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  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Nyckelord :antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Sara Calmius; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. LÄS MER

  4. 3. δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ : Paulus retoriska syfte med presentationen av sig själv i Romarbrevet 1:1

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Författare :Lotta Vikström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Rommarbrevet; Slav; Tjänare; δοῦλος; Paulus;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines Paul's rhetorical goal in describing himself as a ”δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ” in Romans 1:1. In the Norwegian Bible translation, the Greek word ”δοῦλος” has previously been translated as ”servant” but the translation may be changed to ”slave” in the 2024 revision. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Bringing human rights due diligence into law: Addressing modern slavery or business as usual? : A postcolonial assessment of the UK Modern Slavery Act’s compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Isabelle Kämpe; [2023]
    Nyckelord :UK Modern Slavery Act; MSA; UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; UNGP; modern slavery; human rights due diligence; HRDD; supply chain; transparency; postcolonialism; neo-colonialism; dependency theory;

    Sammanfattning : Operating through complex supply chains and multiple jurisdictions, today’s business enterprises can outsource manufacturing to different parts of the world where they can take advantage of low labour- and production costs. In the global quest for businesses to maximise their profits, deteriorating working conditions for offshore labour workers are increasing the risks of human rights abuses. LÄS MER

  7. 5. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

    Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Författare :Jacob Gustavsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Philosophy; Moral Progress; Metaethics; Moral Relativism; Moral Realism; Moral Convictions; Moral Skepticism;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. LÄS MER