Search for dissertations about: "the unknown other"

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  2. 1. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

    Author : Linn Holmberg; Mohammad Fazlhashemi; Caroline Boucher; Daniel-Odon Hurel; Antony McKenna; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the congregation of Saint-Maur; the Maurists; Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety; the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert; the Dictionnaire de Trévoux; history of science and ideas; history of encyclopedism; history of Monasticism; history of the book; the French Enlightenment; classification and organization of knowledge; Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts; microhistory; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. READ MORE

  4. 2. Picturing the Public : Advertising Self-Regulation in Sweden and the UK

    Author : Caroline Dahlberg; Göran Ahrne; Laurent Thévenot; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; advertising self-regulation; images; decision-making; reflexive cognition; interpretation; evaluation; justification; worlds of worth; moral conventions; moral conflicts; gender; the public; the unknown other; viewers; offence; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Across the globe, people are everyday audiences of advertising images, which have become integrated in our life worlds. Advertising images are entangled with interesting moral conflicts. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

    Author : Charlotta Forss; Mats Hallenberg; Henrik Ågren; Kristiina Savin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical geography; Ottoman Empire; colonial America; conceptual history; history of knowledge; history of cartography; history of science; religious geography; early modern history; historisk geografi; kartografi; begreppshistoria; kunskapshistoria; Osmanska riket; vetenskapshistoria; religiös geografi; tidigmodern historia; det koloniala Amerika; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 4. Pedagogies of the unknown : studying for a future, without guarantees

    Author : Lisa Nyberg; Anette Baldauf; Renate Lorenz; María do Mar Castro Varela; Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy; Freire; future studies; utopia; unknown; critical consciousness; meditation; guided meditation; imagining otherwise; pedagogik; framtidsstudier; Freire; utopi; anti-fascism; meditation; guidad meditation; Konstnärlig forskning; Artistic research;

    Abstract : Lisa Nyberg's PhD project starts from the question: how can we study for a future unknown? In light of anthropogenic climate change, a global environmental crisis, and its destabilizing impact on social and economic systems, there is an urgency to examine how we relate to the future in our pedagogy; how we anticipate, imagine and prepare through our teaching and our studies. At the basis of this research is a teaching practice; the classroom of aesthetic education at the intersection of study, creative work and the institution. READ MORE

  7. 5. Facing the unknown : working in a distributed project

    Author : Eva Jansson; KTH; []
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