Sökning: "Cultural meanings"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 139 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cultural meanings.
1. Det ekte, det gode og det coole : Södra teatern og den dialogiske formasjonen av mangfoldsdiskursen
Sammanfattning : The thesis analyses the continuously changing discourse of cultural diversity. The focus of this study is the ways in which this discourse is shaped within contemporary Swedish cultural politics in general, and how it unfolds and further changes through the specific activities performed by a cultural institution in Stockholm – Södra teatern. LÄS MER
2. Lost in Transformation : A critical study of two South African museums
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation Transformation, as understood in South Africa, is investigated in the ‘Natal Museum’ and the ‘Msunduzi Museum Incorporating the Voortrekker Complex’ in terms of socio-political structures, the museum as a place, its collections and displays. I have emphasised the ethnographical perspective and analysed it by using key concepts such as new museology, time, space and place. LÄS MER
3. Väntan : Etnografiskt kollage kring ett mellanrum
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about waiting. It's about what happens when an ethnographer goes into the field and asks people to fill a small and indeterminate word like waiting with thoughts, experiences and recollections. The study is primarily based on twenty qualitative interviews with thirteen interviewees in Gothenburg. LÄS MER
4. Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in
Sammanfattning : This dissertation looks at how racial discourses are used in contemporary Swedes' practices of belonging, their sense of their incorporation into Swedish society. I analyze verbal accounts and narratives of people "of African ancestry" living in Stockholm and those positioned in the normative and racially-unmarked category, "Swede. LÄS MER
5. Wasting time or having fun? : Cultural meanings of children and childhood
Sammanfattning : This study explores contemporary cultural meanings of children and childhood in a Swedish context. Its point of departure is an understanding that the meanings ascribed to what it is to be a child and what childhood is, are part of culture and, as such, transform through time and space. LÄS MER
