Sökning: "politics of categorization"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden politics of categorization.
1. Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a contribution to feminist laboratory studies and a critical engagement with the natural sciences, or more precisely research on the biochemical workings and deadly relations of Alzheimer’s disease emanating from a year of field work in a Drosophila fly lab. The natural sciences have been a point of fascination within the field of gender studies for decades. LÄS MER
2. Urban policies for a contemporary periphery : Insights from eastern Russia
Sammanfattning : In recent decades, the notion of quality of life has been closely associated with the built urban environment and urbanistic practice. Policies addressing public space and aiming at cities’ increased international competitiveness are proliferating. LÄS MER
3. Det högkänsliga subjektets tillblivelse : Diskursiva praktiker om identitet, förmåga och funktionsvariation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines discursive practices about the highly sensitive person (HSP) from the perspective of knowledge production, categorization and community formation. In contemporary Sweden it has become increasingly common to talk about oneself in terms of being constituted in a particular way, e.g. LÄS MER
4. Konsten att göra barn raka : Ortopedi och vanförevård i Sverige till 1920
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the establishment of orthopaedic medicine and the growth ofthe care of "cripples" in Sweden from the beginning of the 19th century to 1920. Itelucidates medical, social and political factors of this historical process, of whieh thefoundations were the interplay of private and public, medicine and care, and philanthropyand public health care. LÄS MER
5. Sverigedemokraternas budskap 2005-2010 : en retorisk studie av ett annorlunda parti
Sammanfattning : This thesis originates from an interest in the relationship between rhetoric and democracy and how a society deals with controversial ideas. In Swedish politics, the Sweden Democrats is an exemplification of this. LÄS MER