Sökning: "Central America"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 84 avhandlingar innehållade orden Central America.

  1. 21. Three-dimensional analysis of aeromagnetic and gravimetric data of sedimentary basins from Panama, Central America

    Författare :Luis E. Santamaria Vallejos; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Applied Geophysics; Tillämpad geofysik;

    Sammanfattning : The knowledge of the geology of the sedimentary basins from the Gulf of Panama is still quite limited. There is a lack of data from the basin geometry, the thickness, the continuity and connection between the basins, and from the characteristics of the crystalline basement rocks beneath the sedimentary basins. LÄS MER

  2. 22. Guerrilleros de papel : La representación del guerrillero en seis novelas centroamericanas de los años setenta y ochenta

    Författare :Oscar García; Sergio Infante; Héctor Areyuna; Jorge Román-Lagunas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Central American literature; guerrilla soldier; representation; postcolonial theories; postcolonial discourse; subaltern; essentialism; hybridity; phenomenological hermeneutics.; Spanish language; Spanska språket; Spanish; spanska;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study is to analyze and compare the representation of the guerrilla soldier in six contemporary Central American novels. According to Claudio Guillén, the comparison is a dialogue between unity and diversity. It can be defined with the help of two coordinates: a spatial and a temporal. LÄS MER

  3. 23. Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Central America and Sri Lanka : renal morphology and clinical characteristics

    Författare :Julia Wijkström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health problem. The most common etiologies of CKD are diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and glomerulonephritis, but over the last several decades a high prevalence of CKD of unknown etiology (CKDu) has been reported from rural communities in some tropical countries, including Central America, and Sri Lanka. LÄS MER

  4. 24. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality

    Författare :Jenny Ingridsdotter; Mats Lindqvist; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Catrin Lundström; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse theory; ethnography; Argentina; race; whiteness; coloniality; postsocialism; social inequality; subject positions; migration; gender; class; intersectionality; ethnography; post structuralism; Latin America; Soviet Union; identities; differentiation; ethnology; economic crisis; mobility; auto-ethnography; colonial settlement; diaspora; humanities; Ukraine; Russia; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. LÄS MER

  5. 25. "Ese terrible espejo" : autorrepresentación en la narrativa sobre el exilio del Cono Sur en Suecia

    Författare :Elena Lindholm Narvaez; Julian Vasquez Lopera; Eva Löfquist; Erna Pfeiffer; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; exile; narrative; Latin America; Sweden; self-representation; identity; gender; hybridity; heterotopia; memory; Spanish language; Spanska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with self-representation in a corpus consisting of narrative texts about the exile from Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, that reached Sweden during the 1970s and 1980s. The first part of the analysis focuses on the representation of discursive borders that enclose identity in exile in categories based on gender and ethnicity. LÄS MER