Search for dissertations about: "spatial politics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words spatial politics.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Promised Lands : Memory, Politics, and Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile

    Author : Siri Schwabe; Erik Olsson; Nefissa Naguib; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chile; Palestinian diaspora; memory; politics; space and place; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : This study is a comprehensive attempt to grapple with diasporic Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile. Based on long-term fieldwork from 2013 to 2014 within Palestinian-Chilean networks, organizations, and places it explores how an inherently political Palestinianness is constituted, expressed and explored via memory on the one hand and processes related to space and place on the other. READ MORE

  5. 3. Fluid Governance : Scalar politics in the South African waterscape

    Author : Vasna Ramasar; LUCSUS; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governance; scale; water; politics;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a critical analysis of the scaling of water governance in South Africa and its implications for water access and allocation. As the complexity and severity of environmental problems increases, there is a growing tendency to look to environmental governance to offer solutions. READ MORE

  6. 4. Spacing Law and Politics : The constitution and representation of judicial places and juridical spaces in law, literature and political philosophy in works from Greek antiquity to the present

    Author : Leif Dahlberg; Carol Jacobs; Haun Saussy; Yale University (USA); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The dissertation studies judicial places and juridical spaces, constituted and represented in a variety of media as well as material objects and physical buildings, exploring the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice. The judicial places and juridical spaces analysed in the dissertation have diverse forms and functions and are analysed from different perspectives, allowing for a historical and genealogical understanding of the spacing of law and politics. READ MORE

  7. 5. Inconclusive Evidence : Spatial Gender Politics at Strawberry Hill 1747-58

    Author : Jan Hietala; Katja Grillner; Louise Pelletier; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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