The thesis uses the critical lens of Deleuze and Guattari on the poetry of George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Bobby Sands to illustrate the way natural elements deconstruct the power of a state apparatus by exposing it as a temporary social construct. I argue that literature creates the idea of a nation by perpetuating narratives that divide the world into borders; conversely, literature ...

Engagement with the Gothic often brings readers into the realms of the unknown and that which is difficult to represent. In this thesis, I intend to convey to you the fin de siècle’s fascination with representing powerful women as monstrous, something that was analogous with the representations of the New Woman. Whilst there has been much research and discussions around the subject of gender in late ...

The following thesis aims to look at how reading Nuruddin Farah´s North of Dawn and Randa Abdel-Fattah´s The Lines We Cross can create resilience to radicalisation and violent extremism. Building on the concepts of deep reading, vicarious experiences and theories on preventative work, this thesis will show how literature that examines radicalisation in a critical light can show the importance of ...

This thesis deals with Karlsøy Municipality, and its local public library and how it has fared during the global Covid-19 pandemic. Through my research methods, conversations with employees and personal experiences at the library, has revealed that there are several aspects of the library that stands out in comparison to larger libraries. For this thesis, I have considered several methods, some ...

Resumen: La morfología se ocupa del estudio de los procesos a través de los que se expande el vocabulario de una lengua. Este estudio surge con el objetivo de explorar el papel que desempeña el aspecto léxico en las adjetivalizaciones deverbales en -ble. Para ello se han extraido ejemplos de verbos y adjetivos derivados de corpus lingüísticos que recopilan casos del uso en medios online de todos ...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from 2019 has impacted education systems of many countries around the world. Efforts to contain COVID-19 have led to the closure of schools in more than 100 countries worldwide. This situation has also left over one billion learners out of school. For marginalized communities such as indigenous people, the situation has been worse. This study investigated the ...

Across Canada and the Northwest Territories (NWT), abandoned mines have held their place as literal and figurative memories of historical mining malpractices, with mine closure and remediation in Northern areas gaining traction in Canada to bring environmental, economic, and social restitution from years of neglect and land misuse. However, the focus on technical aspects of mine closure have ...

Oppgaven har som formål å nyansere kjønnsforskjellene i grunnskolen ved hjelp av kommuners sentralitet, sysselsettingsprofil, og utdanningsnivå. Sysselsettingsprofil er i oppgaven representert av prosentandel i kommunen som er sysselsatt i primærnæringer. Utdanningsnivå er operasjonalisert gjennom prosentandel i kommunen med høyere utdanning, og prosentandel i kommunen med grunnskole som høyeste ...

The way conflict and gender are discursively constructed is influenced, in part, by media representations. An influential entertainment complex like the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) can, therefore, play a major role in the way conflict, gender, and their intersection are understood. This thesis explores Marvel’s representations of those topics in the Captain America franchise by analyzing the ...

This thesis discusses mobility, identity, and security (MIS), risk to life, emancipatory everyday peace in the context of biopolitics and human agency of North Korean border crossers. It begins with providing a new concept of human agency comprised of ability and answerability laid on the ground of the ethics of coexistence. Next, the thesis provides prevalent definitions of three identity groups ...