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Just like couscous: Gender, agency and the politics of female circumcision in Cairo
(2009-05-08)
This dissertation explores how female gender identity is continually created and
re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female
circumcision is central. In order to do so, the study inquires ...
Each Day Another Disaster : Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
(2009-06-01)
This anthropological study examines the ways in which Palestinian camp refugees maintain
everyday life in a situation that is characterized by chronic disruption, fear and mistrust. It
explores how these refugees make ...
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 ...
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 ...