Search for dissertations about: "foregrounds"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word foregrounds.

2. 1. Immigrant students' opportunities to learn mathematics : In(ex)clusion in mathematics education

   Author : Petra Svensson Källberg; Eva Norén; Paul Andrews; Anna Chronaki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; mathematics education; immigrant students; narratives; learning opportunities; foregrounds; identity; policy texts; fabrication; deficit perspective; discourse; power; matematikämnets didaktik; Mathematics Education;

   Abstract : This thesis explores immigrant students’ opportunities to learn mathematics. The research is concerned with issues of social justice and adopts a socio-political approach. Immigrant students are often described as students who do poorly in school because they lack “Swedishness” and have insufficient Swedish language skills. READ MORE

4. 2. Writing-Weaving Sámi Feminisms : Stories and Conversations

   Author : Ina Knobblock; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sámi people; Sámi feminism; Indigenous feminism; gender; settler colonialism; epistemicide; Sweden; decolonisation; resurgence; Indigenous methodologies; Indigenous epistemes;

   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

5. 3. Nature Writing of the Anthropocene

   Author : Christian Hummelsund Voie; Anders Olsson; Peter Mortensen; Scott Slovic; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : Anthropocenic awareness; nature writing; material nature writing; material ecocriticism; environmental justice; rhapsody; jeremiad; the dignification of the overlooked; functional aesthetics; anti-landscape; necroregion; retreat; confrontation;

   Abstract : The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. READ MORE

6. 4. Storming the Sadeian Citadel : Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter's Fiction of Transition

   Author : Margaret Benedikz; Sarah Gamble; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This study demonstrates how Angela Carter’s textual contention with the works of the Marquis de Sade forms an interstice, chronologically, thematically and narratively, between the early and late works in Carter’s oeuvre. This period of fictional transition and unrest is exemplified byThe Sadeian phase in Carter’s writing can be seen as part of a feminist project. READ MORE

7. 5. News Publishers’ Innovation of Practices Amid Platform Dominance

   Author : Sherwin Chua; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; digital journalism; innovation; news publishers; journalism practices; platforms; practice theory; longitudinal study;

   Abstract : To news publishers, digital platform companies (or “platforms”) such as Google and Meta present both benefits and risks. Platforms offer publishers certain functionalities and services that may be beneficial, but they have also gained an immense influence over journalism and the business of news, so much so that publishers have become cautious of being over-reliant on them. READ MORE