Sökning: "subalternity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade ordet subalternity.

  1. 1. Subalternity and Insubordination : A Postcolonial Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Karin Rosenqvist; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Post-colonialism; Nigeria; feminism; Adichie; subaltern;

    Sammanfattning : In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah the young female protagonist is unexpectedly thrown into a life of marginalisation when she migrates from Nigeria to the American East coast. Having grown up in Nigeria her skin colour has neither been an issue nor of consideration to her, but it soon becomes apparent that elsewhere her complexion evokes expectations and functions as a breeding ground for prejudice. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Den använda tomma marken – En diskursanalytisk studie om gruvprojektet i Gállok

    L2-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Sofie Eriksson; Betty Ottosson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Gállok; diskurs; postkolonialism; grön kolonialism; kolonialism; WPR-ansats; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden has a long history of colonialism in the Sápmi region where the state repeatedly has claimed land at the expense of reindeer husbandry and the Sami culture. The Swedish government has never recognized its colonial history and is still today claiming land for various projects, often covered by wording about sustainable development and a green transition. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Diffractive Assemblies and Invertebrate Spaces: Communal Struggle in the Mexican Anthropocene

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Författare :Talia Velez; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Latin-America; subaltern; postcolonial; decolonial; ethnology; cultural analysis; original peoples; Indigenous peoples; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The importance of spaces of resistance lies in their ability to subvert and even change the hegemonic discourse. However, and despite extensive research on geopolitics and space-making processes, little has been said on the power that subaltern spaces can have in this area. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Rejecting Fate : The challenge of a subaltern community to the creation of a sacrifice zone in Can Sant Joan, Catalonia

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö

    Författare :Sergio Ruiz Cayuela; [2018]
    Nyckelord :political ecology; environmental justice; environmental humanities; subaltern environmentalism; slow violence; sacrifice zones; environmental humanities;

    Sammanfattning : It was my first visit ever to the neighborhood association – in February 2017 – and the phone rang again in the contiguous room. “I’m sorry” apologized José Luis “but our colleagues are not here yet and I need to answer the phone”. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Eva Leonte; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Otsuka; migrant literature; picture brides; subalternity; feminist theory; communal voice; speech-act criticism; illocutionary force.;

    Sammanfattning : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. LÄS MER