Search for dissertations about: "emancipation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the word emancipation.

  2. 21. Behavioural Principles for the Design of Human-Centred Cognitive Technologies : The Case of Visuo-Locomotive Experience

    Author : Vasiliki Kondyli; Mehul Bhatt; Lars Karlsson; Maithilee Kunda; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The successful application, usability, and social emancipation of AI technologies necessitates that the design and implementation of technical systems be founded on human-centred principles, be it cognitive or behavioural, social, ethical etc. Towards this objective, this thesis develops an interdisciplinary methodology for embedding cognitive behavioural principles in the design and development of next-generation human-centred AI technologies that aim to assist and empower humans in everyday life. READ MORE

  4. 22. Religion, Politics, and Development : Essays in Development Economics and Political Economics

    Author : Erik Meyersson; Torsten Persson; Asim Khwaja; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three essays in development and political economics."Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious". I report new findings on the causal relationship between political Islamic control and female participation in public institutions. READ MORE

  5. 23. In Search of Caravans Lost . Iranian Intellectuals and Nationalist Discourse in the Inter-War Years

    Author : Rouzbeh Parsi; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Europe; historical sociology; discourse theory; modernity; Iran; education; gender; Koselleck; secularism; journals; intellectuals; Foucault; nationalism; conceptual history; Skinner; Rüsen;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the characteristics of Iranian nationalist discourse between the World Wars. By looking at texts of intellectuals, men and women, published in three journals (Iranshahr, Name-ye Farangestan, and Ayandeh) in the 1920s this study maps the content of nationalist discourse and to what extent this discourse allows for dissonance. READ MORE

  6. 24. “Only Leave Them to Themselves” : Frances Brooke’s Fictional Worlds of Emancipatory Sensibility

    Author : Michaela Vance; Frida Beckman; Stefano Fogelberg Rota; Ian Haywood; Bo Ekelund; Paula Backscheider; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Frances Brooke; education; inborn virtue; sensibility; Christianity; Rousseau; Locke; fictional worlds; modal constraints; opera; tragedy; novel; periodical; eighteenth century; English; engelska;

    Abstract : In conversation but frequently at odds with contemporary voices on education, British eighteenth-century writer Frances Brooke (1724-1789) argued for a thoroughly revised approach to moral education that relied on the emancipatory potential of inborn sensibility. This thesis considers Brooke’s original texts, which range from periodical writing, novels, tragedies, operas, and prefaces, in the light of education, sensibility, and form, with the intention of expanding our understanding of Brooke’s contribution to eighteenth-century proto-feminist debates. READ MORE

  7. 25. Reluctant Victims into Challengers : Narratives of a Kurdish Political Generation in Diaspora in Sweden

    Author : Charlotta Zettervall; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Migration; Long-Distance Nationalism; Diaspora; Nationalism; Kurds; Political Generations; Refugees;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns a sociological analysis on the role of generations in the processes of the construction of national identities, and long-distance nationalism in diasporic settings. The empirical case taken is a political generation of Kurds from Turkey who once arrived in Sweden as political refugees. READ MORE