Search for dissertations about: "Gunilla Andræ"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Gunilla Andræ.

  2. 1. Industry in Ghana : production form and spatial structure

    Author : Gunilla Andræ; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industri; Ghana; Kulturgeografi; Afrika; Ghana; West Africa; Industry; Anthropology; Working life; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

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  4. 2. Governing from Above : Solid Waste Management in Nigeria's New Capital City of Abuja

    Author : Onyanta Adama; Gunilla Andrae; Kristian Stokke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governance; space; place; solid waste management; relocated capital city; Abuja; Nigeria; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This doctoral dissertation examines how the symbolic character of a relocated capital city influences and intersects with local conditions to shape the governance structure and relations in service delivery. The focus is on Abuja, the new capital city of Nigeria, and the sector studied is solid waste management. READ MORE

  5. 3. Becoming Jinja : The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town

    Author : Andrew Byerley; Gunilla Andrae; Jo Beall; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; place; diagrams of power; colonial planning; modernisation; model-modern; de-tribalisation; discipline; bio-politics; industrialisation; urban housing; urban agriculture; alcohol; Uganda.; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The years immediately preceding and following W.W.II marked a turning point in British colonial policy in Africa. In this doctoral thesis, which focuses on colonial and post-colonial Uganda, this turning point is approached in terms of a shift in would-be hegemonic socio-spatial diagrams of power. READ MORE

  6. 4. Influence and Invisibility : Tenants in Housing Provision in Mwanza City, Tanzania

    Author : Jenny Cadstedt; Gunilla Andrae; Kerstin Bodström; Lusugga Kironde; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rental tenure; tenants; housing provision; housing career; housing strategy; housing policy; urban planning; Sustainable Cities Programme; unplanned settlements; community participation; citizenship; secure tenure; Mwanza; Tanzania; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : A high proportion of urban residents in Tanzanian cities are tenants who rent rooms in privately owned houses in unplanned settlements. However, in housing policy and in urban planning rental tenure gets very little attention. This study focuses on the reasons for and consequences of this discrepancy between policy and practice. READ MORE

  7. 5. From Public Pipes to Private Hands : Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Author : Marianne Kjellén; Gunilla Andrae; Matthias Finger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; leakage; poverty; privatization; public utility regulation; spaghettization; urban water management; water vending; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi;

    Abstract : In cities around the world, public water systems have increasingly come to be operated by private companies. Along with an internationally funded investment program to refurbish the dilapidated water infrastructure, private operations were tested also in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE