UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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A never-ending journey at the external borders of the European Union.
(2014)This thesis addresses the management of EU’s external borders and flows of (irregular) immigrants from Morocco to Spain. Over recent years, there has been growing concern in the European Union about (irregular) immigration ... -
Finding the only possible truth: A study into the genocidal narratives that Rwandan students encounter and the way Rwandan students weave their own single narrative and corresponding truths about the genocide
(2014)Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, an entire new generation exists which did not experience the genocide directly. What these young people know is what they have learned from people who did experience the genocide: ... -
Inquisitive semantics and implicature
(2014)Inquisitive semantics tries to solve the issue of modeling questions that exists in semantics. Using the accompanying logic, InqL, this thesis shows the basics of inquisitive semantics as seen in Ciardelli and Roelofsen ... -
Early Modern English Trade Correspondence: The Variation of Three Linguistic Features in 16th-Century Written Correspondence from the York Merchants Adventurers Guild
(2014)This thesis observes the variation of three distinct linguistic features in correspondence of the York Merchant Adventurers Guild between 1530 and 1580; variation of ye/you in subject position, the third person singular ... -
War beyond the gun: An investigation into the success of Colombia's 'April 19th Movement'.
(2014)This thesis investigates the struggle of Colombia's April 19th Movement (M-19), principally through the lens of Collective Action Theory with a view to explaining how the M-19 managed to gain so many concessions from the ... -
Youth is wasted on the Young. An analysis of Corporations and Youth Empowering Opportunity Structures in Myanmar
(2014)This thesis researches how corporations in Myanmar create youth empowering opportunity structures, despite the costs of investing in low-skilled workers and the alternative of hiring high-skilled workers from abroad. The ... -
Zwarte Piet Contested: Tolerance and the (re)production of the Zwarte Piet tradition in the Netherlands
(2014)The aim of this research is to gain insight in how the discourse surrounding the Zwarte Piet tradition in the Netherlands has been produced and consumed through Dutch media in correlation with Dutch national identity. ... -
De aantrekkingskracht van de pinksterkerk in Buéa, Kameroen.
(2014)In deze thesis wordt bekeken wat de aantrekkingskracht bepaald van twee verschillende pinksterkerken in Kameroen. Pinksterkerken zijn op dit moment de snelst groeiende kerken binnen het christendom en binnen Kameroen is ... -
Indigeneity in the Cordillera (Philippines): On the Friction between Localities and Universalities
(2014)In this era of neoliberal globalization, cultural minorities increasingly define themselves as ‘indigenous peoples’. In this thesis I look into the way indigenous identity could be instrumentalized in order to create ... -
Escaping Poverty
(2014)In Malawi the youths are called the leaders of tomorrow. However, the youths are living in a context of poverty, with little access to education or other forms of live improving tools. In this research, more attention is ... -
Op eigen kracht: van afhankelijkheid naar zelfregie
(2014)Dit onderzoek richt zich op twee inloophuizen van de Regenboog groep in Amsterdam. In deze inloophuizen kunnen bezoekers terecht die met verschillende vormen van problematiek kampen: dakloosheid, werkloosheid, psychische ... -
Multicoloured Black. Power relations, identity processes and Afro-Ecuadorians’ identity formation in the Chota-Mira valley
(2014)Neoliberal governmentality has resulted in local initiatives and governmental changes towards recognition of cultural citizenship. Afro-Ecuadorians are involved in the process of becoming included, in a nation that does ... -
Guns in the United States
(2014)When we open the paper in the Netherlands, almost all the news we read involving guns is negative. Guns are not as freely available in the Netherlands as they are in some parts of the United States and mass shootings are ... -
Slow Food Movement: een etnografisch onderzoek naar het spanningsveld tussen lokaliteit en mondialiteit binnen de Slow Food Movement in Nederland en in Noord-Italië
(2014)De in Italië opgerichte Slow Food Movement, gericht op re-lokalisering en duurzaamheid van voedsel, is als beweging in een kleine dertig jaar uitgegroeid tot een wereldwijde organisatie. Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd naar ... -
Changing Relationships of Power in an Age of Globalization: Grassroots Activism against Water Privatization in Mexico
(2014)In our contemporary Age of Globalization new possibilities for local power contestation are emerging. Theoretically based in Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory and Arjun Appadurai's notions of cellular and vertebrate ...