Sökning: "Subaltern Studies"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Subaltern Studies.

1. 6. Sports of culture : Writing the resistant subject in South Africa (readings of Ndebele, Gordimer, Coetzee)

   Författare :Stefan Helgesson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; African literature; Homi Bhabha; catachresis; ethics; Frantz Fanon; Emmanuel Lévinas; mimicry; post-colonial theory; South African literature; Gayatri Spivak; subaltern; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis interrogates the post-colonial and ethical implications of three works of fiction published in South Africa between 1983 and 1987, namely Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele, A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer and Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee. LÄS MER

3. 7. InterNacionalistas : identifikation och främlingskap i svenska solidaritetsarbetares berättelser från Nicaragua

   Författare :Linda Berg; Britta Lundgren; Raoul Granqvist; Beatriz Lindqvist; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; geopolitics; self-images; racialization; spokesman woman; subaltern; identification; Sweden in and Nicaragua; postcolonial studies; postcolonial feminism; estrangement; international solidarity; modernity pre-modernity; development; gender; nationality; Sverige i och Nicaragua; postkoloniala studier; geopolitik; identifikation; främlingskap; internationell solidaritet; modernitet förmodernitet; utveckling; genus; nationalitet; självbilder; rasifiering; talesman kvinna; subalterna; postkolonial feminism; Ethnology; Etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore what solidarity workers from Sweden narrate about and from activities in Nicaragua. I focus on how identities reflect nationalising, racialising and gendering imaginations, and how these are being handled within the context of an international solidarity movement – with the ambition to strive for global justice. LÄS MER

4. 8. Between the Highway and the Red Dirt Track : Subaltern Urbanization and Census Towns in India

   Författare :Srilata Sircar; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; India; Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi; Subaltern urbanization; census towns; urban theory; postcolonial;

   Sammanfattning : In the 2011 census of India, more than 2500 settlements have been newly inducted into the category of ‘census towns’ – the lowest size-class of urban settlements in India. This is a staggering figure in light of the observation that a comparable number constituted the total number of all urban settlements recorded since 1900. LÄS MER

5. 9. Cuts and Continuities: Caste-subaltern imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943

   Författare :Ram Krishna Ranjan; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Sammanfattning : The Bengal famine of 1943, in which nearly three million people died, was man-made. A multitude of factors led to the famine, including British colonial policies, war, hoarding and profiteering by local elites and businesses, and existing faultlines of caste, class and gender. LÄS MER

7. 10. Political Dimensions of Entrepreneurship : Exploring Competing Discourses in a Marginalized Urban Community Aspiring for Social Change

   Författare :Amelia Olsson; Christian Maravelias; Karin Berglund; Pascal Dey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship; critical entrepreneurship studies; social entrepreneurship; the political; resistance; co-optation; social change; post-politics; discourses; chains of equivalence; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Entrepreneurship is a celebrated phenomenon in today’s society. Students are taught to become entrepreneurial and governments develop policies to support entrepreneurship based on the belief that it generates economic growth and societal development. LÄS MER