Search for dissertations about: "discourses"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 498 swedish dissertations containing the word discourses.
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6. Drug Discourses in Contemporary Russia : A Study of the National Press, NGOs and the Government
Abstract : In Western Europe and the United States drugs have, since the 1960s, been one of the most discussed social problems. However, in the Soviet Union it was not until perestroika in the mid-1980s that a public debate on this issue began. READ MORE
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7. I Am Tsunki : Gender and Shamanism among the Shuar of Western Amazonia
Abstract : In this work, Perruchon brings together what is generally treated as two distinct domains of analysis: gender and shamanism. She investigates the relationship between gender and achievement of power through the shaman’s role in Shuar society. READ MORE
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8. Gender Transculturation : Navigating Market-Mediated Contesting Gender Ideologies in Consumer Acculturation
Abstract : In this book, I advance the concept of gender transculturation to illustrate how migrant consumers navigate contesting gender ideologies in their host cultural marketplace. Taking a consumer cultural theoretical perspective, the study lies in the nexus of and unpacks an alternative understanding in the current research frontier of consumer acculturation, gender and ideologies. READ MORE
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9. Talking violence, constructing identities : young men in institutional care
Abstract : The aim of the study is to investigate how young men constructing identities in talk about their own use of violence. The study is based on a fieldwork at a youth detention home in Sweden. The data consists of individual interviews and video recordings of the treatment programme Aggression Replacement Training (ART). READ MORE
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10. Open access and closed discourses : Constructing open access as a development issue
Abstract : This thesis investigates the connection between open access – the free online availability and distribution of scientific and scholarly publications – and the ‘developing world’ from a post- development perspective. It takes a discourse analytical approach, drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault’s understanding of discourse. READ MORE