Sökning: "commemorations"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet commemorations.

1. 1. Border-Crossing Commemorations : Entangled Histories of Swedish Settling in America

   Författare :Adam Hjorthén; Mats Hallenberg; Dag Blanck; Ulf Zander; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; commemoration; border-crossing; entanglement; New Sweden Tercentenary; Swedish Pioneer Centennial; settler colonialism; race; modernity; pioneering; migration; transnational; Sweden; the United States; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Swedish America; History; historia;

   Sammanfattning : Different groups from both sides of the Atlantic have since the 1930s come together to commemorate histories of Swedish settling in America. They have celebrated the founding of the New Sweden colony in the Delaware Valley (1638–1655), and the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Swedish pioneers in the Mississippi Valley. LÄS MER

3. 2. Helgonbruk i moderniseringstider : Bruket av Birgitta- och Olavstraditionerna i samband med minnesfiranden i Sverige och Norge 1891–2005

   Författare :Ingemar Lindaräng; Peter Aronsson; Kalle Bäck; Torbjörn Nilsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Use of history; commemorations; Norway; Sweden; S. Bridget; S. Olav; modernization; secularization; identity; Historiebruk; minnesfiranden; Norge; Sverige; heliga Birgitta; hellig Olav; modernisering; sekularisering; identitet.; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen syftar till att jämföra och förstå variationen av historiebruk i samband med minnesfiranden av heliga Birgitta i Sverige och hellig Olav i Norge med fokus på olika aktörers motiv, resurser, budskap och identitetsskapande processer i en tid av modernisering och sekularisering.Under den katolska medeltiden var helgonfiranden vanliga, men de förbjöds i samband med reformationen. LÄS MER

4. 3. Identity politics and city planning : the case of Jerusalem

   Författare :Ann-Catrin Andersson; Ingemar Elander; Karin Aggestam; Helena Lindholm Schultz; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Jerusalem; territoriality; national identity; commemorations; identity discourse; identity politics; commemorative narratives; city planning; traditional Zionism; place-making; city policy; green Zionism; Political Science; Statskunskap;

   Sammanfattning : Jerusalem is the declared capital of Israel, fundamental to Jewish tradition, and a contested city, part of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Departing from an analysis of mainly interviews and policy documents, this study aims to analyze the interplay between the Israeli identity politics of Jerusalem and city planning. LÄS MER

5. 4. Äreminnen : Personmedaljer och social status i Sverige, cirka 1650–1900

   Författare :Martin Tunefalk; Mats Hallenberg; Mikael Alm; Joachim Östlund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; social status; pre-modernity; medals; commemorations; ideas about society; history of concepts; public sphere; discourse; symbolic capital; performativity; longue durée; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; History; historia;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to study the waning of premodern ideas about society by investigating the ways in which social status was conceived. Analyses of linguistic expressions and negotiations of status are used to study changes in how different social groups related and acted on one another, what changed, and what remained constant as premodernity gave way to modernity. LÄS MER

7. 5. Civilreligion med ett mänskligt ansikte : president Václav Havels tankar om individ, religion och samhälle

   Författare :Paula Håkansson; Lunds universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religion of the citizen; democracy; basic values; post-communist society; Civil religion; national identity; Theology; Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis civil religion in the Czech Republic is studied throught the way it is expressed in the speeches of president Václav Havel. Earlier studies on civil religion have shown how civil religiion can be a latent phenomenon that is activated in times of societal change and crisis. LÄS MER