Search for dissertations about: "modernity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 158 swedish dissertations containing the word modernity.

  2. 16. Dis(re)membering Spaces: Swedish Modernism in Law Courts Controversy

    Author : Michael Landzelius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Asplund; Göteborg.; Law and space; Preservation; Sweden; Mass media and architecture; Modernity; Mass media and architecture; Law and space; Modernity; Preservation; Asplund; Sweden; Göteborg.;

    Abstract : The dissertation addresses the public controversy, as reflected in newspaper coverage, over the 1936 Law Courts Annex in Göteborg, Sweden. The controversy is conceived as a tension-filled, multi-layered conjuncture of urban rivalry within the nation-state. READ MORE

  4. 17. Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law : The Sur´shian Paradigm in Shi’i Epistemology

    Author : Ashk Dahlén; Yann Richard; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Islam; Shi’i; Iran; sharīʿat; fiqh; uṣūl al-fiqh; ikhtilāf; qabḍwa basṭ; Surūsh; Jawādī-Āmulī; Mujtahid-Shabistarī; Rūmī; epistemology; hermeneutics; history of philosophy and science; postmodernism; modernity; mysticism; relativism; interpretation; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Abstract : This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. READ MORE

  5. 18. Modern Genes : Body, Rationality and Ambivalence

    Author : Niclas Hagen; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Everyday experiences; Modernity; Everyday Life; Lifeworld; System; Genetics; Huntington’s disease.;

    Abstract : The main objective of this ethnological thesis is to investigate the linkage between everyday life with a genetic disease and intrinsic patterns of modernity. The thesis is a compilation thesis that contains four individual articles each addressing the everyday experience of a genetic disease from different angles, with different research questions and theoretical presumptions. READ MORE

  6. 19. Materialising Modern Cemeteries : Archaeological narratives of Assistens cemetery, Copenhagen

    Author : Sian ANTHONY; begravning och social identitet Gravarkeologiska forskargruppen – Död; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Burial customs; Cemetery; Cremation; Copenhagen; Denmark; Death; Excavation; Gravediggers; Materiality; Modernity; 19th and 20th century;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines the encounter between the dead and the living within 19th and 20th century landscape cemeteries. It shows how the relationship unfolds through the materiality and practices occurring within them. READ MORE

  7. 20. Sport Has Never Been Modern

    Author : Kalle Jonasson; Susanna Hedenborg; Kutte Jönsson; SIgmund Loland; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; sport; modernity; nonhuman; territorialisation; gender; competition; science; Idrottsvetenskap; Sport Science; sport; modernity; nonhuman; territorialisation; gender; competition; science;

    Abstract : Sport has often been understood as a set of formalised physical contests, and moreover as something inherently modern. New conceptions of the term implicates that sport ought to comprise all physical activity. However, the studies and approaches that describe the range and tension between those positions are lacking. READ MORE