Search for dissertations about: "embodiment"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 124 swedish dissertations containing the word embodiment.
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16. Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran : A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
Abstract : This thesis is a result of a qualitative study that investigates the socio-legal status of trans persons who undergo sex-change surgery in contemporary Iran. It examines how social practices of gender shape the lives of trans men and trans women in Iranian society. READ MORE
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17. Cultivating the Sacred : Ritual Creativity and Practice among Women in Contemporary Europe
Abstract : Ritual creativity may seem like a contradiction in terms, yet the religious landscape in contemporary Euro-America is permeate with experimentation of ritual forms, different modalities of action, imagination and play as routes to authenticity. The present study examines different settings in Europe involved in such ritual creativity, which would commonly be classified as postmodern spirituality, new age or Paganism. READ MORE
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18. Embodied cognition and emotion in multisensory media
Abstract : Emotions underlie most events in our everyday life perception. They prepare ourselves for an optimum response to these events, either showing attraction or rejection to them. Likewise, media has the power to evoke in us similar affective processes as the ones created by real situations. READ MORE
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19. Embodied psychoacoustics: Spatial and multisensory determinants of auditory-induced emotion
Abstract : The research presented in this thesis focuses on auditory perception, bringing together traditional psychoacoustics, emotion, embodiment and multisensory research. In particular, the current research explored how sound, and the interpretation the listener makes of it, induces emotions in people. READ MORE
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20. Different Voices - Different Stories : Communication, identity and meaning among people with acquired brain damage
Abstract : The main purpose of the dissertation is to understand meaning-making practices used by people suffering from acquired brain damage with severe physical and communicative disabilities, in order to create and sustain their identity and personhood in relation to other people. The study emanates from the idea that identity and personhood, also in relation to disability, are created/sustained in ongoing interaction between people in everyday situations, and that the ability to narrate is central to such a creation of identity. READ MORE