Search for dissertations about: "Fashion"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 742 swedish dissertations containing the word Fashion.

  2. 26. Becoming Image : Perspectives on Digital Culture, Fashion and Technofeminism

    Author : Lisa Ehlin; Louise Wallenberg; Nina Lager Vestberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technology; Selfie; Embodiment; Tumblr; Memory; Instagram; Posthumanism; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : Departing from a technofeminist perspective, Becoming Image, places the digital image in a broader context of modern and postmodern technological discourses and fashion. In four articles, the compilation dissertation expands a contemporary and imagistic tech discourse by questioning the ideology of ”masculinity”―specifically the idea of it as a historically male domain. READ MORE

  4. 27. The Impact of User Weight on Brands and Business Practices in Mass Market Fashion

    Author : Ulf Aagerup; Rita Mårtenson; Sweden Gothenburg Economics and Law University of Gothenburg Department of Business Administration School of Business; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; brands; brand personality; user imagery; assortments; fashion; fashion retailing;

    Abstract : Overweight people claim to be mistreated by the fashion industry. If they were, it would be in line with branding theory supporting the idea of rejecting fat consumers to improve user imagery for fashion brands. However, fashion companies do not confess to such practices.To shed some light on the subject, I have conducted two studies. READ MORE

  5. 28. Commercialising social media : a study of fashion (blogo)spheres

    Author : Christofer Laurell; Håkan Preiholt; Per Olof Berg; Hope Jensen Schau; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social media; commercialisation; marketing; fashion; blogs; spheres; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : A common characteristic of the theoretical developments within the field of social media marketing is that activities to which consumers devote themselves in social media settings shift power from firms to consumers. Extant literature has therefore analysed the practices of consumers within social media and their potential implications for marketing. READ MORE

  6. 29. Food and Fashion : Water Management and Collective Action among Irrigation Farmers and Textile Industrialists in South India

    Author : Anna Blomqvist (Jonsson); Jan Lundqvist; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Water in nature and society; Vatten i natur och samhälle;

    Abstract : In recent years, much ofthe political debate in the West, East aud South has focused on the decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs. But what potential is there for local communities to create their own govenlance structures able to deal with issues up till recently seen as the responsibility of the state? In this thesis, answer to this question is sought by analyzing two case studies from the semi-arid Coimbatore-region in South India from an institutionai perspective. READ MORE

  7. 30. Local Fashionalities : Växbo Lin and WomenWeave

    Author : David Goldsmith; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Slow Fashion; Textiles; Sustainability; Local Fashion; Small Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Design Management; Sustainable Development; Textiles and fashion; Textiles and Fashion General ; Textil och mode generell ;

    Abstract : Global Fashion, via the logic of high-speed, large-scale industrial production and anachronistic high-volume consumption habits, causes significant social and environmental damage. Local Fashion is understood as part of the Slow Fashion movement that aims to change the functions of fashion so that they support or lead the quest to flourish within known human and planetary boundaries. READ MORE