School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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Liquid landscapes: Human-water interactions and water scarcity in Yanque, Peru
(2020-01-09)In the farming district of Yanque in the Southern Peruvian Andes, everyday life revolves around acquiring enough water for irrigation. This thesis concerns water scarcity and focuses on a range of water management practices. ... -
(Re)Inventing the Armed Forces: A Governmentality Analysis of Swedish Military Marketing and Outreach in the Era of Voluntarism
(2019-10-03)In 2010, Sweden abandoned its century-old military conscription in favour of an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) was now exposed to competition over labour, and soldiering was no longer a duty ... -
The New Portuguese Presence in Angola: Traces, Emplacements and Interactions of a Postcolonial Encounter
(2019-08-30)Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming economy in Angola, during the last decade a great number of Portuguese workers migrated to the former colony. At the same ... -
Navigating "the local". Municipal Engagement in Lebanese Local Peacebuilding
(2019-03-13)The last decade or so, there has been an increasing disappointment in and critique towards the way peace is built. As peacebuilding is critiqued for being too shallow, too centralised and neglecting local contexts, “the ... -
The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
(2019-01-16)This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents ... -
Electoral Violence Prevention: The Role of Brokers in Kenya's 2013 General Elections
(2018-11-12)This research explores initiatives believed to have played a role in the prevention of electoral violence in Kenya’s 2013 general elections. Intending to contribute to ongoing debates on electoral violence prevention, the ... -
The Art of Enacting the Impossible: A Conceptual, Empirical and Methodological Exploration of Constructive Resistance by the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
(2018-09-27)The Kurdish movement in Turkey has since 2005 been trying to establish democratic autonomy, an overarching proposition for the reconstruction of the society from the bottom up, based on ideals of radical democracy, women’s ... -
A matter of human-sea relations: Insights from leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden
(2018-08-16)Global environmental governance increasingly seeks to establish sustainable use of the oceans. This PhD thesis asks what we can learn about this issue by exploring leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden, as both a perceived ... -
Ordinary Choices in Extra-ordinary Times. Resistance to the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994
(2018-05-25)This study explores how and why, in their perspectives, persons identified as Hutu resisted genocide targeting the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda in 1994. The violence involved more than one million victims murdered in private ... -
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, ... -
The Implementation of Peace Operations. Executing Security Sector Reform and Stabilization in the DR Congo
(2018-05-09)The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation of peace operations deployed by the international community in third countries. Considering the lack of knowledge on what happens when peace operation policies are ... -
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. ... -
Being in between? Exploring identity construction among Rwandophone Congolese
(2018-05-04)This thesis is a compilation of a ‘Kappa’ (with six chapters) and four articles. It explores how civilian Rwandophone Congolese construct their identity in various settings in the North Kivu area. To achieve this aim, the ... -
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 ... -
The Use of Hope: Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
(2018-01-25)Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt ... -
Monte Carlo simulation of treatment machine Varian Clinac iX
(2010-08-12)This report presents methods and results from the development of a Monte Carlo model of a Varian Clinac iX linear accelerator of nominal energy 6 MV . The simulations are made by the BEAMnrc/EGSnrc Monte Carlo code package ... -
The Egyptian Uprising of 2011: Tracing the Role of the Cairo-Based Political Opposition
(2017-05-16)It is the aim of this study to understand the mobilization process leading up to and the diffusion of collective contentious behavior during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011. Using process tracing and focusing on the role of ... -
The Soundtrack of Politics. A Case Study of Anashid in Hamas and Hezbollah
(2017-05-16)Music is commonly used as a tool in political organizations in general. Due to religious norms and interpretations, Islamist organizations use anashid as the main musical genre for political aims. By exploring how anashid ... -
A comparative study of psycho-social rehabilitation programmes of war-affected children in war-torn Sri Lanka, 2004-2006
(2017-02-23)This research explores psycho-social rehabilitation for war-affected children with special reference to the Sri Lankan civil war during the period of 2004-2006. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role that ... -
Making a ’Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006.
(2016-12-12)Abstract Wanninayake, Shantha 2017: Making a ‘Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006. PhD Dissertation in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of ...