Search for dissertations about: "modernisation"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the word modernisation.
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11. Sidama and Ethiopian : The emergence of the Mekane Yesus Church in Sidama
Abstract : The present work belongs to local African church history and international mission history.The author shows why and how the Sidama people in south Ethiopia became part of theevangelical movement. READ MORE
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12. The Cooperative Challenge : Farmer Cooperation and the Politics of Agricultural Modernisation in 21st Century Uganda
Abstract : The main purpose of this dissertation is to study whether the official rhetoric on the role that cooperatives could play in the quest for agricultural modernisation in Uganda have any resemblance with how farmers view the benefits and problem with cooperation. This question was motivated by the political initiative in the early 21st century to revive the cooperative movement in Uganda, a movement burdened with a history of political intervention and difficulties to adapt to a de-regulated agricultural market system. READ MORE
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13. Climate Policy as a Window of Opportunity. Sweden and Global Climate Change
Abstract : Because of their social dilemma character, global environmental problems are difficult to successfully manage. States have few incentives to contribute to the common good because doing so would imply costs but not guarantee that others will contribute. Without a global government that can maintain order states do not want to act the sucker. READ MORE
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14. Ambiguous Hopes : An Ethnographic Study of Agricultural Modernisation in a Rwandan village
Abstract : Since 2006, Rwanda has been implementing policies to modernize the agricultural sector, with the aim of moving from small-scale subsistence farming to modern, market-oriented farming. Under these policies, small-scale farmers have been compelled to abandon their traditional farming practices and adapt to monocropping of state-approved crops on consolidated land. READ MORE
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15. Japanese achievement, Chinese aspiration : a study of the Japanese influence on the modernisation of the Late Qing novel
Abstract : This dissertation concerns the early years of the modernisation of the novelin Japan and China, at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning ofthe twentieth century'. Taking as a starting point a speech made by ZhouZuoren (1885-1965) in 1918, the field of study is presented. Two of the foremostfigures in the process of modernisation, i.e. READ MORE