School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
State building in post conflict Rwanda: Citizen participation in local conflict mitigation
(2014-11-13)The aim of this PhD dissertation is to understand state building at the local-level by focusing on citizen participation in local conflict mitigation. The involvement of ordinary people in conflict mitigation is motivated ... -
Resistance to Reforms: settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda
(2014-08-26)In this thesis I explore the phenomenon of resistance to settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda. The aim of the thesis is to understand how farmers experience the implementation of settlement and ... -
Private security companies and political order in Congo: a history of extraversion
(2014-05-12)This PhD dissertation explores how private security companies co-constitute political order in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a case through which broader questions regarding the relationship between security governance ... -
The Give and Take of Disaster Aid. Social and Moral Transformation in the Wake of the Tsunami in Sri Lanka
(2013-08-29)The act of giving reflects the most basic principles of morality and has therefore constituted a classical anthropological field of inquiry. The importance of giving, receiving and reciprocating for the shaping and ... -
Who Brings the Water? Negotiating State Responsibility in Water Sector Reform in Niger
(2013-08-27)For over 40 years the water sector in Niger has been subject to constant reform reflecting and accompanying general changes in the construction of the role of the state in provision of public services. This is a process ... -
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa – the Cases of Trade and HIV/AIDS
(2013-04-10)This dissertation investigates civil society regionalization, that is, the transnational regional process where people engage in co-operation within diverse types of regionalist civil society frameworks. The point of ... -
Negotiating Reproduction: Family Size and Fertility Regulation among Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(2012-12-13)The focus of this dissertation is situated in the realm of the global reproductive health discourse and its interplay with national politics in Ecuador. It addresses how high fertility rates are perceived as an issue that ... -
The Lie of the Land: Gender, Farm Work, and Land in a Rural Vietnamese Village
(2012-11-08)This anthropological study investigates ways in which perceptions of gender intersect with the everyday dealings of land and farming practices in a village in the northern part of Vietnam. The point of departure for this ... -
Democracy in Action: Decentralisation in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2012-01-27)The process of democratisation in post-conflict Cambodia has been problematic. Almost two decades after the UN-led intervention in 1993, democracy in Cambodia remains shallow, as evidenced by various studies. Three main ... -
The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity
(2012-01-10)The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. ... -
Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania. Moving Towards Consolidation 50 years after independence?
(2011-11-28)Tanzania has been independent in 2011 for 50 years. While most neighbouring states have gone through violent conflicts, Tanzania has managed to implement extensive reforms without armed political conflicts. Hence, Tanzania ... -
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 ... -
Perspectives on Inequality and Social Protection
(2011-09-09)The dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four separate articles. Two of the articles investigate the links between income inequality and two increasingly salient development problems, particularly in Latin ... -
Military Interventions in Internal Wars: The Study of Peace or the Study of War?
(2011-01-21)This thesis sets out to increase our understanding on how to conduct successful military interventions in internal wars, such as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. But, instead of investigating ...