Background Rich in different kind of potent cells, embryos are used in modern regenerative medicine and research. Neurobiologists today are pushing the boundaries for what can be done with embryos existing in the transitory margins of medicine. Therefore, there is a growing need to develop conceptual frameworks for interpreting the transformative c...
Commensality (the act of eating together) is studied in a range of disciplines and often considered important for social communion, order, health and well-being, while simultaneously being understood as in decline (especially the family meal). However, such claims are also contested in various ways. In this paper, we discuss the expanding field of ...
This study is an exploration of the social engineering of the single-party era through the lenses of state officials in their work of propagating the nationalist state ideology. It aims to bring the state officials, in their (re)production of the beliefs and values as products and as the (re)producers of the state ideology, to the forefront. More s...
What does the media discourse of the refugee look like and what impact does it have on people's views of refugees? By interviewing five informants from a small village in Ångermanland, I have investigated how they view the media discourse about the refugee and how this media image affects their own contact and view of refugees. During the years 201...
This ethnological bachelor level essay investigates how the travel and film industry portrays women travelling alone, and the possible effect that portrayal has on women who might be prone to do just that. My thesis is that some established truths are hinted at when it comes to both travel advertising and Western popular culture, such as the classi...
The aim of this essay is to study how internationally adopted people of colours’ national identifications are created in interaction with other people outside of their closest social networks of people, and how this can affect their feelings of social belonging and exclusion. This is accomplished by examining qualitative ethnographic interviews thr...
Denna studie undersöker hur minnen av folkmord och brott mot mänskligheten artikuleras, förvaltas och kommer till uttryck. Traumatiska erfarenheter av folkmord och brott mot mänskligheten gör avtryck på en människas minne och minnena traderas och ärvs över generationsgränser. Omfattande studier har gjorts om berättande, folkmord och minn...
This is a thesis on how pupils at lower secondary school achieve high grades at schools with higher results than average. The purpose of the study is to analyse and bring attention to the way ideas, practices and conditions interact and facilitate strong achievements among pupils at lower secondary schools. Material of the study was collected using...
This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. The overall aim of this project is to investig...
