Search for dissertations about: "spirit matter"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words spirit matter.

  2. 1. Great men and charming creatures : on male and female terms in eighteenth century novels

    Author : Anna-Lena Wallin-Ashcroft; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eighteenth century; sociolinguistics; semantics; experiential realism; gender role; conceptual model; prototype; frame; domain; collocation; metaphor; male; female; epicene; spirit matter; power dependency; active passive; varied limited;

    Abstract : A corpus of terms for human beings collected from 18th century novels is studied from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. A summary of recent linguistic theories and a survey of 18th century culture and society are provided as background. READ MORE

  4. 2. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

    Author : María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

    Abstract : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. READ MORE