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1. 16. Living With Bad Surroundings : War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda

   Författare :Sverker Finnström; Per Brandström; Susan R. Whyte; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Uganda; Acholi; political anthropology; existential-phenomenological anthropology; war; armed conflict; displacement; lived experience; Lord s Resistance Movement Army LRM A; LRA ; cosmology; religion; morality; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986. The Ugandan army is fighting a rebel insurgency group called the Lord’s Resistance Movement/Army. LÄS MER

3. 17. Kvinnorörelsen och efterkrigsplaneringen : statsfeminism i svensk arbetsmarknadspolitik under och kort efter andra världskriget

   Författare :Nina Almgren; Lena Eskilsson; Ann-Katrin Hatje; Lisa Öberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :History; women s work; post-war planning; state feminism; women s movement; the Second World War; labour market policy; welfare state; gender; strategies; citizenship; formative phase; Historia; kvinnors arbete; efterkrigsplanering; statsfeminism; kvinnorörelsen; andra världskriget; arbetsmarknadspolitik; välfärdsstat; genus; strategier; medborgarskap; formativ period; History; historia;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis has analysed the relations among the women’s movement, the state and the labour market policy during and shortly after the Second World War and to what extent this period can be characterised as a formative phase as regards gender relations. The aim has been to study women’s strategic actions in order to influence the Swedish Government’s labour market policy in the period from 1939 to 1947. LÄS MER

4. 18. A War of Words

   Författare :Torkel Lindquist; Witold ´Witakowski; Bo Isaksson; Ilan Pappé; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semitic languages - general; terrorism; War on terrorism; defining terrorism; Arabic; Hebrew; terminology of violence; semantics; pragmatics; propaganda; 11 9; ‘the other’; ‘the enemy’; massmedia; press; Israeli press; Arab press; political discourse; extracting a definition from media; Semitiska språk - allmänt; Semitic languages; Semitiska språk; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to come to an understanding of the meanings of words pertaining to acts of political violence in modern Arabic and Hebrew. The semantics of these terms will be established by comparison between the meaning in dictionaries of modern and classical Arabic and Hebrew, the meaning in the Koran and the Bible as well as the meaning we extract from the context in the newspapers where the terminology is found. LÄS MER

5. 19. I want to stay : Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century

   Författare :Olof Blomqvist; Heiko Droste; Annika Sandén; Dan H. Andersen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; War captivity; Prisoners of war; Urban history; History of migration; State-building; Honour; Microhistory; Great Northern War; Eighteenth century; Denmark; Saxony; Sweden; Aarhus; Torgau; Uppsala; historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about war captivity in the early eighteenth century. It is also about the ways in which early modern local communities negotiated their boundaries towards the outside world. The resident populations’ interaction with prisoners of war (POWs) offers unique perspectives on how local communities handled wartime migrants. LÄS MER

7. 20. Military Interventions in Internal Wars : The Study of Peace or the Study of War?

   Författare :Kersti Larsdotter; Helena Lindholm Schulz; Jan Ångström; Ivan Arreguín-Toft; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Afghanistan; civil war; counterinsurgency; insurgency; interdisciplinary; ISAF; military intervention; peace operation; Peace Studies; War Studies; Krigsvetenskap; Krigsvetenskap; Afghanistan; civil war; counterinsurgency; insurgency; interdisciplinarity; ISAF; military intervention; peace operation; Peace Studies; War Studies;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to increase our understanding on how to conduct successful military interventions in internal wars, such as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. But, instead of investigating different variables which might contribute to success, the focus is on the practice of knowledge production. LÄS MER