Search for dissertations about: "Figuration"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word Figuration.
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1. Conversation and Figuration from the Horizontality of the 2.0 Decade
Abstract : This thesis concerns the 2.0 decade, the decade when the social web started to develop. The main research objective is to contribute to our embedment in Internet technology in a conscious and livable way. The thesis is part of a general attempt to improve our understanding of the transformation taking place in the development of the web. READ MORE
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2. Childhood Without Children : Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child
Abstract : This study has a twofold ambition. First, it offers a new perspective on Ian McEwan’s works by focusing on his treatment of childhood. Second, by using McEwan’s writing as an example, it seeks to challenge the current critical preoccupation with childhood in the novel in terms solely of child characters. READ MORE
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3. The New Production of Politics : Between the No Longer and the Not Yet
Abstract : Indications that the global environmental and inequality crises are intimately linked to our western ways of living, challenge the self-understanding of participants in the modern research-complex. As researchers we not only observe, unveil, analyse and solve problems "out there". READ MORE
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4. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts
Abstract : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. READ MORE
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5. The Eloquent Blood : The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism
Abstract : The study analyses the changing construction of femininities and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon, a central deity in Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) esoteric religion Thelema. Femininity has occupied a problematic position in feminist theory, frequently associated with lack, artifice, and restriction. READ MORE