Sökning: "postkoloniala studier"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden postkoloniala studier.
1. Fieldwork and Fiction : Ethnography and Literature in the French Caribbean
Sammanfattning : The birth of French Caribbean literature is in many ways tied to a nontheorized and circumstantial use of ethnography. Ethnography is mainly referred to as a discourse of knowledge having to do with defining and questioning the notion of culture which, in this case, was important to Martinican authors trying to articulate identity. LÄS MER
2. Heritage in Authority-Making : Appropriating Interventions inThree Socio-Political Contexts
Sammanfattning : The perpetual evolution of the value of heritage in urban development is producing newsocio-spatial realities, shaped by different relationships of power at multiple scales.Heritage has always played an important role in the construction of individual andgroup identities, but is now increasingly seen as a capital for the making of cityidentity. LÄS MER
3. InterNacionalistas : identifikation och främlingskap i svenska solidaritetsarbetares berättelser från Nicaragua
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. Spaces of Writing History in the Postcolonial City : Edits, Erasures, Inscriptions
Sammanfattning : The search for a pre-colonial identity has occupied post-colonial cities since independence, becoming intertwined with modern nation-building projects. Consequently, an active agenda of reframing heritage has emerged that is strongly connected to the process of revisiting and rewriting the past. LÄS MER
5. Digitalising Tax, The Kenyan Way : The Travels and Translations of ITax in Kenya
Sammanfattning : Kenya, as with other developing countries, has joined the global bandwagon of using digital technologies to increase domestic revenues. Within the new strategies, lie great potential in achieving sustainable development, however, the shift is happening quite rapidly and has been made mandatory within a short period of time. LÄS MER