Search for dissertations about: "infrastructural power"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words infrastructural power.

  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. Infrastructural requirements for indirect and direct electrification of road transportation

    Author : Therese Lundblad; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Hydrogen supply; home charging; low-voltage grid; electric vehicles; hydrogen infrastructure; charging strategies; hosting capacity;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the integration of electricity and transportation systems for a future in which transportation is increasingly electrified. The focus is on exploring the infrastructures required for the indirect electrification of heavy transportation and the direct electrification of passenger vehicles. READ MORE

  5. 3. Who is Marching for Pachamama? : An Intersectional Analysis of Environmental Struggles in Bolivia under the Government of Evo Morales

    Author : Anna Kaijser; Anne Jerneck; Annica Kronsell; Andrew Canessa; LUCSUS; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political ecology; environmental discourse; subject formation; feminist theory; multi-sited ethnography; scales; figurations; indigeneity; climate change; glacier retreat; TIPNIS; political ecology; environmental discourse; subject formation; feminist theory; multi-sited ethnography; scales; figurations; indigeneity; climate change; glacier retreat; TIPNIS;

    Abstract : Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) took office in Bolivia in 2006, riding on the wave of fierce popular protests against previous, neoliberal regimes. Morales was depicted as the country’s first indigenous president. READ MORE

  6. 4. Private security companies and political order in Congo: a history of extraversion

    Author : Peer Schouten; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Relations; Peace Development Research; private security companies; Congo Democratic Republic of ; political order; infrastructure development; Belgian colonialism;

    Abstract : This PhD dissertation explores how private security companies co-constitute political order in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a case through which broader questions regarding the relationship between security governance and political order can be investigated. The thesis explores the spatial distribution of private security companies in Congo, and investigates their predominant entanglement with internationalized governance processes. READ MORE

  7. 5. Spatially explicit electrification modelling insights : Applications, benefits, limitations and an open tool for geospatial electrification modelling

    Author : Dimitris Mentis; Mark I. Howells; Sonia Yeh; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Energiteknik; Energy Technology;

    Abstract : Developing countries confront the challenge of generating more electricity to meet demands in a sustainable manner. According to the World Bank’s 2015 Global Tracking Framework, roughly 15% of world population (or 1.1 billion people) lack access to electricity, and many more rely on poor quality electricity supplies. READ MORE