Search for dissertations about: "life narratives"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 149 swedish dissertations containing the words life narratives.
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6. Making sense of contested illness : Talk and narratives about chronic fatigue
Abstract : The primary aim of this thesis is to study how people suffering from chronic fatigue (usually Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFS) make sense of their medically unexplained and invisible illness. Due to the vagueness and indefinable character of this illness, it becomes disputed and doubted in many contexts. Thus, I call it a contested illness. READ MORE
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7. The past and the future in the present : Kenyan adult immigrants' stories on orientation and adult education in Sweden
Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out how adult migrants with biographical experiences from Kenya orient themselves in Sweden.Taking an individual perspective (how individuals orient themselves as opposed to what the state does to deal with a group of immigrants), and by using life (hi)story approach and reconstructing experiences on how individual adult immigrants orient themselves, this dissertation analyses the role educational and working experiences from Kenya play in the way the participants orient themselves. READ MORE
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8. Understanding Life After Stroke
Abstract : Stroke is an acute, neurological dysfunction of vascular origin with sudden occurrence and it influences physical, cognitive and psychological functions. Initial treatment aims at eliminating or reducing the brain damage. Soon, however, the influence of the stroke on the entire life of stroke survivors has to be considered. READ MORE
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9. Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing
Abstract : This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. READ MORE
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10. Erkännandets Janusansikte : Det sociala kapitalets betydelse i arbetslivskarriärer
Abstract : I denna studie undersöks de informella processerna i rekryteringen, speciellt innebörden av olika former av socialt kapital. I fokus står de värden som tillskrivs utbildningar, arbetslivserfarenheter och kontakter. Det uttrycks genom frågor som hur, var, vem och varför snarare än om lediga tjänster tillsätts via kontakter. READ MORE