctoral thesis explores the meanings and practices associated with Vellalah identity in the context of the Tamil nationalist project in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Given that caste is a culturally sensitive identity and ... -
Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation 50 years after independence?
(2011-11-28)Tanzania has been independent in 2011 for 50 years. While most neighbouring states have gone through violent conflicts, Tanzania has managed to implement extensive reforms without armed political conflicts. Hence, Tanzania ... -
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa – the Cases of Trade and HIV/AIDS
(2013-04-10)This dissertation investigates civil society regionalization, that is, the transnational regional process where people engage in co-operation within diverse types of regionalist civil society frameworks. The point of ... -
Conflict resolution in coastal management: Interdisciplinary analyses of resource use conflicts from the Swedish coast
(2015-08-27)Natural resource use conflicts at urbanized coasts and their analysis and resolution are the main themes of this thesis. Based on the analysis of four conflict cases from the Swedish coast, I explore the ways the local ... -
Constructive Conflict in Classrooms and Beyond
(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 ... -
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Democracy in Action: Decentralisation in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2012-01-27)The process of democratisation in post-conflict Cambodia has been problematic. Almost two decades after the UN-led intervention in 1993, democracy in Cambodia remains shallow, as evidenced by various studies. Three main ...