Search for dissertations about: "national identities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the words national identities.

2. 1. National identity in divided and unified Germany : continuity and change

   Author : Joakim Ekman; Sten Berglund; Hans-Dieter Klingemann; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national identity; German unification; inner unification; nation-building; Germany; GDR; FRG; Eastern Germany; Western Germany; political culture; national community; statskunskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; Statskunskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with the construction, maintenance and change of national identities in divided and unified Germany. Following World War II, Germany was divided in two parts. READ MORE

4. 2. My people right or wrong? : a comparative analysis of national sentiments and their meaning

   Author : Mikael Hjerm; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national sentiment; national identity; nationalism; attitudes; multiculturalism; nation; xenophobia; comparative research;

   Abstract : In a world of presumed nation-states, nation has been, and still is, an intrinsic part of political legitimization and identity formation. Thus, it is clear that the understanding of nationality and people's relationship too it is of great importance for our understanding of how a stable society, partly built on nationality, can prevail in a world of migration consisting of individuals with diverging moral, religious and cultural conceptions. READ MORE

5. 3. Negotiating Thainess : Religious and National Identities in Thailand's Southern Conflict

   Author : Marte Nilsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The southern Thai conflict; Thai nation-building; Thainess; Patani Pattani; ethnicity; nation; religion; legitimacy; multiple identities; Malay Muslims; Thai Buddhists; interethnic relations.;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how people express religious and national identities in the conflict-ridden Patani region of southern Thailand. In a historical framework of disputes over territory and political legitimacy, where identities have developed in response to an emerging Thai nation, it is of relevance to understand the dynamics of these identities and to disclose how local people perceive themselves, their communities and society at large. READ MORE

6. 4. Perpetual borders : German-Polish cross-border contacts in the Szczecin area

   Author : Péter Balogh; Gunnel Forsberg; Thomas Lundén; James W. Scott; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cross-border regional development; Polish-German border; Szczecin; national identities; border attitudes; the Other; kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

   Abstract : Borderlands are often peripheral geographically, administratively, and economically. A particularly illustrative case is the Szczecin area at the border between Poland and Germany, where a large city on one side neighbours to a sparsely populated hinterland on the other. READ MORE

7. 5. The Nation’s Brightest and Noblest : Narrative Identity and Empowering Accounts of theUkrainian Intelligentsia in Post-1991 L’viv

   Author : Eleonora Narvselius; Erik Olsson; Irina Sandomirskaja; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Intelligentsia; intellectuals; narrative identities; post-Soviet Ukraine; cultural authority; national projects; Intelligentia; de intellektuella; postsovjetiska Ukraina; berättade identiteter; kulturell auktoritet; nationella projekt; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation ofcultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. It seeks to examine howintelligentsia may be presented and what empowering narratives it may articulatein a concrete locality, namely, in the post-1991 West Ukrainian city of L’viv. READ MORE