Sökning: "social territory"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 83 avhandlingar innehållade orden social territory.
1. At the limits of state governance : territory, property and state making in Lenje Chiefdom, rural Zambia
Sammanfattning : African state property regimes – embedded in a racialized structure of land ownership that stretches back centuries – are at the center of contemporary land struggles. At present, the Zambian government is appropriating ‘traditional land’, controlled by chiefs and headmen molded through colonial rule, in an effort to bring it into the fold of ‘modernity’. LÄS MER
2. Släktens territorier : en jämförande studie av sociala regelverk i det förindustriella bondesamhället i Dalarna och Hälsingland 1734-1826
Sammanfattning : This study examines how social regulations in pre-industrial agrarian society influenced the location of settlements and patterns of cultivation. The theoretical framework is based on the assumption that the organization and physical features of the cultural landscape can only be properly understood by elucidating the inner structure guiding the result. LÄS MER
3. Reclaiming Territory from Below : Grassroots Environmentalism and Waste Conflicts in Campania, Italy
Sammanfattning : In the course of 2000s, the region of Campania in southern Italy and its capital city Naples became global icons of waste mismanagement after the images of piles of rubbish occluding their urban areas hit the headlines. Conventional explanations, in Italy and elsewhere, pointed to administrative failure, cultural backwardness and mafia infiltration as the main causes of waste mishandling. LÄS MER
4. Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states
Sammanfattning : Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel crop production, farm job creation, and smallholder cash cropping. The expansion of biofuels in countries in the South largely pivoted upon ‘the will to develop’, specifically through the oil shrub Jatropha curcas L. LÄS MER
5. Beyond Transit : Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb
Sammanfattning : The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and other neighbouring European countries. Since the 2000s, these borderlands have become sites of continuous transit migration from the Middle East and Africa. LÄS MER
