Sökning: "Existential practices"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Existential practices.
6. Pratiques de l'ici, altérité et identité dans six romans québécois des années 1989-2002
Sammanfattning : Based on an analysis of the roles of alterity and the Other in six Québécois novels published between 1989 and 2002, this study examines how the identity of these first-person narrators is formed through processes of dysphoria, migration and elaborations of mutual space in what will be called practices of Here. The novels can be referred to as texts of the new subjectivité québécoise. LÄS MER
7. Research communication in the climate crisis : Open letters and the mobilization of information
Sammanfattning : What happens to researchers when the topic they study poses an existential threat to the world as we know it? When communication on the topic is politically polarized, but at the same time institutionally encouraged and existentially needed? By what means do researchers come to navigate this complex communication environment? The climate crisis and changing social, political, and academic conditions bring such questions to the forefront in researchers’ public communication on climate issues. This thesis engages with open letters as a form of research communication to explore the practices climate scholars engage in to convey information and inspire urgent action in climate matters. LÄS MER
8. Conceptualizing and contextualizing mindfulness : New and critical perspectives
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims at analyzing mindfulness as a concept and a multidimensional phenomenon in its historic and primordial but also contemporary contexts. In the course of examining this more general question, this dissertation targets four specific objectives: 1) classifying existing definitions of mindfulness, 2) critically analyzing and interpreting the Buddhist and Western interpretations and practices of mindfulness, 3) elaborating on the social and existential dimensions of mindfulness, and 4) applying these dimensions in advancing the notion of mindful sustainable aging in the context of successful aging. LÄS MER
9. As though we had no spirit: Ritual, politics and existence in the Aymara quest for decolonization
Sammanfattning : 'Colonialism' and 'decolonization' have been dealt with by postcolonial studies and, more recently, by scholars identified with the 'de-colonial turn'. At the same time, in the ethnopolitically charged context of contemporary Bolivian society, colonialism and decolonization have become issues of political, existential and even cosmological import. LÄS MER
10. Liv i texten : om litteraturläsningen i en svensklärarutbildning
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this doctoral thesis is to widen and deepen the understanding of reading practices and the functions of literature in a Swedish teacher education programme. The aim is also to contextualize the reading of literature in this education programme by discussing literary studies and teaching more generally. LÄS MER