Sökning: "social taboo"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden social taboo.

  1. 1. The Water Taboo : Restraining the Weaponisation of Water in International Conflict

    Författare :Charlotte Grech-Madin; Ashok Swain; Anders Themnér; Gil Merom; Aaron Wolf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Water weaponisation; water taboo; international armed conflict; international relations; norms; international law; environmental security; Kargil War; Gulf War; India; United States; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Why do nation states in conflict with one another refrain from weaponising water? Water has long been a standard weapon of armed conflict. In the post-World War II period, however, nation states in international conflict have made concerted efforts to restrain its weaponisation. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Understanding the polarization of responses to genocidal violence in Rwanda

    Författare :Theogene Bangwanubusa; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; popular support; obedience; genocidal violence; grassroots thinking; elite; informal elite; social power; ordinary people; war-displaced people; immigration; social taboo; social pact; mixed ethnic relations;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti successfully resisted the genocidal violence, while Murambi fell prey to large-scale violence. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Så nära får ingen gå? En studie om sexualitet, funktionshinder och personlig assistans

    Författare :Julia Bahner; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sexuality; disability; personal assistance services; independent living; policy;

    Sammanfattning : The general aim of the thesis is to explore how sexuality is understood, described, responded to and organized in Swedish personal assistance services (PAS); that is services to people with impaired mobility. Previous research has demonstrated the struggle for disabled people to be acknowledged as sexual beings in a culture where dominant ideals of sexuality exclude disabled bodies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Forests, Spirits and High Modernist Development : A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and Vietnam

    Författare :Nikolas Århem; Hugh Beach; Jean Michaud; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Katu; Katuic; Nge; Ngeq; Kriang; Vietnam; Laos; Sekong; shifting cultivation; animism; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how Katuic-speaking indigenous groups in the Central Annamitic Cordillera of Vietnam and Laos understand their environment – hills, streams and forest. Katuic eco-cosmology assumes that the natural landscape is imbued with spirit agents, with whom people must continuously communicate lest misfortune will strike and their livelihoods fail. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Prohibitive Condition : The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders

    Författare :Caroline Karlsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; incest taboo; political theory; psychoanalytic theory; queer theory; political order; performativity; remainder; incest taboo; political theory; psychoanalytic theory; queer theory; political order; performativity; remainder;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the political nature of the incest taboo, with an analytical focus on its object of prohibition: incest. From the perspective of political philosophy, the incest taboo appears as problem of an unruly human nature that must be subjected to a foundational civilizing law. LÄS MER