Search for dissertations about: "contemporary issues"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 184 swedish dissertations containing the words contemporary issues.

2. 11. Powerful eyes, imaginative minds : Experiencing contemporary art and science in a third space

   Author : Harald Raaijmakers; Birgitta Mc Ewen; Nina Christenson; Susanne Walan; Marianne Achiam; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Museum education; STEAM; Art-based science education; Third space; Imagination; Transformative aesthetic experience; Subjectification; Biology; Biologi;

   Abstract : In a third space, the boundaries between educational contexts and school disciplines are blurred to look at content from multiple perspectives. Out-of-school organisations, like museums, can offer educational resources that launch a museum-school partnership into a third space. READ MORE

4. 12. Fractures in the Fabric of Democracy? : Change and Continuity in Public Opinion in Contemporary Europe

   Author : Oskar Hultin Bäckersten; Sven Oskarsson; Gina Gustavsson; Jonathan Polk; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public Opinion; Representative Democracy; Political Polarization; Political Attitudes; Intra-Party Opinion; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Is representative democracy in Europe becoming undermined by developments in public opinion? This dissertation addresses this overarching question, by studying the development over time of (i) ideological polarization; (ii) the degree to which vote choices are structured by political attitudes; and (iii) the degree to which parties are internally congruent in political opinion across levels. Public opinion is understood as the metaphorical ‘fabric’ of representative democracy, where conjectures to the fact of a fracturing dynamic are plausible and recurrent in academic and public debate. READ MORE

5. 13. Climate Change after the International : Rethinking Security, Territory and Authority

   Author : Johannes Stripple; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Insurance Industry; Climate Change; Environmental Politics; Environmental Issues; Environment; Process Philosophy; Authority; Territory; Security; International Relations; International Politics; UNFCCC; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : What does a politics after the international mean? Many strands of contemporary scholarship converge on the image of the international as obsolete, but strongly diverge on the contours of the kinds of politics that are superseding it. The modern state has been pivotal to the meaning of security, territory and authority?concepts central to the idea of the international?but they do not necessarily have to be tied to the state. READ MORE

6. 14. The In-between Church : A Study of the Church of England's Role in Society through the Prism of Welfare

   Author : Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon; Anders Bäckström; Per Pettersson; Linda Woodhead; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church of England; contemporary society; Europe; individual; institutional religion; late modernity; religious change; social welfare; welfare systems; Sociology of religion; Religionssociologi; Religionssociologi; Sociology of Religion;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis has been to explore the role of institutional religion in western Europe between individual and society. This is achieved through an empirical study of the role of the Church of England at local level, using the area of social welfare as the prism through which broader issues of the place of the Church in society can be brought to light. READ MORE

7. 15. The Artisanal Perspective in Action : An Archaeology in Practice

   Author : Katarina Botwid; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; expertise; artisanal perspective; skill; artisanal interpretation; practice; craft; craftspersons; techniques; knowledge; situated learning; master–apprentice; artefacts; tools; imprints; fingerprints; colour; crayon; artist material; re-interpretation; evaluation; tacit knowledge; embodied knowledge; silent knowledge; silent studies; contemporary artisanship;

   Abstract : In what way can an artisanal perspective and artisanal knowledge contribute to current archaeology? How can theories about skill and expertise explain and affect research on artisanal issues? These are the questions that are in focus and have been explored in the four collected papers and in the concluding article in this thesis. The author proposes an artisanal perspective from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. READ MORE