Search for dissertations about: "articulations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the word articulations.

  2. 1. Pluripotent Circulations: Analyzing Articulations of Stem Cells in the USA, prior to 2001

    Author : Morten Sager; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Actor-Network Theory; meta-theory; obligatory point of passage; boundary objects; sociotechnical reality; articulations; human embryonic stem cells; spare embryos; pluripotency;

    Abstract : In this thesis, stem cell research and politics in the USA are analyzed by using actor-network theory (ANT). Here ANT is put to work on largely textual materials, often directly from US political settings, such as Congressional debates and national panels. READ MORE

  4. 2. Children's lived rights : The everyday politics of asylum-seeking children

    Author : Sandra Karlsson; Karin Aronsson; Mats Trondman; Nihad Bunar; Anna Lundberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; everyday politics; asylum politics; deportability; no-go zones; lived rights; lived fears; politics of play; agency; navigation; play tactics; belonging; emotions; articulations; standpoints; home; regulations; ethnography; children’s geographies; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Abstract : This thesis explores asylum-seeking children’s everyday politics in relation to their situation in the Swedish reception system. It engages in a theorization of children’s political agency in which a broad definition of politics is adopted to examine and acknowledge the politics embedded in children’s everyday spaces and children’s everyday actions. READ MORE

  5. 3. Queering Images of Russia in Sweden : Discursive hegemony and counter-hegemonic articulations 1991–2019

    Author : Kirill Polkov; Teresa Kulawik; Ann Werner; Katharina Wiedlack; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; Sweden; non-normative sexuality; queer theory; national image; hybridity; temporality; Swedish sexual exceptionalism; homonationalism; visibility; discourse; LGBT; LGBTQ; homosexuality; Ryssland; Sverige; icke-normativ sexualitet; queerteori; nationell bild; hybriditet; temporalitet; svensk sexuell exceptionalism; homonationalism; synlighet; diskurs; hbtq; hbt; homosexualitet; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This study examines the role of non-normative sexuality in the construction of national images. It focuses on how non-normative sexuality affects and is affected by Swedish constructions of the image of Russia and, by extension, Sweden’s self-image. READ MORE

  6. 4. Improvements in hip arthroplasty - did they work? Evaluations of different articulations and fixation concepts

    Author : Per-Erik Johanson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hip arthroplasty; innovation; outcome;

    Abstract : Today, total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the safest and most efficient surgical treatments. New materials, surgical techniques and design concepts intended to improve THA have not always been successful. READ MORE

  7. 5. Design-Politics : An Inquiry into Passports, Camps and Borders

    Author : Mahmoud Keshavarz; Andrew David Morrison; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; design studies; interaction design; design theory; design criticism; politics of design; critical border studies; political theory; articulation; irregular migration; undocumentedness; social anthropology; politics of movement and migration; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This thesis is an interrogation of the contemporary politics of movement and more specifically, migration politics from the perspective of the agency of design and designing. At the core of this thesis lies a series of arguments which invite design researchers and migration scholars to rethink the ways they work with their practices: that states, in order to make effective their abstract notions of borders, nations, citizenship, legal protection and rights are in dire need of what this thesis coins as material articulations. READ MORE