Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Remembering and Forgetting after War. Narratives of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in a Bosnian Town
(2010-11-15)This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of how people make everyday strategies for living together after mass atrocities, and what role transitional justice may play for these strategies. The aim is to ... -
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 ... -
Threatening and Appropriate Bodies in Nation Building: Paths to the World’s 1st Female Parliamentary Majority in Post-Genocide Rwanda
(2010-04-27)While Rwanda first attracted the world’s attention for the genocide that took place in 1994, 16 years later the country is capturing interest because it now has the highest number of women in its parliament than in any ... -
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 ... -
Equality before Custom - A Study of Property Rights of Previously Disadvantaged Women under Land Reform and Communal Tenure in Post-apartheid South Africa
(2010-01-20)Based on legal primary and secondary sources as well as text based and secondary data, Equality before custom? explores the relationship between statutory law and customary law in relation to previously disadvantaged women’s ... -
Understanding the East Asian Peace: Informal and Formal Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990 - 2008
(2009-11-27)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical study of the post-Cold War East Asian security setting, with the aim of understanding why there is an East Asian peace. The East Asian peace exists in a ... -
Peacebuilding in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Role of Cooperatives in the Restoration of Interpersonal Relationships
(2009-11-25)This thesis is aimed at contributing to the lack of knowledge in the field of peacebuilding from below, notably regarding the mechanisms to be used in order to overcome the painful past between conflicting parties. The ... -
Understanding the Polarization of Responses to Genocidal Violence in Rwanda
(2009-11-25)This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti ... -
Under the Same Shade - Popular Perceptions of Political Change and the Challenges of Consolidating Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania
(2009-11-06)This thesis deals with the question of how people in rural areas have perceived the change of political system from one-party to multi-party during the 1990s in Tanzania. Tanzania has to this date performed three general ... -
Development Intervention on the Ground. Inherent rationales of aid and their encounter with local dynamics in three Cambodian villages
(2009-10-16)The study is motivated by the maintained needs to scrutinise and critically reflect upon interventionist rationales in development assistance, to put development intervention in perspective by regarding it as part of the ... -
Mark är som barn. Genus, fattigdom, och försörjning i Södra Wollo, Etiopien
(2009-09-18)This anthropological study examines the complexity and importance of gender relations for livelihood activities and it looks at the way in which femaleheaded agricultural households in the Ethiopian highlands cope in an ...