Search for dissertations about: "stigmatisation"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word stigmatisation.

2. 6. Literacy Practices in and out of School in Karagwe : the Case of Primary School Literacy in Rural Tanzania

   Author : Åsa Wedin; Karsten Legère; Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literacy practices; bilingualism; Tanzania; Karagwe; language ideologies; literacy education; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Abstract : This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school in rural Tanzania. By using the perspective of linguistic anthropology, literacy practices in five villages in Karagwe district in the northwest of Tanzania have been analysed. READ MORE

4. 7. Osäkra 'sjukdomar' – dilemman och möjligheter : kvinnliga 'patienters' och läkares erfarenheter av kroniskt trötthetssyndrom och fibromyalgi

   Author : Pia Åsbring; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Chronic fatigue syndrome; fibromyalgia; women; qualitative interviews; illness experience; identity; biographical disruption work; stigma; patient power; control; physicians experiences; uncertainty;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on women with chronic fatigue syndrome (M) and fibromyalgia and how they depict their illness experience. Physicians' experiences of these patient groups have also been examined. This thesis is appropriated for the fields of medical sociology and illness experience research. READ MORE

5. 8. Performing Perfectly : Presentations of Childhood in Knutby Filadelfia Before and After the Dissolution of the Congregation

   Author : Sanja Nilsson; Eileen Barker; Liselotte Frisk; Henrik Bogdan; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Childhood; Knutby Filadelfia; High-Demand New Religious Communes; Charisma; Presentations; Stigma; Total Institution; Intercultural Studies; Interkulturella studier; Childhood; Knutby Filadelfia; High-Demand New Religious Commune; Total Institution; Stigma; Charisma; Presentations;

   Abstract : The Knutby Filadelfia Congregation, founded in 1921, started out as a Pentecostal congregation. It has, however, been considered a deviant and semi-isolated new religious movement ever since it became known to the public after a murder took place within its community in 2004. READ MORE

6. 9. Sexual Behaviour and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Urban Ugandan Youth – Perceptions, Attitudes and Management

   Author : Eva-Britta Råssjö; Elisabeth Darj; Gunilla Lindmark; Gunta Lazdane; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; International health; Adolescents; Uganda; Syndromic approach; STI; VCT for HIV; Safe sex behaviour; Internationell hälsa; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : The aims of this thesis were to expand the knowledge about sexual and reproductive health among urban Ugandan youths, living in a slum, and to evaluate the national flow-chart for management of the abnormal vaginal discharge (AVD) syndrome in adolescent girls. Data collection included individual interviews, focus-group discussions and clinical investigations with tests for chlamydia trachomatis (CT), neisseria gonorrhoea (NG), trichomonas vaginalis (TV), syphilis, and HIV infection. READ MORE

7. 10. Diaspora at Home? : Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space

   Author : Jesper Bjarnesen; Sten Hagberg; Mats Utas; Joseph Hellweg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wartime mobilities; home; transnational space; diaspora; urban anthropology; West Africa; conflict; return; migration; youth; intergenerational relations; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In the period 1999-2007, more than half a million Burkinabe returned to Burkina Faso due to the persecution of immigrant labourers in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Ultranationalist debates about the criteria for Ivorian citizenship had intensified during the 1990s and led to the scapegoating of immigrants in a political rhetoric centred on notions of autochthony and xenophobia. READ MORE