Search for dissertations about: "geographies of resistance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words geographies of 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. Settler-Colonial Assemblages and the Making of the Israeli Frontier: Palestinian experiences of (in)security, surveillance and carceral geographies

   Author : Wassim Ghantous; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Palestine Israel; settler-colonialism; Deleuze Guattari; assemblages; power; resistance; politics; war machine; time space; in security; surveillance; carceral geographies;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines the operations of contemporary Israeli security machinery as it unfolds in the course of expanding the Israeli colonial frontier over Palestinian rural areas of the occupied West Bank. Since the early 1990s and up to the present, Israeli security measures and monitoring technologies multiplied and have come to operate across various public, hybrid and civilian actors and institutions that orchestrate control over Palestinian bodies as a mean to dispossess them and expand the Israeli frontier over their lands through the erection of settlements. READ MORE

5. 3. Political geographies of region work

   Author : Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Regions; Regionalisation; Political geography; Norway; Regioner; Regionalisering; Politisk geografi; Norge;

   Abstract : Regionalisation processes and regionalist contestation have been the subjects of long-standing debates on state rescaling and political geographies of discontent. Similar dynamics are also present in Norway, where a recent regional reform has faced opposition along centre-periphery lines. READ MORE

6. 4. 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

7. 5. 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