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  1. 21. Att odla ett samhälle : Råby räddningsinstitut och 1840-talets sociala ingenjörskonst

    Författare :Jonas Larsson Kraus; John Rogers; Frans Lundgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation uses the metaphor of cultivating society to discuss social engineering as it came to expression in the texts and activities of Råby reformatory in Sweden during the 1840’s. The concept of the gardening state as expressed in Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and James C. LÄS MER

  3. 22. God Rests in Rwanda : The Role of Religion in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

    Författare :Olov Simonsson; Lars M Andersson; Karen Brounéus; R. Scott Appleby; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rwanda; Genocide; Religion; Christianity; Catholicism; Church; Propaganda; Dehumanisation; ICTR; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses the role of religion in the Rwandan genocide, providing new explanations to the complex dynamics of devaluation and victimisation processes in genocidal violence. The thesis explains how religion was used in different contexts prior to, during, and after the 1994 genocide. LÄS MER

  4. 23. De tjänstvilliga vännernas samhälle: Abraham Brahe och den svenska eliten 1590–1630

    Författare :Johanna Thorelli; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cultural history; public private; friendship; reciprocity; political culture; nobility; microhistory; Abraham Brahe; Sweden; 16th century; 17th century; early modern;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation traces the culture and agency of the Swedish elite during the years 1590–1630, focusing on lived practice rather than normative texts. It examines how culturally determined ways of thinking guided actions in concrete situations, and covers various aspects such as the public and the private, favors and reciprocity, aristocratic status, office-holding, and by extension the human aspects of state formation. LÄS MER

  5. 24. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008

    Författare :Lior Becker; Tomislav Dulić; Lars M Andersson; Tim Cole; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Israel; USA; Holocaust memory; collective memory; Yizkor books; commemoration; remembrance; memory culture; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Skuld och oskuld : barnamord och barnkvävning i rättslig diskurs och praxis omkring 1680–1800

    Författare :Eva Bergenlöv; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; honour; virtue; motherhood; marriage; Religious culture; gender; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to analyse how judicial texts concerning guilty and innocent mothers were constructed during the period of c. 1680-1800. The two crimes of infanticide and overlaying have been examined. Source materials have primarily consisted of proceedings from the appeals court, courts of first instance, and parish meetings. LÄS MER