Search for dissertations about: "privatisation"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word privatisation.
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21. Location of Private Health Care Facilities in RApidly Urbanising Cities. The case of Peri-Urban Areas in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Abstract : For a long time, provisioning of health care facilities in Tanzania has been based on a threshold population and hierarchy of administrative units. Access to health care facilities is very low particularly within informal settlements in peri-urban areas. READ MORE
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22. Articulating Alienation : The History and Experience of Subsumption in Rural Kigoma, Tanzania
Abstract : This thesis examines the extension of capitalism in a village in Kigoma Region, Northwest Tanzania, from the point of view of how people experience it. Relying on ten months of field work, interviews, and archival material from the British colonial period, it shows how local conditions of production, and the experiences thereof, are influenced by wider processes of change on a regional, national, and global level. READ MORE
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23. Cultivating responsible citizenship : Collective gardens at the periphery of neoliberal urban norms
Abstract : The growing human population is concentrating in urban environments across the globe, leading to urban expansion and densification. Consequently, political debates and social movements concerned with urban planning and land use have increased in relevance. READ MORE
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24. The Last Urban Frontier : Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong
Abstract : This thesis explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen substantial deterioration in terms of democratic rights and freedoms in recent years. As a result of the expansion of neoliberal capitalism, commodification of urban space has not only exacerbated, but also become more far-reaching and indiscriminate. READ MORE
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25. Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art
Abstract : In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. READ MORE