Sökning: "identity dislocation"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden identity dislocation.

  1. 1. CROSSING BORDERS: A Study of Transnational Living in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2014) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014)

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Ingegerd Stenport; [2019-10-22]
    Nyckelord :Taye Selasi; No Violet Bulawayo; Sara Ahmed; Afropoitanism;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract: A number of authors of African descent published ‘Afropolitan’ novels around the year 2010. Several of these diaspora novels dominated the literary scene and caused intense debates about the contested concept of Afropolitanism. The authors Taye Selasi and No Violet Bulawayo challenge colonial images of Africa in their writing. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Media Portrayals of Protests : A Discursive Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Gilet Jaune protests in France

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Författare :Matilda Nilsson Morris; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Populism; Social Media; Journalism; Identity; French Democracy; Gilets Jaunes; protests; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The way conflicts are understood depends on how identities are conveyed through media. Newspapers’ reports of the Gilets Jaunes protests in France during the autumn 2018 are no exception. One factor that can influence which choices are made in describing identity, is the distance between the place of publication and the location of events. LÄS MER

  4. 3. “Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Man Ting Yiu; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Thing Theory; Materiality; Food; Objects; Cuisine; Consumption; Culinary Narrative; Diaspora; Transcultural; Hybridity; Intersectionality; Transference; Craft; Creative Writing;

    Sammanfattning : Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "Att skakas om" : Erfarenheter och konsekvenser av traumatisk hjärnskada

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande

    Författare :Elisabeth Malm; [2008]
    Nyckelord :Traumatic Brain Injury - TBI; unique variations; existential perspective; phenomenological; hermeneutical; limitsituation; identity dislocation; relation; time; world-view; meaning; Traumatisk hjärnskada-TBI; existentiella frågor; gränssituation; identitetsförskjutning; relation; tid; fenomenologisk; hermeneutisk; subjektiv; tolkning; de fyra livsvärldarna; meningsperspektiv; innehållsperspektiv; stämningsperspektiv; noema och noesis.;

    Sammanfattning : Uppsatsen har en kvalitativ ansats och är beskrivande till sin form.Dess övergripande syfte var att öka förståelsen för traumatisk hjärnskada. Syftet var att förstå meningsaspekter av skadan och att ge ett bidrag till förståelsen av olika variationer av livsvärldsförändringen. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Solidaritet möter säkerhet - Vad 'immigranterna' får representera i immigrationspolitisk diskurs

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Maria Hultin; [2006]
    Nyckelord :security; immigration; bordering; discourse theory; US senate; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : This essay concerns the notion of how immigration politics, defined as a political discursive structure that explains and justifies how and why the movement of people into a state's territory is restricted and controlled, has come to present its purpose not as solidarity with the 'immigrants' wanting to enter the state but as a protective measure for the state's citizens. By using discourse theory combined with theories from the International Relations field I attempt to explain why and how such a discourse positions 'immigrants' as a threat to the state. LÄS MER