Essays about: "search for identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 96 essays containing the words search for identity.

  1. 1. The Promise of a Green Revolution : Conceptions of climate change and sustainability in local movements objecting to mining establishment

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Caroline Reinhammar; [2023]
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    Abstract : This study explores how vernacular understandings of climate change and sustainability are formed in relation to local disputes concerning mineral exploration. In a search for a solution to climate change, the interest in rare earth elements (REEs), and other metals used in green technology has resulted in granting mining companies processing concessions in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. Physics Identity Development and Student Participation - A Case Study Through the Lens of Activity Theory

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Fysikundervisningens didaktik

    Author : Mikael Lindberg; [2023]
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    Abstract : When highschool students apply for university physics programs they are taking a significant stepdown a path suggestively leading them closer to becoming physics community members. Highschoolstudents’ ideas of what physicists do at work might however differ from what physicists actuallydo. READ MORE

  4. 3. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Bäckman Ellen; [2023]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; abuse; feminism; compulsory heterosexuality; lesbianism;

    Abstract : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Colonial Past to Colonial Future? : A Case Study of the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Jonathan Lindstén; [2023]
    Keywords : Belt and Road Initiative; Kazakhstan; China; neocolonialism; postcolonialism;

    Abstract : Since its independence almost three decades ago, the nation-state of Kazakhstan has been nestled in a search for identity and unity. Located in a geographically strategic location between two of the world's most significant actors, and with a colonial history to one of them —the Soviet Union— the country's strive for identity in a self-determined world continues. READ MORE

  6. 5. Armenia between Russia and the West : Realpolitik and Identity Reconstruction in PM Pashinyan's Tweets

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Henry Wathen; [2023]
    Keywords : Armenia; identity; foreign policy; Twitter; Nikol Pashinyan;

    Abstract : My research is focused on the relation between the foreign policy vector and national identity as projected by Armenia’s Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan in the public sphere. This study is a search for expressions of ‘sameness’ and allegiance in the geopolitical balancing and reconstruction of Armenia’s foreign policy narrative, ideology and identity. READ MORE