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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Att bygga ett samhälle vid tidens slut: Svenska Missionsförbundets mission i Kongo 1881 till 1920-talet
(2016-10-06)
This dissertation is situated in an interdisciplinary academic discourse on missionary work in colonial states. The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden’s mission in Congo between 1881 and the 1920s was aimed at converting ...
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 ...
Navigating "the local". Municipal Engagement in Lebanese Local Peacebuilding
(2019-03-13)
The last decade or so, there has been an increasing disappointment in and critique towards the way peace is built. As peacebuilding is critiqued for being too shallow, too centralised and neglecting local contexts, “the ...
Remembering and Forgetting after War. Narratives of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in a Bosnian Town
(2010-11-15)
This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of how people make everyday strategies for living together after mass atrocities, and what role transitional justice may play for these strategies. The aim is to ...
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 ...