Search for dissertations about: "reification"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word reification.

  2. 1. becoming things, becoming-world : On Cosmopolitanism, Reification and Education

    Author : Claudia Schumann; Klas Roth; Niclas Rönnström; Paul Standish; David Hansen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cosmopolitanism; reification; globalization; education; philosophy; educational theory; critical pedagogy; particularism; universalism; objectivity; Critical Theory; New Wittgensteinianism; György Lukács; Gerard Delanty; Axel Honneth; Alice Crary; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : What if education were not about becoming something, making something of yourself, becoming some thing? What if we were to consider education as becoming-world? These questions are posed against the background of the current populist nationalist backlash against the consequences of globalization, along with growing anti-intellectualism and anti-democratic sentiment. How can education contribute locally and globally to fostering and safeguarding the very possibility of democratic practices against the neoliberal consecration of reified social relations? Becoming Things, Becoming-world contributes to contemporary discussions in philosophy of education by developing a vision of a critical educational cosmopolitanism founded upon a renewed critique of reification. READ MORE

  4. 2. Time to Work : Responsibilization and Reification in the Swedish Welfare State

    Author : Desirée Ödén; Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Fredrik Svärdsten Nymans; Ebba Sjögren; Christine Cooper; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting; Management Accounting; Performance; Performance Management; Public Sector; Refugee Crisis; Establishment; Labour Market; Responsibilization; Commodification; Alienation; Reification; Critical Theory; Swedish Public Employment Service; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : In late 2015 and early 2016, more than two million refugees crossed European borders. Sweden, with its 10 million inhabitants welcomed more than 160,000 refugees, the second highest number per capita in Europe. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conceptual Politics in Practice : How Soft Power Changed the World

    Author : Stephanie Christine Winkler; Mark Rhinard; Linus Hagström; Patrick Thaddeus Jackson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; academia policy nexus; alliance; China; concepts; critical concept studies; decline; feedback loops; interaction effects; International Relations; Japan; power shift; power; reification; rise; science; security; sharp power; smart power; soft power; travel; United States; internationella relationer; International Relations;

    Abstract : Concepts are a key feature of academic research and international politics. Despite the fact that interpreting, classifying and communicating the world through concepts has far-reaching social and political consequences, their various roles and complex dynamics remain poorly understood in International Relations (IR). READ MORE

  6. 4. Approaching Proof in a Community of Mathematical Practice

    Author : Kirsti Hemmi; Rikard Bögvad; Barbara Jaworski; Gila Hanna; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; proof; university mathematics; community of practice; participation; reification; MATHEMATICS; MATEMATIK;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to describe how students encounter proof in a community of mathematical practice at a mathematics department and how they are drawn to share mathematicians’ views and knowledge of proof. Considering the department as a community of practice where the joint enterprise is learning mathematics in a broad sense made it possible to perceive the newcomers as active participants in the practice. READ MORE

  7. 5. Conditional Progress: Technical Rationality and Wicked Problems in Nuclear Waste Management

    Author : Hannes Lagerlöf; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nuclear waste management; science and technology studies; critical constructivism; sociology; technical rationality; reification;

    Abstract : While various states and enterprises have produced nuclear power for decades, that is, demonstrated the functionality of the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to power production, the waste that is simultaneously produced has been provisionally stored awaiting a safe solution. Still, no country has implemented such a solution. READ MORE