Sökning: "postcolonial women"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden postcolonial women.

  1. 1. Tradition as Resource : Transnational Somali Women Traders Facing the Realities of Civil War

    Författare :Rannveig Jetne Haga; Mattias Gardell; Lena Roos; Francesca Declich; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dubai; Somaliland; Somali women; civil war; tradition; agency; security; autonomy; negotiations; piety; postcolonial; feminism.; History of religion; Religionshistoria; Islamology; Islamologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an analysis of interviews with and observations among transnational Somali women traders, located in Somaliland (northwest Somalia) and Dubai. Since the outbreak of the Somali civil war an increasing number of women have become the sole providers of their families. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Muslima : Islamisk väckelse och unga kvinnors förhandlingar om genus i det samtida Sverige

    Författare :Pia Karlsson Minganti; Lena Gerholm; Catharina Raudvere; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; Muslim women; Islamic revival; Islamic identity; youth culture; agency; negotiation; gender; religion; ethnicity; generation; globalization; piety; sexuality; honor; ethical formation; third space; recognition politics; postcolonial; feminism; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an analysis of interviews with and observations among young women in Sunni Muslim youth associations in today’s Sweden. The aim is to understand the women’s possibilities to act as individuals, as women and as members of religious/ethnic minorities. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Pratiques de l'ici, altérité et identité dans six romans québécois des années 1989-2002

    Författare :Svante Lindberg; Maria Walecka-Garbalinska; Margareta Östman; Janet Paterson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pierre Gobeil; Lise Tremblay; Rober Racine; Bertrand Gervais; Pauline Harvey; Wajdi Mouawad; Quebec; Québécois novel; postmodern; postcolonial; practices of Here; the Other; alterity; identity; subjectivity; narrative; internal hermeneutics; space; dysphoria; migration; French language; Franska språket;

    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. 5. Hierarchical Sisterhood : Supporting Women's Peacebuilding through Swedish Aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993-2013

    Författare :Sanela Bajramović; Christina Carlsson Wetterberg; Maria Småberg; Henric Bagerius; Gunlög Fur; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sisterhood; Kvinna till Kvinna; international intervention; women; peacebuilding; Sida; local NGOs; Bosnia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines possibilities and challenges faced by international interveners in a post-socialist and violently divided area. The study object is the Swedish foundation Kvinna till Kvinna, formed in 1993 during the Bosnian war, originating from the peace movement and supported by the Swedish government aid agency Sida. LÄS MER