Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science: Recent submissions
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
This thesis is an exploratory study of informal party politics and competition for party tickets in local politics in India. It is an ethnographic account of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP) and its party members in ... -
Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
Deepening deindustrialisation owing to increased globalisation and technological change has destroyed millions of manufacturing jobs in advanced capitalist economies. Despite the sizeable impacts of these shifts, we know ... -
Humour as Negotiation: Digital Cultures of Friendly Political Humour on the Chinese Internet
This thesis works on the digital cultures of friendly political humour on the Chinese internet, examining the potential of humour in bridging communication and negotiating the hegemonic relationship between the online ... -
Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
This research seeks to establish the deductive premises of the contemporary sustainability concept by building a cultural case study. Beginning with mainstream resource definitions formulated under the sustainability concept ...
