Search for dissertations about: "Propaganda"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the word Propaganda.

  2. 6. 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

  4. 7. In Search of the Pure Photograph : A Historiographic Study of the Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans, and the Survey Histories of Photography

    Author : Cecilia Strandroth; Marta Edling; Jan von Bonsdorff; Karin Becker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; photography; historiography; documentary; history of photography; Farm Security Administration; Walker Evans; propaganda; modernism; media specificity; photographic archives; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap; Art;

    Abstract : The photographic archive of the American New Deal agency Farm Security Administration (created 1935-1943) occupies an important place in the history of photography as an exemplar of documentary photography and as symbol of the Great Depression. This dissertation is a historiographic study of this narrative of FSA photography, which investigates the archive's monumental position in the historical narration and demonstrates other possible readings. READ MORE

  5. 8. Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958

    Author : Lilita Zalkalns; Maija Runcis; Per Bolin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Repatriation; Cold War studies; emigration; Soviet foreign policy; Latvian émigrés; Latvian émigré press; Soviet propaganda; compatriots; KGB; Soviet espionage; displaced persons; political refugees; Soviet Amnesty decree; repatriering; Kalla kriget; emigration; sovjetisk utrikespolitik; lettiska emigranter; lettisk emigrantpress; sovjetisk propaganda; compatriots; KGB; sovjetiskt spionage; displaced persons DPs ; politiska flyktingar; sovjetisk amnestilag; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

    Abstract : This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. READ MORE

  6. 9. The Internet in China. Unlocking and Containing the Public Sphere

    Author : Johan Lagerkvist; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Political Culture; Public Sphere; Social Control; Public Opinion; Freedom of Speech; Democratization; Humanities; Humaniora; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Propaganda; Internet; New Media;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to address a paradox: government control and social freedom on China's Internet are growing simultaneously. The study, which is based on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2006, and 48 interviews, seeks answers to the following two questions: 1. READ MORE

  7. 10. A War of Words

    Author : Torkel Lindquist; Witold ´Witakowski; Bo Isaksson; Ilan Pappé; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semitic languages - general; terrorism; War on terrorism; defining terrorism; Arabic; Hebrew; terminology of violence; semantics; pragmatics; propaganda; 11 9; ‘the other’; ‘the enemy’; massmedia; press; Israeli press; Arab press; political discourse; extracting a definition from media; Semitiska språk - allmänt; Semitic languages; Semitiska språk; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to come to an understanding of the meanings of words pertaining to acts of political violence in modern Arabic and Hebrew. The semantics of these terms will be established by comparison between the meaning in dictionaries of modern and classical Arabic and Hebrew, the meaning in the Koran and the Bible as well as the meaning we extract from the context in the newspapers where the terminology is found. READ MORE