Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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Trust and Capabilities: Experiences from Rwanda’s Informal Financial Institutions
(2015-12-10)This thesis examines the role of informal financial institutions in the construction of trust between Rwandans as well as their influence on their livelihood. For many years Rwandans have suffered from ethnic conflict and ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Caste and Nation-Building: Constructing Vellalah Identity in Jaffna
(2015-11-13)This doctoral thesis explores the meanings and practices associated with Vellalah identity in the context of the Tamil nationalist project in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Given that caste is a culturally sensitive identity and ... -
Obedience troubled? Exploring meanings of obedience in the post-genocide Rwanda
(2015-09-08)This thesis explores meanings of obedience in and outside the genocide context among different groups of people in Rwanda. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda involved an important number of perpetrators and this ... -
Conflict resolution in coastal management: Interdisciplinary analyses of resource use conflicts from the Swedish coast
(2015-08-27)Natural resource use conflicts at urbanized coasts and their analysis and resolution are the main themes of this thesis. Based on the analysis of four conflict cases from the Swedish coast, I explore the ways the local ... -
The Elders and the Hills. Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q’eqchi’ Maya in Chisec, Guatemala
(2015-08-20)This thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in the municipality of Chisec in the depart-ment of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Within the context of post-war Maya cultural emergence and the recent introduction of non-indigenous ... -
The Rationale of Taking Social Responsibility: Social Embeddedness of Business Owners in Uganda
(2015-05-11)This dissertation contributes to the research on small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in Africa. It focuses on resource redistributions in social groups, a practice that often has been seen as an obstacle to business ... -
Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India
(2015-04-30)On a global scale, the usage of a variety of digital ID and surveillance technologies in both civic and security governance is increasingly taking place, leading to standardised forms and practices. India is implementing ... -
Environmental Conflicts Management in Rwanda: The Role of Decentralization. Institution: Institutionen för globala studier
(2015-04-16)This thesis concerns the management of environmental conflicts in post-genocide Rwanda through decentralization. The study advances knowledge in the field of peace and development. The thesis contributes an exploration of ... -
Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states
(2015-04-16)Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel ... -
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 ...