Search for dissertations about: "decolonisation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the word decolonisation.
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1. Writing-Weaving Sámi Feminisms : Stories and Conversations
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
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2. The Interpretation and Translation of Global Ideas into Local Practices : A Study of the Internationalisation of Higher Education in Mozambique
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
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3. The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation
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
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4. Otherness and disease in Reunion : The politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 chikungunya epidemic
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
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5. Desires of decoloniality and museal logics : encounters between the swedish museum of ethnography, democratic ideals, and contemporary audiences
Abstract : ‘Decolonisation’ is a frequently used expression in museum contexts, and a growing museal practice. In ethnographic museums, such attempts are usually performed in the shape of projects that seek to establish new relationships with source– or diasporan communities. READ MORE
