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Each Day Another Disaster : Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
(2009-06-01)This anthropological study examines the ways in which Palestinian camp refugees maintain everyday life in a situation that is characterized by chronic disruption, fear and mistrust. It explores how these refugees make ... -
Electoral Violence Prevention: The Role of Brokers in Kenya's 2013 General Elections
(2018-11-12)This research explores initiatives believed to have played a role in the prevention of electoral violence in Kenya’s 2013 general elections. Intending to contribute to ongoing debates on electoral violence prevention, the ... -
Environmental Conflicts Management in Rwanda: The Role of Decentralization. Institution: Institutionen för globala studier
(2015-04-16)This thesis concerns the management of environmental conflicts in post-genocide Rwanda through decentralization. The study advances knowledge in the field of peace and development. The thesis contributes an exploration of ... -
Equality before Custom - A Study of Property Rights of Previously Disadvantaged Women under Land Reform and Communal Tenure in Post-apartheid South Africa
(2010-01-20)Based on legal primary and secondary sources as well as text based and secondary data, Equality before custom? explores the relationship between statutory law and customary law in relation to previously disadvantaged women’s ... -
Even flows and deferred lives: The logistification of migrant settlement in Sweden
(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 ... -
Everyday (Anti-)Nationalization in Thailand: Power and Resistance in Khao Phra Wihan Conflict Narratives
(2020-08-20)Through a compilation of four research articles, this Ph.D. thesis investigates everyday life nationalization processes in Thailand in relation to expressions of power and resistance. How individuals sustain and challenge ... -
Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique)
(2018-05-09)Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique). By Margarida Paulo. Doctoral Dissertation 2018, Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 700, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. ... -
Exactly in the Right Place. Ways of Making and Maintaining a Crow Indian Landscape
(2015-11-24)‘Exactly in the Right Place’ refers to how Crow people identify themselves within a collective narrative as a chosen people in a chosen place, centered in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana in the United States. ... -
Fishing from the Shore: Exploring coastal transformations and changing life opportunities in an urban fishing community of India
(2018-02-22)This thesis explores changing life opportunities in an urban fishing community in the Global South, based on a case study of a village situated on the periphery of Mangalore, a swiftly growing, middlesized city in Karnataka ... -
Food (in)security in rural Rwanda: women’s understanding, experiences and coping strategies
(2015-11-24)The aim of this thesis is to probe further into the manifestations and dynamics of food insecurity in Rwanda by attending to women’s voices and experiences. By interviewing women from Nyabihu, a rural district in the ... -
Forest Governance: Gendered Institutions, Practices, and Resource Struggles in Burkina Faso
(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 ... -
Förändring och kontinuitet: Giftermål, släktskap, identitet och generationsskiften i den assyriska diasporan
(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 ... -
Framing The Israel/Palestine Conflict in Swedish History School Textbooks
(2010-10-29)The following dissertation has examined the ways in which the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict has been framed in a number of Lower Secondary school Swedish History textbooks as well as in a small number of Social ...