Search for dissertations about: "urban identity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words urban identity.
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1. Vestiges of urban spirit : Isfahan's urban fabric through socio-spatial transformations
Abstract : The city of Isfahan, one of the most historic urban settlements in Iran, has undergone dramatic socio-spatial transformations during the recent decades, beginning with the modernization programs of the 1920s. While the urban structure of Isfahan was the outcome of a process over centuries of incremental evolution, a new mode of place making and street patterns was imposed on the historic fabric of the city within the space of only a few decades. READ MORE
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2. (Re)producing a periphery : popular representations of the Swedish North
Abstract : The discourse on Norrland (literally ‘North land’ in English) as essentially ‘different’ has been(re)produced in literature, politics and science for as long as the idea of ‘Norrland’ has existed. Thus,when investigating the discourse that constructs the identity of Norrland in opposition to a Swedishnational identity, it is important to connect these representations to their contemporary (andchanging) political-economic contexts. READ MORE
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3. Relatedness through kinship : the importance of family co-occurrence for firm performance
Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to analyse the effects of family co-occurrence and past familial relationships (inherited entrepreneurial abilities) on firm performance. This aim is motivated by the contemporary arguments that social relations (e.g. family ties) are important in the analysis of today’s space economy. READ MORE
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4. The Shadows of the Past : A Study of Life-World and Identity of Serbian Youth after the Milošević Regime
Abstract : The thesis explores the consequences of the Milošević regime and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s for young people in Serbia. It deals with the conditions under which recent history makes itself relevant in the lives of two high-school classes of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds. READ MORE
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5. D. L. Moody and Swedes : Shaping Evangelical Identity among Swedish Mission Friends 1867–1899
Abstract : The American Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) was the most famous revivalist of the late 1800s and exercised a wide and lasting influence on the Protestant world, reaching Swedes in Sweden and America. READ MORE