Search for dissertations about: "lefebvre"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the word lefebvre.
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1. Women Entrepreneurship : Masculinity, Legitimacy and Well-being
Abstract : The overarching research purpose of this dissertation is to understand how women entrepreneurs establish and grow their businesses in a patriarchal society. This research question is addressed through the compilation of four research papers. READ MORE
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2. The Land of the Magical Maya : Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism
Abstract : The land of the Magical Maya is a mythical region in the south of Mexico where there are enigmatic creatures such as cosmic Indios, vultures, ghosts, white elephants, pineapples, swallows, and flamingos; and wondrous places like cenotes, pyramids, blue moons, old frontiers, new frontiers, and paradise-Zones. In the 1980s, henequen, the agro-based industry that had sustained Yucatán since the 19th century, was close to collapsing. READ MORE
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3. Dis-placed Desires : Space and Sexuality in South African Literature
Abstract : This study provides a diachronic view of the interweaving of space and sexuality, their interdependency and mutually constitutive aspects, in seven South African English language novels from the early twentieth century until the first decade of the twenty-first century. A key contention is that it is precisely a co-constitutive depiction of space and sexuality that has arisen in this literature as a response to a socio-political climate which has exercised harsh regulation in these two areas. READ MORE
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4. ‘A Machine for Living’ : Urban Domesticity in Polish Literature and Cinema 1969–2008
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study urban domesticity in Polish film and literature against the background of the political and social transformations that have taken place in recent decades. The study begins with the so-called belle époque of the Polish People’s Republic and the decade of Edward Gierek, continues through the political upheavals, the period of martial law, and the system transformation of 1989 and the two following decades, which have been marked by the introduction of democracy, global capitalism, consumerism etc. READ MORE
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5. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy
Abstract : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. READ MORE