Search for dissertations about: "state border"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words state border.
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1. What’s in a Line? : Making Sovereignty through Border Policy
Abstract : The role of borders as dividers between states and markers of territorial sovereignty is central to modern statehood. Whereas the voluntary opening of a state border could therefore appear puzzling, this thesis argues that state sovereignty can be manifested either when states allow borders to become more open or more closed. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the Border : Syrian Policies towards Territories Lost
Abstract : This study furthers our understanding of an often ignored but important and central part of modern politics; the dynamic relationship between territory and state. The republic of Syria, carved out of a much larger territory during the post World War I re-mapping of the Middle East, constitutes the empirical focus. READ MORE
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3. Resistance Through Acting : Ambivalent Practices of the No Border Musical
Abstract : In a context of deportability and bordering practices, this thesis asks questions regarding possibilities and limitations of resistance through community theatre. It sets out from a participatory ethnographic exploration of the working process and performance of the No Border Musical. READ MORE
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4. The Organised Nature of Power : On Productive and Repressive Interventions Based on Considerations of Risk
Abstract : Four interventions are analysed: the activity guarantee for long term unemployed, the customs control of border crossers, the cognitive skills training program and the conditions of incarceration among prison inmates. The interventions are performed by state organisations, based on considerations of risk and involve the exercise of power in a productive or repressive form. READ MORE
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5. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden
Abstract : This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. READ MORE