Advanced search

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations matching the above criteria.

2. 1. Borders and Belonging : Nation-Building in Georgia's Armenian and Azerbaijani Ethno-Regions, 2004–2012

   Author : Christofer Berglund; Sten Widmalm; Sven Oskarsson; Svante Cornell; Timothy Blauvelt; Henry E. Hale; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethnic conflicts; nation-building; borderlands; minorities; integration; language politics; matched-guise experiments; South Caucasus; Georgia; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Since the fall of the Soviet Union, scholars researching ethnic politics have approached the South Caucasus as a testing ground for theories of separatism and conflict. But the 2003 Rose Revolution brought a new generation of politicians to power in Georgia. READ MORE

4. 2. Economic Nationalizing in the Ethnic Borderlands of Hungary and Romania : Inclusion, Exclusion and Annihilation in Szatmár/Satu-Mare 1867–1944

   Author : Anders E. B. Blomqvist; Anu Mai Köll; Leos Müller; Dennis Deletant; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Economic nationalizing; ethnonationalism; nationalism; economic nationalism; ethnicity; borderland; Hungary; Romania; Austria-Hungary; Transylvania; Holocaust; anti-Semitism; political economy; assimilation; ethnic economy; ethnocracy; minorities; History; historia; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

   Abstract : The history of the ethnic borderlands of Hungary and Romania in the years 1867–1944 were marked by changing national borders, ethnic conflicts and economic problems. Using a local case study of the city and county of Szatmár/Satu-Mare, this thesis investigates the practice and social mechanisms of economic nationalizing. READ MORE

5. 3. Making drugs ethnic : Khat and minority drug use in Sweden

   Author : Johan Nordgren; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Drug use; Khat; Ethnicity; Culture; Discourse analysis;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study how discourses and problem representations have made some drugs and some forms of drug use into “ethnic problems” in Sweden and in Scandinavia. The primary example of such a process discussed in the dissertation concerns the use of the psychoactive and criminalized plant khat. READ MORE

6. 4. The State, Ethnic Identity and Education : A Study of Primary Schooling for Minorities in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia in China

   Author : Liu Bing; Jürgen Henze; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

   Abstract : .... READ MORE

7. 5. The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process : Testing a Signaling Model

   Author : Magnus Öberg; Han Dorussen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Peace and conflict research; ethnic conflict; civil war; escalation; bargaining; game theory; signaling; selection bias; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and conflict research; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : Most theories of ethnic conflict explain ethnic war by reference to the factors that motivate and enable ethnic groups to rebel. To rebel is to rise up against or challenge government authority; but for war to be the outcome of a challenge the government must attempt to forcefully reassert its authority. READ MORE