Search for dissertations about: "geographies of exclusion and resistance"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words geographies of exclusion and resistance.

  2. 1. Exploring the "Culture of Non-Payment" in the post-apartheid South Africa

    Author : Olivia Louw; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; focus groups; apartheid; privatization; geographies of exclusion; collective consumption; free riders; culture of non-payment; geographies of resistance; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : ”Residents are refusing to pay until an effort is made to clean up, while authorities are refusing to remove refuse until residents pay”. This is the front-page headline of a prominent morning newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa that strikes to the core of what this research seeks to explore. READ MORE

  4. 2. Farewell to peasantry? : (Post)modernising rural Mexico - The case of the ejido peasants in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author : Sandra Fernández C; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mexico; qualitative methods; campesinos; ejido system; geographies of exclusion and resistance; Rural development; depeasantisation process; Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : The thesis deals with a classical issue, that of the fate of the peasantry, in particular the process of the transformation of the peasantry. The aim is to explore whether there is a place for the smallholding peasantry in the future, or if the process of dissolution is inevitable. READ MORE

  5. 3. Children's lived rights : The everyday politics of asylum-seeking children

    Author : Sandra Karlsson; Karin Aronsson; Mats Trondman; Nihad Bunar; Anna Lundberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; everyday politics; asylum politics; deportability; no-go zones; lived rights; lived fears; politics of play; agency; navigation; play tactics; belonging; emotions; articulations; standpoints; home; regulations; ethnography; children’s geographies; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Abstract : This thesis explores asylum-seeking children’s everyday politics in relation to their situation in the Swedish reception system. It engages in a theorization of children’s political agency in which a broad definition of politics is adopted to examine and acknowledge the politics embedded in children’s everyday spaces and children’s everyday actions. READ MORE