Essays about: "ethnic constitution"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 essays containing the words ethnic constitution.

  1. 11. Negotiating Individual and Group Citizenship through State Creation in Nigeria

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Nengak Daniel Gondyi; [2013]
    Keywords : Nigeria; Citizenship; State Creation; Identity; Ethnicity; Nationalism;

    Abstract : Nigeria operates a citizenship model which recognizes the rights and belonging of ethnic and culturally identified groups (ethnos) as distinct from, and prerequisite to those of individual citizens (demos). The rights of the ethnos are enforced at the sub-national (state) level of the Nigerian federation and are embodied in the exalted position granted in Nigeria’s constitution to indigenous ethnic groups and serve as a precondition to the rights of the individual citizens within the demos. READ MORE

  3. 12. From Constitutional Law to Reality: A Field Study on the new Kenyan Constitution’s Affects on Land Conflicts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gabriel Lindén; [2013]
    Keywords : constitution; conflict; land; Kenya; implementation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this field study it is examined how the new Kenyan constitution, approved in 2010, has affected conflicts related to land. The study is based on a combination of quantitative data, conducted through standardized interviews with 90 people living in areas affected by land disputes, and qualitative data, gathered through deep-interviews with seven policy experts, all being differently involved in the constitutional reform work. READ MORE

  4. 13. Intersecting Inequality : An Interpretative Minor Field Study of Inequality in Bolivia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV

    Author : Maria Erlingsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Bolivia; Charles Tilly; Inequality; Durable inequality; Intersectionality; Gender; Ethnicity; Class;

    Abstract : This Bachelor thesis is an interpretive study, where the material has mainly been gathered through ethnographic methods, with thematically opened interviews and observations providing the primary data. A field study was conducted in Bolivia during the months of November and December of 2009; in La Paz in the Western highlands, including some interviews in the fast growing suburb El Alto, as well as in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the Eastern lowlands. READ MORE

  5. 14. An Institution of Benevolent Despotism? An Examination of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Helena Paulsson; [2011]
    Keywords : ethnic constitution.; consociationalism; Dayton agreement; Bosnia; High Representative; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Kriget i Bosnien och Hercegovina tog slut för 15 år sedan. Daytonavtalet reglerar villkoren för fredsbyggandet i landet. Annex 4 i Daytonavtalet består av Bosniens konstitution. Konstitutionen innefattar flera aspekter av maktdelning mellan de tre konstituerande folken, bosniaker, kroater och serber. READ MORE

  6. 15. The postcolonial relationship between Danes and Greenlanders in contemporary Greenland - A phenomenological study of identity forming in a post-colonial context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Frida Björklund; [2011]
    Keywords : Phenomenology; Meaning constitution analysis; Sphinx Lexica; Greenland; Post-colonialism; The dialogical self; Intersectionality; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study has a phenomenological approach and examines perceptions of a post-colonial situation held by subjects in Greenland This research has the dialogical self theory as its theoretical framing and applies an intersectionality perspective that operates with the categories ethnicity, diaspora and class. The work is based on self rapports of 15 Danish, 22 Greenlandic and 1 Faroese subjects within different positions in society who reside on the Greenlandic west coast. READ MORE