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6. Redistributive regionalism : Narratives on regionalisation in the Nordic periphery
Sammanfattning : During the last decades a stronger role for the regions has developed in many West European countries. To a significant degree this regionalisation trend has coincided with European integration. The key change in the role of the regional level has been with regard to its status as an agent of regional development. LÄS MER
7. Negotiating Memories : Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and negotiate victimhood through narratives after a period of war and mass atrocity and how they are represented in narratives and practices of memorialization. LÄS MER
8. Analyzing Competitive Victimhood : Narratives of recognition and nonrecognition in the pursuit of reconciliation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes the narrative manifestation of competitive victimhood and its variations within reconciliation processes. Competitive victimhood (CV) emerges when opposing groups assert themselves to be the sole or primary victims of conflict or use their historical suffering to rationalize ingroup transgressions. LÄS MER
9. Between Political Party and Armed Group : Understanding Renamo as a Hybrid Party
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the concept of hybridity within the context of rebel-to-party transformation, with a particular focus on Renamo during the period of 2015-2017 in Mozambique. This timeframe was marked by a resurgence of organised systematic violence, disrupting the relative peace that had prevailed in Mozambique since 1992. LÄS MER
10. The Global City 2.0 : An International Political Actor Beyond Economism?
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to increase our understanding of the Global City’s pursuit of what can be regarded as independent foreign and security policies, despite the fact that such policies have traditionally been considered to be a core function of central governments. By studying how the Global City’s role in the globalized world is constructed in local public narratives as the local government develops and pursues specific international policies, the thesis argues, we can come closer to an understanding of what it means to be and to govern a Global City, and why its local government find it to be in the city’s interest to claim international political authority. LÄS MER
