Search for dissertations about: "Israeli"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the word Israeli.

  2. 1. Refugees or Returnees : European Jews, Palestinian Arabs and the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem around 1948

    Author : Ulf Carmesund; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Oddbjörn Birger Leirvik; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lutheran; Jerusalem; Jew; Arab; Muslim; Christian; Israel; Israeli; Apocalyptic; Superstition; Fundamentalism; Republican and Romantic nationalism; Bible; history; Poetic and power.; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : In this study five individuals who worked in Svenska Israelsmissionen and at the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem are focused. These are Greta Andrén, deaconess in Svenska Israelsmissionen from 1934 and matron at the Swedish Theological Institute from 1946 to 1971, Birger Pernow, director of Svenska Israelsmissionen from 1930 to 1961, Harald Sahlin director of the Swedish Theological Institute in 1947, Hans Kosmala director of the Swedish Theological Institute from 1951 to 1971, and finally H. READ MORE

  4. 2. A new storm over the Naqab : The temporality of space in Israeli settler colonialism

    Author : Johanna Adolfsson; Anders Wästfelt; Ulf Jansson; Irus Braverman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Settler colonial studies; posthumanism; political ecology; transhumance; frontier; Negev Naqab; Israel Palestine; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography;

    Abstract : How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its borders, is continuously narrated as under threat of being lost to the Palestinian Bedouins. READ MORE

  5. 3. Heroes and Victims : The Holocaust in Israeli Historical Consciousness

    Author : Mikael Tossavainen; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Gentile relations; victimhood; heroism; Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day; press; use of history; historical culture; historical consciousness; Israel; Holocaust; History; Historia; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

    Abstract : The interest in the Holocaust has been growing continuously over the last decades, and this study deals with how the Holocaust has been perceived, interpreted and used in an Israeli context. The central theoretical concept in this study is historical consciousness, and the aim is to analyze the place of the Holocaust in Israeli historical consciousness. READ MORE

  6. 4. Reframing and Resolving Conflict : Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998

    Author : Karin Aggestam; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conflict; Palestine; Political and administrative sciences; PLO; Israel; negotiations; peace process; Middle East; resolving; reframing; resolution; transformation; diplomacy; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : The mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO in 1993 signalled a major shift in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This study examines, both theoretically and empirically, the basic question of how meaning of conflict may change and how conflict may be resolved. READ MORE

  7. 5. Democracy and Dissent : The case of an Israeli peace movement, Peace Now

    Author : Magnus Norell; David Capitanchik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : The dissertation discuss, through the case-study of the Israeli peace movement 'Peace Now', the issue of dissent in a democratic context.The tension between the will of the collectivity or nation, as interpreted by a representative government, and the right of the individual conscience to take precedent over that collective will is, together with the discussion about the mechanisms that trigger and allow that dissent to function as exemplified by 'Peace Now', at the core of this study. READ MORE