Search for dissertations about: "American politics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words American politics.

  2. 16. Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion​, 2003-2011

    Author : Thomas Sommer-Houdeville; Vanessa Barker; Jens Rydgren; Derek Gregory; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Iraq; US; Civil War; Neoliberalism; Neoliberal Rationality; Muhasasah; Sectarian Cleansing; Culturalisation of Politics; Depoliticisation; Space; Market State; Sectarianism; Identity Politics; Essentialisation; Ritualised Violence; State Building; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. READ MORE

  4. 17. A revolution in favour of government : the American constitution and ideas about state formation, 1787-1788

    Author : Max Edling; Gordon Wood; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyses the debate over the ratification of the American Constitution between the Federalists, who supported the Constitution's adoption, and the Antifederalists, who opposed adoption. It challenges the traditional interpretation of the Federalist persuasion as primarily concerned with limited government and minority rights. READ MORE

  5. 18. Challenging Normative Beauty Ideals by Undressing Online? Body Acceptance, Identity Politics and Construction of Non-normativity : A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

    Author : Cansu Elmadagli; David Machin; Marc Etienne Lafrance; Åsa Kroon; Jane Mulderrig; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Body positivity; self-acceptance; identity politics; online social movements; non-normativity; multimodal critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the problematics of contemporary identity politics of body acceptance as situated in the visibility logics of digital media. It examines how seemingly progressive narratives of body-acceptance can rely on normative discourses and dominant ideologies. READ MORE

  6. 19. Standing up to a Multinational Giant : The Saint-Gobain World Council and the American Window Glass Workers' Strike in the American Saint Gobain Corporation in 1969

    Author : Fredrik Håkansson; Lars Olsson; Marcel van der Linden; Lars Berggren; Geert Van Goethem; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; World Councils; Compagnie de Saint-Gobain; the American Saint Gobain Corporation; flat glass; sheet glass; window glass; trade union internationalism; Charles Levinson; the International Federation of Chemical and General Workers’ Unions; the United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America; glassworkers; Historia; History;

    Abstract : In the 1960s, a large number of World Councils were founded in a number of industrial branches. One of the most recognized World Councils was established in the multinational glass manufacturer Compagnie de Saint-Gobain in 1969, in connection to an international trade union action against the company. READ MORE

  7. 20. Assisting in the Shadows : Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics

    Author : Priscilla Solano; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; criminalisation; human rights; humanitarian crisis; humanitarianism; movement; poverty; transit migration;

    Abstract : The Tamaulipas tragedy in 2010 proved a turning point for transit migration politics. This was one of the worst massacres on Mexican territory, in which 72 undocumented migrants, mostly from Central America, were kidnapped, tortured, and their dead bodies piled up in a ditch at a local ranch in the northern Mexican state. READ MORE