Search for dissertations about: "testimony"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the word testimony.

2. 21. Immovable offertory installations in late Bronze Age Cyprus

   Author : Yannis Pararas; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Bronze Age Cyprus; Cypriote ritual practice; offertory action; temple; sanctuary; offertory installation; low stone table; hearth-altar; bench; baetylic installation; slaughtering block; Myrtou-Pigadhes; Kition; Enkomi;

   Abstract : The present study addresses the question of the way divine worship was carried out in the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 B.C.). READ MORE

4. 22. Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing

   Author : Jenny Siméus; Maria Olaussen; Stefan Helgesson; Meg Samuelson; Ashleigh Harris; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antjie Krog; collaborative autobiography; collaborative life writing; Elsa Joubert; Jonathan Morgan; Kopano Ratele; Margaret McCord; multivoiced life writing; Nosisi Mpolweni; selfhood; South Africa; Zoë Wicomb; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. READ MORE

5. 23. State Capacity and Development in Francophone West Africa

   Author : Jens Andersson; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; State capacity; Colonialism; Africa; Economic development; France;

   Abstract : This thesis proposes a unique quantitative investigation of the long-term development of modern states in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is done by measuring and analysing the dynamic history of tax revenue, as a key measure of the capacity of the state, and development in four countries in francophone West Africa – Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger and Senegal – over the long 20th century. READ MORE

6. 24. Appearance and photographs of people in flight : A qualitative study of photojournalistic practices in spaces of (forced) migration

   Author : Rebecca Bengtsson Lundin; Miyase Christensen; Anna Roosvall; Myria Georgiou; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Photojournalism studies; photography; critical visual analysis; watching photography; appearance; encounters; photojournalistic practices; space; forced migration; flight; journalistik; Journalism;

   Abstract : This study explores photojournalistic practices by investigating how spaces of (forced) migration, as well as the people and objects moving in and across them, appeared in Swedish newspapers in 2015.Photographs are unique objects of study, as the presence of people in certain spaces becomes directly observable through them. READ MORE

7. 25. Manufacturing Multilingualisms of Marginality in Mozambique : Exploring the Orders of Visibility of Local African Languages

   Author : Manuel Guissemo; Christopher Stroud; Caroline Kerfoot; Ana Deumert; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; African languages; bilingualism; language ideology; linguistic landscape; Maputo; Mozambique; multilingualism; Portuguese; transnational multilingualism; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

   Abstract : Colonial era language policies and practices in Mozambique sought to render native African languages (and their speakers) invisible in public space. This ‘order of (in)visibility’ was later adopted by many African states, including Mozambique, by choosing the ex-colonial language as the one and only official language and prohibiting or ignoring the use of African languages in the interest of so-called national unity. READ MORE