Sökning: "colonialism"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 102 avhandlingar innehållade ordet colonialism.

  1. 21. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Sharia och livet : Islamisk retorik om makt, moral och medelvägen (wasatiyya) på al-Jazira

    Författare :Paul Katsivelis; Elie Wardini; Kristina Riegert; Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jazeera; Qaradawi; takfir; wasatiyya; Sharia and Life; Islam; ethnocentrism; terrorism; colonialism; al-Jazira; al-Qaradawi; takfir; wasatiyya; Sharia och livet; islam; etnocentrism; terrorism; Arabic; arabiska;

    Sammanfattning : Claiming a 40 million viewer population, with 97% of viewers Muslims (www.allied-media.com), Jazeera Satellite Channel (JSC) stands out within the sphere of influence among the Arab world. This thesis will examine whether Islam within JSC programming is open to progressive ideas that challenge the intellectual and material lives of its adherents. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Land, Labour, Legacies : Long-term Trends in Inequality and Living Standards in Tanzania, c. 1920-2020

    Författare :Sascha Klocke; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income inequality; living standards; economic development; colonialism; sub-Saharan Africa; Tanzania;

    Sammanfattning : Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to raise their populations out of poverty. One of these countries is Tanzania. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

    Författare :Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Att bygga ett samhälle vid tidens slut: Svenska Missionsförbundets mission i Kongo 1881 till 1920-talet

    Författare :Simon Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Christian Mission; Protestantism; Colonialism; Modernity; Governmentality Theory; Subjectivity; Africa; Congo;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is situated in an interdisciplinary academic discourse on missionary work in colonial states. The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden’s mission in Congo between 1881 and the 1920s was aimed at converting those considered heathens to the Christian faith, founding local Christian congregations, and-, in particular, changing the structures of the local society. LÄS MER