Search for dissertations about: "Decolonisation in africa"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Decolonisation in africa.

2. 1. Taming exotic beauties : Swedish hydropower constructions in Tanzania in the era of development assistance, 1960s-1990s

   Author : May-Britt Öhman; Arne Kaijser; Kjell Havnevik; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and technology; Hydropower; Electrification; Postcolonial Theory; Feminist Theory; Science and Technology Studies; Colonialism; Development assistance; Africa; Tanzania; Southern Highlands; Great Ruaha River; Vetenskapshistoria; Teknikhistori; Vattenkraftsutbyggnad – Tanzania; Kolonialism – Tanzania; Utvecklingsbistånd – Tanzania; History of technology and industry; Teknik- och industrihistoria; Historia;

   Abstract : This study analyses the history of a large hydroelectric scheme – the Great Ruaha power project in Tanzania. The objective is to establish why and how this specific scheme came about, and as part of this to identify the key actors involved in the decision-making process, including the ideological contexts within which they acted. READ MORE

4. 2. The Interpretation and Translation of Global Ideas into Local Practices : A Study of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Mozambique

   Author : Charnaldo Jaime Ndaipa; Lars Geschwind; Kristina Edström; Jens Jungblut; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Decolonisation; internationalisation of higher education; internationalisation of the curriculum; North–South partnerships; translation.; Descolonização; internacionalização do ensino superior; internacionalização do currículo; parcerias Norte-Sul; tradução.; Avkolonisering; internationalisering av högre utbildning; internationalisering av läroplanen; Nord-Syd-partnerskap; översättning.; Teknik och lärande; Technology and Learning;

   Abstract : Internationalisation and its components, such as curriculum internationalisation and international partnerships, have evolved over time in the context of higher education. In this thesis, such terminologies are addressed as global ideas of internationalisation because internationalisation is described as a global, intentional and inclusive concept in higher education, even though it is understood to have been pursued under coercion and contestation in Africa and elsewhere. READ MORE

5. 3. Land, Labour, Legacies : Long-term Trends in Inequality and Living Standards in Tanzania, c. 1920-2020

   Author : Sascha Klocke; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income inequality; living standards; economic development; colonialism; sub-Saharan Africa; Tanzania;

   Abstract : Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to raise their populations out of poverty. One of these countries is Tanzania. READ MORE

6. 4. From Roman to Native : Colonialism and the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghreb

   Author : Lena Johansson de Château; Peter Örsted; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; colonialism; postcolonialism; archaeology; historiography; Roman; native; indigenous; landscape; land use; water management; Maghreb; North Africa; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This thesis considers the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghreb in relation to modern colonialism. An attempt is made to recover the attitudes to people and landscape expressed in the archaeological literature, and to analyse them in a colonial/postcolonial context. READ MORE

7. 5. They Will Call Me the Black God : Imaging Christianity and the Bible in African Film

   Author : Oulia Adzhoa Sika Makkonen; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Ashleigh Harris; Jolyon Mitchell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion in film; African Film; Reception of the Bible; World Christianity; Transnational; Religionshistoria och global kristendom; History of Religions and World Christianity;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which African filmmakers have historically addressed Christianity and the Bible on the continent. It begins with the premise that on the African continent, marked political films (Mazierska) are embedded in transnational dynamics involving movements of economic and symbolic capital, ideas, discourses and multiple publics. READ MORE