Search for dissertations about: "Discursive space"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the words Discursive space.

2. 1. Space and Sensibility : Young Men’s Risk-Taking with Motor Vehicles

   Author : Tanja Joelsson; Jeff Hearn; Carina Listerborn; Aretun Åsa; Tracey Skelton; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender; masculinity; age; class; place; spatial boredom; risk­‐taking; violence; violations; ethnography; Kön; maskulinitet; ålder; klass; plats; rumslig tristess; risktagande; våld; kränkning; etnografi;

   Abstract : In this ethnographic study of “Volvo greasers” [Volvoraggare] in a peri-urban community in Sweden, risk-taking practices with motor vehicles, such as speeding and drifting, are explored and analyzed in relation to age, gender, class and place. Young men’s risk-taking with motor vehicles regularly generates public debate as a traffic safety issue, often resulting in various policy suggestions, such as curfews or raising of the driving licence age. READ MORE

4. 2. Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change

   Author : Cecilia Björck; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; spatiality; popular music; girls; women; gender; social change; agency; music education; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : This compilation (portfolio) thesis explores how language is used in the context of gender-equity music initiatives to construct ideas about gender, popular music, and social change. More specifically, it examines the use of spatial metaphors and concepts revolving round the idea that girls and women need to “claim space” to participate in popular music practices. READ MORE

5. 3. Opening Higher Education: Discursive transformations of distance and higher education government

   Author : Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; distance and IT-based education; higher education; policy analysis; governmentality; discourse; bio-politics; space; self-technology;

   Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the 1990s and early 2000s political arguments for a more open and flexible Swedish higher education system. At this time, the issues of accessibility and participation were also brought into the debate by revitalized ideals of distance education. READ MORE

6. 4. Becoming Jinja : The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town

   Author : Andrew Byerley; Gunilla Andrae; Jo Beall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; place; diagrams of power; colonial planning; modernisation; model-modern; de-tribalisation; discipline; bio-politics; industrialisation; urban housing; urban agriculture; alcohol; Uganda.; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : The years immediately preceding and following W.W.II marked a turning point in British colonial policy in Africa. In this doctoral thesis, which focuses on colonial and post-colonial Uganda, this turning point is approached in terms of a shift in would-be hegemonic socio-spatial diagrams of power. READ MORE

7. 5. On solving science problems in a discursive space of learning

   Author : Maria Berge; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; group work; higher education; variation theory; storylines; science education; position theory; situated learning; physics education; phenomenography;

   Abstract : The aim of this licentiate thesis is to analyze the interactive processes in groupwork, and, in particular, group work in higher education. The guiding research interestis to explore both 'what' and 'how' students learn when discussing physicsin group work, with a focus on both the social and physics content of the students'practice. READ MORE