Search for dissertations about: "Kurdish"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word Kurdish.

2. 1. Spaces of diasporas : Kurdish identities, experiences of otherness and politics of belonging

   Author : Minoo Alinia; Håkan Thörn; Östen Wahlbeck; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kurdish diaspora; Kurdish identity; home land ; Sweden; Kurdisn community; exile; forced migration; gender; movement for location; experience; Kurdish nationalism; ; Social work; Socialt arbete; Kurdish diaspora; exile; homeland; diasporic community; Kurdish identity; movements for [ocation; Kurdish nationalism; Sweden; forced migration.; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Abstract : Det är doktorsavhandling. Den diskuterar identitetsprocesser inom the kurdiska diasporan. Det är kvalitativ studie baserad huvudsakligen på intervjumaterial. Boken har nyligen blivit översatt och publicerat i Turkiet. READ MORE

4. 2. Nation and Novel : A Study of Persian and Kurdish narrative discourse

   Author : Hashem Ahmadzadeh; Martin van Bruinessen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Iranian languages; Modern Persian literature; modern Kurdish literature; novel; Persian novel; Kurdish novel; nationalism; nation; identity; modernity; Iran; Kurdistan; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : The present work provides a description of the rise of the Persian and Kurdish novel, using as its background specific definitions and theories of the novel and its emergence. Considering the novel as an originally European genre, the study looks at the different prerequisites for its emergence, e.g. READ MORE

5. 3. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey

   Author : Nesrin Ucarlar; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; resistance; emancipatory politics; transformative resistance; post-structuralism; deconstruction; nationalism; transnationalism; diaspora; European Union; Turkey; the Kurdish language; linguistic rights; trans-national outlook; minority rights; power; Kurdish intellectuals;

   Abstract : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. READ MORE

6. 4. A stranger in my homeland : The politics of belonging among young people with Kurdish backgrounds in Sweden

   Author : Barzoo Eliassi; Masoud Kamali; Lena Sawyer; Paulina de los Reyes; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young people with Kurdish backgrounds; postcolonial theory; identity formation; belonging; citizenship; ethnic discrimination; gendered racism; Kurdish nationalism; social work; culturalization; strategies; resistance.; Social work; Socialt arbete; Socialt arbete;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines how young people with Kurdish backgrounds form their identity in Sweden with regards to processes of inclusion and exclusion. It also sheds light on the ways these young people deal with ethnic discrimination and racism. READ MORE

7. 5. Diaspora global politics : Kurdish transnational networks and accommodation of nationalism

   Author : Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kurdish diaspora; transnationalism; globalisation; global politics; nationalism; migration; refugees; integration;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with diasporas as increasingly significant transnational actors in emerging global politics, representing changes in the nature and form of political organisation beyond nation states. Diasporas have witnessed the increased interest of scholars from several disciplines. READ MORE