Search for dissertations about: "Massacre"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Massacre.

  2. 1. Bad Death at Sandby borg : A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Intergroup Violence and Postmortem Agency of Unburied Corpses

    Author : Clara Alfsdotter; Anders Högberg; Alison Klevnäs; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sandby borg; Migration period; Iron age; Massacre; Mass violence; Conflict; Unburied corpses; Postmortem agency; Taphonomy; Archaeothanatology; Forensic taphonomy; Trauma; Öland; Treatment of corpses; Folkvandringstid; järnålder; Öland; obegravda kroppar; våld; massaker; politiseing av lik; tafonomi; arkeothanatologi; Humaniora; Humanities; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The subject of corpses from mass violence is surprisingly unexplored, even though the materiality of the corpse carries strong symbolic capital in conflicts. The aim of my PhD research is to create new knowledge about the implications of unburied corpses that stem from intergroup conflicts, and subsequently to add knowledge concerning how intergroup violence is organised to achieve desired social agendas. READ MORE

  4. 2. Prejudiced Personalities Revisited : On the Nature of (Generalized) Prejudice

    Author : Robin Bergh; Nazar Akrami; Bo Ekehammar; Gordon Hodson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Prejudice; Personality; Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes; Ethnocentrism; Big Five; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Fördomar; Personlighet; Attityder; Ingruppsfavoritism; Femfaktormodellen; Vänlighet; Öppenhet för nya erfarenheter; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : In the media, one type of prejudice is often discussed as isolated from other types of prejudice. For example, after Breivik’s massacre, intolerance toward Muslims was intensely debated (for good reasons). However, his manifesto also disclosed extreme attitudes towards women and gays, a fact which passed without much notice. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

    Author : Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

    Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Digital aftermaths of terror : reactions to terrorist attacks on twitter

    Author : Moa Eriksson Krutrök; Simon Lindgren; Ragnar Lundström; Sarah J. Jackson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Background. This thesis explores digital public reactions to terrorist attacks, and specifically how discourses on terrorism become articulated on social media. READ MORE