Search for dissertations about: "free master thesis in history"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words free master thesis in history.

  2. 1. Governing Black and White : A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770-1900

    Author : Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonialism; comparison; postcolonial studies; slavery; racism; punishment; hybridity; liberalism; economy; police; Michel Foucault; governmentality; kolonialism; komparation; postkoloniale studier; slaveri; rasism; bestraffning; hybriditet; liberalism; ekonomi; polis; Michel Foucault; governmentality;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores and compares the rationalities through which Danish state officials sought to govern the colonized Afro-Caribbean population in the colony of the Danish West Indies and the state’s Danish subjects living in the metropole of Denmark in the period 1770-1900. Theoretically, it relies upon Michel Foucault’s conception of ’governmentality’ and the way this approach to governing, and to state power more generally, has been employed in various colonial and European settings, particularly within the field of colonial governmentality studies. READ MORE

  4. 2. No limits : the 20th century discourse of economic growth

    Author : Eva Friman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; economic growth; growth discourse; development discourse; history of economics; environmental economics; ecological economics; ecomodernism; modernist economic ethos; narrative; power of language; limits to growth;

    Abstract : The breakthrough of the concept of economic growth in economics marks a paradigm shift in thinking about the economy and its place in 'reality.' This thesis analyzes the 20th century discourse of economic growth, focusing its unlimited connotations. The thesis consists of four case studies, two introductory parts and a concluding dis­cussion. READ MORE