Sökning: "Nicaragua"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 89 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Nicaragua.

  1. 21. InterNacionalistas : identifikation och främlingskap i svenska solidaritetsarbetares berättelser från Nicaragua

    Författare :Linda Berg; Britta Lundgren; Raoul Granqvist; Beatriz Lindqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; geopolitics; self-images; racialization; spokesman woman; subaltern; identification; Sweden in and Nicaragua; postcolonial studies; postcolonial feminism; estrangement; international solidarity; modernity pre-modernity; development; gender; nationality; Sverige i och Nicaragua; postkoloniala studier; geopolitik; identifikation; främlingskap; internationell solidaritet; modernitet förmodernitet; utveckling; genus; nationalitet; självbilder; rasifiering; talesman kvinna; subalterna; postkolonial feminism; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore what solidarity workers from Sweden narrate about and from activities in Nicaragua. I focus on how identities reflect nationalising, racialising and gendering imaginations, and how these are being handled within the context of an international solidarity movement – with the ambition to strive for global justice. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Lost visions and new uncertainties : Sandinista profesionales in northern Nicaragua

    Författare :Inger Lundgren; Christian Krohn-Hansen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : In Latin American countries where there are few private entrepreneurs, the state has often played a dominant role in the economy and in production and consequently state employees have wielded considerable influence. After the overthrow of the dictator Somoza in 1979, during eleven years of Sandinista rule the Nicaraguan state expanded considerably. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in urban contexts: Integration and challenges

    Författare :Claudia Rivera; Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; mainstreaming; Nicaragua; risk governance; Sweden; urban planning; disaster risk reduction; disaster risk management; Climate change adaptation;

    Sammanfattning : An increasing number of disasters continue to affect urban populations and housing infrastructure. The overwhelming majority of them have been caused by climate-related events. This situation has made the creation of synergies between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk management (DRM) urgent. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Capital Visions : The Politics of Transnational Production in Nicaragua

    Författare :Sofie Tornhill; Maud Eduards; Göran Bergström; Peo Hansen; Diana Mulinari; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational production; Nicaragua; nation-making; neoliberalism; left politics; Free Trade Zones; labor relations; gender; postcolonial feminism; discourse theory; Political Science.; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : In processes of economic integration, neoliberal discourse and corresponding notions of development comprise some of the most readily available imaginaries of political and social interaction and change. However, these processes are always also locally produced and negotiated. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Appropriate Technologies for Soil Remediation in Low Prioritized Region : Developing Countries and Sparsely Populated Regions

    Författare :Henrik Haller; Anders Jonsson; Morgan Fröling; Jaak Truu; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Soil pollution; Bioremediation; Ecotechnology; Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development; Ecological Engineering; Industrial Ecology Developing Countries; Sparsely Populated Regions; Nicaragua;

    Sammanfattning : Contaminated sites in low prioritized regions demand remediation technologies that are cost- and energy-effective and locally adapted. Parameters such as the time frame during which bioremediation degradation needs to occur may not be as restraining as in urban environments. LÄS MER