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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Living in times of climate change. Weather-related understandings, realities, and entanglements among Guarani people in the Bolivian Chaco
(2020-09-17)
Since climate change became an issue of public concern worldwide, the weather has attracted increasing attention and come to stand as a common ground for joint action between Indigenous people and governmental and ...