Search for dissertations about: "Modernity"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 158 swedish dissertations containing the word Modernity.

  2. 6. Environmental politics and the enchantment of modernity : mercury and radioactive waste disposal in Sweden

    Author : Ylva Uggla; Rolf Lidskog; Johan Hedrén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; environmental politics; mercury; radioactive waste; modernity; risk; sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Current Swedish environmental policy embraces the notion of sustainable development and the discourse of ecological modernisation, both of which stress the role of modern institutions in environmental protection work. In pursuing ecological sustainability, the Swedish Government assigns importance to the issue of domestic, safe, final disposal of mercury and radioactive waste; responsibility for mercury and radioactive waste management must not be passed to future generations. READ MORE

  4. 7. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity

    Author : Carl Cassegård; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Japanese studies; literature; Adorno; Benjamin; modernity; critical theory; Sociology; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Adorno; Benjamin; Sociologi;

    Abstract : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. READ MORE

  5. 8. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE

  6. 9. Tradition and Modernity in the Domestic Urban Kitchen Design in Uganda : A case of Kampala

    Author : Salome Kweyunga; Inga Britt Werner; Hoai Anh Tran; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; tradition; modernity; culture; identity; domestic urban kitchen design;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the design of modern domestic urban kitchens in Uganda. The research took place in Kampala, which is the capital city of Uganda. The cultural make up of Kampala residents is diverse; people come from all over the country of Uganda, as well as beyond. READ MORE

  7. 10. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity

    Author : Leif Stenberg; Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Non-Christian religions; tradition; Quran; Religion; Ziauddin Sardar; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Maurice Bucaille; Ismail al-Faruqi; modernity; discourse; Islam; Islamization of science;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual elite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. READ MORE