Search for dissertations about: "Colonial intervention"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Colonial intervention.

2. 1. Foreign Intervention in Internal Wars : The Case of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70

   Author : Ted Gogote Badom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internal wars; Intervention; civil war; Statsvetenskap; Political and administrative sciences; Nigeria; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : Scholars of widely diverging persuasions have recognized the implications of the world constellation in which the discourse on foreign intervention with all its manifestations in a civil war has an explanatory value. How-ever, a number of long-standing theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges still resist clearcut solution. READ MORE

4. 2. Development Intervention on the Ground. Inherent rationales of aid and their encounter with local dynamics in three Cambodian villages

   Author : Malin Hasselskog; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; development intervention; development aid; development cooperation; local development; local dynamics; local governance interplay; Cambodia;

   Abstract : 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 context where it is implemented, and to bring these two perspectives together. The starting point is an indication of a common mismatch between what is intended when aid is formulated and what happens when it is implemented. READ MORE

5. 3. The Land of the Magical Maya : Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism

   Author : Claudia Fonseca Alfaro; Stefan Kipfer; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : Postcolonial Studies; Lefebvre; Global South; Critical Urban Theory; Maquiladoras; Coloniality;

   Abstract : The land of the Magical Maya is a mythical region in the south of Mexico where there are enigmatic creatures such as cosmic Indios, vultures, ghosts, white elephants, pineapples, swallows, and flamingos; and wondrous places like cenotes, pyramids, blue moons, old frontiers, new frontiers, and paradise-Zones. In the 1980s, henequen, the agro-based industry that had sustained Yucatán since the 19th century, was close to collapsing. READ MORE

6. 4. Silence, Order, Obedience and Discipline : The educational discourse of the Argentinean Military Regime (1976-1983)

   Author : Maria Vergara; Pedagogik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Moral and Civic Education ; discipline; discourse; militarism; Catholic Nationalism; Church; colonial heritage; authoritarianism; politics; Argentina; education; secondary students; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with the educational discourse of the military government in Argentina during the years 1976-1983. In March 1976, the army assumed power through a coup d´état. The intervention was carried out in the name of Order, i. e. READ MORE

7. 5. New urban horizons in Africa : A critical analysis of changing land uses in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana

   Author : Lena Fält; Ilda Lindell; Andrew Byerley; Jennifer Robinson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; African cities; urban redevelopment; urban informality; urban land use; urban planning; spatial governance; new cities; evictions; socio-spatial segregation; qualitative case studies; fieldwork; critical urban theory; governmentality; post-colonial urban theory; Accra; Ghana; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

   Abstract : African cities increasingly aspire global recognition and this has prompted a rapid transformation of the built environment in many urban locales. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into this recent trend through a critical analysis of contemporary land use changes in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. READ MORE