Search for dissertations about: "whiteness"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word whiteness.

  2. 11. Anti-Jewish Racism : Exploring the Swedish Racial Regime

    Author : Hansalbin Sältenberg; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; antijudisk rasism; rasism; antisemitism; sverige; svenskhet; svensk exceptionalism; svensk jämställdhet; nation; nationalstat; protestantism; sekularism; religion; vithet; judar; judiskhet; kritiska rasstudier; anti-Jewsish racism; antisemitism; racism; Sweden; Swedishness; Swedish exceptionalism; Swedish gender equality; nation; nation-state; Protestantism; secularism; religion; whiteness; Jews; Jewishness; cirtical race studies; antisemitism;

    Abstract : The dissertation explores anti-Jewish racism as a structural phenomenon inherent to Swedish society. While research often has separated the study of anti-Jewish racism/antisemitism from other racisms, this dissertation is located within the field of critical race studies to explore anti-Jewish racism as part of larger social and racialised structures. READ MORE

  4. 12. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia

    Author : Nadi Tofighian; John Fullerton; Charles Musser; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonial history; early cinema; film history; distribution; transnational networks; entertainment culture; Southeast Asia; Singapore; postcolonial theory; colonial discourse; ethnicity; race; whiteness; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. READ MORE

  5. 13. Materialisations of a Woman Writer : An Investigation of Gender Politics in Janet Frame's Biographical Legend

    Author : Maria Wikse; Linda Anderson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Autobiography; biography; film adaptation; the gaze; gender; New Zealand literature; poiesis; re-citations; whiteness; writer ideals; writer tradition; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study deals with interpretative procedures in literary studies that implicitly or explicitly rely on biographical information. Most often, readings either presuppose the sovereignty of the author or claim that biographical data is not at all relevant. Both these stances are problematic. READ MORE

  6. 14. Achieving consistent colours in digital printing

    Author : Ole Norberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The characterization of the transfer function of a printing device is a complex procedure involving not only the device itself but also the paper and its properties. In digital printing, the complexity is increased by the lack of standardisation and guidelines. READ MORE

  7. 15. This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything

    Author : Stacey Sacks; Kristina Hagström-Ståhl; Rebecca Hilton; Karmenlara Ely; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; clowning; haunting; decolonial; vivisection of W w hiteness; privilege; mask; trickster; humour; queer; ancestry; auto-ethnography; animation; softness; sculpting; discomfort; transformation; fragility; anxiety; shitfuck; porosity; intimacy; parody; satire; buffoon; listening; entanglement; embodiment; discursivity; impressibility; character; body; clowter; sensitivity; malleability; plasticity; complicity; with-nessing; narrowcasting; absurdity; race; decomposition; hospitality; bafflement.; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts;

    Abstract : This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique. READ MORE