Search for dissertations about: "historical consciousness"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words historical consciousness.

  2. 16. Campus clowns and the canon : David Lodge's campus fiction

    Author : Eva Lambertsson Björk; Åke Bergvall; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; campus; ideology; authoritative discourse; internally persuasive discourse; intertext; cnaon; church; status quo; stereotype;

    Abstract : This is a study of David Lodge's campus novels: The British Museum is Falling Down, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work. Unlike most previous studies of Lodge's work, which have focussed on literary-theoretical issues, this dissertation .aims at unravelling some of the ideological impulses that inform his campus fiction. READ MORE

  4. 17. Cuts and Continuities: Caste-subaltern imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943

    Author : Ram Krishna Ranjan; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : The Bengal famine of 1943, in which nearly three million people died, was man-made. A multitude of factors led to the famine, including British colonial policies, war, hoarding and profiteering by local elites and businesses, and existing faultlines of caste, class and gender. READ MORE

  5. 18. Piety and Politics : Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia

    Author : Ann Kull; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nurcholish Madjid; Indonesia; takwa; Islam; context; ijtihad; Paramadina; tolerance; pluralism; gender; Sufism; spirituality; democracy; human rights; Pancasila; Ibn Taymiyya; education; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. READ MORE

  6. 19. Physiotherapy in a Danish private context - a social and ethical practice

    Author : Jeanette Praestegaard; Människan i rörelse: hälsa och rehabilitering; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Foucault; practice; ethical issues; professional ethics; Physiotherapy;

    Abstract : Physiotherapy is a social and ethical practice which unfolds under specific historical, political, socio-cultural and economic circumstances. Danish physiotherapy in a private context is practiced, administered and managed within a neoliberal ideology which generates challenges for both physiotherapists and their patients. READ MORE

  7. 20. Utility of bispectral index (BIS) monitoring during general anesthesia

    Author : Maj-Lis Lindholm; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The possibility to objectively measure effects from anesthetics on the level of consciousness has since long been desired. General anesthetics cause changes in brain electrical activity, seen as changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG). READ MORE