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21. Åland som språksamhälle : Språk och språkliga attityder på Åland ur ett ungdomsperspektiv
Sammanfattning : The present thesis deals with Åland, i.e. the Åland Islands, as a language environment. Its main focus is on the language attitudes of adolescents. LÄS MER
22. Medierad övervakning : En studie av övervakningens betydelser i svensk dagspress
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis explores the use of surveillance images and discourses of surveillance in the Swedish press. Questions concerning surveillance appear frequently in the news today. LÄS MER
23. Emotions as a mode of understanding : An essay in philosophical aesthetics
Sammanfattning : The aim of this investigation is to discuss emotions as a mode of understanding and in what ways emotions can be connected to narrative art. An emotion is a sign that a person has understood a situation in a certain way, an understanding which will also be valid in interacting with different kinds of narrative art. LÄS MER
24. Omvänt perspektiv i bildkonst och kontrovers : En kritisk begreppshistoria från det gångna seklet
Sammanfattning : Throughout the past century the concept of an inverted perspective, understood as a stylistic trait in Late Classical, Byzantine and Medieval art, has been at the centre of a controversy. The dissertation aims at giving a favourable presentation of "inverted perspective" as a critical concept with a fairly well-defined frame of reference, although efforts to make such a definition a reductionist, fixed meaning tied to a stable system of Geometrical optics will be regarded as unnecessary. LÄS MER
25. Narrating Nuclear Disaster : Literary Form and Affective Modes after Chernobyl and Fukushima
Sammanfattning : The major nuclear disasters of Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011) play an important role in the public perception of nuclear power, yet their social and material impacts remain scientifically debated and, thus, their meaning for the future of nuclear power production contested. Narrating Nuclear Disaster intervenes in these debates by asking what might be learned about nuclear disasters through an analysis of the formal and affective strategies employed in literary texts narrating their aftermath. LÄS MER