Search for dissertations about: "Decolonisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word Decolonisation.

2. 1. Writing-Weaving Sámi Feminisms : Stories and Conversations

   Author : Ina Knobblock; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sámi people; Sámi feminism; Indigenous feminism; gender; settler colonialism; epistemicide; Sweden; decolonisation; resurgence; Indigenous methodologies; Indigenous epistemes;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores, illuminates, and analyses Sámi feminist knowledges, conceptualised as diverse and fluid feminist knowledges that both arise within and create Sámi realities. Centrally, it contributes to and exemplifies Sámi inquiry and conversations where different people continuously create and re-create Sámi feminisms in various contexts. 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. Order in Ruins : British Society and the Media Assemblage of The World at War c. 1970-1975

   Author : Allan Burnett; Mediehistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media history; History; Media; History; 20th Century; Media analysis; media and communication studies; Media and democracy; media and political engagement; media and politics; media and power; media and social relations; Media ecology; media ethics; Deleuze and Guattari; McLuhan; Gender history; British history; Social history; Memory studies; Nationalism; Transnational; National Identity; Second World War; Cold War; Cold War culture; European history; African history; Television; television production; television and everyday life; television history; Film and history; film as historical source material; television culture; film analysis; film archives; film archive; Oral history; Media technology; broadcasting history; 1960- och 1970-tal; 1970s; Assemblage theory; Public history; Postcolonial; war history; Military history; Holocaust memory; memory culture; history culture; British Empire; Enoch Powell; Thatcher; New Left; history of class divisions; Women s movement; Women s history; postmodernity; generational relation; generational shift; Holocaust; postwar era; Journalism and New media; Journalistic culture; journalistic ideology; journalistic roles; journalistic practices; journalistic techniques; Anglo-american; European Community; Decolonisation; Decolonization; migrational history; National identity; Communities of belonging; Globalisation; nuclear age; atomic age; Apocalyptic narrative; Apocalyptic; documentary; Documentary film; documentaries; Filmmaking; Filmmakers; Soviet history; Nazi Germany;

   Abstract : This thesis studies a period of intense crisis and creativity in British media, society, and culture, when the settled outcome of the Second World War (WW2) was perceived to be disintegrating. The post-world-war order was becoming an ‘order in ruins’. READ MORE

6. 4. The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation

   Author : Nora Schmidt; Kultur och Samhälle Informationspraktiker: Kommunikation; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Scholarly communication; Critlib; Collection management; Academic libraries; Decolonialism; Scientometrics;

   Abstract : A large part of the literature published in the ‘Global South’ is barely covered by bibliographic databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in ‘international’ journals, draining local infrastructures. The standard-setting power of ‘Global South’ scholars is minimised further. READ MORE

7. 5. Otherness and disease in Reunion : The politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 chikungunya epidemic

   Author : Karine Aasgaard Jansen; Tove Ingebjørg Fjell; Astrid Blystad; Line Alice Ytrehus; Pamila Gupta; University of Bergen; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : In this dissertation I investigate how decolonisation through inclusion instead of independence has affected processes of othering, and reactions to being othered. By othering I mean discursive colonial practices described by post-colonial theories, in which racial and cultural difference is produced as inferior vis-à-vis the “superior” West. READ MORE