Search for dissertations about: "Italy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 171 swedish dissertations containing the word Italy.

  2. 1. Masculinities at work. Male-to-male internet escorting in Italy and Sweden

    Author : Marco Bacio; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Male sex work; Masculinity; Prostitution; Sexual markets; Clients; Italy; Sweden;

    Abstract : This research aims to map and analyse the phenomenon of male sex workers (specifically men who sell sex to other men) in Italy and Sweden. While female sex work has been studied by several scholars worldwide, there is a lack of attention on the male side of the phenomenon. READ MORE

  4. 2. Bodies of vital matter: Notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern Italy

    Author : Per Binde; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialanropologi; Italien; magi; övertro; social anthropology; Italy; symbolism; cosmology; Roman Catholicism; social organization; vitality; folk medicine; burial practices; death; cult of saints; the evil eye; witches;

    Abstract : Bodies of Vital Matter presents an innovative study that explores folk beliefs relating to the vital force of the human body and to the transcendence of the corporal. The time frame is the period from the unification of Italy to the Second World War. There are three principal themes of investigation. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Early State and the Towns. Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy, AD 568-774

    Author : Dick Harrison; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Italien; Italy; early Middle Ages; tidig medeltid; early state; tidig stat; langobarder; Lombards;

    Abstract : This disstertation is a study of the foundations of the early state of Lombard Italy, AD 568-774. The main issue of the work is the hypothetical integration of social sectors within the context of an early state, as opposed to alternative forms of integration. READ MORE

  6. 4. "Not So Simple" : Reassessing 1951, G.B. Giorgini and the launch of Italian fashion

    Author : Chiara Faggella; Louise Wallenberg; Alessandra Vaccari; Stephen Gundle; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Italian fashion; Giovanni Battista Giorgini; Commissionaire; Fashion Buyer; Italian couture; Italian handicrafts; Italy at Work; Italian High Fashion Show; Florence fashion; Pitti Immagine; Italian studies; Postwar Italy; Occupation of Italy; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to shed light on the circumstances that allowed Italy to become a reputable country of origin in the international fashion market. In particular, my contribution to the historiography of Italian fashion is a reassessment of the role played by Giovanni Battista Giorgini, whose involvement with the fashion and handicraft industries has not been fully investigated by scholars so far. READ MORE

  7. 5. Social work assessment of families with children at risk : similarities and differences in Italian and Swedish public services

    Author : Paolo Guidi; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : child maltreatment; adolescent alcohol consumption; Italy; Sweden; social work; assessment;

    Abstract : The thesis aims at understanding and explaining social work assessment of families with children at risk, at the level of practice, considering social workers' role in their national welfare system.· The thesis embodies four articles and is informed by a comparative perspective between Sweden and Italy. READ MORE