Search for dissertations about: "despotic power."

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words despotic power..

  2. 1. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

    Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

  4. 2. In the Lands of Oligarchs : Ethno-Politics and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Indigenous-Peasant Movements of Guatemala and Ecuador

    Author : Magnus Lembke; Ishtiaq Ahmed; Björn Beckman; Teivo Teivainen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethno-politics; indigenous-peasant movements; oligarch power structures; political regimes; social justice; strategies; structures; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The study explores how struggles for social justice by Guatemalan and Ecuadorian indigenous peasant movements are affected by ethno-politics (the strategic political use of ethnicity), by using a comparative historical approach incorporating structural change and strategic agency. The analysis revolves around the partly enduring, partly changing oligarchic structures. READ MORE

  5. 3. Safety Politics and Risk Perceptions in Malaysian Industry

    Author : Arne Wangel; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Malaysia; metal industries; manufacturing sector; working environment; safety politics; risk perceptions; occupational safety and health; labour process; labour-management relations; Sociology of work; industrial relations; South-East Asia; Sociology of labour; sociology of enterprise; Arbetslivssociologi; företagssociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis concerns risk and safety in manufacturing companies in a developing country. Risk and safety is viewed as integral to the social relations between management and labour. The Malaysian case presents a historical conjuncture of this conflict theme, which is very different from that of its Western genesis. READ MORE