Essays about: "everyday politics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 60 essays containing the words everyday politics.

  1. 16. Living against the grain of society : the practice of voluntary simplicity

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Diana Fritz; [2021]
    Keywords : voluntary simplicity; simple living; anti-consumption; practice theory; societal change; responsibilization;

    Abstract : Ecological challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss lead to a need for change, but the radical changes that are required seem not to come about. One hot issue debated is who has the power and responsibility to change. This discussion has many different dimensions (e.g. READ MORE

  3. 17. Gymnasielagen "It is nice that it came, but it is a shit law": Experiences and Perspectives of People Affected by One of Sweden's Temporary Migration Laws

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Boukje Fokkema; [2021]
    Keywords : gymnasielagen; limitations; possibilities; temporary residence permits; unaccompanied minors gymnasielagen; möjligheter; begränsningar; tillfälliga uppehållstillstånd; ensamkommande ungdomar; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2017 the Upper Secondary School Act [Hereafter gymnasielag/en] was adopted in Sweden and provided temporary residence permits and a chance of permanent residency to ‘unaccompanied refugee minors’ who previously had been denied asylum. This study includes voices of four young people who have managed to fulfil this journey from temporary permits to permanent. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Reorientation of Borders in the EU: Case studies Sweden, Germany, and France

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Joshua Ndip Ako; [2021]
    Keywords : Borders; bordering; everyday bordering; migration; politics; policy; migrants; immigrants; EU; citizenship; imagine communities.;

    Abstract : The paradox of contemporary migration in the EU is that new actors, rules, and institutions have emerged and created internal spaces where there is a gradual reorientation of the character of EU border regime. These spaces have become arenas where EU member states are re-categorizing, re-scaling, expanding, and diversifying their modes of internal migration control and enforcement. READ MORE

  5. 19. Sorcery and Spiritual Hegemony in Africa

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Marco Lorenzo Abatescianni; [2021]
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    Abstract : In Africa, the spiritual power is at the center of everyday life, politics and religion. Whatcharacterizes this power, in most of the continent, is its recourse to magic and sorcery. READ MORE

  6. 20. Being and making home in the world : A glimpse into the complexity of ordinary life in the Swedish northern village Vittangi

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Maja Söderberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Place; Space; Home; Place-making; Precarity; Phenomenology; Participation; Sweden; Continuity;

    Abstract : Having the Swedish northern village Vittangi as its field, this thesis asks what it is that makes Vittangi feel like home to its inhabitants and, further, how the sense of home motivate its inhabitants to participate in its place-making, i.e., in making it their home. Home is, in the thesis, understood as a subjective experience of rootedness. READ MORE