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16. Kanalbyggarna och staten : Offentliga vattenbyggnadsföretag i Sverige från medeltiden till 1810
Sammanfattning : The Canal issue was on the political agenda in Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1810. That year represents the starting point of the Göta Canal construction and a break in political and scientific canal discussions in Sweden. This dissertation is a contribution to the Swedish history of infrastructure and construction technology. LÄS MER
17. Honorius and the city of Rome : Authority and legitimacy in late antiquity
Sammanfattning : This study examines the importance of the concept of Roma et Augustus, the close relationship between the Roman emperor and the city of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, who reigned in AD 395-423. Rome and the emperor were two of the most important and conspicuous manifestations of Roman civilisation and power, around which much of late antique ideology of authority and legitimacy was formulated. LÄS MER
18. 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
19. Inscription on Stone : Islam, State and Education in Iran and Turkey
Sammanfattning : This study explores the role of education as means of creation and maintenance of religious hegemony in Iran and Turkey. In the context of this study, state-sponsored systems of mass education aim to socialize generations of children into accepting the ideology and values of the dominant groups as the normal state of affairs. LÄS MER
20. The imagined environmental citizen : exploring the state - individual relationship in Swedish environmental policy
Sammanfattning : As environmental problems today are understood as being problems of collective action, they also depend on the broad engagement of individual citizens for their successful solution. Institutions directed towards resolving the environmental situation need, accordingly, to be perceived by the citizenry as promoting acceptable goals, for acceptable reasons and by the use of acceptable means. LÄS MER