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Thailands Farbkonflikt und Protest aus dem Exil: ein Netzwerk thailändischer Politaktivisten im Kontext neuer Handlungsräume
(2020-10-27)
Seit fast zwei Dekaden befindet sich Thailand in einer anhaltenden Krise. Die jüngere Geschichte des Landes ist geprägt von Auseinandersetzungen zwischen demokratischen und autoritären Kräften, aber auch einem Kampf um ...
Industrial Water Pollution in Dongying City, the Yellow River Delta of China: Communication Interfaces between Government Agencies and the Local Population
(2020-07-07)
While China undergone a rapid move from agriculture-based economies to industry production, the extraordinary intensity of economic and social changes triggered environmental problems. Industrial water pollution is ...
'Pooling resources, scattering the family': transnational realities of Zimbabwean post-2000 migrants in the United Kingdom
(2020-12-10)
This thesis analyses how international migration (re)shapes migrants’ family life. Focusing on narratives drawn from purposefully sampled Zimbabwean migrants living in the United Kingdom (UK), it examines how family life ...
Decisions, Practices and Priorities: A Qualitative Study on University Dropout and Personal Development in Panama
(2019-12-19)
This qualitative study examines the relationship between sociocultural factors and community practices connected to university dropouts in Panama. It also examines the outcomes that dropping out has had on former dropouts' ...
Successful Return Migration: A Study of Reintegration Experiences of Filipino Permanent Returnees
(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 ...
Cultural and Institutional Conditions of Anti-corruption Measures in Vietnam, and Lessons from Singapore
(2018-12-06)
Vietnam's struggle against corruption is stuck for a long period regardless of the recognition of the global trillion-dollar pandemic as "internal enemy to national development". There is a shortage of vision, insights, ...
Antwortqualitäten: Zur Vergleichbarkeit von Einstellungsmessungen in standardisierten Befragungen
(2018-12-17)
Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage, inwiefern in standardisierten sozialwissenschaftlichen Befragungen erhobene Einstellungen über Zeit und verschiedene Gruppen hinweg vergleichbar sind. Während ein standardisierter ...
Zwerge, Orks und Space Marines: Eine Betrachtung von Otaku Lebenswelten im modernen Japan
(2019-01-24)
Eine ethnologische, qualitative Studie des kulturellen Phänomens Otaku im modernen Japan, die einen Einblick in die Erfahrungen und Lebensweisen von Männern bietet, die als Otaku bezeichnet werden und/oder sich selbst so ...
Iranian Intellectuals’ Experience of Modern Science
(2020-02-10)
This study examines the picture of European science as it appeared to Iranians’ eyes and their perception of the relationship between new European science and Iranian’s indigenous science. The period on which this dissertation ...
Locally Embedded Adaptation Planning: A trilogy of adaptive knowledge of flood-affected people in Jakarta
(2016-07-22)
Floods increase the vulnerability of the residents of flood-prone areas and affect their everyday lives. Minimizing the impact of floods requires an adaptation plan, especially at the community level. Moreover, cities and ...