Sökning: "imaginaries"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade ordet imaginaries.
1. Educational imaginaries : a genealogy of the digital citizen
Sammanfattning : This thesis makes use of a genealogical approach to map out and explainhow and why computers and citizenship have become so closely connected.It examines the historical continuities and disruptions, and the role thatpopular education has played in this interrelation. LÄS MER
2. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. LÄS MER
3. Imagineering Place : The Branding of Five Chinese Mega-Cities
Sammanfattning : Cities, regions, nations and other places have in recent decades become active participants in the global competitive economy, and now operate in a global marketplace, competing with other places all over the world for investors, tourists, residents and workforce. As a result, places use marketing and branding strategies and practices to gain reputation and competitive advantage. LÄS MER
4. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism
Sammanfattning : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. LÄS MER
5. The science of imagining solutions : design becoming conscious of itself through design
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses a paradox in design: we currently live in a day and age that is fundamentally conditioned by artifice on all scales, and principled by a deep sense of contingency and possibility. In this world, anything could always be something else. LÄS MER