Sökning: "Kerala"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Kerala.

1. 1. Challenging the gender paradox. women's collective agency in the transformation of Kerala politics

   Författare :Monica Erwér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender and development studies; power empowerment; collective agency; women s interests; gender politics; autonomous feminist network; Left Women s Movement; left parties; Kerala; India;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates gender and power theoretically by linking the field of gender and development with the debates within social movement theory. It builds a framework on the concepts of Empowerment, Agency, Political Field, Organisational Structure, Framing Processes, and Women's Interests and Identities. LÄS MER

3. 2. Experience and Identity : A Historical Account of Class, Caste, and Gender among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930–2000

   Författare :Anna Lindberg; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cashew factories; cashew workers; experience; identity; effeminization; housewifization; dowry; marriage; breadwinner wages; gender discourses; gender ideologies; trade unions; women; gender; caste; class; Quilon; India; Kerala; Sociology; Sociologi; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : Since the 1930s female cashew workers have constituted a majority of the registered workers in the South Indian State of Kerala and today number some 200,000. This group challenged the stereotypical view of Third World women because they were organized into unions, worked in the formal sector, and were literate. LÄS MER

4. 3. Deep Roots and Tangled Branches : Bureaucracy and Collaboration in Natural Resource Governance in South India

   Författare :Marcus Wangel; Hans Blomkvist; Nils Hertting; Daniel Nohrstedt; Victor Galaz; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collaboration; networks; governance; development administration; bureaucracy; public officials; roles; institutional analysis; informal institutions; rules-in-use; political ethnography; natural resource governance; forest governance; common pool resources; India; Kerala; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : This is a study about collaboration within bureaucracies tasked with natural resource management in the contemporary Global South. It seeks to fill a considerable knowledge gap in the extant literature by exploring how individual public officials perceive the policy environment they work in. LÄS MER

5. 4. Den gränslösa hälsan : Signe och Axel Höjer, folkhälsan och expertisen

   Författare :Annika Berg; Karin Johannisson; Jenny Beckman; Roger Qvarsell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of medicine; public health; mother and child healthcare; social medicine; family policy; healthcare administration; international health; development aid; family planning; population; policy transfer; governmentality; gender; expertise; Sweden; India; Travancore-Cochin; Kerala; Ghana; World Health Organization; Signe Höjer; Axel Höjer; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the mutual life project of Signe (1896-1988) and Axel Höjer (1890-1974), a married couple who were key actors in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. It emphasises the ways in which they went about asserting a special public health expertise in different contexts. LÄS MER

7. 5. Development beyond the "status of women" : The Kerala model from a gender perspective, South India

   Författare :Monica Erwér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender and development studies; power empowerment;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER