E-Dissertationen: Auflistung E-Dissertationen nach Autor "Schetter, Conrad"
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Actors’, Ideas and Ideational Realm in Irrigation Management: The Case of Decentralization in Madhya Pradesh, India
Singh, Ruchika (2014-10-24)Decentralization has been considered a panacea for good governance worldwide and pursued with great fervour by international organizations and national government alike. Though experiences worldwide reveal that it is not ... -
Agricultural Expertise and Knowledge Practices among Individualized Farm Households in Tajikistan
Mandler, Andreas (2019-06-03)In the context of the post-Soviet restructuration of the agricultural sector and rural livelihoods throughout Central Asia, the present thesis addresses farmers approach to knowledge in marginal mountainous areas in northern ... -
The Challenge of Governing Natural Resources: A Social Network Analysis of Actors’ Collaboration in Ghana’s Petroleum Sector
Rapp, Johanna (2017-07-20)The PhD thesis investigates the extent of collaboration among actors in Ghana’s petroleum sector. Previous research has either focused on the socio-economic changes enforced upon local communities in close proximity to the ... -
Demystifying the (post-)politics of Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP): An analysis of the what, why, and how of GAP and the operation of development in Turkey from a critical perspective
Bilgen, Arda (2017-07-20)Turkey’s modernization process has been heavily influenced by the strong will and idealistic ambition of the Turkish state to ensure progress and development since the inception of the country in 1923, or even earlier, ... -
Food habits and nutrition security in West Africa: Practices from Southwestern Burkina Faso
Germer, Aminata (2020-10-30)Background: The southwestern part of Burkina Faso (BF) like the whole country faces severe vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity, which is characterised by a cyclical up and down, and particularly by a high rate ... -
Forced Displacement and Development in Host Countries - Resilience as New Concept for Dealing with Situations of Forced Displacement?
Meier, Amrei (2021-03-17)In light of increasing numbers of refugees worldwide, often resulting in protracted refugee situations that affect refugees as well as the development of the countries hosting them the thesis analyzes what contribution the ... -
The 'Good' Legitimacy; The 'Bad' Legitimacy: A Study of Conflict Prolongation through the prism of State Responses towards Maoism in India
Banerjee, Suparna (2022-01-12)2017 marked the five decades of the Maoist conflict within the central heartland of India. Its participants primarily include the marginalised and deprived sections of the society like the Adivasis and lower castes who ... -
International Development and Research in Central Asia: Exploring the Knowledge-based Social Organization of Gender
Kim, Elena (2014-05-23)This doctoral dissertation is a critical inquiry into the knowledge-based processes that guide multi-lateral international collaboration to foster development in post-socialist Central Asia. Adopting an innovative ... -
Language choice as a gate-keeping practice: an exploration into the psycho-social impacts of multilingualism through case studies from the educational and judicial sectors of Pakistan
Nasir, Aftab (2020-01-27)Pakistan is a multilingual and multi-ethnic country: all the provinces have their own regional languages as lingua franca, i.e., Punjabi in Punjab, Pashto in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, etc.; Urdu is the national language, i.e., ... -
(Re-)Constructing Afghanistan?: Rewriting rural Afghans’ Lebenswelten into recent development and state-making processes
Mielke, Katja Manuela (2015-04-22)Afghanistan has been in political turmoil since the late 1970s. The coup d’état in April 1978 was followed by Soviet intervention, civil war, Taliban rule and recent international intervention. This dissertation identifies ... -
Socio-Cultural Implications of the Community-Based Water Management: A Case Study of Gujarat, India
Naz, Farhat (2011-08-04)Failure of the state-led development projects and the growing concerns for participation, in the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This in turn led to a paradigm shift in ... -
Successful Return Migration: A Study of Reintegration Experiences of Filipino Permanent Returnees
Añonuevo, Augustus T. (2019-07-29)Successful return migration is not to be defined based on theories nor by standards and parameters set by societies, institutions and agencies. It is to be conceived from the lived experiences of migrants who have successfully ... -
The unfinished business of decentralisation: political accountability of local government in Ghana: A case study of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality
Arthur, Stephen Nana Ato (2012-08-16)Debates about decentralisation have centered on political accountability of local governments so as to proffer restraint over the exercise of institutional power and authority. This has to do with institutions, procedures, ... -
We Come. We Work. We Relate. The Migrant Labourers in Penang
Lai, Wan Teng (2017-11-22)The PhD-project looks at the everyday work and lives of labour migrants in Penang. They are women and men from Indonesia, Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and The Philippines. The research employed a mixture of qualitative ...