Search for dissertations about: "Nationalism and the transformation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Nationalism and the transformation.

  2. 1. Journalism at the borders : the constitution of nationalist closure in news decoding

    Author : Johan Östman; Mats Ekström; Birgitta Höijer; John Corner; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nationalist closure; nationalism; morality; news journalism; preferred meanings; encoding decoding; interpretive repertoires; referential; metalinguistic; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a contribution to the social analysis of nationalism. Its disciplinary context comprises the field of empirical studies that explore how forms of mediated quasi interaction can function in processes of reproduction and transformation of nationality. READ MORE

  4. 2. Between Colonialism and Nationalism : Art, History, and Politics in James Joyce’s Ulysses

    Author : Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva; Ishrat Lindblad; Richard Brown; Emer Nolan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : English language; James Joyce; aesthetics; modernism; negativity; the modernist Sublime; modernity; liberalism; colonialism; nationalism; dialectical criticism; Hegel; Adorno; Rose; Jameson; Žižek; Engelska;

    Abstract : Through a thorough analysis of all eighteen episodes of Ulysses, this study advances a dialectical reading of Ireland’s pre-revolutionary imagination as it unfolds in James Joyce’s novel. By tracing Joyce’s engagements with British colonialism, national romanticism and the Celtic Revival, this study views Joyce’s modernist project as a comprehensive literary response to Ireland’s changing aesthetic sensibilities, political fortunes, and social concerns. READ MORE

  5. 3. Hand-in-Hand in the Peach Flower Land : Analysis of Huí Cadre Agency in the Literature Propaganda Magazine Kāidū River in the North-West Borderland of China

    Author : Kim Jarle Wroldsen; Irmy Schweiger; Jenny White; Rune Steenberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnic; minzu; cadres; literature; china; xinjiang; propaganda; ideology; islam; confucianism; discourse; nationalism; maoism; Asiens språk och kulturer; Asian Languages and Cultures;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how mínzú (ethnic) agency is effectuated through propaganda literature among Muslim minority cadres in the Yānqí Huí Autonomous County of the Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region of North-West China in the 2010s. The aim is to understand to what extent and in what ways mínzú identification can have a socio-politically significant impact on the activities of mínzú cadres in a restrictive environment and in a medium where mínzú agency is controversial and difficult to implement. READ MORE

  6. 4. Understanding Nationalism : Studies in Icelandic Nationalism, 1800-2000

    Author : Birgir Hermannsson; Björn Wittrock; Gudmundur Hálfdanarson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an attempt to understand nationalism, in a general sense, and Icelandic nationalism in particular. For this purpose the concepts of ideology, political culture, discourse and political language are pushed to the forefront as viable analytical tools to take on the difficult phenomena of nationalism. READ MORE

  7. 5. Shaping the nation with song : Johann Friedrich Reichardt and the German cultural identity

    Author : Mårten Nehrfors Hultén; Owe Ander; Johanna Ethnersson Pontara; Mattias Lundberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johann Friedrich Reichardt; nationalism; lied; education; German cultural identity; expressive community; Herder; Rousseau; 18th-century music history; Volkston; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : The primary aim of this dissertation is to study the nationalistic worldview as it emerged in the German lands in the second half of the eighteenth century . The research focuses on how this influenced the artistic practices of Prussian composer, writer and court Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814), and likewise how Reichardt’s activities influenced and formed this field. READ MORE