Search for dissertations about: "Ideas"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 1378 swedish dissertations containing the word Ideas.

  2. 31. Gene technology at stake : Swedish governmental commissions on the border of science and politics

    Author : Jenny Eklöf; Kjell Jonsson; Christer Nordlund; Susanne Lundin; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gene technology; biotechnology; recombinant DNA technology; bioethics; ethics; risk; GMO; embryo; transgenic organisms; boundary organization; boundary object; governmental commission; regulatory policy; Sweden; public; expertise; democracy; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the Swedish political response to the challenges posed by gene technology, seen through the prism of governmental commissions. It discerns and analyses continuities and changes in the Swedish political conception of gene technology, over the course of two decades, 1980–2000. READ MORE

  4. 32. Sheltered Society : Civilian Air raid shelters in Sweden — from idea to materiality, 1918-1940 and beyond

    Author : Peter Bennesved; Finn Arne Jørgensen; Christer Nordlund; Thomas Kaiserfeld; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Air raid shelters; Civil defense; Aerial protection; History of Technology; Multi Level Perspective; Large Technical Systems; Fortifications; Networks; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas; History; historia;

    Abstract : In 2002, Sweden finally stopped producing air raid shelters for its population after over sixty years of continuous production since 1938. Judging from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB, the Swedish Air raid shelter registry contain about 65,000 air raid shelters registered as being in use. READ MORE

  5. 33. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914

    Author : Björn Kjellander; Språk; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; entrepreneur; United States; narrative; literary realism; literary naturalism; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. READ MORE

  6. 34. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty

    Author : Noah Roderick; Janice Neuleib; USA IL Normal Illinois State University Department of English; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grammar; genre; sovereignty; english studies; rhetoric; language; pedagogy; Engelska; English; Retorik; Rhetoric; Education; Pedagogik; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

    Abstract : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. READ MORE

  7. 35. An Inescapable Network of Mutuality. Discursivity and Ideology in the Rhetoric of Martin Luther King. Jr

    Author : Fredrik Sunnemark; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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