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Established in 2001, the School brings together core social scientific disciplines to promote the critical understanding of social and political processes and the development of effective policy and practice through a wide range of teaching and research programmes. The School was formed from the departments (now subject groups) of Politics, Social Anthropology, Social Policy and Sociology; the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies; the Centres of African, Canadian and South Asian Studies; the Science Studies Unit, the Research Centre in Social Sciences and the Institute of Governance. It has recently been joined by Social Work, and now forms part of the College of Humanities and Social Science.
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Populist communication and strategic behaviour on Twitter
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Background While earlier studies on the German right-wing populist party AfD on Twitter have noted a very high frequency of the party’s hashtag use, there is a lack of understanding if this expresses support or opposition ... -
Small-area estimates in local governance: Use of small-area estimates in local governance in the development of service-delivery and resource-allocation mechanisms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)The existing decision-making processes informing local resource-allocation mechanisms across Scotland tend to utilise historic or most recent data on life outcomes and deprivation without placing sufficient emphasis on ... -
Women and religious racisms in Inverclyde: feminised intra-Christian sectarianism and gendered Islamophobia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis re-problematises the issue of intra-Christian sectarianism from the standpoints of women from different denominational backgrounds, social classes and age groups. It foregrounds alternative gendered knowledge, ... -
Limits of liberal plurality: from political identity to strong recognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Through the analysis of liberal theories of plurality and diversity –multiculturalism, interculturalism, nationalisms, cosmopolitanism, communitarianism-, I make a series of arguments regarding the positive recognition ... -
Imagined futures of same-sex couples
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This research explores how older same-sex couples in Scotland imagine their future. While there is a growing number of sociological studies looking at lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) ageing, ... -
How co-innovation anticipates scaling: the modulating function of a co-innovation space
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Characterised as a mindset rather than method, co-innovation is a systems-inspired approach to agricultural innovation activity. The application of co-innovation is underpinned by guiding principles of collaboration, ... -
WTO and technological development of transition economies: the 'crucial case' of Kazakhstan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, former communist republics started the process of integration into the global economy by joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). To become members, transition economies were ... -
Political afterlives of Mexico's dead and disappeared
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This PhD thesis is a study of Mexican activism that aims to show how relatives of Mexico’s disappeared—often without earlier experience of human rights advocacy—become activists protesting violence through public displays ... -
Politics and practises of refugee self-reliance in trifurcated states of north-western Tanzania
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)The Tanzanian government, led by President Magufuli, has implemented a series of shutdowns, which have severely constrained opportunities for livelihoods and selfreliance in refugee camps in North-Western Tanzania. These ... -
Selective citation and the shaping of scientific knowledge: citation network analysis and the diet-heart debate
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Scientific knowledge is based, in part, on empirical evidence. Scientists contribute to a particular evidence-base by publishing the results of their experiments and observations, but in writing their papers they also use ... -
To be or not to be a European Energy Union: drivers of European energy policy from a historical institutionalist perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Energy is of vital importance to the economy of the European Union (EU), safeguarding stability and prosperity for its Member States and citizens. Cooperation in energy policy was enshrined as a cornerstone in the EU's ... -
Clements Kadalie, trade unionism, migration and race in Southern Africa, 1918-1930
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Between 1919 and 1931, Clements Kadalie (c.1895-1951) rose to world-wide fame as general secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU). This thesis reexamines the biography of Kadalie, an immigrant ... -
Scottish space sector and innovation: a PERIpatetic study of an emerging innovation system and the roles of innovation intermediaries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis seeks a more effective understanding of Open Innovation (OI) and the available strategies for its development within (geographically–bound) sectoral systems of innovation (GSSIs). Theoretically, it draws upon ... -
Marginalisation, torture, and gender-based violence: representations of conflict-related sexual violence against men in international law and human rights advocacy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis examines how the issue of sexual violence against men during armed conflict is discursively constituted through both international law and the human rights advocacy activities of international non-governmental ... -
Citizenship, young people and political engagement: how young people make sense of their role as citizens in Scotland and the Netherlands
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Citizenship has become a catchphrase in debates about young people’s political engagement. In many of these debates, citizenship is defined as a practice, often based on things that adults do. It remains unclear how young ... -
Reconsidering disadvantage in the United States: an application of social exclusion to 'big' American data
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Poverty and disadvantage in the United States are commonly defined in terms of low income. Via this measure, in 2015, over 40 million people were deemed as poor. This definition and subsequent measurement neglect the ... -
Faces of shame, masks of development: recognition and oil palm among the Baining of Papua New Guinea
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis explores the role of “shame” in the Vir Kairak Baining people’s understanding of the relationships that underpin positive social change. Previous studies of shame in the context of colonial and postcolonial ... -
Only true philosophers? Charismatic performances of unofficial philosophy in socialist Czechoslovakia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)In this thesis, I explore the phenomenon of unofficial philosophy seminars in socialist Czechoslovakia, focusing on the period from 1968 to 1989. After the democratizing movement known as the Prague Spring was terminated ... -
Order from chaos: agonism and salvation among Khmer Evangelical Christians in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-31)This thesis is about Christian salvation in the Khmer world. It ethnographically investigates the everyday religious experiences of poor-to-middle class Khmer evangelical Christians who have predominantly migrated from ... -
Instrumentalism, power maximisation, or legitimation? Understanding the European Commission’s response to the Global Financial Crisis, 2008-10
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-31)In October 2008, as Europe and the world stood in the midst of unpreceded turmoil on global financial markets, the European Commission launched a process that resulted in a proposal to create a European System of Financial ...
