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2. 1. Bilateral shipping and trade : Swedish-Finnish experiences in the post-war period

   Author : Lars Fredrik Andersson; Olle Krantz; Jari Ojala; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Economic history; convergence; economic integration; trade; bilateral; intra-industrial trade; inter-industrial trade; shipping; ferry services; gravity equation; economies of scope; economies of scale; economies of density; post-war period; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the bilateral shipping and trade between Finland and Sweden during the post-war period. It comprises five articles and one introductory chapter for which the common point of departure is the growth and transformation of bilateral trade and shipping. READ MORE

4. 2. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE

5. 3. Parental leave institutions in eighteen post-war welfare states

   Author : Tommy Ferrarini; Sheila Shaver; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This study applies a macro-comparative and institutional approach to the study of incentive structures, determinants and outcomes of legislated parental leave benefits. Parental leave is defined as all benefits directed to mothers, fathers or both parents to facilitate parental childcare during the early post-natal period. READ MORE

6. 4. Arkitektur och konsumtion : Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik

   Author : Helena Mattsson; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Reyner Banham; architecture; consumption; design; aesthetic; Independent Group; Post-war period; Jean Baudrillard; late capitalism; pop art; mass production; Walter Benjamin; Richard Hamilton; differentiated market; flexible organization; the new brutalism; Alison and Peter Smithson; House of the Future; machine aesthetics; futurism; technology; tradition; environment; operative criticism; Buckminster Fuller; arkitektur; konsumtion; design; estetik; Independent group; efterkrigstiden; senkapitalism; popkonst; massproduktion; populärkultur; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

   Abstract : The dissertation analyses the relation between architecture, design and consumption according to Peter Reyner Banham’s notion of an “aesthetics of expendability”. This issue is studied through such source materials as texts, buildings, competition entries and exhibitions produced from the early fifties to the early sixties. READ MORE

7. 5. Aporia of Equality: A Historico-Political Approach to Swedish Educational Politics 1946-2000

   Author : Tomas Wedin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Equality; politico-temporal problem; education; post-war period; Sweden; political thought; regime of historicity; Arendt; democratic paradox; imaginary equality; the social; Tocqueville; world;

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