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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 ... -
Everyday (Anti-)Nationalization in Thailand: Power and Resistance in Khao Phra Wihan Conflict Narratives
(2020-08-20)Through a compilation of four research articles, this Ph.D. thesis investigates everyday life nationalization processes in Thailand in relation to expressions of power and resistance. How individuals sustain and challenge ... -
Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique)
(2018-05-09)Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique). By Margarida Paulo. Doctoral Dissertation 2018, Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 700, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. ... -
Exactly in the Right Place. Ways of Making and Maintaining a Crow Indian Landscape
(2015-11-24)‘Exactly in the Right Place’ refers to how Crow people identify themselves within a collective narrative as a chosen people in a chosen place, centered in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana in the United States. ... -
Fishing from the Shore: Exploring coastal transformations and changing life opportunities in an urban fishing community of India
(2018-02-22)This thesis explores changing life opportunities in an urban fishing community in the Global South, based on a case study of a village situated on the periphery of Mangalore, a swiftly growing, middlesized city in Karnataka ... -
Food (in)security in rural Rwanda: women’s understanding, experiences and coping strategies
(2015-11-24)The aim of this thesis is to probe further into the manifestations and dynamics of food insecurity in Rwanda by attending to women’s voices and experiences. By interviewing women from Nyabihu, a rural district in the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Framing The Israel/Palestine Conflict in Swedish History School Textbooks
(2010-10-29)The following dissertation has examined the ways in which the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict has been framed in a number of Lower Secondary school Swedish History textbooks as well as in a small number of Social ... -
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, ... -
George W. Bush – en (r)evolution i amerikansk utrikespolitik?
(2011-09-09)This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of American foreign policy and to place the George W. Bush administration, its world view, ideology and war on terror in a historical perspective. The question is ... -
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 ... -
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 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 Holocaust and Genocide in History and Politics. A Study of the Discrepancy between Human Rights Law and International Politics
(2010-01-28)The focus of the dissertation is on the role of the Holocaust in interpreting genocide in international politics. The Holocaust by becoming one of the main influences on morality and ethics in the post-world war world is ... -
Ideals and Interests in Swedish Foreign Policy: Explaining the South African Gripen Deal
(2018-05-18)This dissertation explores ideals and interests (and their interrelation) in foreign policy. An in-depth case study of this issue examines Sweden’s 1999 JAS-39 Gripen fighter aircraft deal with South Africa. Theoretically, ... -
In Conversation with the Kolam Practice: Auspiciousness and Artistic Experiences among Women in Tamilnadu, South India
(2009-02-25)This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geometrical images in front of their homes to invite the deities. Through this practice, women engage in social and religious ... -
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 ... -
ISLAMIST GOVERNANCE HAMAS STYLE: Readings from the Palestinian experiment in Islamic democracy
(2014-12-18)This study investigates how the Palestinian Islamists in Hamas came to govern following their success in the 2006 parliamentary elections. The study poses the overarching research question: How can Hamas's governance in ... -
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 ...