Search for dissertations about: "historiography"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 66 swedish dissertations containing the word historiography.

  2. 21. A Struggle for the Realm : Late-medieval Swedish rhyme chronicles as ideological expressions

    Author : Margaretha Nordquist; Olle Ferm; Anders Cullhed; Jens E. Olesen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; chronicles; ideology; historiography; rhyme chronicles; Middle Ages; realm; Sturekrönikan; Cronica Swecie; Sturekrönikan; Cronica Swecie; rimkrönikor; medeltiden; ideologi; riket; historieskrivning; History; historia;

    Abstract : The period from the mid-fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century was characterised by recurrent political turmoil and conflict in Scandinavia in general, and in Sweden in particular. Political power was contested, not least because of the disputed conditions on which the Swedish realm should be governed as part of the Scandinavian union monarchy. READ MORE

  4. 22. Listening from within a Digital Music Archive : Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive

    Author : Andreas Helles Pedersen; Musikvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Digital cultures; Digital archives; Metadata; Historiography; Aesthetics; Critical thinking; Music history; Infrastructure;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how digital music archives can facilitate different versions of the history of recorded music. It argues that digital technologies and metadata enable coexisting historical narratives of recorded music that move across time and musical genre, and that can cross geographical and cultural space. READ MORE

  5. 23. The World in Pieces : A Study on Compilation Film

    Author : Patrik Sjöberg; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Historiography; collage; museum; montage; archive; quotation; fragment; repetition; recycling; taxidermy; Filmvetenskap; Film Studies;

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  6. 24. In Search of the Pure Photograph : A Historiographic Study of the Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans, and the Survey Histories of Photography

    Author : Cecilia Strandroth; Marta Edling; Jan von Bonsdorff; Karin Becker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; photography; historiography; documentary; history of photography; Farm Security Administration; Walker Evans; propaganda; modernism; media specificity; photographic archives; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap; Art;

    Abstract : The photographic archive of the American New Deal agency Farm Security Administration (created 1935-1943) occupies an important place in the history of photography as an exemplar of documentary photography and as symbol of the Great Depression. This dissertation is a historiographic study of this narrative of FSA photography, which investigates the archive's monumental position in the historical narration and demonstrates other possible readings. READ MORE

  7. 25. Revisiting the Past : Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation

    Author : Lisa Strömbom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; memory institutions.; memory agents; historiography; New History ; conflict transformation; Thick reocognition; identity theory; narrative theory; nationalism; post-Zionism; Israel;

    Abstract : Intractable conflicts are by definition difficult to resolve. This study ventures into the identity dynamics of those conflicts and argues that those identity aspects must be addressed in order to locate constituencies for change. READ MORE