Search for dissertations about: "Center Periphery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Center Periphery.

  2. 1. Culture Unbound: Americanization and Everyday Life in Sweden

    Author : Thomas O'Dell; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; Sweden; Americanization; Culture; Modernity; Everyday Life; Transnational Cultural Processes; Globalization; Flow; Center Periphery; American Cars; Raggare; Counter-culture; Hippies; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This book investigates the significance processes of Americanization have had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden. However, rather than simply viewing Americanization as an irresistible homogenizing force, it is argued that to the extent that Swedish everyday life has been Americanized, it has been Americanized in a very Swedish way. READ MORE

  4. 2. Progressive Women, Traditional Men : The Politics of 'Knowledge' and Gendered stories of 'Development' In the Northern Periphery of the EU

    Author : Ulrika Dahl; Lisa Rofel; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European Union; Modernity; Sweden; Progressive; Women; Traditional; Men; Politics; Gendered stories; Cultural anthropology; Womens studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies is an ethnographic account of the meaning and politics of social scientific "knowledge production", exemplified in gendered stories of regional "development" in the inland northern Swedish province of Jämtland, after Sweden's 1995 entry into the EU and the cultural meanings they assign to men and women. European integration is experienced as an ongoing peripheralization of modernity, registered in visions of regional "development" centered on the heteronormatively defined ideal of jämställdhet (equality between men and women) and on the "resources" of place and history, forged in a cultural imaginary shared by social scientific researchers, state agencies, and grass-roots "practitioners". READ MORE

  5. 3. Molecular Trees for Collecting Sunshine -Monitoring and Controlling Energy Transfer in Dendrimers

    Author : Jane Larsen; Kemisk fysik; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; magnetiska och optiska ; supraledare; magnetisk resonans; egenskaper elektriska; Kondenserade materiens egenskaper:elektronstruktur; supraconductors; magnetic resonance; relaxation; spectroscopy; Condensed matter:electronic structure; electrical; magnetic and optical properties; Kemi; Chemistry; Femtosecond transient absorption; Os-Ru metal ligand complexes; Cu-porphyrin-appended dendrimers; Zn-porphyrin-appended dendrimers; Annihilation; Energy transfer; Solar energy conversion; Artificial photosynthesis; Antenna systems; spektroskopi; Physical chemistry; Fysikalisk kemi; Photochemistry; Fotokemi; Femtosecond fluorescence anisotropy;

    Abstract : A continuing use of fossil fuels will accelerate global warning and result in severe consequences for the environment and thereby also us. Development of alternative, sustainable and environmentally friendly energy sources is therefore crucial. One approach is to create an artificial photosynthetic system that converts sunshine into fuel (e.g. READ MORE

  6. 4. QCM-D with focus on variations in oscillation amplitude

    Author : Malin Edvardsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : shear oscillation; actuator; Quartz crystal microbalance; amplitude; streptavidin; lipid vesicles; biosensor; colloidal particles; size distribution; QCM-D; protein binding; DNA hybridization; dual harmonic; lipid bilayer formation;

    Abstract : The QCM-D (quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring) technique is an increasingly popular tool in studies of molecular interactions at interfaces, e.g. binding/unbinding reactions at surfaces, studies of thin film properties, and conformational changes. READ MORE

  7. 5. Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Type-I Clathrates Ba8(AlxGa1−x)16Ge30

    Author : Yifei Zhang; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Microstructure; Crystal structure; Transport properties; Thermoelectrics; Clathrates;

    Abstract : Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion between a thermal gradient and an electrical potential gradient, and can thus be exploited for electricity generation. One of the promising thermoelectric materials is type-I clathrates. READ MORE