Search for dissertations about: "History subjects"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 286 swedish dissertations containing the words History subjects.

2. 16. Sentiments of Segregation : The Emotional Politics of Apartheid in South Africa, c. 1948-1990

   Author : Jagger Kirkby; Forskarskolan i historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; apartheid; history of emotions; South Africa; race and racism; cultural history; Segregation;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the relationship between emotions and the everday application of apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1990. Histories of apartheid have long been politics-driven, focusing on the rise and fall of the regime with its reception being studied primarily through the lens of the popular struggle that, in part, led to apartheid’s downfall. READ MORE

4. 17. Dis(re)membering Spaces: Swedish Modernism in Law Courts Controversy

   Author : Michael Landzelius; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Asplund; Göteborg.; Law and space; Preservation; Sweden; Mass media and architecture; Modernity; Mass media and architecture; Law and space; Modernity; Preservation; Asplund; Sweden; Göteborg.;

   Abstract : The dissertation addresses the public controversy, as reflected in newspaper coverage, over the 1936 Law Courts Annex in Göteborg, Sweden. The controversy is conceived as a tension-filled, multi-layered conjuncture of urban rivalry within the nation-state. READ MORE

5. 18. Audiologic and cognitive long-term sequelae from closed head injury

   Author : Per-Olof Bergemalm; Erik Borg; Tapani Jauhiainen; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of medicine; Closed head injury; CHI; sensorineural hearing loss; SNHL; cognition; TIPS; tinnitus; vertigo; memory; quality of life; QOL; Gothenburg profile; Medicinhistoria; History of medicine; Medicinens historia; Medicinsk handikappvetenskap; Medical Disability Research;

   Abstract : Objectives – Head injury is an important health problem all over the world. Previous studies have shown that peripheral hearing impairment (HI) is a common sequel of closed head injury (CHI), but in most cases it will subside within the first posttraumatic months. READ MORE

6. 19. Eidola : Gender and Nation in the Writings of Penelope Delta (1874-1941)

   Author : Despina Tzimoula; Lunds universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; children s literature; Foucault; Derrida; death; friendship; love; subject; self; autobiography; biography; nation; Penelope Delta; modern Greek history; ethics; sexuality; nationalism; gender;

   Abstract : Penelope Delta was a writer of books for children in the beginning of the twentieth century in Greece. Delta was active when the national project was at its peak. READ MORE

7. 20. Governing Black and White : A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770-1900

   Author : Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonialism; comparison; postcolonial studies; slavery; racism; punishment; hybridity; liberalism; economy; police; Michel Foucault; governmentality; kolonialism; komparation; postkoloniale studier; slaveri; rasism; bestraffning; hybriditet; liberalism; ekonomi; polis; Michel Foucault; governmentality;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores and compares the rationalities through which Danish state officials sought to govern the colonized Afro-Caribbean population in the colony of the Danish West Indies and the state’s Danish subjects living in the metropole of Denmark in the period 1770-1900. Theoretically, it relies upon Michel Foucault’s conception of ’governmentality’ and the way this approach to governing, and to state power more generally, has been employed in various colonial and European settings, particularly within the field of colonial governmentality studies. READ MORE