Search for dissertations about: "colonialism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 74 swedish dissertations containing the word colonialism.

2. 21. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

   Author : Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

   Abstract : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. READ MORE

4. 22. Ecologies of Practices and Thinking

   Author : Elke Marhöfer; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; new materialism; film; image; matter; nonhuman; more-than-human; other-than-human; not-so-human; ecology; agriculture; otherness; storytelling; enunciation; post-context; post-history; animism; colonialism; becoming with; seeing together; lines of flight; modes; animals; plants; things; territories; multiplicities; chaos; expressive continuum; rerational aesthetics; radical empiricism; Baruch Spinoza; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; Isabelle Stengers; Donna Haraway; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Brian Massumi; Danièle Huillet; Jean Marie Straub;

   Abstract : How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist methodology which allows it to relate to the nonhuman as an active participant, rather than a passive object of inquiry. READ MORE

5. 23. Archaeological Perspectives on Risk and Community Resilience in the Baringo Lowlands, Kenya

   Author : Nik Petek; Paul Lane; Matthew Davies; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Risk spiral; community resilience; archaeology; pastoralism; Baringo; Kenya; history; Ilchamus; Njemps; spatial statistics; East Africa; Holocene; environment; environmental degradation; colonialism; ethnogenesis; community conformity; survey; remote sensing; habitation; subsistence; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This historical ecological research provides a detailed insight into the risk avoidance and resilience building strategies in the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya through the lens of archaeology. It explores how changes in subsistence, habitation, and landscape shaped each other and how that affected the available strategies of risk avoidance and resilience building. READ MORE

6. 24. Our Side of the Water : Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825

   Author : Ale Pålsson; Leos Müller; Fredrik Thomasson; Holger Weiss; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Caribbean; colonialism; free ports; political culture; print culture; naturalization; intersectionality; neutrality; free people of colour; History; historia;

   Abstract : The small island of St Barthélemy was a Swedish colony 1784–1878 and saw its greatest population growth and trade during the turn of the nineteenth century. This was because of Gustavia, the Swedish founded free port, which attracted mariners from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. READ MORE

7. 25. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The Context and Significance of a Modern Hindu Personalist

   Author : Ferdinando Sardella; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bhakti; Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati; Bengal intellectual life; Bhaktivinoda; caste; Chaitanya doctrines; colonialism; Gaudiya Math; globalization; India religion 20th century; missionaries; modern Hinduism; postcolonialism; Vaishnavism Vishnuism; Vedanta; Vivekananda; worship Hinduism ; Modern Hinduism; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

   Abstract : This study explores the life and work of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the school of Chaitanya (1486-1534), who, at a time that Hindu non-dualism was most prominent, managed to establish a pan-Indian movement for the modern revival of traditional personalist bhakti that today encompasses both Indian and non-Indian populations throughout the world. To most historians, the period between 1815 and 1914 is known as Britain’s Imperial Century, when the power of British cultural influence was at its height, most especially in Calcutta, India, the jewel of the British crown. READ MORE