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PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Sciene

Doctor of Philosophy from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Sciene

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

PhD Dissertation from Department of Anthropologi, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

PhD thesis from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

PhD Dissertation from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

PhD thesis from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

PhD Dissertation from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen

PhD thesis from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen

PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

PhD Dissertation from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen

PhD dissertation from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen

PhD Dissertation from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Scienes, University of Copenhagen

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

PhD thesis form University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

This PhD thesis examines how and why the EU developed its discourse about sustainable development over time, and in particular its ability to ‘speak with one voice’ as a supranational actor in international negotiations, attempting to shape but also being shaped by its involvement in multilateral diplomatic processes. More specifically, the thesis looks at how, over the period of 1992-2017, the EU has dealt with the economic dimensions of sustainable development, in particular globalization. Focusing on key summits (UNCED, WSSD, Rio+20 and the SDG process), it draws on and further develops a discursive institutionalist perspective to understand the interplay of discourses and institutions in the EU’s diplomacy and attempt to handle the challenges of a changing economic order and a (multifaceted) crisis of sustainability. In doing so, the analytical categories of the ‘content’, ‘conduct’ and ‘culture of discourse’ is developed and it is argued that only by studying the latter can we uncover the taboos in EU diplomacy that have a significant effect on outcomes.Moreover, the thesis is grounded in debates on ontology and epistemology and brings an array of methods and sources to bear on the empirical research. This includes 27 interviews, 2 x 6 months of participant observation, analysis of video material of key meetings, extensive archive work (ca. 2200 pages of documents from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ archives) and discourse analysis. On the basis of the direct participation in the Rio+20 and SDG negotiations, the thesis offers an insider account. This positionality is used to explore how the EU works diplomatically.

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Political Science

PhD dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Sociology

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Sociology

PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Antropology

PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Political Science

PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

PhD thesis form University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

PhD Dissertion from Department of Politcal Science, Faculty of Social Science,University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“ʻOrden i kaosʼ behandler indsigtsfuldt og gribende de dilemmaer, der dagligt præger det pædagogiske arbejde med børn i Røde Kors Asylafdeling. Børnenes fremtid er uafklaret. Ingen ved, om de og deres forældre får opholdstilladelse, eller om de får afslag og skal rejse ud af Danmark. Konsekvenserne af dette grundvilkår belyses kritisk og nænsomt i et velskrevet speciale, som tilfører vigtig ny viden til området. Alle med interesse for asylarbejde bør læse dette mesterværk.”- Henrik Bang Pedersen, Fagleder Pædagogisk Enhed i Røde Kors AsylBogen er en redigeret udgave af Maise Johansen og Laura Vestergaard-Andersens speciale, der vandt Ib Damgaard Petersen prisen 2016 for bedst at kombinere stor faglig indsigt og engageret faglig formidling.Den øgede flygtningestrøm presser Danmark på mange måder. I bogen er fokus på om og hvordan Røde Kors Asyl som organisation er i stand til at leve op til love og konventioner om at sikre en me-ningsfuld udvikling for asylbørn i en tid, hvor antallet af flygtninge stiger, de økonomiske rammer beskæres og politikerne træffer nye beslutninger på asylområdet.”I en samlet vurdering skal forfatternes store overblik over teori og case fremhæves sammen med en stringent og systematisk tilgang til brug af den komplekse analysemodel, der bidrager til en reflekteret konklusion… Det er en styrke og fortjenstfuldt, at specialet bidrager med indsigt i et område, der kun er sparsomt behandlet inden for politologien, men samtidig udgør et fagligt felt, hvor alle forvaltningsniveauer og private og frivillige aktører i Danmark er udfordret på grund af en øget flygtningetilstrømning.”- Redigeret uddrag fra specialeudtalelsen skrevet af lektor og specialevejleder Hanne Nexø Jensen, og kommunaldirektør og censor Jette Joan Runchel.

This thesis concerns the multiple political forms of Sufi Islam in Pakistan. Although scholars and locals have often associated Sufism with spiritual and folkloristic – and hence overtly apolitical – performances in and around shrines, the thesis explores how Sufi cosmological concepts and practices also amount to more or less explicit forms of political activities and visions. In this sense, Extremists of Love is not only a study of how Sufism is interwoven with the formal politics of state, political parties, and official governance. It is also – and primarily – a study of Sufism’s inherent political potential, of Sufi politics in less visible yet notable and multifarious instantiations within as well as beyond the Pakistani state. I hence argue that the signature of Sufis is evident throughout Pakistani society and politics to an extensive degree.The assessment committee wrote: The committee is unanimous in its praise for this well-researched, engagingly written, boldly pitched, and eminently thought-provoking study. Ethnographic exploration, analysis, and theo­retical elaboration are in a constant dialogue throughout the thesis and the development of the anthropological argument is underscored by that of the ethnographic narrative. Moreover, the author’s presence in the ethnography provides a well-considered reflexive element to the study, which ensures that the bolder claims of the thesis are embedded in a dis-cursive structure that opens her material in a particularly productive and dialogical way.