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The Art of Enacting the Impossible: A Conceptual, Empirical and Methodological Exploration of Constructive Resistance by the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
(2018-09-27)The Kurdish movement in Turkey has since 2005 been trying to establish democratic autonomy, an overarching proposition for the reconstruction of the society from the bottom up, based on ideals of radical democracy, women’s ... -
The Biopolitics of Water: Technology, Subjectivity and Lifestyle in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
(2015-01-19)Water issues have for a long time been of central political concern in South Africa due to the scarcity of the resource. During the apartheid era, the distribution of water was deeply intertwined with a nationalist and ... -
The Egyptian Uprising of 2011: Tracing the Role of the Cairo-Based Political Opposition
(2017-05-16)It is the aim of this study to understand the mobilization process leading up to and the diffusion of collective contentious behavior during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011. Using process tracing and focusing on the role of ... -
The Elders and the Hills. Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q’eqchi’ Maya in Chisec, Guatemala
(2015-08-20)This thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in the municipality of Chisec in the depart-ment of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Within the context of post-war Maya cultural emergence and the recent introduction of non-indigenous ... -
The Give and Take of Disaster Aid. Social and Moral Transformation in the Wake of the Tsunami in Sri Lanka
(2013-08-29)The act of giving reflects the most basic principles of morality and has therefore constituted a classical anthropological field of inquiry. The importance of giving, receiving and reciprocating for the shaping and ... -
The Implementation of Peace Operations. Executing Security Sector Reform and Stabilization in the DR Congo
(2018-05-09)The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation of peace operations deployed by the international community in third countries. Considering the lack of knowledge on what happens when peace operation policies are ... -
THE INITIATION OF A NORM FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH Rwanda’s Gacaca, Pioneering the “Traditional” Transitional Justice Norm
(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 Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity
(2012-01-10)The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. ... -
The Lie of the Land: Gender, Farm Work, and Land in a Rural Vietnamese Village
(2012-11-08)This anthropological study investigates ways in which perceptions of gender intersect with the everyday dealings of land and farming practices in a village in the northern part of Vietnam. The point of departure for this ... -
The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
(2019-01-16)This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents ... -
The New Portuguese Presence in Angola: Traces, Emplacements and Interactions of a Postcolonial Encounter
(2019-08-30)Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming economy in Angola, during the last decade a great number of Portuguese workers migrated to the former colony. At the same ... -
The Rationale of Taking Social Responsibility: Social Embeddedness of Business Owners in Uganda
(2015-05-11)This dissertation contributes to the research on small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in Africa. It focuses on resource redistributions in social groups, a practice that often has been seen as an obstacle to business ... -
The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness
(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 ... -
The Soundtrack of Politics. A Case Study of Anashid in Hamas and Hezbollah
(2017-05-16)Music is commonly used as a tool in political organizations in general. Due to religious norms and interpretations, Islamist organizations use anashid as the main musical genre for political aims. By exploring how anashid ... -
The Use of Hope: Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
(2018-01-25)Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt ... -
Threatening and Appropriate Bodies in Nation Building: Paths to the World’s 1st Female Parliamentary Majority in Post-Genocide Rwanda
(2010-04-27)While Rwanda first attracted the world’s attention for the genocide that took place in 1994, 16 years later the country is capturing interest because it now has the highest number of women in its parliament than in any ... -
Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal
(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 ...