Search for dissertations about: "visions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 163 swedish dissertations containing the word visions.

  2. 1. Technomedical Visions : Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 1980s Sweden

    Author : Isabelle Dussauge; Arne Kaijser; Pär Blomkvist; Eva Åhrén; Anne Beaulieu; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anatomy; body; NMR; psychiatry; radiology; representations; Sweden; visual studies; history of medicine; history of technology; laboratory science; magnetic resonance; mediation; medical gaze; medical imaging; MRI; History of technology; Teknikhistoria;

    Abstract : The medical imaging technology called MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) stems from a blind measurement technology which was further developed in research and practice to enable seeing into the inner body. Vision with MRI was open-ended, and it was developed and tamed in a context of fragmented medical perspectives on the body and on technology. READ MORE

  4. 2. Capital Visions : The Politics of Transnational Production in Nicaragua

    Author : Sofie Tornhill; Maud Eduards; Göran Bergström; Peo Hansen; Diana Mulinari; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational production; Nicaragua; nation-making; neoliberalism; left politics; Free Trade Zones; labor relations; gender; postcolonial feminism; discourse theory; Political Science.; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : In processes of economic integration, neoliberal discourse and corresponding notions of development comprise some of the most readily available imaginaries of political and social interaction and change. However, these processes are always also locally produced and negotiated. READ MORE

  5. 3. Visions of Strategy : Following Clausewitz's Train of Thought

    Author : Anders Palmgren; Michael Rainsborough; Försvarshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Krigsvetenskap; Krigsvetenskap;

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  6. 4. Visions of Apostolic Mission : Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission to 1935

    Author : David Bundy; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church history; Kyrkohistoria;

    Abstract : Using methods of Cultural Mapping, Scandinavian Pentecostal publications and archival sources were examined regarding mission. Working toward “Apostolic Mission,” in addition to biblical texts Pentecostals used models adapted from the Pietist, Methodist, Baptist and especially the Holiness Revivals. READ MORE

  7. 5. Lost visions and new uncertainties : Sandinista profesionales in northern Nicaragua

    Author : Inger Lundgren; Christian Krohn-Hansen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Abstract : In Latin American countries where there are few private entrepreneurs, the state has often played a dominant role in the economy and in production and consequently state employees have wielded considerable influence. After the overthrow of the dictator Somoza in 1979, during eleven years of Sandinista rule the Nicaraguan state expanded considerably. READ MORE