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  1. 1. Att sälja världen: Omvärldsbilder i svensk utlandsturism

    Författare :Klas Grinell; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; modernity coloniality; Sweden; frames of reference; denial of coevalness; Swedish tourism industry; stereotypes; idea of Progress; the tourist gaze; marketing; worldliness; Edward Said; Walter Mignolo;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyse how the Swedish tourism industry has marketed the world outside Sweden. What images of the people who populate tourist destinations has the tourism industry used to lure customers abroad? Answers to this question are drawn from a body data comprised of prospecti and brochures put out by Swedish tourism agencies in the period between 1930 and 1990. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Malthusian Progress

    Författare :Jacob Weisdorf; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Mobility; Preventive Checks; Positive Checks; Industrial Revolution; French Revolution; Mortality; Longevity; Malthusian Model; Fertility; Industrious Revolution ; Economic Growth;

    Sammanfattning : Some scholars maintain that pre-industrial England was held in a Malthusian ‘trap’, and that this trap prevented the sustained growth of real wages until as late as 1800. Opponents to this view argue that the structural transformations occurring in preindustrial England – urbanization, labour reallocation between sectors, and human capital investments – are features of development that are incompatible with the idea of Malthusian stagnation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Upplysning utan förnuft : begär och frihet hos Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume och Montesquieu

    Författare :Victoria Höög; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; postmodernism; modernity; women; political freedom; classical republicanism; human nature; reason; virtue; passions; Enlightenment; desire; David Hume; Charles de Montesquieu.; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This essay has three main aims. The first one is to give an overview of some hundred years of European intellectual history, bringing out new aspects of the classical thinkers. The analysis of the four philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and Charles de Montesquieu aims at illustrating a general historical process, viz. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Stories of masculinity, gender equality, and culinary progress : On foodwork, cooking, and men in Sweden

    Författare :Nicklas Neuman; Christina Fjellström; Lucas Gottzén; Steven Jones; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; foodwork; cooking; food studies; men and masculinities; gender equality; domestic work; culinary excellence; food; gastronomy; celebrity chefs; national identity; androcentrism; homosociality; Kostvetenskap; Food; Nutrition and Dietetics;

    Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis is to use foodwork and cooking in Sweden as a way to better understand theoretical questions about men and masculinities. Paper I discusses how an increased public interest in elaborate cooking and gastronomy in Sweden, a country with a cultural idealization of gender equality, could explain why men in Sweden assume responsibilities for domestic cooking without feeling emasculated. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Heritage planning in Malmö and Rotterdam during the 2000’s : A cross-contextual analysis of arguments, metaphors and figures of thought

    Författare :Olof Woltil; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Heritage planning; Conservation; Built heritage; Rhetoric; Metaphor analysis; Argumentation analysis; Figures of thought; Malmö; Rotterdam;

    Sammanfattning : A wide variety of scholars acknowledge heritage planning as a widespread phenomenon. However, to what extent it is widespread is debatable. LÄS MER