Sökning: "nationhood"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nationhood.
1. Embodied Citizenship in the Making : Bolivian Urban Youth at the Crossroads of Social Hierarchies
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the body as a nexus for playing out power relations and feelings of belonging. Based upon twelve months of fieldwork amongst young urban people living in La Paz and El Alto, it examines the connections between bodily conceptions, social hierarchies and societal inclusions. LÄS MER
2. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Sammanfattning : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. LÄS MER
3. To be or not to be American : Statehood and Peoplehood in Native American Self-identification during the Self-determination era
Sammanfattning : As colonized peoples Native Americans have had a complicated relationship to the United States. They have faced the question of whether they should demand tribal independence or embrace American citizenship. LÄS MER
4. The church as nation : A study in ecclesiology and nationhood
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of nationalism and ecclesiology. These two fields are studiedcomparatively, with particular consideration of the Lutheran state church in Sweden. LÄS MER
5. The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s
Sammanfattning : This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. LÄS MER
