Search for dissertations about: "totalitarian"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word totalitarian.

2. 1. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre

   Author : Ludmila Pöppel; Milan Bily; Anatolii Shaikevich; Dmitrii Dobrovolskii; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse; discourse analysis; language of revolution; totalitarian language; Soviet political language; Pravda editorials; rhetorical changes; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. READ MORE

4. 2. Politics and Truth : Heidegger, Arendt and the Modern Political Lie

   Author : Anna-Karin Selberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Cecilia Sjöholm; Peg Birmingham; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-truth; alternative facts; modern political lie; totalitarianism; Heidegger; Arendt; truth; politics; image-making; myth; art; facts; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” the word of the year. In the ongoing debate about post-truth it is generally assumed that facts and truth have ceased to be relevant to politics. READ MORE

5. 3. Call for Protection : Situating Journalists in Post-Cold War Romania in a Global Media Development Discourse

   Author : Urban Larssen; Karin Norman; David A. Kideckel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; journalism; Romania; public sphere; development; NGO activism; protection; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : This study deals with the development of journalism in post-Cold War Romania, and it does so with a particular interest in the transnational dimension this entails.Many NGOs and international organizations are currently seeking to monitor journalists’ situations in countries around the world, while at the same time aiming at having the whole world aligned with international standards of the journalistic profession. READ MORE

6. 4. In Search of the Via Media between Christ and Marx: A Study of Bishop Ding Guangxun's Contextual Theology

   Author : Jieren Li; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Communist state; via media; Socialist society; state-church relationship; inculturation; indigization; accommodation; Anglicanism; Chinese church; Bishop Ding; Fundamentalist-Evangelical; contextual theology; Lux Mundi;

   Abstract : This dissertation is the first academic treatment and systematic analysis on the theology of Bishop Ding Guangxun (K.H. Ding) who is an internationally- renowned Christian leader of the Chinese Protestant Church in contemporary China. READ MORE

7. 5. Lesbian Lives : Sexuality, Space and Subculture in Moscow

   Author : Katja Sarajeva; Helena Wulff; Ulf Mellström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; subculture; lesbian; space; Russia; Moscow; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : This study is an exploration of the lesbian subculture in Russia focusing in particular on the subculture as a unique heterogeneous space of social interaction and cultural production that is not self contained or isolated from mainstream society, but incorporates a variety of cultural flows and traditions that are a part of Russian mainstream culture, other Russian subcultures, or global cultural flows. Some of these cultural flows and traditions are more compatible than other ones. READ MORE