Sökning: "Dominant urban identity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Dominant urban identity.
1. Föreställningar om den urbana världen : Identitetsaspekter i svensk stadsbild med exemplet Helsingborg 1903-1955
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the subject of dominant local identities and the construction of urban representations in Sweden 1903-1955, as articulated in the city Helsingborg. The main focus falls on architecture, city planning and visual practices as means of establishing an urban identity. LÄS MER
2. Folkhemmets kyrka : Harald Hallén och folkkyrkans genombrott. En studie av socialdemokrati, kyrka och nationsbygge med särskild hänsyn till perioden 1905-1933
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores aspects of what happened to the state Church of Sweden during the rise of the importance of public opinion and the evolution of the democratic nation state. Denmark provides the most well known Nordic example of how an old state Church became a democratic Folk (i.e. National) Church during this general transition. LÄS MER
3. "Jag känner mej begåvad bara." Om flerspråkighet och identitetskonstruktion bland ungdomar i ett multietniskt förortsområde : "It's simply a gift." Multilingualism and Identity Formation among Young People in a Multiethnic Urban Area
Sammanfattning : TITLE: “It’s simply a gift”. Multilingualism and Identity Formation among Young People in a Multiethnic Urban Area. SWEDISH TITLE: “Jag känner mig begåvad bara”. Om flerspråkighet och identitetskonstruktion bland ungdomar i ett multietniskt förortsområde. LÄS MER
4. Submitting to God: Women's islamization in urban Malaysia
Sammanfattning : This anthropological study addresses issues of subjectivity and agency within the context of pious, Muslim, Malay women's religious practice in urban Malaysia. It investigaes how Malay women come to understand themselves as gendered, religious subjects and, thereby, explores the motivations and meanings that women ascribe to their emergent roles in the religious sphere and within the Islamization process. LÄS MER
5. Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality
Sammanfattning : Major Asian cities like Hong Kong, Taipei and Bangkok have been constantly on the verge of rapid transformation, whether politically, socially, and particularly sexually, due to the process of capitalisation, modernisation, and globalisation over the last decade. In response to the impact of the transformation on the historical and traditional space of the city, the region's unique cultural and historical background has produced certain conditions of urban arrangements that may have put into disarray the traditional relationship between binary oppositions, whether tradition/modernity, old/new, global/local, heterosexual/homosexual, and the like. LÄS MER