Sökning: "modernity coloniality"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernity coloniality.
1. Living in times of climate change. Weather-related understandings, realities, and entanglements among Guarani people in the Bolivian Chaco
Sammanfattning : Since climate change became an issue of public concern worldwide, the weather has attracted increasing attention and come to stand as a common ground for joint action between Indigenous people and governmental and non-governmental actors in the Bolivian Chaco. Despite becoming a common cause, the management of weather through mitigation and adaptation strategies takes place under ontological differences and power imbalances. LÄS MER
2. Att sälja världen: Omvärldsbilder i svensk utlandsturism
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyse how the Swedish tourism industry has marketed the world outside Sweden. What images of the people who populate tourist destinations has the tourism industry used to lure customers abroad? Answers to this question are drawn from a body data comprised of prospecti and brochures put out by Swedish tourism agencies in the period between 1930 and 1990. LÄS MER
3. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film
Sammanfattning : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. LÄS MER
