Sökning: "Globalization Studies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 126 avhandlingar innehållade orden Globalization Studies.
1. In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
Sammanfattning : This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context of Australia and the fact that the contemporary art scene in Australia is divided into Australian and Aboriginal art respectively. This is a division originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, resulting in an Australian art descending from a Western art practice, where there is further focus on two categories within this art. LÄS MER
2. El retorno del rostro : Narrativas postnacionales y escrituras precarias en tiempos de la globalización
Sammanfattning : Globalization in the past decades has been considered a new phase of integrated global economy, with increased cultural interactions and loss of nation-state sovereignty. In recent years, critics and citizens have raised concern towards a neoliberal system that sustains inequality and growing uncertainty. LÄS MER
3. Global infatuation : Explorations in transnational publishing and texts : the case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the Canadian category publisher Harlequin Enterprises.Operating in a hundred markets and publishing in twenty-four languages around the world,Harlequin Enterprises exemplifies the increasingly transnational character of publishing andthe media. LÄS MER
4. Piety, Intimacy and Mobility : A Case Study of Charismatic Christianity in Present-day Stockholm
Sammanfattning : Stockholm County is a post-industrial Swedish region characterized by high levels of mobility and technologization as well as ethnic and religious diversity. Among its religious minorities exist various strands of charismatic Christianity, some of which originate from the Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century and some of which belong to more recent movements. LÄS MER
5. Inequality, Globalization and Health
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four independent studies that analyze various aspects of the nexus of inequality, globalization, and health with the aim to build our knowledge so some of the empirical relationships connecting these three concepts. Using data on four welfare attributes in Zambian households, Chapter 2 explores three approaches to evaluate multidimensional inequality. LÄS MER
