Search for dissertations about: "modernization"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the word modernization.

2. 11. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security

   Author : Cheryl Sjöström; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global food system; smallholder food security; sub-Saharan Africa; agricultural modernization; critical discourse analysis; power; politics of food; Millennium Villages Project; Malawi;

   Abstract : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. READ MORE

4. 12. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda

   Author : Ellinor Isgren; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural sustainability; smallholder farming; neoliberal modernization; sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; civil society; rural social movements; emancipatory social science; political ecology; sustainability science; hållbarhetsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. READ MORE

5. 13. Cultivating the Rural Citizen : Modernity, Agrarianism and Citizenship in Late Tsarist Estonia

   Author : Johan Eellend; David Gaunt; Toivo U. Raun; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonia; Agrarian Ideology; Agrarian Modernization; Citizenship; Family; Gender; Public Sphere; Agricultural Journals; Agricultural Associations; Exhibitions; 19th Century; 20th Century; History; Historia; historia; History;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the ideas and political practices produced in the emerging rural public sphere in late Tsarist Estonia. The time period is characterized by radical social and economic change and growing national and political self consciousness. READ MORE

6. 14. Between the Paths of Modernity : The European Commission’s Shaping of European Nuclear Energy Policy between 1999 and 2012

   Author : Julia Schwabecker; Jonas Anshelm; Björn-Ola Linnér; Eva Lövbrand; Susan Baker; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Sustainable development; European Union; nuclear energy; environmental policy; energy policy; frame analysis; reflexive modernization; Hållbar utveckling; EU; kärnkraftspolicy; miljöpolicy; energipolicy; frame analys; reflexiv modernisering;

   Abstract : A powerful symbol of modernity, in its early days, nuclear energy was associated with images of progress and dreams of a better life. At the start of the European process of integration, it was hoped that peaceful cooperation in nuclear matters would bring about lasting peace in the European continent. READ MORE

7. 15. No alternatives : The end of ideology in the 1950s and the post-political world of the 1990s

   Author : Daniel Strand; Bosse Holmqvist; Mats Hallenberg; Howard Brick; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intellectual history; political theory; philosophy of history; ideology; end of ideology; post-politics; modernization theory; Cold War; anticommunism; 1950s; 1990s; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

   Abstract : In the 1950s, scholars in Europe and the United States announced the end of political ideology in the West. With the rise of affluent welfare states, they argued, ideological movements which sought to overthrow prevailing liberal democracy would disappear. READ MORE