Sökning: "Imagined Communities"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden Imagined Communities.

  1. 1. beloved communities : Solidarity and difference in fiction by Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa

    Författare :Elizabeth Kella; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Since the civil rights era, the concept of community has become increasingly politicizedin the US and Canada. Inextricably entangled in the new social movements andmulticulturalism of the 1980s and 1990s, community tends to be either much malignedor exaggeratedly extolled in the literary, cultural, and political discourses in which itfigures so prominently. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att (ut)bilda ett folk : Nationell och etnisk gemenskap i Sveriges och Finlands svenskspråkiga läroböcker för folk- och grundskola åren 1866-2016

    Författare :Lina Spjut; Christian Lundahl; Joakim Landahl; Samuel Edquist; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Role of textbooks; Imagined communities; Sweden; Finland; Comparative method; use of history;

    Sammanfattning : In this comparative study, elementary school textbooks in history, geography and social science/civics from Sweden and Finland 1866 – 2016 are analysed and compared. The focus is textbooks’ expressions of imagined communities, identification and common history. LÄS MER

  4. 3. In transit : aspects of transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's travels

    Författare :Elisabeth Mårald; Sven-Johan Spånberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transculturalism; ethnicity; the postcolonial discourse; travels; tourism; imagology; Imagined Communities; environment; Bakhtin s dialogic theories; cultural studies;

    Sammanfattning : Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Iscensättandet av Solskensolympiaden. Dagspressens konstruktion av föreställda gemenskaper vid Stockholmsolympiaden 1912

    Författare :Christian Widholm; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sports journalism; imagined communities; mass media; gender identity; masculinity; social classes; nationalism; Olympics; ethnicity; modern history; 19th-century; Sweden; History; Sports research;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the renegotiation of Swedish national identity in newspapers’ coverage of the Olympics of 1912. The “sun-shine Olympics”, as Swedes have come to term the event, idealises early twentieth-century Sweden and early sports events. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Levda rum och beskrivna platser : former för landskapsidentitet

    Författare :Anders Häggström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Local community; region; identity; spatial practices; representation; narrative; imagined communities; museum; cultural heritage; visual culture; public rituals;

    Sammanfattning : In this study a cultural discourse perspective is used to discuss how regional identities are constructed during the 1900s. The investigation examines how local history and culture are used in symbolic forms to articulate the province as an imagined community in varying periods, media, and social contexts. The study deals with two problem areas. LÄS MER