Search for dissertations about: "cultural imperialism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words cultural imperialism.

  2. 1. Ambivalent Friendship : Anglican Conflict Handling and Education for Peace in Jerusalem 1920-1948

    Author : Maria Småberg; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; peace education; third party; conflict handling; cultural diplomacy; interfaith dialogue; cultural imperialism; discourse; Edward Said; Orientalism; Church Ministry among Jews; Jerusalem East Mission; Anglican Missions; Anglican Church; Jerusalem; British Mandate period; multiculturalism; friendship; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns a religious actor in the civil society in times of violent conflict. During the British Mandate period in Palestine, Jewish, Muslim and Christian children studied together at Anglican missionary schools. At this time Jerusalem bore all the imprints of ethnic and religious separation and division. READ MORE

  4. 2. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia

    Author : Nadi Tofighian; John Fullerton; Charles Musser; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonial history; early cinema; film history; distribution; transnational networks; entertainment culture; Southeast Asia; Singapore; postcolonial theory; colonial discourse; ethnicity; race; whiteness; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. READ MORE

  5. 3. Cultural and socio-political development in south Etruria. : The Biedano region in the 5th to 1st centuries BC

    Author : Hampus Olsson; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Etruscans; Etruscology; Blera; Biedano region; ager Bleranus; Rome; Roman Republic; Roman archaeology; Romanisation; Globalisation; Bilingualism; code-switching; Imperialism; Etruscan prosopography; Etruscans; Etruscology; Etruscan prosopography; Blera; Biedano region; ager Bleranus; South Etruria; Etruria meridionale; Rome; Roman Republic; Romanisation; Imperialism; Globalisation; Bilingualism; Code-switching; Roman archaeology; Etruscan archaeology;

    Abstract : The town of Blera is situated in the southern parts of Etruria and has a history spanning more than 2,500 years. Its location between the two important Etruscan cities of Tarquinii and Caere has meant that Blera, for the entire Etruscan period (c. 750–50 BC), alternatively has found itself in either city’s sphere of interest. READ MORE

  6. 4. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century

    Author : Sofia Ņkerberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zoological Gardens; Zoological Society of London; zoo; London; nineteenth century; acclimatisation; imperialism; leisure; public; guidebook; zoology; natural history; popular science;

    Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific impor­tance of various animal species. READ MORE

  7. 5. Time-space Appropriation in the Inka Empire : A Study of Imperial Metabolism

    Author : RAGNHEIDUR BOGADÓTTIR; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inka Empire; time-space appropriation; ecologically unequal exchange; historical political ecology; human ecology; imperial metabolism; economic anthropology;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes some aspects of the appropriation of labor time and natural space in the Inka Empire (ca. AD 1400 – 1532) in order to illuminate the cultural organization of Inka imperial metabolism. READ MORE