Essays about: "the Swedish self-image"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 26 essays containing the words the Swedish self-image.

  1. 21. Defending Discourse: A poststructural feminist analysis of the 2011 to 2013 marketing campaigns of the Swedish Armed Forces

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Hedda Lindselius; [2014]
    Keywords : the Swedish Armed Forces; discourse analysis; poststructuralism; feminism; gender; advertisement; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The field of visual analysis has become increasingly relevant to political science. The political nature of marketing campaigns and advertisements with a governmental body as sender makes for a relevant research ground. READ MORE

  3. 22. ”Try to relax” - A survey study in Sweden among native Swedes and Arabic immigrants concerning views on stuttering

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Logopedi, foniatri och audiologi

    Author : Sofia Nilsson; Tobias Wetterling; [2013]
    Keywords : Stuttering; attitudes; beliefs; culture; questionnaire; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Abstract : Studies performed in various countries have shown that negative attitudes and beliefs towards stuttering and People Who Stutter (PWS), which can lead to stigmatization, discrimination and social anxiety, are widespread across different societies. It is important that clinicians are aware that patients can meet different attitudes in their daily life, affecting health care seeking behavior and self-image. READ MORE

  4. 23. Swedish Stories of the Neighbour Across the Baltic Sea: A Narrative Media Analysis of Swedish Reporting on Lithuania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Anna Olsson; [2013]
    Keywords : stereotypes; Sweden; Swedish media; Lithuania; image of Lithuania; media; narratives; stories; collective identity; othering; national images; Litauen; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis identifies ten main narratives related to Lithuania in the reporting of five major Swedish newspapers between 2010-2012, and investigates how these narratives have been discursively constructed and why they might have been chosen to serve as a frame of reference for Swedish readers. Through narrative analysis and a theoretical framework including the concepts of ‘narrative’, ‘collective identity’, ‘national stereotypes’ and ‘othering’, main narratives are identified and analysed. READ MORE

  5. 24. Stories from the grassroots : Garima activists about their fight for freedom and dignity as Dalit women in Indian Madhya Pradesh

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it

    Author : Anna-Carin Svensson; [2012]
    Keywords : Garima campaign; manual scavenging; India; Dalit women; empowerment; Bourdieu; symbolic violence; human rights; grassroots level; rhetoric;

    Abstract : This research is a result of a nine week field study during spring 2012, with the purpose of highlighting the stories of Dalit women in Madhya Pradesh, India. Together with a fellow student at Södertörn University, I investigated the Garima Campaign, an ActionAid project working with Dalit women forced to endure the illegal practice of manual scavenging, the manual removal of human excreta from dry toilets. READ MORE

  6. 25. Age in change: voices and views of older women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Anna Hedlund; [2007]
    Keywords : older women; ageing; lived experience; ageism; sexism; coping; agency; qualitative methodology; Sociology; Sociologi; Social structures; Sociala strukturer; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The youth orientation of Swedish society makes older women invisible. Current norms of youth and beauty exclude and misrepresent the elderly and ageing, and pose a challenge for older women to maintain a positive self-image. READ MORE