Search for dissertations about: "Kirsti Niskanen"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Kirsti Niskanen.

2. 1. Servants of Diplomacy : The Making of Swedish Diplomats, 1905-1995

   Author : Nevra Biltekin; Bo Persson; Kirsti Niskanen; Lisa Öberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diplomats; bureaucratization; diplomacy; field theory; generalist; recruitment; in-house schooling; diplomatic masculinity; social class; diplomatic memoirs; History; historia;

   Abstract : From the dissolution of Sweden’s Union with Norway in 1905 until the country’s membership in the European Union in 1995, diplomats in Sweden underwent a number of reforms that aimed to create a professionally recruited and capable cadre of civil servants, serving Swedish diplomacy. The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the shaping of Swedish diplomats in the twentieth century. READ MORE

4. 2. Where Scholars are Made : Gendered Arenas of Persona Formation in Finnish Folkloristics, 1918–1932

   Author : Lisa Svanfeldt-Winter; Kirsti Niskanen; Marja-Liisa Keinänen; Annika Berg; Elise Garritzen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scholarly persona; gender; Finnish history; history of folklore; history of humanities; history of knowledge; students; History; historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates how two Finnish folklorists, Elsa Enäjärvi (1901–1951) and Martti Haavio (1899–1973), obtained information about perceptions of what constituted good and acknowledged scholars and how they responded to these implicit and explicit expectations and requirements. The dissertation uses the concept of scholarly persona as an analytical tool to identify notions of good scholars as well as Enäjärvi’s and Haavio’s processes to form themselves as such. READ MORE