Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "power"

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    • Power and Politics in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Teams 

      Ruiken, Barbara Victoria (Master thesis, 2016-05-30)
      Inspired by a debate in the BJJ community on BJJ politics" and the BJJ Globetrotters' goal of being politics-free", I wanted to find out if they truly were free of politics. As I understand the term, BJJ politics are the ...

    • Power theories in political ecology 

      Svarstad, Hanne; Benjaminsen, Tor A; Overå, Ragnhild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions ...

    • Taming the War Machine: Police, Pacification and Power in Rio de Janeiro 

      Salem, Tomas (Master thesis, 2016-09-08)
      In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio's poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ...