Social and Political Sciences, School of : Recent submissions
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Governance of primary care quasi-markets: a case study of the Stockholm region in Sweden
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-26)BACKGROUND: In the latter part of the 20th century, several European countries introduced quasi-markets in their public healthcare systems. The introduction of quasi-markets is designed to give patients a choice of the ... -
Symbolic struggle for the Arab Spring: political fields and foreign policy in the Middle East
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-21)In the past decades, the Middle East has attracted the attention of media and researchers all over the world. The balance of power is fluid, state borders are fragile, and national identities are being contested. Thus, ... -
Forest governance, forest dwelling people and construction of environmental subjects: case of REDD+ and Khasis in Meghalaya, India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-31)Drawing on data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and semi-structured interviews (from December 2017-January 2019), this thesis explores the complex relationship between: Meghalaya’s recent ... -
Beyond policy accountability: responses to police abuse by people at Kenya's urban margins
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-31)Police abuse of power has been a persistent problem in Kenya from the colonial era to the present day, and disproportionately impacts people belonging to marginalised groups. Over the decades, there have been calls for ... -
Emancipatory imperative: a critical theory of social transformation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-30)In this thesis, I argue for the importance of an emancipatory imperative in political theory. While early 20th century critical theory offered promising resources for thinking about the liberation from social and economic ... -
Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal childhood adversities via poor infant outcomes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-16)BACKGROUND: The effects of maternal exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be transmitted to the subsequent generation through various biopsychosocial mechanisms. Previous studies have found an association ... -
Divided waters: a hydropolitical analysis of development, space, and labour in N'Djamena, Chad
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-25)This thesis analyses the everyday politics of water in N’Djamena, Chad and its implications for various realms in the urbanscape. Water workers and end-users coexist and punctually collaborate with numerous other ... -
Bittersweet: living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-08)This thesis explores sugar consumption and kin-making in a north Edinburgh neighbourhood, and shows that sugar is central to processes of social relatedness. I argue that sugar reveals the meaning of kinship in Scotland, ... -
What role does family play? The relationship between living arrangements and the well-being of women aged 60 and over in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)In traditional Chinese family life, intergenerational households provided support for older people. Social and cultural changes in the past decades have seen a growing trend towards smaller families and new family ... -
Developing Sustainable Local Childcare Solutions: Summary of Highland Research and Co-production Workshops
(2022)The Covid-pandemic and the public health measures aimed at containing the virus such as lockdowns, physical distancing and self-isolating, radically changed family life and daily routines, and had particularly dramatic ... -
Villages, politics and the everyday statemaking of post independent Zimbabwe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-30)In this thesis I retrieve a stubbornly enduring polity, villages, from the margins of society, and propose that the everyday moments of their inhabitants have been at the core of some of the very important post independent ... -
Institutional performance, public appraisals, and electoral governance in Kenya (2002-2017)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-16)After Kenya adopted a new constitution in 2010, the country embarked on extensive citizen-oriented reforms targeted at improving the performance of key public institutions and Kenyans’ opinions of it. Much scholarly ... -
To GDP or not to GDP? Identifying the factors promoting and inhibiting the use and impact of well-being metrics in Scotland and Italy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-24)Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is frequently used as a proxy for well-being. Such use of GDP is problematic for many reasons, for GDP excludes activities that contribute to well-being and includes others that have a negative ... -
Redefining the great powers: the revisionist model and the emergence of a global regulatory regime for cross-border tax intermediation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-22)The international tax system has been the locus of both international scandals and sweeping regulatory change since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC). Starting with two highly publicised international tax scandals ... -
Inscribing markets, shaping policy: a sociological investigation into the yield curve
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-22)This thesis investigates the central mediating role of a device, the yield curve, in the enactment of sociomaterial agencements in and around the secondary market for sovereign bonds. In part 1, it traces the historical ... -
Holding space: friendship, care and carcerality in the UK immigration detention system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-21)Friendship and care are important as ideas and practices for people navigating the asylum and immigration system in Britain, but are conditioned by the carceral space of the Immigration Removal Centre (IRC). Detention, as ... -
“You have to do everything in your power so that this does not happen to anyone else”. Contention dynamics against the Mexican war on drugs and crime: a case study of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)In 2006, then Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared a ‘war’ against criminal organisations that were beginning to control some of the country’s territories. Consequently, the number of murders and disappearances of ... -
Realising catastrophe: the financial ontology of the Anthropocene
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)This dissertation investigates how the financial risk management practice of catastrophe modelling is redefining the ontology of natural catastrophe. Drawing from and developing the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’, referring ... -
Scarlet letter effect: evidence of a single mother narrative
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-14)The thesis examines the stigmatization of American middle-class single mothers. In doing so, the research questions the extent to which being unpartnered as a mother influences stigmatizing experiences. Furthermore, as the ... -
Understanding the diffusion and adoption of improved cookstove technologies in Uganda through the technological innovation system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-14)About 2.5 billion people in the world rely on the traditional use of solid bioenergy to cook their meals, and in Sub-Saharan Africa almost 80% of the population still cooks with solid bioenergy. Despite the multifaceted ...
