Search for dissertations about: "postkoloniala studier"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words postkoloniala studier.
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1. Fieldwork and Fiction : Ethnography and Literature in the French Caribbean
Abstract : The birth of French Caribbean literature is in many ways tied to a nontheorized and circumstantial use of ethnography. Ethnography is mainly referred to as a discourse of knowledge having to do with defining and questioning the notion of culture which, in this case, was important to Martinican authors trying to articulate identity. READ MORE
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2. Heritage in Authority-Making : Appropriating Interventions inThree Socio-Political Contexts
Abstract : The perpetual evolution of the value of heritage in urban development is producing newsocio-spatial realities, shaped by different relationships of power at multiple scales.Heritage has always played an important role in the construction of individual andgroup identities, but is now increasingly seen as a capital for the making of cityidentity. READ MORE
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3. Spaces of Writing History in the Postcolonial City : Edits, Erasures, Inscriptions
Abstract : The search for a pre-colonial identity has occupied post-colonial cities since independence, becoming intertwined with modern nation-building projects. Consequently, an active agenda of reframing heritage has emerged that is strongly connected to the process of revisiting and rewriting the past. READ MORE
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4. Digitalising Tax, The Kenyan Way : The Travels and Translations of ITax in Kenya
Abstract : Kenya, as with other developing countries, has joined the global bandwagon of using digital technologies to increase domestic revenues. Within the new strategies, lie great potential in achieving sustainable development, however, the shift is happening quite rapidly and has been made mandatory within a short period of time. READ MORE
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5. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts
Abstract : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. READ MORE