Search for dissertations about: "ethnic and national identifications"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words ethnic and national identifications.
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1. We belong to them : Narratives of belonging, homeland and nationhood in territorial and non territorial minority settings
Abstract : This dissertation explores what happens with ethnic and national identifications buiit on the same ethnocultural grounds, but under different socio-economic circumstances. Territorial and nonterritorial minorities have traditionally been considered non-comparable because it was assumed that groups organized on different grounds were distinctively separate phenomena. READ MORE
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2. To be or not to be American : Statehood and Peoplehood in Native American Self-identification during the Self-determination era
Abstract : As colonized peoples Native Americans have had a complicated relationship to the United States. They have faced the question of whether they should demand tribal independence or embrace American citizenship. READ MORE
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3. War within : Everyday life in Sarajevo under siege
Abstract : In this ethnography of the war in Bosnia, the author examines the ways in which thepeople of Sarajevo negotiated the meaning of normality in their everyday lives, which became dominated by the war situation and the siege of the town. The study explores the ways of dealing with everyday threat to life, ways of providing the subsistence, changes in social relations, and the role of religion and ethnic traditions in the process of constituting national identities. READ MORE