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1. 1. Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology

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

   Författare :Suzana Abrahamsson; [2013-04-16]
   Nyckelord :Postcolonial; Multiculturalism; Immigration; Identity; Ethnicity; “Race”; “Englishness”;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different generations and various ethnic backgrounds in London – one on the most “multicultural” cities in the world – the novel effectively questions the utopian idea of a “Happy Multicultural Land”, that is to say a trouble-free harmonious society. LÄS MER

3. 2. Vad händer i gränslandet? Människor, föremål och identitet i TV-programmet Gränsbevakarna Australien

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Författare :Felicia Johansson; [2013-03-27]
   Nyckelord :Actor-Network-Theory; network; human; non-human; actor; discourse analysis; ; categorization; meaning-makning; subject position; power relations; TV program; Border Security; borderland; boundries; reproduce; conception; negotiation; national identity; nation;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this paper is to study how the TV program Border Security: Australia’s FrontLine (Gränsbevakarna Australien) can be seen to reproduce networks of human and non-human actors. The aim is thus to investigate how boundaries between nations are upheld and how people, as a consequence, are discoursively categorized and what preconditions this create for people’sidentity- and meaning-making practices. LÄS MER

4. 3. "We value it because it is only on the earth that you can put your feet" A case study of landscape values and perspectives in the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Sécure highway conflict

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

   Författare :Ida Westman; [2013-03-26]
   Nyckelord :Bolivia; the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Sécure; the TIPNIS; landscape values; landscape perspectives; indigenous; infrastructure; political ecology; environmental conflict; identity;

   Sammanfattning : This is a bachelor’s thesis in human geography conducted as a minor field study in the Bolivian Amazon. The aim of the thesis is to examine user values and perspectives of representatives of the Mojeño indigenous people regarding their territory and how these are considered in negotiations with the Bolivian government resulting from protests of a highway project planned to cross the habitat. LÄS MER

5. 4. Capturing Intangible Cultural Heritage - Oral Arabic Storytelling in Hammarkullen, Sweden

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

   Författare :Valentina Cedernil; [2013-03-20]
   Nyckelord :intangible cultural heritage; immateriellt kulturarv; oral storytelling; muntlig berättartradition; exile community; exilsamhälle; oral Arabic folklore; muntlig arabisk folklor; heritage language; arvsspråk;

   Sammanfattning : Den livfulla förorten Hammarkullen i Göteborg, Sverige, utgör forskningsfältet för denna magisteruppsats om muntlig arabisk berättartradition i ett exilsamhälle. I syfte att uppfånga och dokumentera exempel på sagor som utgör ett immateriellt kulturarv vars överlevnad hotas, har ett urval av olika berättelser insamlats genom intervjuer och inspelningar av lokala arabisktalande sagoberättare. LÄS MER

7. 5. Dual-Mode Infrared Tracking of Tangible Tabletops

   Master-uppsats, IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Författare :Seyed Ali Alavi; [2013-03-19]
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   Sammanfattning : On tangible tabletops, Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) can signalize their identity, position, orientation, and state by active infrared light. This provides rich interaction capabilities in complex, dynamic scenarios. If TUIs have to transfer additional high-resolution information, many bits are required for each update. LÄS MER