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Under Construction: Making Meaning of Social Sustainability in Strategic Planning Practice
(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 ... -
Under the Same Shade - Popular Perceptions of Political Change and the Challenges of Consolidating Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania
(2009-11-06)This thesis deals with the question of how people in rural areas have perceived the change of political system from one-party to multi-party during the 1990s in Tanzania. Tanzania has to this date performed three general ... -
Understanding the East Asian Peace: Informal and Formal Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990 - 2008
(2009-11-27)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical study of the post-Cold War East Asian security setting, with the aim of understanding why there is an East Asian peace. The East Asian peace exists in a ... -
Understanding the Polarization of Responses to Genocidal Violence in Rwanda
(2009-11-25)This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti ... -
Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India
(2015-04-30)On a global scale, the usage of a variety of digital ID and surveillance technologies in both civic and security governance is increasingly taking place, leading to standardised forms and practices. India is implementing ... -
Vulnerable Daughters in Times of Change: Emerging Contexts of Discrimination in Himachal Pradesh, India
(2009-01-30)This dissertation deals with the widespread problem in India of using sex selective abortions to discriminate against daughters. Girls are aborted on a massive scale simply because they are girls. A point of departure is ... -
Who Brings the Water? Negotiating State Responsibility in Water Sector Reform in Niger
(2013-08-27)For over 40 years the water sector in Niger has been subject to constant reform reflecting and accompanying general changes in the construction of the role of the state in provision of public services. This is a process ... -
Working towards Modernity. Migration and Skills Development at the Frontiers of Racial Capitalism in Tunisia
(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’ ...