Search for dissertations about: "Turkey"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 63 swedish dissertations containing the word Turkey.

  2. 21. Liberal Intellectuals and Human Rights in the Turkish Public Sphere : Contestation and Pragmatism from the 1990s to the AKP-era

    Author : Andrea Karlsson; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
    Keywords : Turkey; intellectuals; human rights; rights claiming; rights claims; liberal; AKP; secularism; Armenian Genocide; Kurdish conflict; cultural trauma; nationalism; Claude Lefort; democracy; discursive community; nationalism;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the public interventions, rhetoric, and actions of liberal intellectuals in Turkey between the early 1990sand 2012 regarding the rights of Kurdish and Islamic actors and restrictions on discussing the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Theanalysis of diverse texts published by the interconnected intellectuals – newspaper columns, academic articles, policy papers,reports, and manifestos – and the institutions they used shows how an effective counter-public could take shape in relation to thestate and to dominant publics. READ MORE

  4. 22. Photographic Engagements, Belonging and Affective Encounters in Contemporary Photography

    Author : Erika Larsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
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    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is two-fold. Firstly, it is to investigate the notion of belonging in contemporary photography in Turkey and Sweden. Secondly, it aims to contribute to a theoretical approach to contemporary photography that includes its affective, situated and embodied aspects. READ MORE

  5. 23. Diabetes among Turkish immigrants in Sweden : a study of prevalence and risk factors

    Author : Kristín Hjörleifsdóttir Steiner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Risk factors associated with the difference in susceptibility to diabetes in different ethnic groups are poorly understood. This thesis investigates differences in prevalence of, as well as risk factors for, diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose, and whether there is an effect of migration, in Turkish immigrants in Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 24. Migration and Mental Health: Epidemiological Studies of Immigrants in Sweden

    Author : Louise Bayard-Burfield; Samhällsmedicin; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; suicide attempt; self-reported psychiatric illnes; psychotropic drugs; Ethnicity; mortality; Social medicine; Socialmedicin; samhällsmedicin;

    Abstract : Abstract Aims: To analyse the influence of migration status (country of birth/ethnicity), accultura-tion, socio-economic and psychosocial factors on self-reported psychiatric illness, suicide attempt, total mortality and violent death. Methods: Three main data sources were used: suicide attempts in the catchment area of Lund University Hospital (PASIS) during 1991–94; the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (ULF) 1979–1985 (n=39,155) and 1986–93 (n=36,890); the Swedish National Survey of Immigrants (born in Iran, Chile, Turkey, Kurdistan or Poland) from 1996 (n=1,980). READ MORE

  7. 25. Reluctant Victims into Challengers : Narratives of a Kurdish Political Generation in Diaspora in Sweden

    Author : Charlotta Zettervall; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Migration; Long-Distance Nationalism; Diaspora; Nationalism; Kurds; Political Generations; Refugees;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns a sociological analysis on the role of generations in the processes of the construction of national identities, and long-distance nationalism in diasporic settings. The empirical case taken is a political generation of Kurds from Turkey who once arrived in Sweden as political refugees. READ MORE