Search for dissertations about: "late modernity"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words late modernity.
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11. Family centre practice and modernity : a qualitative study from Sweden
Abstract : Family centres have become a common institution to promote health and wellbeingamong young children (0-6 years of age) and their parents in Sweden. Thecore of the work is usually based on both maternal and child health care, a preschooland social services, all located under the same roof in the local community. READ MORE
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12. Your Cradle Is Green : The Islamic Foundation and the Call to Islam in Children's Literature
Abstract : This thesis deals with the conceptualisation of da‘wa, ‘the call to Islam’, of the British organisation the Islamic Foundation, and focuses its 25 years of publication of Islamic-English children’s literature. In order to analyse the implications of the new modalities of da‘wa in the late modern Muslim minority context, the present study applies a genealogical perspective. READ MORE
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13. Making in Context : Reconsidering Anders Zorn's Oil Painting Practice
Abstract : Anders Zorn is one of the most well-known Swedish artists of the late nineteenth century. Born 1860 in the Dalecarlian town of Mora, the artist’s works were renowned and sought-after during his lifetime, both at home and abroad. READ MORE
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14. Without mast, without sails, without compass : Non-traditional trajectories into higher education and the duality of the folk-market
Abstract : In 1809, the trajectory of Swedish history and the identities associated with the country changed after Finland was lost to Russia. Swedish General von Döbeln explained that the loss left the nation "without mast, without sails, without compass." The research within this dissertation is not of war but of a similar sense of loss. READ MORE
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15. Aesthetic Experiences of Presence : Case Studies in Film Exhibition, 1896-1898
Abstract : This study investigates viewing experiences that came with the introduction of cinema. Merging (film) history with aesthetic theory, this dissertation entails historically informed theoretical reconstructions of viewing experiences between 1896 and 1898. READ MORE