Search for dissertations about: "The Opponents"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the words The Opponents.

  2. 1. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World

    Author : Charlotta Nordström; Tomas Björk; Maria Görts; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Fürstenberg Gallery; The Fürstenberg Art Collection; Pontus Fürstenberg; Göthilda Fürstenberg; Gothenburg art ; Swedish Art; Nineteenth-Century Art; Patronage; Art Collection; The Opponents; Collecting Practices; Exhibition Practices; Blanch’s Art Salon; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the establishment (in 1885), the influence, the critical reception, and the legacy of the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the gallery and the collection were products and producers of specific art-historical situations, within a particular nineteenth-century Swedish art world. READ MORE

  4. 2. "Building the nation back up" : The politics of identity on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

    Author : Mikael Kurkiala; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the formation of a discourse on ethnic identity among theOglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The material upon whichthis study is based is literature, archival material, and approximately eleven months offieldwork in 1991, 1993 and 1994. READ MORE

  5. 3. Don’t Mention the War : The forging of a domestic foreign policy consensus on the entry, expansion and exit of Swedish military contributions to Afghanistan

    Author : Lars Wikman; Fredrik Bynander; Josefina Erikson; Condoleezza Rice; Johan Eriksson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; foreign policy; consensus; framing; foreign policy line; domestic politics; ISAF; Afghanistan; peace support operations; NATO.; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Consensus is not something that just happens in the foreign policy domain when political actors seemingly agree on a policy. Rather, in this dissertation I demonstrate that actors construct consensus through the framing of policy as they highlight and downplay certain elements. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Bo Hakon Jørgensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; narcissism; Symbolism; decadence; psychoanalysis; selfhood; subjectivity; modernity; Sigmund Freud; Oscar Wilde; André Gide; Paul Valéry; Leopold Andrian; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. READ MORE

  7. 5. Breaking the Binary : Attitudes towards and cognitive effects of gender-neutral pronouns

    Author : Hellen P. Vergoossen; Marie Gustafsson Sendén; Håkan Fischer; Philip Pärnamets; Peter Hegarty; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender-fair language; gender-neutral pronouns; hen; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : For a long time, Swedish only had two third-person singular pronouns: hon [‘she’] and han [‘he’]. Following several publications using the gender-neutral pronoun hen to refer to its characters, a debate article in a national newspaper proposed expanding the Swedish pronouns with hen. READ MORE