Search for dissertations about: "post-colonial theory"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words post-colonial theory.

  2. 11. Reading cultural encounter: literary text and intercultural pedagogy

    Author : Anna Greek; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English as a Foreign Language; Contact Zone; Third Space; othering; essentialism; non-essentialism; Intercultural pedagogy; Across the Barricades; Fruit of the Lemon; Curriculum; multiculturalism; culture; identity; difference;

    Abstract : This dissertation combines aspects of educational research, theories of culture and literary analysis. The main line of argument is that the informed reading and discussion of literary texts that thematise cultural encounter will enhance the intercultural dimension of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Swedish Upper Secondary schools. READ MORE

  4. 12. Subaltern Securitization : The Use of Protest and Violence in Postcolonial Nigeria

    Author : Akinbode Fasakin; Mark Rhinard; Arita Holmberg; Ronnie Hjorth; Rita Abrahamsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Decolonial; Subaltern; Securitization; Postcolonial; Frantz Fanon; Nigeria; International Relations; internationella relationer;

    Abstract : Securitization theory (ST) makes an insightful and significant contribution to security studies. Through the use of discursive speech act, ST provides an innovative strategy for understanding the application of security’s distinctive character and dynamics to any issue in order to make it a security issue. READ MORE

  5. 13. The Happening of tradition : Vallabha on Anumāna in Nyāyalīlāvatī

    Author : Anna-Pya Sjödin; Gunilla Gren-Eklund; Eli Franco; Purushottama Bilimoria; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; Logic--India--History; Vaiśeṣika History; Nyāya History; Vaiśeṣika--Early Works to 1800; Nyāya--Early Works to 1800; Philosophy--Indic; Vyāpti; Anumāna; Tarka; Upādhi; Parāmarśa; Nyāyalīlāvatī; Vallabhācārya 12th cent.; H. Bhabha; D. Chakrabarty; Indologi; Indologi särskilt sanskrit; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

    Abstract : The present dissertation is a translation and analysis of the chapter on anumāna in Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī, based on certain theoretical considerations on cross-cultural translation and the understanding of tradition. Adopting a non-essentialized and non-historicist conceptualization of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika/Navya-nyāya tradition, the work focuses on a reading of the anumāna chapter that is particularized and individualized. READ MORE

  6. 14. Water for a few : a history of urban water and sanitation in East Africa

    Author : David Nilsson; Arne Kaijser; Gunilla Andrae; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; urban water; urban sanitation; urban history; development studies; African history; environmental history; large technical systems; socio-technical systems; institutional change; public service; History of technology; Teknikhistoria;

    Abstract : This licentiate thesis describes and analyses the modern history of the socio-technical systems for urban water supply and sanitation in East Africa with focus on Uganda and Kenya. The key objective of the thesis is to evaluate to what extent the historic processes frame and influence the water and sanitation services sectors in these countries today. READ MORE

  7. 15. "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey’s Novels

    Author : Christer Larsson; Stephen Knight; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Peter Carey; Speech Acts; Closure; Ethics and Literature; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to demonstrate that recurrent formal and thematic patterns in Peter Carey’s novels suggest an interrelation between the works, and that an analysis which takes that interrelation into account can extract an argument concerning the ethics of storytelling from the texts. The issue of the status of fictional discourse receives prominent and complex consideration in Carey’s novels, and this study argues that Carey presents storytelling as an intentional mode of social interaction, defined and governed by extra-linguistic conventions. READ MORE