Sökning: "politics of presence"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 63 avhandlingar innehållade orden politics of presence.
11. Bureaucratic politics and weapons acquisition : the case of the MX ICBM program : (in two volumes)
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is about the process by which the armed forces of the United States acquire weapons of war. In order to elucidate the U.S. weapons acquisition process, it examines in detail the history of the controversial MX intercontinental ballistic missile program. LÄS MER
12. How Do You Become a Successful Beggar in Sweden? : An inquiry into the images of begging and giving 2011 to 2016
Sammanfattning : My first encounter with a begging person led me to spend five years investigating the new situation regarding begging and giving in Sweden. The premise is that every-day actions and reactions to another person can be made visible through aesthetics with ethical underpinnings. LÄS MER
13. The politics of undocumented migrant childhoods : Agency, rights, vulnerability
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I investigate the paradoxical characteristics of political struggles that take place in relation to undocumented migrant childhoods. Drawing on ethnographic research in Birmingham, UK and Malmö, Sweden between 2014 and 2017, I take as my starting point the everyday life experiences of children and families who have experienced living under an immanent risk of deportation. LÄS MER
14. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
15. Promised Lands : Memory, Politics, and Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER