Search for dissertations about: "Eastern Province"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words Eastern Province.

  2. 1. Housing the Nation? : Post-Apartheid Public Housing Provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

    Author : Erika Lind; Roger Andersson; Anssi Paasi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; post-apartheid; state space production; public housing provision; local government; democratisation; nation-building; citizenship; Eastern Cape; South Africa; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The main objective of the thesis is to critically analyse local modes of post-apartheid public housing provision in the context of nation-building and democratisation in South Africa. The focus in the study is set on the new housing policy in South Africa, launched in 1994, and its implementation on local government level during the time period 1994-2003. READ MORE

  4. 2. Contacts and Trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor : Aspects of Intercultural Relationships and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Author : Kristina Josephson Hesse; Thomas B. Larsson; Amnon Ben-Tor; Bozena Werbart; Magnus Ottosson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hazor; Canaan; Eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age; contacts; trade; temple architecture; Mycenaean pottery; Cypriote pottery; interregional interaction networks; emulation; peer polity interaction; centre-periphery approach; Archaeology; Non-European; Arkeologi; utomeuropeisk; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : Hazor’s role in an international Late Bronze Age context has long been indicated but never thoroughly investigated. This role, I believe, was more crucial than previously stressed. READ MORE

  5. 3. Local Worlds : Rural Livelihood Strategies in Eastern Cape, South Africa

    Author : Flora Hajdu; Anders Hjort af Ornäs; Thembela Kepe; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; livelihood strategies; local scale; natural resource use; local employment; degradation narrative; poverty relief programmes; Transkei; Pondoland; Försörjningsstrategier; lokalitet; naturresursutnyttjande; narrativ; fattigdomsbekämpning; Pondoland; Transkei; Sydafrika; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : Local perceptions and livelihood strategies have in this study been examined through extensive fieldwork in two villages in rural Pondoland in the former homeland Transkei in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. Using a bottom-up perspective, changes in livelihoods and the processes involved in choosing between and combining various types of livelihood activities are analysed. READ MORE

  6. 4. Perinatal Depressive Symptoms among Women in North-Eastern Thailand : Risk Factors, Support and Prevention

    Author : Nitikorn Phoosuwan; Pranee Lundberg; Leif Eriksson; Katarina Hjelm; Eva Nissen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Perinatal depressive symptoms; Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; risk factors; life situation; support; intervention programme; public health professionals; Caring Sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

    Abstract : Perinatal depressive symptoms among women remain a global burden. Improvements in self-efficacy among public health professionals (PHPs) in primary healthcare settings to detect and manage perinatal depressive symptoms among women are needed. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Mesoproterozoic Hallandian event - a region-scale orogenic event in the Fennoscandian Shield

    Author : Linus Brander; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Fennoscandian Shield; Hallandian orogeny; Eastern Segment; Protogine Zone; U-Pb geochronology; zircon; baddeleyite; Nd-isotopes; Hf-isotopes; tectonic model;

    Abstract : The Sveconorwegian Province occupies the southwestern part of the Fennoscandian Shield. The easternmost tectonic unit of the Province is the 1710-1660 Ma parautochthonous Eastern Segment, which bears the imprint of at least two metamorphic events; the 1460-1380 Ma Hallandian and the 1150-970 Ma Sveconorwegian. READ MORE