Search for dissertations about: "self-representation"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word self-representation.

2. 6. The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States

   Author : Mathias Kristiansen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Neoliberalism; economization; independent contracting; economic anthropology; capitalism; The United States; network marketing;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, I conducted one year of ethnographic fieldwork among people participating in network marketing, a form of sales that also includes the recruitment of additional salespeople – what is known as building a network. READ MORE

4. 7. Out of Site : Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974

   Author : Henrik Gustafsson; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Asbjørn Grønstad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cultural identity; film analysis; film and nation; genre revisionism; intermediality; landscape in art; landscape in cinema; New Hollywood; new realism; nostalgia film; reflexivity; road movies; Film; Filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines landscape as a concept for analysis and interpretation in film studies by considering the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Contextualized within the contested notion of nationhood at the time as well as the concern among filmmakers to probe the properties, practices and traditions of American cinema, this was also a period when landscape underwent widespread redefinition as a field of artistic and academic practice. READ MORE

5. 8. Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy

   Author : Magdalena Öhrman; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ovid; Elegy; Propertius; Ovid’s exile poetry; erotodidactic elegy; Tibullus; mythology; genre;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andromache, Alcestis and Euadne) used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary genre. READ MORE

6. 9. Voices of Muslim Feminists : Navigating Tradition, Authority and the Debate about Islam

   Author : Vanja Mosbach; Mia Lövheim; Tuula Sakaranaho; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Muslim Feminism; Islam; Religious Individualization; Scandinavia; Religion; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

   Abstract : Drawing on in-depth interviews with women in Sweden and the Øresund region who have publicly positioned themselves as believing Muslim feminists, this study explores what is involved in their self-positioning, how they conceptualize Muslim feminism, and construct its meaning. The accounts of the participants in this study revolve around three broad themes: First, the aspiration for self-representation as Muslims, second, the negotiations on gender equality and Islam, and third, the negotiation between internal and external religious authority. READ MORE

7. 10. Before the "European Miracles". Four Essays on Swedish Preconditions for Conquest, Growth, andVoice

   Author : Erik Örjan Emilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aristocracy; agrarian history; comparative history; Early Modern Sweden; economic dynamics; evolutionary social science theories; institutional theories; jurisdictional system; lawspeakers lagmän ; Medieval Sweden; parliamentary politics; peasant categories; peasant rebellions; political contestation; political representation; property taxations; Sweden’s Great Power Age; theories of feudalism; transition to capitalism;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four studies that further develop the perspectives introduced in the author’s licential dissertation, Sweden and the European Miracles: Conquest, Growth and Voice (1996). The dynamic properties of the European system of independent but interacting societies are traced back to the institutional polystruc-turality of European feudalism and the peculiarities of Sweden’s historical experience are asserted to be part of this intersocietal heritage. READ MORE