Search for dissertations about: "propaganda literature"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words propaganda literature.

2. 6. Beyond the Witness : Holocaust Representations and the Testimony of Images

   Author : Rebecka Katz Thor; Cecilia Sjöholm; Stefan Jonsson; Gertrud Koch; Thomas Keenan; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Image; film; witness; Holocaust; Warsaw ghetto; Westerbork; Eichmann; Harun Farocki; Yael Hersonski; Eyal Sivan; archive; testimony; commemoration.; film; bild; vittne; vittnesmål; förintelsen; arkiv; Farocki; Hersonski; Sivan; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : In a time when the very last Holocaust witnesses will soon be gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witness by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political and historical situations. READ MORE

4. 7. A War of Words

   Author : Torkel Lindquist; Witold ´Witakowski; Bo Isaksson; Ilan Pappé; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semitic languages - general; terrorism; War on terrorism; defining terrorism; Arabic; Hebrew; terminology of violence; semantics; pragmatics; propaganda; 11 9; ‘the other’; ‘the enemy’; massmedia; press; Israeli press; Arab press; political discourse; extracting a definition from media; Semitiska språk - allmänt; Semitic languages; Semitiska språk; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to come to an understanding of the meanings of words pertaining to acts of political violence in modern Arabic and Hebrew. The semantics of these terms will be established by comparison between the meaning in dictionaries of modern and classical Arabic and Hebrew, the meaning in the Koran and the Bible as well as the meaning we extract from the context in the newspapers where the terminology is found. READ MORE

5. 8. Order and Adornment : The Role of Dress in Plutarch

   Author : Peder Flemestad; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plutarch; ancient dress; textile terminology; dress terminology; Imperial Greece; ancient Greek literature; Latin literature; inscriptions; Greek papyri;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role of dress in the ancient Greek author and intellectual Plutarch. The works of Plutarch comprise one of the most prolific authorships preserved to us from classical antiquity. READ MORE

6. 9. Johannes Magnus and the Composition of Truth : Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus

   Author : Astrid Nilsson; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johannes Magnus; Latin historiography; history; historiography; truth; tyrants; kings; Gothicism; Renaissance;

   Abstract : Johannes Magnus (1488–1544) was the last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala to hold residence in Sweden. He was also a historian and wrote a work in Latin about Swedish history that was to gain an unparalleled importance. READ MORE

7. 10. Essays on Development and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Author : Jonas Poulsen; Eva Mörk; Niklas Bengtsson; Karl Moene; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ANC; regression discontinuity; IV; party effects; Rwandan genocide; rainfall; propaganda; social capital; South Africa; mining; resource curse; crime; criminality; Internet; protests; submarine cables; regime change; Africa; employment; light;

   Abstract : Essay I: The African National Congress (ANC) can look back on eighty years of struggle which resulted in the liberation of black Africans, the creation of a democratic constitution and free elections. However, the last twenty years of ANC rule has been criticized for the failure to bring higher living standards for the formerly oppressed. READ MORE