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  1. 1. Berättelser om adoption

    Författare :Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed; Socialhögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adoption; adoptee; story; narrative analysis; interview study; discourse; self construction; identity; media analysis; social constructionismNyckelord: adoption; identitet; självkonstruktioner; diskurs; intervjustudie; adopterad; berättelse; narrativ analys; narrativ; medieanalys; social konstruktionism;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores adoption stories in a Swedish context. The aim is two-fold: First, how adoption is presented by adopted adults; second, how adoption is constructed in the press. The way adoptees create meaning of “being adopted” is investigated; the way those stories are shaped culturally is also explored. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts

    Författare :Redi Koobak; Nina Lykke; Cecilia Åsberg; Jackie Stacey; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender; postsocialist; feminist imaginaries; lag discourse; Western feminist theory; geopolitics; temporality; visual arts; self-portrait photography; sexuality; queer; Anna-Stina Treumund; Estonia; Genus; postsocialistisk; feministiska föreställningar; diskurs om eftersläpning; västerländsk feministisk teori; geopolitik; temporalitet; bildkonst; självporträtt; fotografi; sexualitet; queer; Anna-Stina Treumund; Estland.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Different Voices - Different Stories : Communication, identity and meaning among people with acquired brain damage

    Författare :Eleonor Antelius; Lars-Christer Hydén; Marja-Liisa Honkasalo; Andrew Sparkes; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acquired brain damage; body; communication; dependence; disability; embodiment; enactment; ethnography; identity; language use; meaning-making practices; narratives; normality; personhood; power relations; self-determination; social interaction; stories; storytelling; story-making; videoethnography; voice; Beroende; berättande; berättelser; etnografi; funktionshinder; förkroppsligande; förvärvad hjärnskada; identitet; kommunikation; kropp; maktrelationer; meningsskapande praktiker; narrativer; normalitet; personskap; röst; självbestämmande; social interaktion; språkanvändning; videoetnografi; Disability research; Handikappsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of the dissertation is to understand meaning-making practices used by people suffering from acquired brain damage with severe physical and communicative disabilities, in order to create and sustain their identity and personhood in relation to other people. The study emanates from the idea that identity and personhood, also in relation to disability, are created/sustained in ongoing interaction between people in everyday situations, and that the ability to narrate is central to such a creation of identity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Discourse and Practice of Constructive Journalism

    Författare :Joy Kibarabara; Christian Christensen; Anna Roosvall; Karen McIntyre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Constructive Journalism; Critical Political Economy; Cultural Studies; Mixed Methods; Journalistic Role Conceptions; Socially Responsible Journalism; Journalism; journalistik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation critically interrogates constructive journalism for the purposes of developing, enhancing and contextualizing related theory and practice. Constructive journalism is an emerging approach that aims for societal well-being by covering stories about progress, achievement and collaboration as much as stories about devastation, corruption and conflict. LÄS MER

  7. 5. On lifelong learning as stories of the present

    Författare :Gun Berglund; David Hamilton; Ingrid Nilsson; Richard Edwards; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lifelong learning; discourse; history of the present; stories; power knowledge; governmentality; the other; pathology; medicalisation; diskurs; berättelser; patologisering; medikalisering; livslångt lärande; Education; Pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the discursive construction of lifelong learning in Swedish, Australian and American policy. Lifelong learning has an aura of apparent self-evidence which this study wishes to challenge by deconstructing the normalised truths in contemporary lifelong learning policies. LÄS MER