Search for dissertations about: "Utopia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the word Utopia.

2. 1. After Space Utopia : Post-Soviet Russia and Futures in Space

   Author : Roman Privalov; Johan Eriksson; Mats Braun; Arita Holmberg; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; Russia; utopia; postcolonialism; assemblage; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : Since the early 2000s, new projects of space expansionism have emerged, including the commercial-, military-driven and scientific projects to colonize the Moon and Mars. The new space expansionism followed a period of comparatively lower attention to space in international politics, and it is sometimes called the New Space Race by analogy to the 20th century Space Race between the USSR and the US. READ MORE

4. 2. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory

   Author : Andreas Gottardis; Ulf Mörkenstam; Näsström Sofia; Owen David; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emancipation; Critical Theory; Jürgen Habermas; Frankfurt School; Enlightenment Philosophy; Enlightenment Skepticism; Deliberative Democracy; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. READ MORE

5. 3. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels

   Author : Mattias Ågren; Anna Ljunggren; Per-Arne Bodin; Tetsuo Mochizuki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia; metanarrative; satire; parody; Tatyana Tolstaya; Viktor Pelevin; Vladimir Sorokin. Russia; Russian Federation; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. READ MORE

6. 4. "Bring Me My Arrows of Desire". Gender Utopia in Blake's The Four Zoas

   Author : Magnus Ankarsjö; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Blake; gender; utopia; The four Zoas; female characters; gender interactivity; radical context; feminism; gender reunion; male-female togetherness;

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7. 5. Utopology : A Re-Interrogation of the Utopian in Architecture

   Author : Fredrik Torisson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Utopia; Architecture; Networks; Architect; Arboraphobia; Anticipation; Media; Monsters;

   Abstract : Utopia – the word is simultaneously evocative of hope and dread. As a concept it is stupendously problematic, and yet despite its alleged passing into irrelevance, utopia still remains a household word. Why is this so?Utopia has been reduced to a category. We place a solution in the category of the utopian or, conversely, the not-utopian. READ MORE