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1. 1. When the first-world-north goes local : Education and gender in post-revolution Laos

   Författare :Ann-Louise Bäcktorp; Britt-Marie Berge; Lars Dahlström; Ulla Ambosius Madsen; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; gender; development cooperation; post-structuralism; post-colonialism; discourse analysis; Laos; ethnography; Education; Pedagogik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of three global issues – development cooperation, education and gender - and their transformation to local circumstances in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Combining post-colonial and post-structural perspectives, it sets out to understand how discourses of education and gender in Laos intersect with discourses of education and gender within development cooperation represented by organisations such as the World Bank and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). LÄS MER

3. 2. Human rights as law, language, and space-making : women’s rights movement in post-revolutionary Egypt

   Författare :Emma Sundkvist; Lena Halldenius; Linde Lindkvist; Mulki Al-Sharmani; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Egypt; Human rights; Women s movement; Post-revolution; Feminist activism; Mänskliga rättigheter; Kvinnorörelsen; Mänskliga rättigheter; Human Rights; Egypt; Human rights; Women s movement; Post-revolution; Feminist activism;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses feminist activists’ use of human rights in post-revolutionary Egypt from 2011 to 2019. Drawing on interviews with feminist activists under three fieldwork trips, the dissertation investigates how: activists tried to implement gender equality in the country’s new constitutions, navigated the shrinking public space after 2013, sustained their activism against sexual violence despite a fragmented movement and repressive politics, and how we can understand contentious streets activism against sexual violence from a human rights perspective. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Power to do Good : Post-Revolution, NGO Society, and the Emergence of NGO-Elites in Contemporary Nicaragua

   Författare :Anna Mattsson; Socialantropologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; development elite; development projects; NGO society; social movements; development discourse; idealism; professionalism;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis critically examines the world of NGOs in contemporary Nicaragua, and suggests connections between the current development 'boom' and the emergence of a materially privileged local development elite, which by means of its cultural and economic capital are in a position to exiercise considerable power in relation to other less powerful strata of the population. It is based on fieldwork conducted in Ocotal, Nicaragua, from June 2000 to April 2003. LÄS MER