Search for dissertations about: "colonial legacy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words colonial legacy.

  2. 1. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

    Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet : An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography

    Author : Bodil Liljefors Persson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Ballgame; Sacrifice; Mythology; Rituals; Books of Chilam Balam; Historiography; History; Prophecy; Maya; Religion; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with Maya religion and history. The Books of Chilam Balam is the collective title of a body of texts ascribed to the Jaguar Prophet. READ MORE

  5. 3. Land, Labour, Legacies : Long-term Trends in Inequality and Living Standards in Tanzania, c. 1920-2020

    Author : Sascha Klocke; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income inequality; living standards; economic development; colonialism; sub-Saharan Africa; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to raise their populations out of poverty. One of these countries is Tanzania. READ MORE

  6. 4. Hunting for development. People, land and wildlife in southern Zimbabwe

    Author : Per Zachrisson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anthropology; Zimbabwe; Gwanda; land; wildlife; livelihood; CAMPFIRE; development; globalisation;

    Abstract : Local communities in Africa, particularly southern Africa with its racially divided land pattern, have seen few economic benefits, apart from subsistence ones, from the region's wildlife during the twentieth century. Commercial, tourist and wildlife interests in the West have part in this development. READ MORE

  7. 5. Race and Order : Critical Perspectives on Crime in Sweden

    Author : Leandro Schclarek Mulinari; Anita Heber; Felipe Estrada; Benjamin Bowling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Law and order; ideology; repression; racialization of crime; racial profiling; migration control; stop and search; Anti-terrorism measures; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : In this study questions of crime are used as a means to explore the relation between race and the social order. The aim is to empirically and theoretically expand the criminological understanding of racism as a structural phenomenon. READ MORE