School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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Dismantling a ticking time bomb: Horizontal Inequalities in Peacebuilding
(2020-01-07)Understanding processes of peacebuilding, how peace is created and maintained, has inspired and intrigued an entire field of academics and practitioners. This thesis is an attempt to understand the role of horizontal ... -
Rights, Religion and Atrocity Prevention - An explorative field study of the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda
(2019-12-17)This study examines the nexus of human rights, atrocity prevention and the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda. States hold legal responsibility for preventing atrocity crimes, but influential nonstate actors also ... -
Them vs Us - The ontological significance of identity and (in)security in the Cold Conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia
(2019-12-17)In recent years, identity has become increasingly important within the field of International Relations and in studies of conflict. This has led to the widening of the field with the help of perspectives from the field of ... -
ATT ANDRAFIERA OCH STIGMATISERA TERRORISTEN - En kritisk textanalys av andrafiering och stigmatisering i kvällstidningar
(2019-11-19)Terrorism and the discourse about War on Terror are global challenges, which I wanted to study in the Swedish locality, bringing together perspectives on the issues in a new way. The aim of this study is to analyse, ... -
Deconstructing & Reconstructing Whiteness: A study of the perceptions of young, white, middle-class women in regard to their participation in processes of segregation and structural racism in Gothenburg
(2019-11-12)In Gothenburg, between 1990 and 2006, the average disposable income in East Bergsjön (a so-called immigrant-dense suburb) increased by 3 percent, while in Hovås (an affluent, white suburb) it increased by 176 percent. The ... -
Föreställningar om våld − En kvalitativ multimodal analys av Saabs marknadsföring av krigsmateriel
(2019-11-07)Violence and conflicts continue ravaging the world all the while the arms industry is providing the means for this to go on. The aim of this thesis is to analyse how the Swedish arms company Saab in its marketing of three ... -
Have Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers actually reduced poverty in poor countries?
(2019-11-07)Throughout the past 15-20 years, poor countries have been implementing so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) under the guidance of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Despite their enormous ... -
Demanding justice- Corporate responsibility for Climate Change impacts on Human Rights
(2019-11-04)Climate change is one of the most complex challenges of our time, as its consequences are reflected in a variety of social and political areas that are interlinked. The problem of 'climate change' has evolved from an ... -
Individualized Islamic practices and proving ‘normality’ - Thoughts and experiences of Muslim international students regarding their Muslim identities and everyday religious practices in Swedish society
(2019-10-18)Due to a rapid growth of immigration from Muslim majority countries, the number of Muslims living in Sweden has dramatically increased since 1950s. Sweden has a very diverse Muslim population in terms of cultural, ethnic, ... -
“I am East German” - How an East German identity is experienced and defined by the generation born after reunification
(2019-10-18)The increased success of right-wing movements and populist parties in East Germany since 2015 led to a public debate about the East and the people who live there. An increased number of young East Germans are now participating ... -
Defending Journalism in Court - A case study on how journalists in Uganda are mobilising for media freedom
(2019-10-18)There is a global decline in media freedom. Journalists are increasingly being harassed, assaulted and imprisoned. While there is a lot of research on this depressing trend, there is little research on how social actors ... -
The right to the city in post-apartheid South Africa: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s struggle for land, housing and dignity
(2019-10-01)Fifty percent of the world’s population live in cities today, but predictions of the sustained urbanization trend estimates that this number will increase to seventy percent by 2050. Meanwhile, the consequences of the urban ... -
The Road to (In)security: India’s Perception of Insecurity Towards the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(2019-09-30)Infrastructural techno-political regimes are growing all over the world. One such regime, the Chinese One Belt One Road project (OBOR) is planned to have transnational connections to over 65 countries, in Africa, Asia, ... -
EXKLUDERANDE INKLUDERING OCH DET MAKTLÖSA MELLANFÖRSKAPET - En kritisk textanalys av styrdokument för integrationsinsatser i fyra svenska kommuner
(2019-09-24)This essay examines the sensemaking around integration and identity constructions in policy documents for integration in Sweden. The theoretical framework consists of postcolonial theory as well as theory of national ... -
Why Overlapping Regionalism? Drivers of Zambia’s dual memberships in COMESA and SADC: A pluralism of perceptions
(2019-09-20)In contrast to current global trends, Africa seems more determined than ever to come together. But as African governments and political leaders recurrently cite regional integration as a top priority, their persistent ... -
Ensamkommande och försvunna barn är också rättighetsbärare – En analys av barnrättsperspektivet och sociala konstruktioner i uppdrag, kartläggning och åtgärdsförslag om ensamkommande barn som försvinner
(2019-09-20)In 2015, over 35 000 unaccompanied minors arrived in Sweden. As a result of a more strictly regulated migration policy and changes in legislation, some of them have deviated. The knowledge about deviation is low, whereupon ... -
MASKULIN VEGANISM OCH NEUTRAL DJURETIK - En kritisk diskursanalys av mötespunkterna mellan veganism och genuspraktiker i en svensk samtida kontext
(2019-09-20)The practice of veganism is becoming more and more common. While feminist theories show veganism to be anti-patriarchal in nature, new research has indicated that both hegemonic and hybrid masculinities could be performed ... -
Poverty in a Rich Country - A Case Study on the Perception of Poverty in Japan
(2019-09-20)Since the economic recession in Japan in the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in inequality. Along with the recession which was accompanied by the increase of aging population, the introduction of a new employment ... -
Att kunna se sig själv i det stora - Ett samtal med Butler och Foucault om globaliseringen och individualiseringens motsägelsefulla inverkningar på >subjektets> självbild i en västerländsk medialiserad och informationspräglad social kontext.
(2019-09-17)In reading poststructuralist thinkers like Butler and Foucault I have gotten the insight of my self as a subject being not the maker of my >self> and my >identity>, but a participant in an always changing context of sociality ... -
The nuances between war and peace - An empirical study of the experiences of peace in Liberia
(2019-09-17)This study is concerned with the way we understand and assess ongoing peace processes in contexts of previous intense armed conflict and violence. In particular, this study aims to create an understanding for how peace, ...