Search for dissertations about: "postcolonial feminist theory"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words postcolonial feminist theory.

  2. 11. Queering Images of Russia in Sweden : Discursive hegemony and counter-hegemonic articulations 1991–2019

    Author : Kirill Polkov; Teresa Kulawik; Ann Werner; Katharina Wiedlack; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; Sweden; non-normative sexuality; queer theory; national image; hybridity; temporality; Swedish sexual exceptionalism; homonationalism; visibility; discourse; LGBT; LGBTQ; homosexuality; Ryssland; Sverige; icke-normativ sexualitet; queerteori; nationell bild; hybriditet; temporalitet; svensk sexuell exceptionalism; homonationalism; synlighet; diskurs; hbtq; hbt; homosexualitet; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This study examines the role of non-normative sexuality in the construction of national images. It focuses on how non-normative sexuality affects and is affected by Swedish constructions of the image of Russia and, by extension, Sweden’s self-image. READ MORE

  4. 12. Seeking Middle-Classness : University Students in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Author : Katrine Scott; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; middle-classness; youth; universities; students; urban; post-conflict; war; narratives; stories; representations; figurations; normality; Middle East; Iraq; Iraqi Kurdistan; ethnography; autoethnography; feminist queer postcolonial epistemologies;

    Abstract : Narratives of middle-classness are often missing from Western representations of wartorn regions in the Global South more generally and from the Middle East in particular. This thesis is concerned with stories of desires for ordinary everyday middle-class lives among young adult university students in urban Iraqi Kurdistan. READ MORE

  5. 13. Peter Ackroyd and the Borders of Englishness

    Author : Heli Dahlin; Ashleigh Harris; Sheila Ghose; Susana Onega; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Peter Ackroyd; Englishness; literary canon; performativity; normativity; cross-dressing; culture wars; postcolonial melancholia; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Since the dissolution of the British Empire, anxiety about the loss of Englishness has circulated at various sites of public discourse in Britain: politics, the media, education, culture and literature. This study investigates the configuration and representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s writing as exemplary of this anxiety. READ MORE

  6. 14. Life in the labyrinth : a reflexive exploration of research and politics

    Author : Suzanne Almgren Mason; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; labour market policies; self-employment; immigrant women; discrimination; politics; research; reflexivity; gender; ethnicity; ethnocentrism;

    Abstract : This thesis is about exploring the politics within and around research. The starting point is a European project which ran from late 1997 to the end of 2000. READ MORE

  7. 15. Differentiating the Poor : Patterns of Discrimination in Decision-Making on Social Assistance Eligibility

    Author : Klara Hussénius; Hugo Stranz; Åke Bergmark; Helena Blomberg-Kroll; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bias; deservingness; discrimination; ethnicity; gender; social assistance assessments; social policy; social workers; street-level bureaucrats; socialt arbete; Social Work;

    Abstract : Access to the Swedish welfare state’s last safety net, social assistance, is ultimately determined through discretionary decision-making by social workers. This dissertation examines intersectional patterns and discriminatory bias in social workers’ assessments about social assistance eligibility. READ MORE