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natural resource management and climate change adaptation and mitigation
… are more sensitive to climate change than wine. With changes in climate the Western Cape, South Africa’s main wine region, is expected to experience more drought and floods which further leads to increased risks of erosion. South Africa is approaching water scarcity but for …
En kvalitativ studie om gymnasieungdomars konstruktion av religion
… describedas regards the construction of the ”oriental” and the ”European” or ?western?person. The theory states that the ”oriental” person is ascribed with negativeattributes whereas the ”westerner” is opposingly ascribed with positive attributes.The theory is used to examine …
En analys av Dinesh D'Souza's argumentation
During the last few years the western world has seen an increasing interest in the topic of atheism, with bestselling books by writers like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. The critic of religions that these writers have brought to the table have not gone …
En studie av den europeiska vampyren och dess samtida funktioner.
… and compares the early historical Vampire as it is presented in some of the Western Europe countries, primarily Greece, but also Romania and how their descriptions of the Vampire have inspired the portrait of vampires in modern films and literature. The essay aims to answer the …
Om den nya generationen äldre och dess plats i det cinematiska rummet. En representationsstudie
… the visual representation of elderly within the cinematic landscape of the western world. Since the subject is somewhat uncharted territory, a broad interdisciplinary approach is necessary where modern social gerontology meets the field of cinema studies. In a cultural context …
En granskning av västerländsk litteraturkanon
Den västerländska kanon har varit ett omdiskuterat begrepp ända sedan dess intåg i litteraturvetenskapliga kretsar - en debatt som pågår ännu idag. Debatten har främst kommit att handla om kanons legitimitet i förhållande till dess representation, då den sedan uppkomsten främst …
inställningar till våld och konflikt bland singalesiska buddhister
… dimensions of Islam. Buddhism is rarely a part of the equation in a western context, regarding violence. A common perception is the picture of Buddhism as a guardian of non-violent principles and values. The central theme of this essay circuits around views on violence and …
En diskursanalys av genusintresserade bibliotekariers tal om begreppet hen
… The essay argues that gender categorization is a dominant discourse in our western society and that certain uses of the pronoun hen, especially the discourse named as the Human-discourse, challenges this domination. The discourses that most librarians used were within the …
<em>En kvalitativ studie av medierapporteringen kring Martin Schibbye och Johan Persson</em>
… theory of post colonialism and the prejudices that has developed from the western way of viewing ”The orient”. It is also based on Richard Dyers theory on whiteness and binary oppositions, which shows how ”whiteness” is viewed as the norm and is also never questioned. The method …
- En kritisk undersökning av fyra gymnasieläromedels framställning av buddhism
… making secondary. In the research background there are descriptions of how the western world looks upon Buddhism in a historical perspective, but also how Buddhism in a modern age is represented. The (school) subject Religion for Religious science A was written in 2008 and the …
skönlitteratur inom ledarskapsutbildning
… alongside with Shakespeare’s plays are dominant. Female writers and non-western writers are very underrepresented. The positive outcomes of reading and discussing these literary works that the educators and writers suggest do substantially correspond with the needs of the …
En studie i livsåsfrågor i populärkulturen
… a study in which I interviewed three students on a senior high school in western Sweden about a popular culture work that they think has made a great impression on them as human beings and issues regarding philosophy of life are processed in this work. The works that were chosen …
En kvalitativ studie av televisionsprogrammet <em>Homeland</em>
… show how such ideas are part of today's society and how they are affecting Western ideas of Muslims as public enemies. Concurrently, Christianity is exclusively portrayed in civilized circumstances, whereas Islam occasionally is portrayed asa sort of being that controls its …
En kvalitativ studie om hur genusvetare praktiserar genuskunskap
There is an awareness of the importance of gender equality in most western societies, both at the political level and in everyday life. In academia, for instance, gender is nowadays a scientific field which indicates that there is a lot of knowledge about the subject. What we do …
… historical figures are compatible with the ideas of 19th and 20th century western Marxism. An illustration of this is the reference to Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariáteguí and his saying that socialism on the American continent can neither be an imitation nor a copy of …
