Search for dissertations about: "performative"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 108 swedish dissertations containing the word performative.

2. 1. Size Matters : Ostensive and performative dimensions of organizational size

   Author : Anette Hallin; Mats Engwall; Martha Feldman; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; organizational size; action net; action; ostensive; performative; borders; actions of narrativization; actions of realizations; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

   Abstract : Organizational size is a common way to describe and understand organizations invarious settings: in every-day situations as well as in organizational research. Withinorganization theory, organizational size has been seen variously as a basic feature ofthe organization (an independent variable); as a result of a reaction to the environmentof the organization (a dependent variable); or as a basic criterion for the selectionand categorizing of empirical cases (a selective variable). READ MORE

4. 2. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I

   Author : Nils Billing; Eva Hellman; Harold Hays; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Pyramid Texts; monumentality; iconicity; performativity; Pepy I; reconstitution; manifestation; resurrection; ascension; ritual agency; mortuary temple; cult; pyramid; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. READ MORE

5. 3. Designing for Homo Explorens : open social play in performative frames

   Author : Mads Hobye; Bill Gaver; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Open Social Play; Performative Frames; Internal complexity; Social ambiguity; Somaesthetics;

   Abstract : Designing for Homo Explorens is a compositional design perspective within interaction design academia. It extends the Homo Ludens view of humans as playful creatures with the perspective of exploratory interaction. It focuses on socially exploratory interaction between participants mediated through designed artifacts. READ MORE

6. 4. Painting the City : Performative Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Space and Art

   Author : Tindra Thor; Miyase Christensen; André Jansson; Toby Miller; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; graffiti; street art; performance ethnography; aesthetic cosmopolitanism; performative cosmopolitanism; urban space; regimes of cosmopolitanism; hyper mediatization; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Understanding everyday urban practices as performative, political, and potentially transformative, this dissertation aims to explore how graffiti- and street art use, subvert, and, via media, extend urban space in Stockholm. Drawing upon a performative ethnographic approach, the study focuses on both the practice of and the various forms of social commentary and critique generated by graffiti and street art in Stockholm. READ MORE

7. 5. Body Acts Queer

   Author : Maja Gunn; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Body; Clothes; Design; Desire; Direction; Fashion; Feminism; Gaze; Gender; Ideology; Other; Perception; Performance; Performative; Performativity; Power; Research; Sexuality; Text; Queer; Writing.; Textiles and Fashion Design ; Textil och mode konstnärlig ;

   Abstract : Body Acts Queer is an exploration of the performative and ideological functions of clothes with regard to gender, feminism and queer. It is an artistic, practice-based thesis in the field of fashion and design. The thesis includes three projects: On & Off, If you were a girl I would love you even more and The Club Scene. READ MORE