Search for dissertations about: "bio-politics"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word bio-politics.

  2. 1. Opening Higher Education: Discursive transformations of distance and higher education government

    Author : Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; distance and IT-based education; higher education; policy analysis; governmentality; discourse; bio-politics; space; self-technology;

    Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the 1990s and early 2000s political arguments for a more open and flexible Swedish higher education system. At this time, the issues of accessibility and participation were also brought into the debate by revitalized ideals of distance education. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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 : 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

  5. 3. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden

    Author : Erika Sigvardsdotter; Aida Aragao-Lagergren; Irene Molina; Yasmine Gunaratnam; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Undocumented migration; undocumented persons; feminist methodology; irregular migrants; existential geography; paradoxical space; Hannah Arendt; critical phenomenology; Sweden; political geography; papperslösa; absence and presence; embodied action; public space; alienation; disorientation; digital welfare state; health care; bio-politics; institutional border; embodiment; Sverige; vård för papperslösa; hälso- och sjukvård; migranter; papperslösa; fenomenologi; det offentliga rummet; Hannah Arendt; feministisk metodologi; den digitala välfärdsstaten; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. READ MORE