Sara Lidman’s second novel Hjortronlandet (1955) unfolds in the north of Sweden in the early 20th century. It describes the progress of modernity and the conflicting interests of an old local culture and a new more “civilised” one. The two cultures are constituted by different value systems and in the novel they are represented by two neighbour communities. In this essay I examine this cultural encounter out from a postcolonial perspective by looking at the definitions of We and Them and how the author in various ways transcends the boundaries between the two positions. In order to do that I have used Michail Bachtin’s theories on the chronotope, a literary unity comprising the aspects of both time and space which together includes an ethical-moral dimension. In this context, theories on local and universal values formulated by Dipesh Chakrabarty and Elleke Boehmer have proved useful. With the help of their definition of “time” as a non-linear and complex unity of the past and the present, I have tried to make visible new layers of meaning in Lidman’s novel. Moreover, I have examined the author’s ambivalent position, located in between centre and periphery. This position originates from the author’s personal experiences of leaving her home region for a modern urban life. This essay shows how Sara Lidman by different means illustrates the problems with the conventional definitions of We and Them, and how she out from her hybrid position is able to depict the representations of these positions as both complex and unstable.

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2007.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 131 p. Advisor: Loretta Robinson, School of Music. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Houston, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [279]-286).

This piece is five movements for Wind Ensemble. Each movement includes unaccompanied vocal introductions. I have chosen five poems by Sara Teasdale as the text for these introductions. The large ensemble then expands and comments on the themes introduced by the voice. The five Teasdale poems outline a narrative arc partially inspired by the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, but also hopefully encourage the listener to imagine their own story of how one’s view of things changes as new experiences and knowledge change the perspective.

One of the integral components of Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) is recovery planning for threatened, endangered, or extirpated species in Canada. The recovery planning process is guided by recovery strategies, to be published within one year of listing for endangered species and within two years of listing for threatened or extirpated species, though publication has rarely met statutory timelines. Here I investigate factors associated with recovery strategy completion as well as factors associated with strategy content, specifically recovery feasibility, information gaps, and critical habitat identification. Despite significant delays in strategy publication, I find no evidence of internal prioritization of species for strategy completion, with only administrative factors retained in predictive models; species listed on Schedule 1, for which the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) or Parks Canada Agency (PCA) is the Responsible Authority, or which there was a smaller backlog of due strategies one year after listing were more likely to have recovery strategies submitted on time. Analysis of factors associated with recovery feasibility show a higher likelihood of feasible recovery for species for which critical habitat is identified, the DFO or PCA is the Responsible Authority, there are more identified information gaps, or for which the recovery strategy contains a section on potential socioeconomic conflict. There were fewer identified information gaps in recovery strategies for those species for which recovery strategies were published after the judgments of the Nooksack Dace (ND) and Greater Sage-Grouse (SG) court proceedings, there was a greater time elapsed between strategy due date and date of draft publication, or whose range does not fall on a provincial or federal protected area. Pre-ND and SG court judgements, critical habitat was less likely to be identified for species with a lower threat status, species included in multi-species or ecosystem plans, or species not found within provincial or federal protected areas. None of these biases were detected post-judgement, however, as rates of identification increased significantly and only recovery feasibility was associated with CH identification. These results point to some potential problems in the recovery planning process as currently implemented under SARA, and inform recommendations as to how these might be addressed.

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The intention of this study is to investigate the human/animal-relation as a power relation in Sara Lidman’s novel The Tar Pit (Tjärdalen, 1953). With regard to the contemporary theory of posthumanism and its critique of the centrality of “the human” in the humanities, the aim is to seek and produce more-than-anthropocentric knowledge. Using queer and feministic theoretical concepts concerning dichotomy and hierarchy voiced by Yvonne Hirdman, Val Plumwood, Greta Gaard and Ann-Sofie Lönngren, this study gets to grips with anthropocentrism as a structure of power. In literary scholarship animals are often expected to serve as metaphors, and thus, the possibility of animals signifying “actual” animals tend to be overlooked. This study’s objective is therefore, using a text interpretation modelled by Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick and a method proposed by Ann-Sofie Lönngren, to focus on the surface of the text. In the analysis of The Tar Pit it appears that animals is attributed “low status” in relation to the human and that the humans ascribe animals with instrumental value. The power relation between humans and animals in the novel is based on the split between “the human” and “the animal”, and also the notion that humans constitute the norm and are hierarchically superior. Furthermore the analysis show that transgressive activity between categories “human” and “animal” is illustrated as something wrong and the concept of “the animal” and “animality” is displayed as an imperative function in telling the story of The Tar Pit. Finally the analysis depicts examples of animal acts of resistance against the prevalent order of things.

La valorisation des résidus pétroliers est une nécessité compte tenu de l'amenuisementdes ressources en pétrole conventionnel et de la progression de la demande du marché en carburants. Le procédé d'hydroconversion en lit bouillonnant permet de convertir des résidus pétroliers en fractions plus légères dans des conditions très sévères de température (>400°C) et de pression d'hydrogène (>100bar), en présence d'un catalyseur bimétallique d'hydrogénation. Le craquage thermique est prépondérant dans ce type de procédé et met en oeuvre des réactions radicalaires. Toutefois, les mécanismes et la réactivité des charges ne sont pas clairement identifiés du fait de la complexité chimique des fractions lourdes du pétrole. L'objectif de la thèse consiste donc à étudier les mécanismes de conversion des résidus pétroliers dans ces conditions. Après une caractérisation analytique détaillée de différents résidus sous vide (Athabasca, Oural et Duri), une étude de réactivité systématique a été entreprise sur ces charges à l'aide d'un réacteur batch développé spécifiquement pour cette étude. Des essais ont également été réalisés sur différentes fractions du résidu sous vide Athabasca, de distributions SARA (Saturés, Aromatiques, Résines et Asphaltènes) différentes. Il a été montré que les mécanismes de conversion sont essentiellement thermiques et peuvent être inhibés par l'activité hydrogénante du catalyseur. Des réactivités différentes sont observées d'un résidu à l'autre et l'avancement de la conversion en fonction de la sévérité de craquage dépend de la naturedes charges traitées. Cependant, pour un même avancement en conversion, les rendements en produits sont similaires pour toutes les charges étudiées. Il semble ainsi que les différents résidus soient composés de "briques" élémentaires similaires, malgré des compositions globalement différentes. Il a également été démontré que la cinétique de conversion suit un ordre apparent de 2. Cependant, il n'est a priori pas possible d'expliquer les différences de réactivité des résidus simplement en fonction de leur composition SARA. Finalement, les conclusions de ce travail permettent d'envisager une réduction forte de l'expérimentation requise sur un résidu pour prédire les structures de rendement des procédés d'hydroconversion. / Nowadays, more and more petroleum residues have to be converted into lighter fractions due to a decline in conventional crude oil production and to an increasing demand for motor fuels. Ebullated bed hydroconversion process converts heavyfeed stocks at elevated temperature (>400°C) and high hydrogen partial pressure (>100bar), with a bimetallic hydrogenation catalyst. Thermal cracking is the driving component for conversion and involves radicals formation. Nevertheless, detailed reaction mechanisms and feedstock reactivity are still not well established due to the detailed composition complexity of feeds. The objective of this thesis is to study conversion mechanisms of petroleum residues in these conditions. A detailed analytical characterization of several vacuum residues (Athabasca, Oural and Duri)was conducted initially and the reactivity of these feeds was then tested in a batch reactor specifically developed for the purpose of the study. Reactivity tests were also conducted on Athabasca residue fractions, characterized by different SARA distributions (Saturates, Aromatics,Resins and Asphaltenes). It was demonstrated that hydroconversion mechanisms are mostly thermal and can be inhibited by hydrogenation activity of the catalyst. Differences of reactivitywere observed for the different feeds tested and conversion level in function of severity depends on the nature of the feeds. At a same conversion level, product yields are similar whatever the feed considered. This suggests that residues could be composed of similar elementary units. It was also demonstrated that residue hydroconversion reaction can be adequately represented by an apparent second order kinetics. However, residue reactivity differences cannot a priori be explained based on SARA composition differences. Finally, the conclusions of the present work enable to consider a significant reduction of the number of experiments required in order to predict yield structures resulting from hydroconversion of aresidue.

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