Search for dissertations about: "historical thinking"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the words historical thinking.

2. 6. A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : Ritschl in Context

   Author : Leif Svensson; Arne Rasmusson; Thomas Girmalm; Mats Wahlberg; Johannes Zachhuber; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Albrecht Ritschl; the kingdom of God; theology; Christian ethics; Kulturprotestantismus; Bildungsbürgertum; nineteenth-century Germany; historical criticism; historicism; the historical Jesus; materialism; late idealism; Luther and modernity; criticism of religion;

   Abstract : The subject of this historical-theological investigation is the German Lutheran theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889). Ritschl’s theology is understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the German Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class). READ MORE

4. 7. Homelands Lost and Gained : Slavic Migration and Settlement on Bornholm in the Early Middle Ages

   Author : Magdalena Naum; Historisk arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; migration; historical archaeology; Bornholm; Western Slavs; everyday; ritual practice; body; identity construction; memory; agency; phenomenology; practice theory;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines early medieval Slavic migration to the island of Bornholm (Denmark). With a combination of interdisciplinary theories and approaches, which focus on human translocation and memory and identity construction, a holistic approach to the studies of migration in archaeology is proposed. READ MORE

5. 8. choreo | graphy

   Author : Eleanor Bauer; Juliet Mapp; Chrysa Parkinson; Martin Hargreaves; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dance; choreography; writing; dancing-thinking; dancing-writing; media specificity; artistic research; enactive cognition; aesthetic thought; sensual journalism; splace; modybind; Utbildning på forskarnivå i performativa och mediala praktiker; Third-Cycle Studies in Performative and Mediated Practices;

   Abstract : The doctoral project choreo | graphy is an inquiry into the relationship between thinking through dance and thinking through written language, taking the notion of choreography literally as dancing-writing. Respecting that different media afford different thought processes, ideas, and concepts to be reached, this practice-based artistic research project has unfolded within artistic processes and experiments to explore and develop the relationship between dancing-thinking and writing-thinking. READ MORE

6. 9. Technology and Sexual Difference

   Author : Monica Obreja; Nina Lykke; Cathrine Egeland; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sexual difference; technology; gender-technology co-construction; gender; sex; arbitrary; contingent; historical association; masculin ity; weak thesis; strong thesis; Luce Irigaray; the feminine; Könsskillnad; teknik; genus-teknik-samkonstruktion; genus; kön; arbiträrt; kontingent; historical association; maskulinitet; weak thesis; strong thesis; Luce Irigaray; det feminina;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to interrogate a particular understanding of gender and technology as co-constructed from the standpoint of sexual difference theory by showing what this conceptualization of gender and technology excludes. It is also an attempt to enable an understanding of what is excluded by elaborating upon the conditions for thinking technology, gender and sexual difference differently. READ MORE

7. 10. Understanding the polarization of responses to genocidal violence in Rwanda

   Author : Theogene Bangwanubusa; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; popular support; obedience; genocidal violence; grassroots thinking; elite; informal elite; social power; ordinary people; war-displaced people; immigration; social taboo; social pact; mixed ethnic relations;

   Abstract : This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti successfully resisted the genocidal violence, while Murambi fell prey to large-scale violence. READ MORE