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Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya
(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 ...
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 ...
Resisting the Return of Military Rule - Coalition Building, Armed Struggle and Governance by Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Movement
(2024-11-05)
Social movements are a powerful form of collective struggle for democratic change that often involves a strategy of nonviolence. When met with harsh repression protest movements can escalate to armed resistance, while ...
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 ...
Liquid landscapes: Human-water interactions and water scarcity in Yanque, Peru
(2020-01-09)
In the farming district of Yanque in the Southern Peruvian Andes, everyday life revolves around acquiring enough water for irrigation. This thesis concerns water scarcity and focuses on a range of water management practices. ...
The politics of fish as food: sustaining the unsustainable
(2025-03-31)
In this compilation thesis Viktor Vesterberg explores the politics surrounding the Swedish seafood
system as they manifest in different contexts and at different levels in the Swedish society. Through
an interdisciplinary ...
Governing the European Asylum System at the Greek Border Islands
(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 martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
(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 ...
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 ...
Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya
(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, ...