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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 767 avhandlingar innehållade orden Humanities Other Humanities Cultural Studies.
1. In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
Sammanfattning : This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context of Australia and the fact that the contemporary art scene in Australia is divided into Australian and Aboriginal art respectively. This is a division originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, resulting in an Australian art descending from a Western art practice, where there is further focus on two categories within this art. LÄS MER
2. Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently
Sammanfattning : Digital media have become an integral part of many people’s everyday lives and constitute an intimate presence therein. Utilizing the concept of digital intimacy to focus on these recent developments, this doctoral dissertation takes the perspectives of feminist cultural studies and affect theory to analyze how digital media are becoming more intimate and how in turn intimacy is remediated within digital cultures. LÄS MER
3. The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
Sammanfattning : Urgency in a hospital Emergency Room (ER) is not a self-evident state. Urgency is made, by establishing priorities, distributing attention and material resources, and deciding who and what needs to be attended to first – and, simultaneously, who and what has to wait. LÄS MER
4. Creative voices of the city : Articulating media, space and cultural identities by creative collectives in Southeast Asia
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the lived cultures of the individuals within collectives who are part of creative cities in Southeast Asia. Such individuals and their creative collectives are all too often rendered silent and unnoticed within the official narratives of creative city branding. LÄS MER
5. Den utsatta konsten. Att förvalta konst i offentlig miljö – etik, lagstiftning och värdeförändring
Sammanfattning : Syftet med denna licentiatuppsats är att öka kunskapen om förutsättningarna för förvaltning, tillsyn och konservering avseende lös och byggnadsanknuten konst beställd av stat, landsting och kommuner i Sverige under 1900-talet. Många byggnadsanknutna konstverk har gradvis blivit en del av kulturarvet på samma sätt som äldre historiska byggnadsverk. LÄS MER
