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Resource Stress and Violent Conflicts in Borderlands: Toward A Mechanism-Oriented Approach
(2024-09-19)This thesis explores how socio-ecological processes induced by resource stress in borderland contexts contribute to the dynamics of violent conflict. It adopts an actor-focused and context-sensitive approach to break down ... -
Why and how to engage regional stakeholders in fisheries development. Catalogue of Lessons
(2024)This report or “Catalogue of lessons" is an outcome of the FORMAS financed project Fishing for solutions: from research to practical experiments for setting common goals for rural coastal development in Sweden (FORMAS ... -
Gendered Dynamics of Child Protection in UN Peacekeeping
(2024-04-24)Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations (UN) has developed a substantial chil-dren and armed conflict (CAAC) agenda, aimed at preventing and responding to the Six Grave Violations of children’s rights: killing and maiming, ... -
PRAKTIK & KULTUR: Kulturteoretisk uppsats om Bourdieu och antropologi
(1998)Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att diskutera Pierre Bourdieus sociologiska projekt och framför allt hans tankar om praktik, från ett antropologiskt och kulturteoretiskt perspektiv. Antropologi kommer här att få stå för ... -
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 ... -
Building futures through Refugee Education: Aspirations, Navigation, and (Non- )citizenship
(2023-05-23)This study explores how Somali secondary school and graduate-level youth in Kenya’s Dadaab camps attempt to build their futures through education, despite challenges posed by their non-citizen status. Using ethnographic ... -
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’ ... -
Regional citizenship regimes: Comparing ECOWAS and ASEAN
(2023-03-28)This thesis investigates the relationship between citizenship and regional organisations in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Specifically, it ... -
Forest Governance: Gendered Institutions, Practices, and Resource Struggles in Burkina Faso
(2022-12-08)This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of forest governance and practices in rural Burkina Faso. Approximately, three billion people worldwide rely on trees for their everyday life. In West Africa, women, are often ... -
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, ... -
Förändring och kontinuitet: Giftermål, släktskap, identitet och generationsskiften i den assyriska diasporan
(2022-11-16)Denna avhandling undersöker uppfattningar om släktskap och giftermål bland assyrier i Sverige, i relation till gruppens diasporaidentitet. Den tar sitt avstamp i historiska processer under mitten av 1970- talet vilka ... -
The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States
(2022-10-26)This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand ... -
The intergovernmental epistemologies of soil and land degradation
(2022-09-28)The role of science and scientific advice is crucial in global environmental governance. This thesis investigates this role by focusing on the practices and framings of the relationship between scientific advice and policy ... -
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 ... -
Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2022-08-30)This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and ... -
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 ... -
Political Imaginaries Amidst a Peace Deferred. The Politics of Human Rights Activism in the 2016 Colombian Peace Process
(2021-12-17)The Colombian government and the FARC-EP envisioned to make history when they sealed the 2016 Peace Agreement, ending one of the longest standing armed confrontations in human history, and promised the cessation of protracted ... -
Röster från svenskt yrkesfiske. Rapport om uppföljningsintervjuer
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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 ...
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