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Showing result 11 - 15 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the word racism.

  2. 11. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century

    Author : Mats Norvenius; Marja Kaikkonen; Marianne Bastid-Bruguière; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; modern schools; geography textbooks; national identity; Chinese minorities; Meiji Japan; nationalism; Sinocentrism; Orientalism; social Darwinism; geographical determinism; racism; militarism; constitutional monarchism; Sinology; sinologi;

    Abstract : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. READ MORE

  4. 12. Higher education and the evolution of prejudice

    Author : Paolo Velásquez; Maureen A. Eger; Mikael Hjerm; Eva Jaspers; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Prejudice; immigrants; education; attitudes; liberalizing effect; longitudinal; racism; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Background: This dissertation looks at the effect of higher education on prejudice, in particular anti-immigrant sentiment. In studies of prejudice, higher education is constantly shown to correlate to lower levels of prejudice, the so-called “liberalizing effect of education,” yet we do not fully understand to what extent education matters for these attitudes. READ MORE

  5. 13. Attaining Whiteness : A Sociological Study of Race and Racialization in Russia

    Author : Nikolay Zakharov; Sven Hort; Vessela Misheva; Mark Bassin; Paavo Bergman; Ian Law; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Racialization; Russia; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Racism; Social Theory; Nationalism; Modernity; Soviet Union; Postcolonial Studies; Eastern Europe; Identity; Migration; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Attaining Whiteness is the first book-length sociological study of how ideas about race resonate in post-Soviet Russia. The book charts how tropes of self, hybridity, and maturity constitute important symbolic vehicles for applying the idea of race to the drawing of differences. READ MORE

  6. 14. The Republic of Difference : Feminism and anti-racism in the Parisian banlieues

    Author : Johanna Gullberg; Mark Graham; Robert Gibb; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political activism; feminism; antiracism; banlieue; French Republic; post colonialism; intersectionality; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : The thesis is an ethnographic study of three political groups in the Parisian banlieues: Ni putes ni soumises, AFRICA and Mouvement des indigènes de la République. These groups espouse both feminist and antiracist politics in theory, yet in practice tend to privilege either a feminist or  antiracist position and end up in opposition to each other. READ MORE

  7. 15. Imag(in)ing the other(s) : Migration, racism, and the discursive constructions of migrants

    Author : Mekonnen Tesfahuney; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; imag in ing; migrations; white; hermeneutics of suspicion; theOther s ; inclusion exclusion; racialisation; criminalisation; securitization; space; power; discourses; culture; nation; race; boundaries; enclosures; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines the question of how the material and discursive constructions of "white" spaces impact on immigrants in Sweden, Europe and the West. Itoffers critical readings of migrations, discourses and space. READ MORE