Essays about: "national cultures"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 145 essays containing the words national cultures.

  1. 16. Dancing Samba in Sweden : A study on transnational cultural expression

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nordiska Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Evelina Gaizauskaite; [2021]
    Keywords : Samba; Dance; Brazil; Transnationalism; Corporeality; Cultural expression; Sweden;

    Abstract : In Sweden, samba - the popular Brazilian dance (and music genre), that has been named the“national rhythm” - is very widely known and practiced. This case study envelops questions about national cultures, cultural embodiment in dance, as well as cross-border relations. READ MORE

  3. 17. Will Kymlicka’s Liberal Theory of Multiculturalism : A case study of Greenland

    University essay from

    Author : Anne Cecilie Bechmann; [2021]
    Keywords : Greenland; Inuit; indigenous; identity; independence; multiculturalism;

    Abstract : The Inuit people in Greenland are internationally recognized as indigenous. They, therefore, have been granted protective measures, such as self-government rights in 2009. However, some scholars have started to question whether protective measures are still a necessity because of their increased autonomy rights. READ MORE

  4. 18. Swedish Teachers in Multicultural Classrooms

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd

    Author : Suna Senman; [2020]
    Keywords : grounded theory; teachers; multiculturalism; work-life;

    Abstract : Mass migration in the past five decades fills classrooms with a mix of cultures, values and national identities. Swedish teachers find themselves working in multicultural classrooms. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges teachers face and propose solutions. READ MORE

  5. 19. Ethical perspectives and cultural differences regarding repatriation and management of human skeletal remains : Rapa Nui case study

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Olivia Gustafsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Repatriation; ethics; Indigenous; Rapa Nui; and post-colonialism; Repatriering; etik; Ursprungsbefolkning; Rapa Nui och post-kolonialism;

    Abstract : Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is an island in the Pacific Ocean which has been colonised over a long period of time. Colonisers have exploited the island through looting and trading Rapanui (the Indigenous people) human skeletal remains. READ MORE

  6. 20. How European Welfare States perpetuate the Growth Imperative - And why Alternatives are needed

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Kristy Louise Rhades; [2020]
    Keywords : European welfare states; European thought paradigms; economic growth; climate emergency; European Green Deal; Euopean Studies; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In industrial circles, in political parties, and in newspapers, there is seldom one reiterating issue that concerns the general public more than the situation of a national economy, as well as how to secure or to undo the practice of it. What is arguably one of the core principals of modern cultures, especially in European societies, not just being a nuclear unit in a bigger economy, but enacting and reenacting the social construct of a normative system a political state economy offers, is strangely overlooked by the majority. READ MORE