Search for dissertations about: "pleasure"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 80 swedish dissertations containing the word pleasure.

  2. 11. Tourism Development in Resource Peripheries : conflicting and Unifying Spaces in Northern Sweden

    Author : Joakim Byström; Dieter K. Müller; Rikard Eriksson; Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism development; labor market transformation; related diversification; path dependence; resource periphery; pleasure periphery; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The northern Swedish inland is a sparsely populated area with a historical dependence upon natural-resource extraction. Therefore, this region has traditionally been defined as a resource periphery for extractive purposes. However, the rise of tourism challenges this narrative by producing a pleasure periphery for touristic purposes. READ MORE

  4. 12. More than Meets the Eye : Transmedial entertainment as a site of pleasure, resistance and exploitation

    Author : Karin Fast; André Jansson; Michael Karlsson; Jonathan Gray; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transmedial; entertainment; world; brand; media convergence; producer; consumer; fandom; power; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Today’s converging entertainment industry creates ‘transmedial’ brand worlds in which consumers are expected to become immersed. Integrated marketing campaigns connected to these worlds encourage various kinds of consumer productivity and invite consumers to partake in brand-building processes. READ MORE

  5. 13. A Nice Place : The Everyday Production of Pleasure and Political Correctness at Work

    Author : Annika Jonsson; Gerd Lindgren; Liselotte Jakobsen; Ingrid Sahlin; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; heterosexuality; gender; work; ethnomethodology; ethnography; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates heterosexed reality as an ongoing accomplishment by the members at a workplace. Observations were carried out sporadically for two years at a museum. During this period twelve formal interviews, fifteen informal interviews, three formal group interviews and three informal group interviews were also conducted. READ MORE

  6. 14. Erotic Pathos, Rhetorical Pleasure. Narrative Technique and Mimesis in Eumathios Makrembolites´ Hysmine and Hysminias

    Author : Ingela NIlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine Hysminias; Achilles Tatius; Leukippe Kleitophon; ancient novel; Eros; ekphrasis; Byzantine novel; mimesis; imitation; literary subversion; Byzantine literature; Komnenian literature; intertextuality; transtextuality; spatiality; Byzantinology;

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  7. 15. In Her Words: Women’s Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden

    Author : Oriana Quaglietta; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women; illicit drugs; Sweden;

    Abstract : When it comes to the field of drug studies, researchers have tended to privilege men’s perspectives and experiences, assuming women to be mostly marginal, as primarily victims and accomplices. Further, when women’s experiences are taken into account, a view of them as only women has tended to be pushed to the forefront. READ MORE