Social and Political Sciences, School of : Recent submissions
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Azadi activists abroad: transnational activism in the New Kashmiri Freedom Movement
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)The Kashmir movement for azadi, or freedom, from India is rooted in pre-Partition mobilisation, but has evolved over time. With the end to the violent resistance throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, a predominately ... -
American imperialism, anthropology and racial taxonomy in the Philippines, 1898-1946
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Racial classification and taxonomy of the population in the Philippines was formed primarily based on the colonial perception of race. In the time of the Spanish colonial era that spanned across three centuries, the ... -
Turkish fathering today: an enquiry and discussion arising from the views of Turkish fathers and Turkish young people
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Our knowledge of parenting is determined by what mothers usually do for children and ‘fathering’ is described by comparing it to mothering. Fathers, as far as their relationship within their families is concerned, are part ... -
Twenty first century contact: young people in care and their use of mobile communication devices and the Internet for contact
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Under Section 34 of the Children Act 1989 local authorities have a legal duty to make every effort to ensure that a child in care can maintain links with his/her birth parents and other wider family members. For a child ... -
‘What nursing’s all about’: the caring ideal and ambivalence to ‘profession’ in nursing’s occupational discourse
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis examines the occupational discourse(s) of a group of nurses working on a single medical unit in a Scottish NHS hospital, in light of debates concerning the contemporary function and focus of nursing. There ... -
Private health insurance in China: a multilevel examination of its prevalence and distribution, and the impacts on access to healthcare and financial protection
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Introduction: The role of private health insurance (PHI) in efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a matter of intense academic and policy debate. The government of the People’s Republic of China has sought ... -
Quickening steps: an ethnography of pre-birth child protection
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis is a study of pre-birth child protection practice in the Scottish context. The ‘quickening’ in the title refers not just to the movement in utero of the unborn babies at the centre of this research, but also ... -
Constructing legitimacy: an ethnography of the struggle for financial capital in two Paris-based private equity funds
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This dissertation uses an original qualitative empirical material (two ethnographic observations of private equity funds and 44 interviews with managers of these funds) to investigate how fund managers construct their ... -
Pigs, people, pathogens: health and multispecies relations in Central Uganda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis describes the convergence of health and sickness in pigs and people in central Uganda. Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic research, the chapters of this thesis trace diseases along the pig supply ... -
Tree of knowledge, tree of life: materials, intimacy and being Creole in London and Seychelles
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis interrogates discourses of kreolite (Creoleness) in the small island state of Seychelles, and among the Seychellois diaspora in London. While the literature on creolization often treats it as mobile and ... -
Biosocial journeys: care and community in experiences of body-focused repetitive behaviours
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis follows the emergence of a biosocial community and shows the importance of social relations for British and American people living with body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs). It is based on sixteen months ... -
Life as-we-don’t-know-it: research repertoires and the emergence of astrobiology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis presents an ethnographic study of the repertoires, sets of social and material practices, that scientists adopt to practice and promote the search for life in the universe, commonly known today under the ... -
Seeing like a second city: contested development in the African townships of late colonial Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1949-1977
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis is a historical ethnographic study of late colonial planning and development in the racially segregated townships of a southern African city – Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). It analyses how the municipal ... -
Local government party politics and ANC councillor representation: the dynamics of council decision-making in South Africa
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)Councillors serving as elected representatives of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa have increasingly gained a poor public reputation and decline in electoral support since 2006. Community perception ... -
Traveller community and health practitioner stories of self and each other: a poststructural narrative analysis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)Research attention to Gypsy and Traveller health has grown in recent decades and highlights significant inequalities in health and access to services experienced by these groups. Existing work in this area tends to ... -
“But they’re gay though”: how LGBTQ+ audiences are queering contemporary drama
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)Previous research and the existing literature on LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender, Queer) representation in the media has neglected to examine how LGBTQ+ audiences are actively queering media in order to fill ... -
“I am who I am because of who I was” – refiguring childhoods through Colombian former child soldiers’ stories
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)The recruitment and use of children in war are common characteristics of modern conflict. In 2017, the Child Soldiers World Index reported that at least 46 States still recruit and use children under the age of 18 into ... -
‘Most of the days is really, really good’: narratives of well-being and happiness among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and the Gambia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis demonstrates resilience and the ability to enjoy life despite hardships. While most studies of refugees and asylum seekers focus on issues of trauma and ill-health, this thesis attends to both positive and ... -
Amphibious researchers: working with laboratory automation in synthetic biology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis analyses the use of robots and automation in academic biosciences laboratories in the UK. Both system vendors and policymakers argue that robots, specifically liquid-handlers and robotic arms, offer more ... -
Politics of partnership in UK and Scotland: understanding governance in obesity policy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)Background Partnerships are now established as a dominant governance tool in global and public health. In the UK, successive governments have viewed partnership with the food industry as a legitimate and effective tool ...
