Search for dissertations about: "Cultural Materialism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Cultural Materialism.

  2. 1. Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory

    Author : Tara Mehrabi; Cecilia Åsberg; Ericka Johnson; Stine Willum Adrian; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agential realism; posthumanities; new materialism; feminist technoscience; STS; gender studies; Human Animal Studies; matters of practice; animal experimentation; spectrum of killability; agential asymmetry; Drosophila melanogaster; fruit flies; Alzheimer’s sciences; laboratory ethnography; biological waste; politics of categorization; mattering death; ethics of relationality.; Agentiell realism; posthumaniora; nymaterialism; feministiska teknovetenskpliga studier; genusvetenskap; vetenskapliga praktiker; djurförsök; agentiell assymetri; fruktflugor; Alzheimers sjukdomar; labbetnografi; biologiskt avfall; döden; relationell etik; processontologi; Genusstudier; Cultural Studies; Kulturstudier; History of Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; Philosophy; Filosofi; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a contribution to feminist laboratory studies and a critical engagement with the natural sciences, or more precisely research on the biochemical workings and deadly relations of Alzheimer’s disease emanating from a year of field work in a Drosophila fly lab. The natural sciences have been a point of fascination within the field of gender studies for decades. READ MORE

  4. 2. Reciprocal Haunting : Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy

    Author : Karen Patrick Knutsen; Mark Troy; Maria Holmgren Troy; Sharon Monteith; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pat Barker; The Regeneration Trilogy; Michel Foucault; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams; Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; shell shock; psychoanalysis; British literature 1900-1999; class; gender; psychology; discourse; cultural trauma; dialogue; dialogism; power knowledge; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Pat Barker’s fictional account of the Great War, The Regeneration Trilogy, completed in 1995, is considered to be her most important work to date and has captured the imagination of the reading public as well as attracting considerable scholarly attention. Although the trilogy appears to be written in the realistic style of the traditional historical novel, Barker approaches the past with certain preoccupations from 1990s Britain and rewrites the past as seen through these contemporary lenses. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : Ritschl in Context

    Author : Leif Svensson; Arne Rasmusson; Thomas Girmalm; Mats Wahlberg; Johannes Zachhuber; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Albrecht Ritschl; the kingdom of God; theology; Christian ethics; Kulturprotestantismus; Bildungsbürgertum; nineteenth-century Germany; historical criticism; historicism; the historical Jesus; materialism; late idealism; Luther and modernity; criticism of religion;

    Abstract : The subject of this historical-theological investigation is the German Lutheran theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889). Ritschl’s theology is understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the German Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class). READ MORE

  6. 4. Breathing Matters : Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability

    Author : Magdalena Górska; Cecilia Åsberg; Nina Lykke; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Breath; breathing; intersectionality; vulnerability; social and environmental justice; black lung; phone sex work; anxieties; panic attacks; matterwork; embodiment; affect; agential realism; posthumanities; postconstructionism; new materialism; environmental humanities; cultural studies; feminism; gender; Andning; intersektionalitet; sårbarhet; social rättvisa och klimaträttvisa; pneumokonios; telefonsex; postkonstruktionism; ångest; panikattacker; materiaarbete; förkroppsligande; affekt; agentiell realism; posthumanism; nymaterialism; miljöhumanism; kulturstudier; feminism; genus;

    Abstract : Breathing is not a common subject in feminist studies. Breathing Matters introduces this phenomenon as a forceful potentiality for feminist intersectional theories, politics, and social and environmental justice. READ MORE

  7. 5. For every word has its own shadow: Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves

    Author : Lisa Tan; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; affect; becoming; Maurice Blanchot; displacement; dispossession; essay film; experimental video; geological time; liminal; Clarice Lispector; materialism; primordial obscurity; provisional; solitude; Susan Sontag; threshold; transformation; translation; video; video installation; Virginia Woolf;

    Abstract : Liminality permeates this doctoral project's questions: how can an experience of the liminal exist as an artwork? What things and experiences can orient us towards affectivity and states of becoming? Lisa Tan relates such concerns to Clarice Lispector whose writing renders becoming(s) visible. Coupled with Maurice Blanchot and his literary discourse on dispossession and the outside (analogous to becoming), Tan's inquiry is critically engaged inside a moving image practice. READ MORE