Essays about: "Hansalbin Sältenberg"
Found 2 essays containing the words Hansalbin Sältenberg.
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1. Queer Migrants in Sweden: Subjectivities and Spatiotemporal Multiplicities
University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Departing from the field of queer migration, the aim of the thesis is to grasp the experience of queer migrants in Sweden. Inspired by Les Back’s notion of sociology as an art of listening that engages critically with research participants, and guided by feminist sociologists’ methodological contributions, the study is carried out through in-depth interviews with twelve queer migrants from different countries of origin. READ MORE
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2. Between an alternative modernity and alternatives to modernity? - A case study of the Tipnis-conflict within the Bolivian "Process of Change"
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This thesis aims at understanding, from a world-system analytical and decolonial perspective, the structural causes behind the outbreak of the Tipnis-conflict in Bolivia in 2011. Through interviews with representatives from the governmental party MAS and social movements that have taken up different positions in the conflict, and in dialogue with world-system analytical and decolonial theorists, the thesis argues that the conflict to a certain extent can be seen as an articulation of what Colombian social scientist Arturo Escobar regards as a partly antagonistic tension between two different emancipatory projects within the Bolivian “Process of Change”: on the one hand a political struggle against neo-liberalism to form an alternative, more inclusive, modernity while improving the relative position of the Bolivian state in the world interstate system; on the other hand a struggle for transforming Bolivian society beyond the bounds of modernity, in order to form a post-liberal political project that would constitute an alternative to modernity. READ MORE
