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2. 1. Tales of transformation: Expatriate encounters with local contexts : A postcolonial reading

   Author : Anna Wettermark; Christian Maravelias; Hervé Corvellec; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Expatriates; identity reconstruction; postcolonialism; international management; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

   Abstract : The thesis examines how and in what sense expatriates are changed and transformed by their intercultural experiences. In doing so it seeks to complement more efficiency-oriented expatriation studies by outlining a relational and contextual view inspired by postcolonialism. READ MORE

4. 2. Impossible Interculturality? : Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World

   Author : Robert Aman; Andreas Fejes; Stefan Jonsson; Lisbeth Eriksson; Edda Manga; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Interculturality; multiculturalism; intercultural education; policy; postcolonialism; cultural difference; colonial difference; European Union; interculturalidad; delinking; Interkulturalitet; mångkultur; interkulturell utbildning; policy; postkolonialism; kulturella skillnader; koloniala skillnader; Europeiska Unionen; interculturalidad;

   Abstract : An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate ‘interculturality’ as a method for approaching ‘the Other’ and reconciling universal values and cultural specificities. Based on a thorough discussion of Europe’s colonial past and the hierarchies of knowledge that colonialism established, this dissertation interrogates the definitions of intercultural knowledge put forth by EU policy discourse, academic textbooks on interculturality, and students who have completed a university course on the subject. READ MORE

5. 3. The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity

   Author : Kerstin B. Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kolkata; West Bengal; Intellectuals; Elite groups; Intellectual discourse; Postcolonialism; Relativism; Subaltern Studies; Methodology; Anthropology; Social Change; Development; Media; Kolkata; Västbengalen; intellektuella; elitgrupper; intellektuell diskurs; postkolonialism; relativism; subaltern studies; metod; antropologi; social förändring; utveckling; media;

   Abstract : The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. Analysis is closely related to political issues and an analysis include a critical reflection and deconstruction. READ MORE

6. 4. Anglo-French Relations and the Acadians in Canada's Maritime Literature: Issues of Othering and Transculturation

   Author : Birgitta Brown; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : Maritime Provinces; Acadie; othering; transculturation; colonialism; postcolonialism; Mary-Louise Pratt; Fernando Ortiz; Roland Walter; Sir Charles G. D. Roberts; Thomas Head Raddall; Antonine Maillet; Claude Le Bouthillier; David Adams Richards; Janice Kulyk Keefer; Jeannine Landry Thériault.;

   Abstract : Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Gothenburg, 2008 Title: Anglo-French Relations and the Acadians in Canada s Maritime Literature: Issues of Othering and Transculturation. READ MORE

7. 5. Bordering through genetics : DNA testing, family reunification and Swedish migration control

   Author : Disa Helander; Linda Berg; Aina Tollefsen; Anna Bredström; Irene Molina; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; DNA; family reunification; migration; borders; biometric technology; science; knowledge; feminist theory; queer; postcolonialism; ethnography; Sweden; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : After people flee to Sweden and are granted asylum, their family members must apply to the Swedish migration authorities in order to be reunited with their loved ones in Sweden. As part of this process, some applicants must prove their relationships through DNA analysis. READ MORE