Search for dissertations about: "5 - RACE"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the words 5 - RACE.

2. 1. Love ain't got no color? : Attitude toward interracial marriage in Sweden

   Author : Sayaka Osanami Törngren; Björn Fryklund; Anders Wigerfelt; Charles Westin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Interracial marriage; attitudes; race; Contact Hypothesis; group position; prejudice and stereotypes; colorblindness; perception of difference; mixed methods; Interrnarriage; attityder; race; kontakthypotes; gruppositioner; fördomar och stereotyper; färgblindhet; perception av skillnad; mixed methods; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Attitudes; Race; Group position; Prejudice and stereotypes; Colorblindness; Perception of difference; Mixed methods;

   Abstract : This dissertation focuses on the geographical area of Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, and examines the majority society’s opinions and attitudes toward interracial dating, marriage and childbearing. The dissertation is driven by two theoretical frames: the theory of race as ideas constructed through the perception of visible differences and the theory of prejudice and stereotypes. READ MORE

4. 2. Researching and developing Swedkid : A Swedish case study at the intersection of the web, racism and education

   Author : Camilla Hällgren; Gaby Weiner; Gloria Ladson-Billings; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Swedkid; case study; information and communication technology; ICT; racism; ethnicity; educational resource; teachers; students; classroom; Pedgogical work; Pedagogiskt arbete;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to provide an insight into three phenomena: the condition of racism in Sweden, the complexity of identity, and the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in classroom settings. It also offers an analysis of how such phenomena combined in the development of a specific educational resource, the Swedkid project (2001-3) which aimed to develop an anti-racist website (www. READ MORE

5. 3. Ljungan Virus Replication in Cell Culture

   Author : Jens-Ola Ekström; Kjell Edman; Glyn Stanway; Högskolan i Kalmar; []
   Keywords : MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Ljungan virus; picornavirus; parechovirus; 5 - RACE; 5 -end; infectious cDNA clone; real time PCR; virus purification; virion stability; disinfection; aphthovirus-like 2A; Virology; Virologi; Mikrobiologi; Microbiology;

   Abstract : Ljungan virus (LV) is a recently identified picornavirus of the genus Parechovirus. LV has been isolated from voles trapped in Sweden and also in the United States. LV infected small rodents may suffer from diabetes type 1 and type 2 like symptoms, myocarditis and encephalitis. READ MORE

6. 4. The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

   Author : Sara Ahlstedt; Peo Hansen; Ulrika Dahl; Lena Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Migration; queer migration; privileged migration; intimate migration; homonationalism; entanglement; emotions; love; loss; belonging; sexuality; gender identity; race; narrative analysis;

   Abstract : This dissertation analyzes narratives of queer partner migration, that is, a family-tie migration in which one of the partners of a relationship has migrated in order for the partners to be together, and where the partners queer the migration in the sense that they have a non-normative sexuality and/or gender identity. The purpose of the study is to examine how queer partner migrants and their Swedish partners experience the migration process – which continues also once the administrative process has been completed – by analyzing the emotions and feelings that emerge in the process. READ MORE

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

   Author : John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; 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