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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade ordet banal.
1. Ordinary people, meaningful pasts – Negotiating narratives in public pedagogical spaces of family history research
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines three family history research experiences as public pedagogical spaces, analysing the narratives presented and participants’ negotiations with these. In the context of enhanced digitalisation and rapidly developing technologies, disturbances in the form of pandemics, hackers, and wars remind us of the instability of the present, raising existential questions and reinforcing the desire to anchor oneself in the past. LÄS MER
2. Hemmet vid nationens skola : Väckelsekristendom, värnplikt och soldatmission, ca 1900-1920
Sammanfattning : This thesis is set within a framework of the revivalist Christians’ Inner Mission, and presents as a case-study their mission to conscripts stationed in military exercise areas and garrison towns across Sweden. The revivalists’ evangelical zeal is given special attention. LÄS MER
3. The Age of Frontex : Banal Securitization and its Normalization in EUropean External(ized) Border Control
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines how migration has become securitized in what I term the field of EUropean external(ized) border control and how this securitization has become increasingly normalized. It does so by focusing on the role of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s (Frontex) risk analysis reports in constructing migration as a security threat. LÄS MER
4. Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
Sammanfattning : The vantage point for this thesis is the passport as it was understood and used in the European Union from 1999 to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, every nation should have its own state, and every state should be legitimized by a nation. LÄS MER
5. Ur svenska hjärtans djup : Reproduktion av samtida monarki
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to show how Swedish royalty is reproduced and gains its extraordinary status through interaction between people, institutions and artefacts in the beginning of the 21st century. The analysis is based on data collected between 2003 and 2009 in different contexts where royalty and the monarchy are brought to the fore. LÄS MER