Essays about: "imperial"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 53 essays containing the word imperial.

  1. 11. When Religious, Civil, and National Representations Clash : A Decolonial View on Georgian Muslims as Internal Others

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Gvantsa Gatenadze; [2023]
    Keywords : Adjara; Adjarian Muslim; Decolonial Approach; Decoloniality; Ethnicization of Religion; Georgia; Soviet Colonialism; Soviet Modernity.;

    Abstract : The othering and exclusion of religious minority groups in Georgia is often understood through the prism of religious nationalism, which is argued to have developed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the respective need to fill up the leftover systemic void. Ethno-national and religious identity markers were used to create the image of true, pre-Soviet Georgian – Christian, ethnically Georgian group. READ MORE

  3. 12. THE JOINT WAY FORWARD– OR THE EU:S WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN? A qualitative content analysis on an EU non-paper on enhancing cooperation on migration, mobility and readmission with Afghanistan

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Magdalena Lund; [2022-08-09]
    Keywords : Normative Power European; EU:s readmission agreements; return; third countries;

    Abstract : The cooperation with third countries on return is a political priority in the European Union (hereinafter the EU) and it has given rise to a number of partnerships. Afghanistan signed the agreement Joint Way Forward with the EU in October 2016, despite internal agreements within the Afghan government due to the difficult situation in the country. READ MORE

  4. 13. Urban Planning for Better Air Quality : A case study of the Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods in London

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Greta Gustafsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods; London; Green Infrastructure; Urban Planning; Air Pollution;

    Abstract : Air pollution affects the environment negatively, boosts climate change, and is the cause of millions of deaths per year, first and foremost affecting the people living in urban areas. Since the early 20th century, many cities have been planned around cars, which are the main contributors to the bad air quality. READ MORE

  5. 14. Imperial Geopolitics in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows: From Islamism and Islamophobia to Postcolonial Islam

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Shyamal Chandra Barman; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between imperial geopolitics and Islam in Burnt Shadows (2009) by Kamila Shamsie. The time frame of Burnt Shadows covers more than fifty years ranging from 9th August 1945 to the attack on the world trade center and the aftermath of the historical 9/11 incident. READ MORE

  6. 15. Estonian-Russian Identities in the Conflict Zone : Postcolonial Readings of Andrei Ivanov’s “Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces”

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Slaviska språk

    Author : Evelin Tamm; [2022]
    Keywords : Russophone identities; contemporary Estonian literature; Andrei Ivanov; Estonian Russian minority; Baltic postcolonialism; hybridity; русскоязычная идентичность; современная эстонская литература; Андрей Иванов; русское меньшинство в Эстонии; балтийский постколониализм; гибридность; ryska identiteter; estnisk samtidslitteratur; Andrei Ivanov; den ryska minoriteten i Estland; baltisk postkolonialism; hybriditet;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the changing identities of the Estonian Russophone minority based on the literary works of Estonian Russophone writers. It analyses Andrei Ivanov’s short novel Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces applying the concepts of Baltic postcolonial identities and hybridity. READ MORE