Essays about: "Nuns"

Found 4 essays containing the word Nuns.

  1. 1. Alsike Kloster : An Ethnographic Study of Spiritual Activism as Daily Life

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Shanti Louise Grafström; [2017]
    Keywords : Alsike Kloster; Refugees; Sanctuary Laws; Spiritual Activism; Resacralization; Monastery; Nuns; Interfaith Community Living; Ethnography;

    Abstract : For nearly 40 years, Sister Karin and the nuns at Alsike Kloster have been giving sanctuary to refugees while also taking political, social and legal action to advocate for their rights. Every day they share their home with 60 men, women and children who are fleeing violence, persecution, looming threats and even death. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Workers of Society – the Artist, the Housewife and the Nun : A Feminist Marxist Analysis on the Intersections of Art, Care Work and Social Struggles

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Airi Triisberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Art workers; domestic and care work; precarious labour; social struggles; autonomist feminist Marxism;

    Abstract : What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gender in Textbooks Used for English as a Second Language in Sweden : the Role of Adjectives Describing Men and Women

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Jenny Ceesay; [2014]
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    Abstract : This essay investigates gender in two textbooks used for teaching English as a second language in schools in Sweden. Previous research has shown that teachers of English as a second language in Sweden rely a great deal on textbooks in their teaching (Skolverket 2006). READ MORE

  5. 4. Tibetan migration to India - Why, when, how and with what consequences?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Charlotte Pehrson; [2004]
    Keywords : Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Migration; Tibet; Kina; Indien; China; India; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When China occupied Tibet in 1950 in order to "liberate" Tibet from its "economic backwardness" of feudal and religious traditions, the effects were devastating. Tibetans were dispatched to labour camps, monks and nuns were executed or imprisoned, thousands of monasteries and temples were destroyed and communist propaganda was forced upon the Tibetan people. READ MORE