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1. Motstånd och kreativitet : George Herbert Meads bidrag till aktör-strukturdebatten
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the agency-structure debate. Different ways of comprehending the relationship between agency and structure constitute a watershed between theoretical approaches in sociology. On one side, we have the Weberian social definition paradigm. On the other, we have the Durkheimian social facts paradigm. LÄS MER
2. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power
Sammanfattning : The first aim of this work has been to analyse and understand the ways in which a group of ANC-women politicians reason about bridewealth/lobola – an institution about which they express differing views, in particular about whether or not it is oppressive to women. The main body of the empirical material is based on 27 interviews conducted in South Africa in the period 1996-1998. LÄS MER
3. Praktiken im Zwischenraum : Transitorisches Schreiben bei Katja Lange-Müller
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes works by the contemporary German author Katja Lange-Müller, focusing on their representations of borders and in-between spaces. Thus, the thesis offers a new perspective on Lange-Müller’s work, which, in the few previous studies, has mainly been interpreted within the context of ‘subversive writing’ in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. LÄS MER
4. Literary Loves : Interpretations of Dioscorides 1-5 and 7 G-P
Sammanfattning : This is a study of six Hellenistic erotic epigrams attributed to the third century BC epigrammatist Dioscorides. The introduction provides a critical discussion of interpretive aims and strategies of scholarly readings of Hellenistic epigrams in general, with a focus on concepts such as intertextuality, historicity, ideology and theory. LÄS MER
5. Renewal and Heritage : The Quest for Authenticity in Hasan Hanafi's Islamic Ideology
Sammanfattning : This study presents and analyses a contemporary interpretation of Islam by the Egyptian thinker Hasan Hanafi. His ideas are analysed in a perspective of the history of ideas where both Islamic and Western influences are taken into consideration. LÄS MER