Zehra Sayed , Jönköping International Business School (JIBS)
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Doctoral dissertation on Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal
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PhD defence at Copenhagen on resource access in the Indian tribal belt
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Mandira Paul, IMCH, Uppsala University
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Roshni Pramanik, Division of Risk and Societal Safety, Lund UniversityRoshni Pramanik, PhD Candidate at the Division of Risk and Societal Safety, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University, defended her Licentiate thesis entitled ”Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Crisis Response Management – Exploring Conditions for Improving Collaborative Behaviour Across Organizational Borders” on Thurday 26 November 2015, 10.15–12.00. The thesis has some focus on the Indian tsunami disaster management in 2004. Venue: LTH/E House, Room no. 1406, Ole Römers väg 3, Lund. |
Bahirathy Jeeweshwara Räsänen, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
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Helene Ilkjaer, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
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Elida Jacobsen, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
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Jon Skarpeid, Institute of Phlosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTHU), Trondheim
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Mathew Abraham, Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School
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Monica Five Aarset, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
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Samrat Schmiem Kumar, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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Suraj Shakya-Vaidya, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
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Jeevan Baniya, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
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Manoj Ashokrao Kale, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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Anders Lindh, Department of Individual and Society, Malmö UniversityAnders Lindh from the Department of Individual and Society, Malmö University defended his doctoral dissertation on 17th October 2014. The thesis is entitled ”Unity Pervades all Activity as Water every Wave – Principal Teachings and Philosophy of Maharishi Mahesh yogi”. It aims at studying the central teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from the viewpoint of metaphorical language in his commentary chapters I-VI of the Bhagavadgita. Faculty opponent was Professor Sue Brown from Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Indiana, USA. |
Rashmi Josephine Rodrigues, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet
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Jens Wilhelm Borgland, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Dept. of Social Anthropology & the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
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Jason Miklian, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Noragric)
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Umesh Raj Aryal, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
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Abhinav Vaidya, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
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Malin Jordal, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University![]() ![]() Malin Jordal from International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Living Up to the Ideal of Respectability: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Implications for Unmarried Migrant Workers, Single Mothers, and Women in Prostitution in Sri Lanka” on Friday 23 May 2014. The faculty examiner was Senior Research Professor Jeanne Marecek, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA. Venue: Auditorium Minus, Akademigatan 3, Uppsala. |
Jayaseelan Raj, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
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Maryam Nastar, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Lund University
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Brijesh Mainali, Energy and Climate Studies Unit, Dept. of Energy Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
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Emmanuel Raju, Dept. of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund University
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Leif Asplund, Section for Indology, Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University
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Tereza Kuldova, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
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Devika Mehra, Social Medicine and Global Health, Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University
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Carolina Holgersson Ivarsson at the Division of Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
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Kristina Westermark, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University
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Arun Rana, Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University
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Dipti Halder, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering; School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Ashis Biswas, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering; School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Lars Hagander, Section of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University
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Ujjwal Neogi, Unit of Infectious Diseases and Dermatology, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet
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Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo
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Kerstin Schier, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo
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Kashif Saeed Khan, Department of International Environment and Development Studies/Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Chalmers University of Technology
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Rune Bolding Bennike, Department of Political Science, University of CopenhagenRune Bolding Bennike, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, defended his PhD dissertation entitled ”Governing the Hills: Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India” on Friday 24 May 2013. The examination committee consisted of Associate Professor Noel Parker (chair), University of Copenhagen; Professor Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen, Germany; and Professor Allaine Cerwonka, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
In his dissertation, Rune Bennike asks what happens when an increasingly globalised production of places collides with a resilient national order of things in the Himalayan hills. He investigates movements for the establishment of a Limbuwan and Gorkhaland state on either side of the border between eastern Nepal and north-eastern India arguing that these collisions bring out old problems as well as new opportunities in relation to the aspiration for a larger say in local decision-making: While global connections can provide normative leverage to demands for increased local autonomy, the consequence of global connectivity might also be new imperial arrangements of government at distance. Through his engagement with this area, Rune argues that we need to rethink the spatiality of government in order to understand the contemporary conditions for government as well as local autonomy. Rune is now working as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. More information about Rune Bennike and his research. |
Lars Tore Flåten, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo
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Monica Plechero from the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE)
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Karen Vallgårda, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
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Hakim Usoof, Interactive Media and Learning (IML), Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University
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Dan V. Hirslund, Department of Anthropology, University of CopenhagenDan V. Hirslund, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Sacrificing Youth: Maoist Cadres and Political Activism in Post-War Nepal” on Wednesday 5 September 2012. The examination committee consisted of Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University; Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, CNAS France; and Inger Sjørslev, University of Copenhagen. The thesis is an ethnography about young, lower-level cadres in Nepal’s Maoist movement after the 2006 transition to peace. It investigates the mobilization of a new generation of young people to the Maoist’s youth movement and how they are recruited to a program of revolution and self- sacrifice. The overall question explored is what it means to become a revolutionary when the war is over and how it has formed Maoist youth activism and Nepali political culture. Read an abstract of the thesis. |
Md Munjur E Moula, Department of Social Studies/Social Work, University of Helsinki
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Syeda Shahanara Begum, Department of Social Work, University of GothenburgSyeda Shahanara Begum from the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”About Child Poverty – A Bangladesh’s Perspective” on Friday 1 June 2012. The faculty opponent was Professor Tapio Salonen, Malmö University. Venue: Hörsal Sappören, Dept. of Social Work, Sprängkullsgatan 25, Gothenburg. |
Per-Olof Fjällsby, Department of History and Political Science, Karlstad University
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Anne Stenersen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
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Eskil Mattsson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg
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Kerstin Andersson, Division of Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of GothenburgKerstin Andersson, Division of Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, defended her PhD thesis in Social Anthropology entitled ”The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity” at the School of Global Studies, on Thursday 2 February 2012. The aim with the thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. Kerstin focuses her main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. Analysis is closely related to political issues and an analysis include a critical reflection and deconstruction. The discussion is elaborated through the Kolkata intellectuals and Bengali Modernity. The Kolkata intellectuals are vehicles of change, transmitters of ideas and they have had a key function in social, political, cultural and intellectual movements in Bengal during the last centuries. The faculty opponent was Professor Jonathan Friedman, EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), Paris, France. More information. |
Mattias von Brömssen, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Tazeen Saeed Ali, Karolinska Institutet
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Anders Widmark, Division of Iranian Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala UniversityAnders Widmark from the Division of Iranian Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University defended his doctoral dissertation thesis entitled ”Voices at the Borders, Prose on the Margins: Exploring the Contemporary Pashto Short Story in a Context of War and Crisis”, on 24 November 2011. It is a study of contemporary Pashto prose writing in a context of war and crisis based on a corpus of digitally published and/or printed short stories from the 1990s onwards. Out of this larger corpus, 16 stories have been selected and analysed under four topics: ”The Terrorist”, Female agency: Representations of and by, ”The Madman”, and Axtar: Longing for peace or imaging disillusion. A central idea is that the analysis should be text-oriented, but the contextualisation of the analysed texts is a secondary important focus. The faculty opponent was Profesor Christina Oesterheld, Dept. of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Heidelberg, Germany. More information including link to full-text thesis. |
Sirajul Islam, Örebro University School of Business
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Dag Erik Berg, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, NorwayDag Erik Berg, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway, defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Dalits and the Constitutional State. Untouchability, Dalit Movements and Legal Approaches to Equality and Social Justice for India’s Scheduled Castes” on Wednesday 12 October 2011. His main supervisor has been Professor Bruce Kapferer. The thesis deals with Dalit issues in a broad sense, focusing on the role of Dr. Ambedkar and his dynamic status for Dalits of today in India.
Dag Erik Berg held a trial lecture on the same day, talking about ”The Politics of Caste and the Language of Corruption”. |
Kathryn Lum, European University Institute in Florence, ItalyKathryn Lum, Research Assistant at the Dept. of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute in Florence, Italy, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”How Caste Works: Forging New Identities in a Punjabi Ex-Untouchable Community in Catalonia, Spain” on Monday 10 October 2011. Kathryn has previously completed her MA at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Kathryn has previously completed her MA at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. |
Faisal Saeed Syed, Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm University
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Maria Jonstrup, Department of Biotechnology, Lund UniversityMaria Jonstrup, Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Treatment of textile wastewaters using combinations of biological and physico-chemical methods” on 29 September 2011. The faculty opponent was Professor Bert Allard, School of Science and Technology, Örebro University. |
Winnie Bothe, Dept. of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
This development approach is seen by an increasing number of people as a refreshing alternative to the conventional development models that often take growth as their main target. But how is it actually practiced in Bhutan and how does this influence the way in which the rural inhabitants are constructed as citizens? The thesis addresses questions of how local governance reforms are diverted by national discourses on citizenship, ones that serve to traditionalize the local citizens into roles as supplicants rather than promoting self-determining citizens. Thus, even if donors have success in localizing governance it may not result in the form of citizenship donors would like to see. The committee to assess the thesis consisted of Associate Professor Anders Berg-Sørensen, Dept. of Political Science, University of Copenhagen; Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg, Dept. of Sociology, Lund University; and Professor Michael Hutt, SOAS, University of London, UK. Venue for the dissertation: Dept. of Political Science, Copenhagen University, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, entrance E. More information. |
Iselin Frydenlund, University of Oslo
The evaluation committee consisted of Professor John C. Holt, Bowdoin College, USA; Professor Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh, UK; and Professor Anne Stensvold, University of Oslo. More information about the thesis. |
Mohsin Saeed Khan, Karolinska Institutet
Mr. Khan has 17 years of public health experience working for Government of Pakistan and multilateral, bilateral and international NGOs including World Bank, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, CIDA, DFID, GTZ, EC, British Council and National AIDS Control Program as a Health Systems Specialist. During 2009, Mr. Saeed Khan was also a member of SASNET’s South Asian Reference Group. |
Aakash Chawade, Gothenburg University
The faculty opponent was Professor Tapio Palva, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Read the full-text thesis (as a pdf-file) |
Mashiur Rahman, Lund University
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Katarina Plank, Lund University
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Kh Md Nahiduzzaman, KTH
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Johan Borg, Lund University
Deprived of human rights, more than half of all people with disabilities in developing countries live in extreme poverty. Although considered a prerequisite for equalization of opportunities, about nine out of ten of those who need assistive technologies do not have access to them. Little is known about the socioeconomic benefits of using assistive technology in low-income countries that can inform policies and strategies. The aim of the thesis was therefore to expand the understanding of the relation of assistive technology use to human rights and poverty in these countries. This is approached theoretically and empirically. Poverty is studied in terms of deprivation of capabilities as defined by Amartya Sen. |
Elke Rogersdotter, University of Gothenburg
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Overview dissertations 2010Saima Hamid Division of Global health (IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Becoming a Woman in Silence: Studies on preparedness for reproductive life of young women in Pakistan” at IHCAR on 8 December 2010. The study explores the preparedness of young women for married life (communicating with spouse, initiation of sexual activity and child bearing) and ability to negotiate in marriage with spouse on number of children to have and on contraceptive use. In a culture of silence around sexuality, young women’s socialisation into submissiveness lays the foundation for the lack of control over their future reproductive health (I and II). The parents realised, though, that bringing up daughters for marriage requires not only obedience, but also building confidence and knowledge during their childhood (III). Women who had decision making freedom in their parental home carried this ability with them into marriage in their new home and were better able to negotiate about their fertility (IV). Knowledge about reproductive life could prepare young women better for the future life and give them more control of their fertility. Innovative interventions targeting women need to challenge current societal norms of womanhood to promote the upbringing of confident and knowledgeable young women. The faculty opponent was Associate Professor Pia Olsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University. More information, including link to full-text thesis. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stephen Cohen, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., USA; Prof. Tor Halvdan Aase, University of Bergen; Prof. Pamela Gwynne Price, IAKH, University of Oslo; and Prof. Ute Hüsken, IKOS. More information on the dissertation (only in Norwegian)
The study reveals that females were twice as likely to dropout of school/college as males. The risk factors for school/college dropout for both males and females were migrant residential status, living in an extended family and low socio- economic status. Furthermore, females exhibited a higher level of awareness about STDs and HIV/AIDS than the males, irrespective of whether they had dropped out of school or not. Venue: Rockefeller Hall, Nobels Väg 11, Solna Campus, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. The Assessment Committee consisted of Associate professor Lisanne Wilken, Aarhus University; Professor Mary Hancock, Department of Anthropology and History, University of California, USA; and Professor Sharon MacDonald, School of Sciences, University of Manchester, England. The external examiner was Dr. Zoe Radnor, Associate Professor, Warwick Business School, UK. The main aim of the thesis was to determine whether Balanced Scorecard hospital management application is feasible in the context of a low- income hospital setting, to identify organizational culture, as well as design the scorecard and describe the contextual barriers and strategic processes that hinder or facilitate its implementation. More information, with a link to the full-text thesis. |
Overview dissertations 2009Matilda Palm, Physical geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg University, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Land Use in Climate Policy – Forest Based Options at Local Level with Cases from India” on Friday 27 November 2009. Faculty opponent was Associate Professor Emily Boyd from the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK. The thesis tries to give an improved understanding of the local, regional and global implications of different initiatives on land use change. It was motivated by a perceived lack of local case studies exploring the contexts of climate policy. The thesis is based on fieldwork conducted mostly in the south Indian state of Karnataka, in collaboration with the Centre for Ecological Science and the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. Venue for the dissertation: Stora Hörsalen, Geovetarcentrum, Guldhedsgatan 5A, Gothenburg. More information.
Ananda Edirisuriya, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Design Support for e-Commerce Information Systems using Goal, Business and Process Modelling”, on Tuesday 20 November 2009. Faculty opponent was Prof. Michael Petit, Computer Science Faculty, University of Namur, France. Mr. Edirisuriyahas s worked as a senior lecturer in the Dept. of Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka, and has been involved in a split PhD program for Sri Lankan doctoral students organised by Stockholm University/KTH (more information). His main research interest is IT systems in business process management, and enterprise modelling.
Tamanna Ferdous, Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, defended her doctoral dissertation thesis entitled ”Determinants of Functional Impact of Nutritional Status Among Older Persons in Rural Bangladesh” on Tuesday 22 September 2009. It deals with the fact that malnutrition is a major problem in Bangladesh. One third of the population in Bangladesh is malnourished, but figures for older persons specifically are scant. The thesis describes the nutritional status of individuals aged 60+ years, living in a rural community in Bangladesh, with particular focus on the impact of demographic, health and social factors on nutritional status. The faculty opponent was Prof. Birgitta Sidenvall, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University. More information.
Jawad Ali, Dept. of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, defended his doctoral dissertation project titled ”Deforestation in the Himalayas: Mainstream views, institutional failure and ‘alternative systems’. A case study from Northern Pakistan”, on Wednesday 10 June 2009. The evaluation committee was headed by Dr Are Knudsen, Research Director, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen. Jawad Ali has studied the ongoing deforestation in northern Pakistan, and has found that local fuelwood collection is not the main cause. Instead, the estimated deforestation of about 30% during the last three decades is primarily due to commercial harvesting and mismanagement by the government. A large amount of dead fallen wood and green trees was sold by the government or was taken out by a “timber mafia” that emerged during the main period of commercial harvesting in the 1970s and 80s. Tanvir Ahmed, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Vaccination against cholera and ETEC diarrhea and interventions to improve vaccine immune responses” on 10 June 2009. Vibrio cholerae O1 and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) together account for the majority of bacterial causes of acute dehydrating diarrhea in children in Bangladesh. Vaccines should be considered as an important public health tool for prevention of these diarrheal diseases. The results of Dr. Ahmed’s studies give important background information regarding the possibility of inducing effective immune responses to oral inactivated enteric vaccines in young children in developing countries. More information. Anisur Rahman, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University defended his doctoral dissertation project titled ”Prenatal Arsenic Exposure and Consequences for Pregnancy Outcome and Infant Health: Epidemiological Studies in Bangladesh” on Tuesday 19 May 2009. Anisur Rahman has worked on arsenic exposure in pregnancy and effects on foetus and child. He has also been affiliated to the Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. The aim of this thesis has been to analyse possible effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on foetal and infant health. The setting is Bangladesh, where two cohorts were studied, both part of a health and demographic surveillance system in Matlab. The faculty opponent was Prof. Gunnar Nordberg, Dept of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University.More information. Magdalena Bjerneld, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University defended her doctoral dissertation titled ”Images, Motives, and Challenges for Western Health Workers in Humanitarian Aid” on Wednesday 17 May 2009. The faculty opponent was Prof. Lars Dahlgren, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health Science, Umeå University. The thesis presents how humanitarian aid workers were attracted, motivated, recruited, and prepared for fieldwork, and how they reported their work experience directly from the field and when they returned home. Data were derived from interviews with experienced aid workers, focus group discussions with presumptive aid workers, analysis of letters from aid workers in the field on MSFs homepages in Europe, and from interviews with recruitment officers at some of the main humanitarian organisations. More information. AKM Masud Rana, Division of Geriatric Epidemiology; Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society (NVS); Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Impact of Low Cost and Health Promotion. Intervention in Improving Health and Health-related Quality of Life of Elderly persons in Rural Bangladesh” on 24 April 2009. Dr. Masud Rana works for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) in Dhaka since 1993, but has pursued his doctoral dissertation project at KI. The thesis suggests that the provision of community-based health promotion intervention among older people could help to both reduce the burden of arthritis-related illness and its related healthcare expenditure, and improve their health-related quality of life. More information, incl. link to full-text thesis.
More information, including abstract. Fazlul Karim, Division of Global health (IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Gender matters: Understanding of access barriers to community-based tuberculosis care in Bangladesh” at IHCAR on 17 April 2009. The thesis concludes that sex differences exist at different clinical steps for TB control. Women compared with men, encountered longer delays at various clinical stages for TB treatment. The adverse effects of stigma both reflected and worsened gender inequalities. Gender disparities were evident in the patterns of distress, perceived causes, and help seeking behaviours, affecting more women, whilst TB-related financial distress affected more men. The estimated true period prevalence of smear-positive PTB was high in the community, and almost all socio-economic groups were at risk of TB. More information, with link to full-text thesis.
More information on his 2009 PhD thesis. Interview with Dr. Geir Heierstad in the Norwegian online research magazine, forskning.no, 3 January 2011 (only in Norwegian).
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Overview dissertations 2008PhD candidate Sachitra Kumari, Division of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies, Göteborg University, defended her Licentiate thesis titled ”A Study of War-Affected Children in Sri Lanka” on Thursday 18 December 2008. The thesis aims to build up an analytical model for studying rehabilitation programmes for children in Sri Lanka, with a view to future research. Ms. Kumari is also lecturer at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. More information. Md. Aziz Hasan, Dept. of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Arsenic in alluvial aquifers in the Meghna basin, South-Eastern Bangladesh: Hydrogeological and geochemical characterisation” on Wednesday 5 November 2008. Mr. Hasan is also connected to the Department of Geology, University of Dhaka. The study reveals that the local and regional scale variations in groundwater composition, levels of As concentrations and the redox conditions are governed by the geological attributes of the aquifers. Groundwater in the grey to dark grey argillaceous sediments where organic matter and micas are abundant contain high concentration of dissolved As. High concentrations of As and salinity are the major constraints for groundwater development in the Holocene alluvial aquifers of the Meghna basin. Abstraction of groundwater from the Holocene deeper low-As aquifers for drinking purposes should thus be be properly guided to minimise the risk of cross-contamination and installation of high-capacity irrigation wells in the deeper aquifers must be avoided for sustainable drinking water supplies. Read the full dissertation (as a pdf-file)
An article about the dissertation was published in Nerikes Allehanda on 8 October 2008. Read the article titled ”Indisk veterinär disputerar i Grythyttan på giftig bakterie”. Eystein Dahl, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Time, tense and aspect in early Vedic grammar. A time-relational approach to the morphosyntax-semantics interface” on 5 September 2008. The opponents were Prof. Georges-Jean Pinault, Sorbonne University, Paris, France and Prof. Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University, USA. More information. Antarin Chakrabarty, Dept. of Urban Design and Planning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Communicative Planning and Democratic Decentralisation in India – Case of Kolkata City” on Friday 22 August 2008. The thesis entails a constructive critique of communicative planning theory from a historical materialist perspective. The experience of Kolkata shows that a more communicative and democratic planning structure can evolve out of a process that originated with completely opposite strategies of extra-parliamentary politics and open class-confrontation. The opponents were Prof. Tore Sager, Dept. of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU; Prof. Arild Engelsen Ruud, Dept. of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo; and Dr. Maria Nyström, Design for Sustainable Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.
Farzeen Tanwir, Dept. of Periodontology, Institute of Odontology, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm, will defend his doctoral thesis titled ”Absence of toothache syndrome. Oral health and Treatment needs among urban Pakistanis” on Thursday 12 June 2008. The general aim of the thesis was to survey oral health and oral treatment needs among an adult population from a deprived area in Karachi, acquiring baseline data for future treatment strategies and research. The results show that among urban adult Pakistanis, oral health is not perceived as a major concern and has low priority. No association was found between poor oral health and educational levels or socio-economic status. In this population with poor oral hygiene, diabetics have more missing teeth and a higher prevalence of peridontitis. Faculty opponent will be Associate Professor Lars Gahnberg, County Council of Göteborg. More information.
Henrik Liljegren, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Towards a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Hindu Kush” on Monday 2 June 2008. The dissertation is intended to provide a grammatical description of the Indo- Aryan language Palula, spoken by approximately 10,000 people in Chitral District in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. No study with the scope and detail of the current work has been presented in the past for this little-known language, and it is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the immediate surrounding of the Hindu Kush region. Faculty opponent was Professor Peter E. Hook, University of Virginia, United States. More information.
Rasmus Wendt, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”TRIPs in India – An analysis of the impact of global governance on political processes in India and the wider institutional settings for the pharmaceutical industry” on Friday 28 March 2008. His point of departure has been how WTO’s TRIPs agreement has impacted upon access to medicine, which was the core-issue during the South Africa court case on the medicine act in 2001. The assessment committee members were Laurids Lauridsen, RUC, Jørgen Dige Pedersen, University of Aarhus, and Prof. Wolfgang Hein, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Farzana Munshi, Dept. of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Essays on Globalization and Occupational Wages” on 12 March 2008. The discussant was Associate Professor Karolina Ekholm, Department of Economics, Stockholm University. The thesis evaluates empirically how globalization has affected occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. Three aspects of globalization – openness to trade, openness to capital and offshore-outsourcing – are examined in four self-contained essays. The first two essays evaluate the effects of increased trade liberalization on the wage gaps between skilled and unskilled workers in the Bangladesh manufacturing sector. The third and the fourth essays analyze the effects of globalization on occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. More information, with link to full-text thesis. Matilda Nicklasson, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation titled ”Studies on the expression and regulation of enterotoxins and colonization factors in enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (ETEC)” on Thursday 31 January 2008. The results are based on studies of ETEC bacterias from patients at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common causes of acute watery diarrhoea in developing countries, particularly among local children less than five years and is also the most common cause of diarrhoea in travellers to ETEC enemic areas. The infection is transmitted by ingestion of contaminated food and water and the disease is established in the small intestine Colonization factors (CFs) on the bacterial surface mediate adhesion to the intestinal epithelium and diarrhoea is manifested by the actions of a heat-stable (ST) and / or a heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin. Two of the most common CFs in strains isolated world-wide are coli surface antigens 5 (CS5) and 6 (CS6). In this thesis the expression and regulation of these important virulence factors as well as the genetic variability among ETE strains have been studied. More information.
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Overview dissertations 2007
The day after the dissertation, Kristina was interviewed by the Lund University’s Student Union magazine Lundagård. The article was titled ”Att halka rätt”. Read the article (as a pdf-file, in Swedish only) Grethe Fochsen, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International health (IHCAR) at Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm, defends her doctoral dissertation titled ”Encounters with power: health care seeking and medical encounters in tuberculosis care: experiences from Ujjain District, India”, on Friday 14 December 2007. In the thesis, Grethe Fochsen examines health care seeking and medical encounters in the context of TB care in a rural district in Madhya Pradesh. More specifically, the study focuses on how relations of power between health care providers and patients are created, altered and maintained during medical encounters in a diversified health system. More information. Jennie Håkansson from the Dept. of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Behavioural aspects of conservation breeding: Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) as a case study” on Friday 23 November 2007. The thesis deals with endangered species of animals that currently are involved in conservation breeding programs worldwide. Conservation breeding deals with propagation of captive populations, often with the ultimate aim of releasing animals into the wild. However, an alarmingly high proportion of reintroductions have not been successful in establishing viable populations, possibly due to behavioural problems caused by genetic adaptation to captivity. During the project, behavioural studies have been carried out in zoos in Sweden, Denmark and India as well as in the field in the Himalayas of Northern India, where red junglefowls live wild in the jungle. More information with a link to the full-text thesis.
Muhammad Kamrul Islam from the Division of Social Epidemiology and Health Economics, Lund University (in Malmö), defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Essays on Social Capital, Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health. A Health Economic Study”, on Thursday 1 November 2007. Venue: Lilla Aulan, Medical Research Center (MFC), entrance 59, Universitetssjukhuset UMAS in Malmö. Faculty opponent was Professor Terkel Christiansen, Odense, Denmark.
S. M. Abdul Quddus, Dept. of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”The Unfeasibility of Professionalization of Primary-School Teachers in Bangladesh. An Analysis of the actors and factors, 1971-2001”, on Friday 22 June 2007. Venue: Auditorium, Ulrike Pihls hus, Professor Keysers gate 1, Bergen. Faculty opponent is Professor Geoffrey Wood, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath, England. More information.
Several mitigation methods have bee tried out, including sand filters and chemical filters against arsenic. Another way is the collection of rainwater or using filtrated floodwater. However, the most feasible method is actually to bore deeper wells, that is, deeper than the prevalent 20-30 meter level. Local masons who are engaged in well boring are skilled in predicting arsenic by seeing the colour of sediments. So they can be enthrusted with this task. Jakariya has also imvolved local people including women in the planning of new and deeper wells, which can serve the local communties. He uses what he calls a Participatory Geographical Information System, in which the villagers can see the prevalence of arsenic wells and where the situation for drawing water is safe. They are also asked to contribute 20 % of the cost for digging new and deeper wells. The faculty opponent was Prof. Jan Hoinkis, University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany.. Read the full dissertation (as a pdf-file)
Tamanna Ferdous from the Division of Geriatric Epidemiology; Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society (NVS); Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm defended a Licentiate thesis titled ”Prevalence of Malnutrition and Determinants of Nutritional Status Among Elderly People: A Population-Based Study in Rural Bangladesh” on Wednesday 31 January 2007, 09.00. This study reports a high prevalence of malnutrition among elderly people in rural Bangladesh. In order to reduce the proportion of the undernourished worldwide, it is important to address this subset of the population. This research also shows that malnutrition is associated with both disease and non-disease related factors. Venue: Aging Research Center, Gävlegatan 16, 8th floor, Stockholm. More information. Serge Axenov, Iranian Languages, Section for Asian and African Languages and Cultures, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, defended his doctoral dissertation about ”The Balochi Language of Turkmenistan: A corpus-based grammatical description” on Friday 19 January 2007. Faculty opponent was Dr. Elena Bashir, University of Michigan, Chicago, USA. More information with abstract.
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Overview dissertations 2006Rodrigo Tavares, Division of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Understanding Regional Peace and Security: A Framework for Analysis” on 15 December 2006. The thesis has an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. Faculty opponent was Elzbieta Stadtmuller from the Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. More information about the thesis.
Ingegerd Landström, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University defended her doctoral dissertation titled ”Towards Collaborative Coastal Management in Sri Lanka?: A study of Special Area Management planning in Sri Lanka’s coastal region”, on 8 December 2006. The thesis deals with the efforts on the part of the Sri Lankan government to bring about collaboration involving state, civic, and private players regarding the use of land and natural resources in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, which were hit by the tsunami in 2004. Faculty opponent was Prof. Erik Westholm, Högskolan Dalarna, Campus Falun. Andreas Nordin from the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Göteborg University defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Pilgrimsfärder i Himalaya – interaktion med gudomliga aktörer” (Pilgrimages in the Himalaya – Interaction with Divine Actors) on Saturday 2 December 2006. It focuses upon fundamental regularities in pilgrimages, in the form of ritual interaction with culturally postulated divine actors in the Tibetan and Nepalese Himalayas. Faculty opponent was Prof. Illka Pyysiäinen, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. More information about the thesis (with abstract, only in Swedish). Jan Heegård Petersen from the Dept. of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, defended his PhD thesis “Local case-marking in Kalasha” on Thursday 2 November 2006. The research deals with Kalasha, an Indo-Aryan (“Dardic”) language with about 4,000 speakers in the Hindu Kush mountains in Northwest Pakistan, and is based on fieldwork in the region. Petersen has previously published studies of the phonetics and grammar of the language. The thesis is a study of the case endings and postpositions in Kalasha. Read the full dissertation (as a pdf-file) Erik Johansson from the Division of Housing Development and Management, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Design and Outdoor thermal Comfort in Warm Climates. Studies in Fez and Colombo” on Friday 15 September 2006. Faculty opponent was Prof. Koen Steemers, Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. The main objective of the research project has been to deepen the knowledge on how urban climate and thermal comfort vary within the studied cities in relation to urban design. In Sri Lanka Johansson worked in cooperation with the University of Moratuwa. Venue: Lilla Hörsalen, Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, Sölvegatan 26, Lund. More information on the project.
Mats Bergenhorn from the Division for Islamology, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Öppna universum! Slutna traditioner i Salman Rushdies Satansverserna” (Open the Universe. Secluded Traditions in Salman Rushdie’s ’Satanic Verses’), on Wednesday 7 June 2006. The thesis contains discussions about Hindutva, migration and ethnicity, especially in the United Kingdom. Faculty Opponent was Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Read the abstract.
Catarina Nyberg from the Dept. of Education, Stockholm University, defended her doctoral dissertation on 7 June 2006, with a thesis titled ”Flerkulturella identifikationer i ett svensk-uganda-indiskt sammanhang” (multicultural identities in a Swedish–Ugandan–Indian context). It is a study of three generations of Hindu and Muslim people of Indian origin coming to Sweden after they were expelled from Uganda in 1972. Dr. Nyberg is now working at Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, CEIFO, an inter-disciplinary research unit at Stockholm University. Its principal aim is to coordinate and develop research in the field of international migration and ethnic relations. Read the abstract of the thesis.
Johan Burman, Marine Geology; Department of Earth Sciences, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes in Recent and Subfossil Littorinidae Shells – a high resolution method for paleoenvironmental reconstructions” on Friday 2 June 2006. Faculty opponent was Associate Professor Dan Hammarlund, Dept. of Geology, Lund University. The research deals with stable isotopes using gastropods as a tool to deduce present and past (paleo)-monsoon variability, and the the thesis consists of five papers and manuscripts. One of the papers deal with material from the Indian Ocean. Read an abstract of the thesis (as a pdf-file).
Björn Alm, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”The un/selfish leader. Changing notions in a Tamil Nadu village” on Wednesday 5 May 2006. The thesis explores notions of selfishness, as they were perceived by people in the village of Ekkaraiyur, Tamil Nadu, India, at a time they associated with thorough changes in their lives. It focuses on the censure of the alleged corruption of their leaders, and is based on fieldwork carried out in Ekkaraiyur between 1988 and 1990. Faculty opponent was Dr. Jens Lerche, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, UK. Venue: Auditorium 4, House B, Stockholm University, Frescati. Read the abstract (with a link to the full-text dissertation). Elke Rogersdotter, Dept. of Archaeology and Sami Studies, Umeå University, defended her licentiate thesis ”The Forgotten: an Approach on Harappan Toy Artefacts” on 14 March 2006. Faculty opponent was Ass. Prof. Per Cornell, Dept. of Archaeology, Göteborg University. The work is based on a study of toy identified artefacts from the urban, Classical Harappan settlement at Bagasra in Gujarat, India. More information and abstract of the thesis.
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Overview dissertations 2005Jan Nilsson, Division of Geriatric Epidemiology; Dept. of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society; Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm, defended his doctoral dissertation ”Understanding health-related quality of life in old age: A cross-sectional study of elderly people in rural Bangladesh”, on Friday 16 December 2005. It was made within the framework of the PHILL project (Primary Health-Care in Later Life: improving services in Bangladesh and Vietnam), that the Division of Geriatric Epidemiology is involved in. Dr. Nilsson currently works as Regional Health Coordinator för IFRC, dealing with Japan, China, Mongolia, North and South Korea. He is based in Beijing, China. More information about the thesis .
Jonas Lindberg from the Dept. of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation project titled ”Education for all in times of global transformations: Aspirations and opportunities of poor families in marginal areas of Sri Lanka” on Friday 9 December 2005. Faculty opponent was Prof. Holger Daun, Institute of International Education (IIE), Stockholm University. Go for the full thesis (as a pdf-file). Darley Jose Kjosavik from Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) in Ås defended her PhD thesis titled ”In the Intersection of Class and Indigeneity: The political Economy of Indigenous People’s Development in Kerala, India”, on Saturday 3 December 2005. Kjosavik originally comes from Kerala, and her resarch focuses on property rights dynamics and the effects of decentralised and neoliberal development for indigenous communities in highland Kerala. Besides the thesis she has also written a couple of publications together with Dr. N. Shanmugaratnam at the same department, papers that will be published during 2006. Read abstract of Kjosavik’s thesis (as a pdf-file). Syed Masud Ahmed from the Division of Geriatric Epidemiology; Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society (NVS); Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Exploring health-seeking behaviour of disadvantaged populations in rural Bangladesh” on Friday 4 November 2005. Opponent was Prof. Finn Diderichsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Ahmed is a Public Health physician with professional expertise in designing and conducting clinical and public health research including social science research. His articles have been widely published in peer reviewed national and international Journals. He is working at BRAC Research and Evaluation Division in Dhaka, Bangladesh. More information about the thesis, with a link to the full-text document. Åse Piltz from the Dept. of History and Anthropology of Religion, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Seger åt Tibet! Den tibetanska diasporan och den religiösa nationen” (Victory to Tibet! The Tibetan Diaspora and the Religious Nation), on Saturday 22 October 2005. The thesis focuses on images of Tibet, among Westerners as well as among Tibetans. Based on approximately one year of fieldwork in the former British Hill station, it also deals with the politics of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and some of its political and social implications for the exiled Tibetan youth living in Dharamsala, India. Faculty opponent was Dr. Axel Kristian Strøm, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. More information with abstract.
Roger Schweizer, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University defended his doctoral dissertation, titled ”An Arranged Marriage under Institutional Duality – The Local Integration Process between Two Globally Merging MNCs’ Subidiaries” on Monday 19 September 2005. Discussant was Professor Rikard Larsson, Dept. of Business Administration, Lund University. Read the abstract.
Ulla Thoresen, Indic Religions Division, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR), Lund University, defended her Licentiate thesis on ”The Tulku institution: Traditionalism and Modernity among Tibetans living in exile in India” on Friday 10 June 2005. Faculty Opponent was Dr. Axel Kristian Strøm, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. Read the thesis as a full text document (pdf-file). Sagarika Ekanayake, Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Potential of Canavalia gladiata as a food ingredient – nutritional and functional aspects”, on Wednesday 1 June 2005. The thesis deals with the tender fruits of sword beans (Canavalia gladiata), eaten as a green vegetable in Sri Lanka, and how methods could be developed to increase the utilization of sword beans for human consumption. Faculty opponent is Professor Ulf Svanberg, Division of Food Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg. More information with abstract.
Minhaj Mahmud from the Dept. of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh” on 1 April 2005. The thesis deals with the concept of trust, decreased significantly as the stake size was increased in a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh. Read the abstract.
Cora Alexa Døving, Department of Culture Studies, University of Oslo, will defend her doctoral dissertation on ”Pakistani-Norwegian Funeral Rites – A Study of Migration”, on Friday 11 February 2005. The project deals with the creation and re-establishment of burial practices amongst Pakistanis in Oslo. It focuses partly on the entrepreneurs, mainly as leaders of different welfare organisations, who have established a large contact network both in the Pakistaniani milieu, and also with different Norwegian institutions who are involved with various aspects of death. First opponent is Associate Professor Barbro Blehr, Dept. of Ethnology, Stockholm University. More information (in Norwegian only). |
Overview dissertations 2004Göran Viktor Ståhle, Division of Psychology of Religion, Dept. of Theology, Uppsala University, defended his doctoral dissertation called ”The Religious Self in Practice at a Hindu Goddess-Temple: A Cultural Psychological Approach for the Psychology of Religion”, on Friday 17 December 2004. The thesis is a study of a Durga temple in Varanasi, India. Faculty opponent was Professor Nils G Holm, Dept. of Religious Studies, Åbo Akademi, Finland. . More information with abstract.
Elizabeth Mathai, Division of International Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm, defended her doctoral thesis about ”Genital and urinary tract infections in pregnancy in southern India. Diagnosis, management and impact om perinatal outcome” 15 December 2004. Read the abstract. Ann Aldén, Missiology with Ecumenical Theology, Ecclesial Studies; Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society: A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters”, on Saturday 11 December 2004. Her study is focused on Thich Nath Han in Vietnam, and Aloysius Pieris in Sri Lanka, two persons involved in a dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. Faculty opponent was Professor Paul Knitter, Xavier University, Cincinatti, USA. More information. Ravinder Kaur, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University Centre (RUC), Denmark, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Narratives of Resettlement. Past, Present and Politics among 1947 Punjabi Migrants in Delhi”, on Friday 10 December 2004. At the occasion Ravinder Kaur gave a lecture on ‘Order in chaos. The Indian State and its role in Partition’. The Assessment Committee members were Steen Bergendorff, Roskilde University; Professor Paul Brass, University of Washington; and Professor Gyan Pandey, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Camilla Orjuela, Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Civil Society in Civil War: Peace Work and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka” on Friday 3 December 2004. Faculty oppoment was Dr. Kumar Rupesinghe, Chairman of the Foundation for Co-Existence (FCE), based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read the abstract. Kristine Höglund, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Violence in the Midst of Peace Negotiations: Cases from Guatemala, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka” partly related to the conflict in Sri Lanka, on Friday 3 December 2004. Faculty opponent was Professor Roy Licklider, Rutgers University, USA. The focus of her research has been the role of violence in peace processes, and under what circumstances incidents of violence tend to disrupt peace negotiations. Read the abstract (as a pdf-file). Ann-Kristin Jonasson, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”At the Command of God? On the Political Linkage of Islamist Parties”, on Friday 26 November 2004. It is a comparative study of Islamist parties in three countries (Turkey, Jordan and Pakistan), focusing on their political linkages and the way these parties relate to the people of their respective country. Faculty opponent is Prof. Lars G Svåsand, University of Bergen. More information with abstract. Mojibur R. Doftori, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland, defended his doctoral dissertation on 12 November 2004. The title of the published dissertation is ”Education and Child Labour in Developing Countries: A Study on the Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in Bangladesh and Nepal”. Faculty opponent was Tuomas Takala, Professor of Comparative Education, University of Tampere. More information with link to full paper (as a pdf-file) Mirja Juntunen, Section for Indology, Dept. of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”The Town Plan of Jaipur: Its Sources and Narrations”, on Friday 10 September 2004. Faculty opponent was Prof. Nalini Balbir, Université de Paris-III (UFR Orient), France. More information with abstract.
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Overview dissertations 2003Ingun Bruskeland Amundsen from the Oslo School of Architecture, AHO, Norway, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Sacred Architecture and the Dzongs of Bhutan. Tradition and Transition in the Architectural History of the Himalayas” on 12 December 2003. Faculty opponents were Dr Anne Chayet, Institut d’Études Tibétaines, Instituts d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, France; and Prof. Attilio Petruccioli, Polythecnic of Bari, School of architecture, Como, Italy. More information on her research in an article from The Journal of Bhutan Studies in 2001. Amirtalinkam Cellaiya (Amirthalingam Selliah), Dept of Theology; History of Religions, Uppsala University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Murukak katavul valipatu. A Study of the Worship of God Murukan in Malaiyakam on Ilam and in Tamilakam”, on Monday 8 December 2003. The dissertation focuses on the act of worship of Murukak katavul, as it is continuously practiced and developed as Tamil heritage in Sri Lanka. Faculty opponent was Professor S Pathmanathan from Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka. More information on the dissertation.
Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University defended her doctoral dissertation on ”‘Our Fury is Burning’ – Local Practice and Global Connections in the Dalit Movement”, on Friday 7 November 2003. The thesis focuses on the cultural discourses as well as the organizational aspects within the contemporary Dalit movement in India. Faculty opponent was Martin Fuchs, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. More information. Wimal Pathmasiri from the Division of Pharmacognosy, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, defended his Licentiate thesis on ”COX 2 Inhibitors of Natural origin: Dereplication, Isolation, and Structure Eludicidation”, on 3 November 2003. Pathmasiri, coming from Sri Lanka, has been doing research on Srilankan medicinal plants and herbal preparations. Read abstract of the thesis. Monica Erwér, Dept of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU), Göteborg University defended her dissertation on ”Transforming Politics; Gender, Power and Agency in Kerala, South India”, on Thursday 30 October 2003. Faculty opponent was Prof. Gita Sen from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. The thesis focuses on the development and the emerging gender politics in terms of negotiations between the state and collective actors such as the feminist network and the left women’s movement in South India, possibilities and constraints of empowerment. Read the abstract. Martin Gansten, Dept of History of Religions, with emphasis on Indic Religions; Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Patterns of Destiny: Hindu Nadi Astrology”, dealing with astrological divination in South India, on Tuesday 30 September 2003. Faculty opponent was Prof. Robert Zydenbos, Institut für Indologie und Iranistik, Department für Asienstudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Read the abstract. Christer Norström, Dept of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, defended his doctoral dissertation on “They Call for Us. Strategies for securing autonomy among the Paliyans, hunter-gatherers of the Palni Hills, South India”, on Friday 19 September 2003. Faculty opponent was Professor Alan Barnard, School of Social and Political Studies (Social Anthropology), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Read the abstract (as a pdf-file). Rathnasiri Premathilake from the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, defended his doctoral thesis on ”Late Quaternary Palaeoecological Event Stratigraphy in the Horton Plains, Central Sri Lanka with contributions to the Recent Pollen Flora” at Stockholm University, on Wednesday 4 June 2003. Premathilaki has been involved in a sandwich programme with the Dept. for Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University; and with the Dept for Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University. Faculty opponent was Prof. Francoise Gasse, Université Aix-Marseille III, France. More information. Kristina Lejonhud at the Dept of Human Geography, Karlstad University, defended her dissertation on ”Indian Villages in Transformation – A longitudinal study of three villages in Uttar Pradesh” on Friday 13 June 2003. The thesis dealing with the changing nature of Lifeworld and Farming System in Village India, based on a study of Chamaon Gram Sabha, Varanasi, has been written under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Gustafsson, and Prof. Rana P B Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. The latter in 1977 published a book on the village community of Chamaon Gram Sabha, which has been taken as starting point by Kristina for her research, and the place for her field studies 1994–2001. More information. Ekkehard Lorenz at the Indology section, Dept of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, defended his BA level thesis in Classical Indology on ”Mahidasa Aitreya in the work of Madhva”, Tuesday 10 June 2003. The opponent was Associate Professor Erik af Edholm, Dept of Comparative Religion, Stockholm University.
Sanjeeva Witharana from the Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration, Department of Energy Technology; at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, defended his Licentiate thesis on ”Boiling of refrigerants on enhanced surfaces and boiling of nanofluids” in May 2003. Witharana has dedicated his thesis to his motherland Sri Lanka. More information, with link to the full thesis. Marie Thynell from PADRIGU, Dept of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University, defended her dissertation on ”The Unmanageable Modernity. An Explorative Study of Motorized Mobility in Development” on 5 April 2003. The thesis is an explorative study of a neglected area in International Political Economy and Development Studies. The study includes a comparison of the historical evolvement of motorization in the Third World capitals of Brasília and Teheran; as well as a comparison of the handling of current urban transport problems in Rome and New Delhi, India. Read the abstract. Malin Arvidson from the Dept of Sociology, Lund University, defended her dissertation on ”Demanding Values. Participation, Empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh”, on Friday 14 March 2003. Faculty opponent was Dr. David Lewis, London School of Economics, Centre for Civil Society. Read abstract.
Cathrine Brun from the Dept of Geography, University of Trondheim, Norway, defended her doctoral thesis on ”Finding a place. Local integration and protracted displacement in Sri Lanka”, Friday 31 January 2003. The day before she held her trial lecture on ”Forced migrants, refugees or IDPs? Consequences of labelling on identity formation and entitlements in Sri Lanka”. More information on the dissertation. |
Overview dissertations 2002Per Ståhlberg from the Dept of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, defended his dissertation on ”Lucknow Daily: How a Hindi Newspaper Constructs Society” on Friday 20 December 2002. Faculty opponent was Dr Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. More information. Ram Gupta, Dept of Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway (and webmaster of Nofsa-Net), in November 2002 presented his hovedfag thesis (M.Phil. degree), on ”A shift in Dharma – changes in conceptualisations of faith among second-generation Hindus in Oslo”. More information, with a possibility to download the complete thesis. Elisabeth Eide from the Institute for Media and Communication, Oslo University, defended her dissertation on ”’Down there’ and ’up here’. ’Europe’s Others’ in Norwegian feature stories”, on Saturday 23 November 2002. Faculty opponents were Karen Ross, Coventry University, U.K., and Torsten Thurén, Stockholm University. Read abstract of dissertation. Ellen Kristvik from the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, defended her doctoral thesis on ”Nepali Sex Workers: Narratives of Violence and Agency” on Friday 8 November, 2002. Faculty opponents are Dr. Sophie Day, Goldsmiths University, London, and Dr. Tone Bleie, Christian Michelsens institutt, Bergen. Venue: Ragnar Frisch‚ auditorium (Ullevål kino). More information.
Anna Godhe, Marine Botany, Department of Marine Ecology, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Benthic and pelagic dinoflagellate stages: environmental settings, cyst viability, and molecular identification” on Saturday 18 October 2002. The thesis deals with marine microalgae that produce toxins which can accumulate in shell- fish and fish and hence pose a threat to human health, on the south-western coast of India. Faculty opponent was Marianne Ellegaard, Associate Professor, Dept. of Botany, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Read the abstract (as a pdf-file). Olavi Hemmilä from the Dept of Comparative Literature, Högskolan Dalarna, defended his PhD thesis on ”A Yogi Comes to Town: Indian religious thinking as reflected in Swedish fiction with special focus on the works of Dan Andersson”, on 14 september, 2002, at the Dept of General and Comparative Literature, Stockholm University (where the dissertation has been made). Ingrid Nyborg from Noragric, Centre for International Environment and Development Studies, Agricultural University of Norway, defended her doctoral thesis ”Yours Today, Mine Tomorrow? A Study of Women and Men’s Negotiations over Resources in Baltistan, Pakistan”, on 28 August, 2002, at Noragric in Ås. More details with abstract. Anne Waldrop, at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, defended her doctoral thesis on ”A Room with One’s Own. Educated Elite People in New Delhi and Relations of Class” on Friday 21 June, 2002. Faculty opponents were Prof. Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, and Prof. Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen. The thesis concerns the educated elite in New Delhi, with particular reference to the way they sustain their privileged class position. Clemens Cavallin, at the Dept of Religious Studies, Göteborg University, defended his dissertation on ”The Efficacy of Sacrifice. Correspondences in the Rigvedic Brahmanas” on Friday 31 May 2002. Faculty opponent was Erik Reenberg Sand, Copenhagen University. Read the abstract (as a pdf-file). The thesis is based on an examination of linguistic characteristics, especially the nominal sentence, and some features of the system of correspondences are analysed. Mr Cavallin was originally trained at the former Dept. of Comparative Philology with Sanskrit. Mikaela Ståhl Högberg, at the Dept of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, defended her Licenciat thesis on ”Improved Feeding Systems Leading to Higher Milk Yield for Indian Dairy Buffaloes”, on Friday 31 May, 2002, at SLU, Ultuna. More information. Masud Hossain from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Regional Conflict Transformation: A Reinterpretation of South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)”, on 25 May, 2002. Kimmo Ketola, Department of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, defended his doctoral dissertation titled ”An Indian Guru and His Western Disciples Representation and Communication of Charisma in the Hare Krishna Movement” on 11 May 2002. The thesis focuses on the charisma of Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a branch of Vaishnavism that has spread very rapidly throughout the Western world. The aim of the study was to describe and analyse the nature of the charismatic representations held by the disciples in such a way that insight into the processes of their acquisition and transmission can be gained. Read the full thesis (as a pdf-file) Jürgen Offermanns, Dept of History of Religions, with emphasis on Indic Religions; Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Der lange Weg des Zen-Buddhismus nach Deutschland: vom 16. Jahrhundert bis Rudolf Otto”, on 10 May 2002 dealing with the European reception of Buddhism. Read abstract. Tek Nath Dhakal, Dept. of Management Studies, Tampere University, Finland, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in the Improvement of Livelihood in Nepal”, on 3 May 2002. Read abstract with link to the full-text dissertation. Dr. Dhakal is now back in Nepal, at the Dept. of Public Administration, Tribhuvan University. Kristin Hansen at the Dept of Social Anthropology, Oslo University, defended her doctoral thesis on ”Thoughts, Feelings and the Significance of Social Ties as Invoked by a Family of Vaishnava Mendicant Renouncers in Bengal”, on 3 May, 2002. Faculty opponents were Prof. Ann Grodzins Gold, from Syracuse University, New York; and Prof. Harald Thambs-Lyche, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. More information. Therése Hindman Persson, at the Dept for Economics, Lund University, defended her doctoral thesis on ”Economic Analyses of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries”, primarily based on research in Bangladesh, on 13 April 2002. Faculty opponent was Dr. Andrew McKay, University of Nottingham, UK. More information. |
Overview dissertations 2001Eldrid Mageli at the Institute of History, Oslo University, defended her doctoral thesis on ”NGO Activism in Calcutta 1973–1997. Exploring Unnayan”, on 3 November, 2001. Faculty opponent: Prof David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University, USA. More information. Benoit Guieysse, Dept. of Biotechnology, Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, defended his doctoral thesis on ”Innovative Bioreactors for the Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons”, on 1 November, 2001. Read the abstract. Anna Lindberg at the Dept of History, Lund University, defended her doctoral thesis on October 13, 2001. The title of the thesis is: ”Experience and Identity: A Historical Account of Class, Caste and Gender among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930–2000”. Abstract. Viveka Persson at the International Nutrition Research Group, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, defended her PhD thesis: ”Vitamin A intake, status and improvement using the dietary approach, Studies of vulnerable groups in three Asian countries” on Monday 8 October, 2001. Abstract. Axel Kristian Strøm at the Dept of Social Anthropology, Oslo University, defended his doctoral thesis on ”Continuity, Adaptation and Innovation: Tibetan Monastic Colleges in India”, on October 3, 2001. Faculty opponent: Charles Ramble, The Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University. More information. Sidsel Hansson, at the Dept of History of Religions, Lund University, defended her doctoral thesis on September 28, 2001. The title of the thesis is ”Not Just Any Water. Hindusim, Ecology and the Ganges Water Controversy”. Abstract. Finn Madsen, at the Institute for History of religion, Copenhagen University, Denmark, defended his doctoral thesis on September, 13, 2001. The title of the thesis is ”Social development in the Hare Krishna movement”. Abstract. Hans Hadders at the Dept of Social Anthropology, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, got his so called ”Hovedfagsoppgave” on ”The Gift of the Eye. Mortuary ritual performed by the Jadopatias in the Santal Villages of Bengal and Bihar, India”, published in the Spring 2001. Brief summary. Zarina Nahar Kabir at the Division of Geriatric Epidemiology, Department of NEUROTEC (Clinical Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy and Elderly Care Research), at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, defended her doctoral thesis “The Emerging Elderly Population in Bangladesh: Aspects of their Health and Social Situation”, on May 17, 2001. Abstract. Åsa Tiljander Dahlström at the Dept of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University defended her doctoral thesis ”No Peace of Mind – The Tibetan Diaspora in India”, on June 6, 2001. Abstract of the dissertation. Ranjula Bali Swain, Dept. of Economics, Uppsala University, defended her doctoral thesis titled ”Demand, Segmentation and Rationing in the Rural Credit Markets of Puri, India”, at the department on 4 April 2001. Faculty opponent was Dr Sonia Bhalotra, Senior Economist at Cambridge University, UK. Read the abstract. |
Overview dissertations 1996 – 2000Henrik Berglund at Dept of Political Science, Stockholm University, defended his doctoral thesis on ”Hindu Nationalism and Democracy: A Study of the Political Theory and Practice of the Bharatiya Janata Party”, on 12 December, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation. Julie Wilk, Dept. of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Do forests have an impact on water availability? Assessing the effects of heterogeneous land use on streamflow in two monsoonal river basins”, on 8 December 2000. More information with abstract. Ingrid Widlund, Dept of Government, Uppsala University, defended her thesis on ”Paths to Power and Patterns of Influence. The Dravidian Parties in South Indian Politics”, on 7 October, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation. Madelene Ostwald, Dept of Earth Sciences/Physical Geography, Göteborg University, defended her doctoral dissertation on ”Local protection of tropical dry natural forest, Orissa, India”, on 26 May, 2000. Abstract of the dissertation. Mahfuzar Rahman, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Health and Environment, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Nonmalignant Health Effects of Arsenic Exposure”, on 14 December 1999. Faculty opponent was Dr. Per Gustavsson, Karolinska Institutet Medical University. More information with abstract of dissertation. Håkan Tropp, Dept. of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Patronage, Politics and Pollution. Precarious NGO-State Relationships: Urban Environmental Issues in South India”, on 15 January 1999. More information with abstract. Pernille Gooch, Division of Human Ecology, Department of European Ethnology, Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation ”At the Tail of the Buffalo: Van Gujjar Pastoralists between the Forest and World Arena” at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, on 4 November 1998. Faculty opponent was Professor Tim Ingold, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Manchester University, Manchester, England. More information with abstract Åke Edén , Dept. of Economic History, Göteborg University, defended his doctoral dissertation ”Hävstången. Agrarkooperativa utvecklingsförsök i Östbengalen/Bangladesh 1860-1984”, on 27 February 1998. Four years earlier Dr. Edén published his Licentiate thesis on a similar subject, titled ”East India Company’s Indienpolitik före 1773”. Sten Widmalm, Dept. of Government, Uppsala University, defended his thesis on ”Democracy and violent separatism in India: Kashmir in a comparative perspective”, on 2 June, 1997. Abstract of the dissertation.
Bengt G Karlsson, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, defended his doctoral dissertation on ”Contested Belonging: An Indigenous People’s Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal” at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Lund University, in 1997. Read the book.
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