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2. 1. Of Affliction : The Experience of Thought in Gilles Deleuze by way of Marcel Proust

   Author : Johan Sehlberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Ingemar Haag; Catarina Pombo Nabais; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gilles Deleuze; Marcel Proust; Plato; thinking; experience; affliction; temporality; essence; literature; apprenticeship; pathology; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is to explicate the experience of thought corresponding to the critical undertaking characteristic of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy between Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) and Difference and Repetition (1968), from within the conjunction of Deleuze’s Proust and Signs (1964) and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927). The importance of Proust for the development of Deleuze’s two major themes at the time, the overturning of Platonism and transcendental empiricism, has generally not been sufficiently recognised and investigated in Deleuze scholarship. READ MORE

4. 2. Type Domains for Abstract Interpretation : A critical study

   Author : Per Mildner; Jonas Barklund; Håkan Millroth; Roland Bol; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Datalogi; Computing Science;

   Abstract : Programming languages with dynamic typing such as Prolog do not require that the programmer declares the types of data or procedures. This flexibility, however, comes at a price. The lack of declarations makes it hard for a compiler to produce fast code since data must be assumed to be of any type. READ MORE

5. 3. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer

   Author : John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South African women’s writing; popular romantic fiction; memoirs; apartheid; colonialism; liberalism; memory; literary amnesia; propaganda; roman a these; race; gender; patriarchy.;

   Abstract : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. READ MORE

6. 4. The Power of Being : A Study of Poverty, Fertility and Sexuality among the Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania

   Author : Ann-Britt Bernhardsdotter; William E. Arens; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Kuria; Kenya and Tanzania; power; abuse of power; poverty; stratification mechanisms; sexuality; prostitution; woman marriage; justice; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The study is concerned with power based on ‘being’, which is the thread running through the entire thesis. The extended family is the focal point and three themes, interrelated in Kuria society, are explored, namely, poverty, sexuality and fertility. READ MORE

7. 5. On the Ethics of External States in Peacebuilding : A Critical Study of Justification

   Author : Johanna Ohlsson; Elena Namli; Kjell-Åke Nordquist; Pamela Slotte; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; justification; peacebuilding; ethics; justification strategies; South African foreign policy; Russian foreign policy; Etik; Ethics;

   Abstract : Even the most obvious actions require justification. The need for justification of peacebuilding involvements is always present. This thesis argues that justification is particularly needed when there is a prevalent power asymmetry between an external state and a host community. READ MORE