Search for dissertations about: "ethnicity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 270 swedish dissertations containing the word ethnicity.

  2. 1. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    Author : Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. READ MORE

  4. 2. Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity : An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa

    Author : Erik Berggren; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Daniel Louw; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Catholicity; Democratisation; Ecclesiology; Ethnicity; Faith and Order; Operative Ecclesiology; Post-apartheid; Practices; South Africa; World Council of Churches.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. South African congregations and churches have been studied two decades after the advent of democracy to discern their ecclesiological practices. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Politics of Ndebele Ethnicity : Origins, Nationality, and Gender in Southern Zimbabwe

    Author : Björn Lindgren; Richard Werbner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; conflict; ethnicity; gender; identity; masculinity; media; nationalism; Ndebele; politics; Zimbabwe; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : The thesis examines the politics of Ndebele ethnicity and, by extension, how this politics is related to present-day national politics in Zimbabwe. The author applies two approaches to ethnicity. On the one hand, he outlines the historical processes through which subjects have been created as Ndebele over time. READ MORE

  6. 4. Safe Sex, Unsafe Identities : Intersections of ’Race’, Gender and Sexuality in Swedish HIV/AIDS Policy

    Author : Anna Bredström; Erik Olsson; Johanna Esseveld; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS; policy; Sweden; racism; ethnicity; migration; gender; sexuality; intersectionality; sexual health; sexual education; safer sex; hiv aids; policy; Sverige; rasism; etnicitet; migration; genus; sexualitet; intersektionalitet; sexuell hälsa; sexualupplysning; säkrare sex; Ethnicity; Etnicitet;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the different depictions of ‘immigrants’ and the ways in which migration, ethnicity and racism have been handled by Swedish HIV/AIDS policy since the early 1980s. The dissertation consists of five separate articles and an introductory chapter that outlines the discourse-theoretical approach used in the subsequent articles. READ MORE

  7. 5. The impact of ethnicity on type 2 diabetes

    Author : Forouzan Glans; diabetes och endokrinologi Genomik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Type 2 diabetes; ethnicity;

    Abstract : Abstract Type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the fastest growing diseases in the world. The reported prevalence of T2D appears to differ among various ethnic groups. READ MORE