Search for dissertations about: "usa"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 406 swedish dissertations containing the word usa.
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11. An infrastructure of freedom : Atlanta, race, and the struggle over public transportation in the capitalist city
Abstract : This thesis provides a multiscalar analysis of the production and struggle over the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the main transit system in metro Atlanta. It examines how the actions and visions of the state, capital, and transportation activists intersect to structure how and to what extent transit systems can be organized to realize their distinctive potential to allow urban residents to meet their basic mobility needs. READ MORE
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12. Sounding Expanded Affinities : A Polytemporal Approach to Reconceptualizing Egalitarian Social Relations
Abstract : My doctoral submission, Sounding Expanded Affinities, examines how strides toward gender equality might be made, but it postulates that this is too difficult while marriage remains at the core of our patriarchal value system. This patriarchal system is one which oppresses women by manipulating subjects into its preferred roles often in subtle, chronic ways, using repetition and pairing as its tools. READ MORE
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13. An anagram of the ideas of filmmaker Maya Deren : creative work in motion pictures
Abstract : Maya Deren’s corpus of work, which has been given various designations within the American avant-garde filmmaking practice of the 1940’s and 1950’s, will be analysed according to the biographical legend—an approach that focuses on authorship within the historical conditions of conception and reception. Influences on her theories in art and ethnography will be noted through several historical discourses: the French Symbolist Poets, Henri Bergson, Kurt Koffka, T. READ MORE
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14. Insights on weight maintenance and impacts of obesity for two rural populations in the United States and Sweden
Abstract : Background: Obesity is a serious public health concern worldwide, and nearly 40% of all adults in the United States and 21% in Sweden are now living with obesity. Efforts focusing mainly on weight loss have fallen short in reducing obesity prevalence. READ MORE
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15. How Children Got Rights
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