Sökning: "Identity and Representations"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 96 avhandlingar innehållade orden Identity and Representations.

  1. 1. Bending mainstream definitions of sport, gender and ability : Representations of wheelchair racers

    Författare :Kim Wickman; Eva Olofsson; Ulla Johansson; Jorid Hovden; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; able-ism; disability; discourse; gender; identity; representation; sports media; Paralympics; wheelchair racing; Sports; Idrott;

    Sammanfattning : Inspired by feminist post-structural thinking and with a discourse analytic approach, this study’s main theme is gendered identity, disability and sport. It consists of four separate, but interrelated, empirical studies and focuses on two research questions. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Så görs etnicitet : äldreomsorgspersonal resonerar om etniska relationer

    Författare :Linda Lill; Malmö högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; elderly care; doing ethnicity; care; representations; identity; ethnic relations; race theory; ethnicity; gender theory; subject positions;

    Sammanfattning : This text deals with the concept of ethnic relations in elderly care and the created meanings of ethnicity. A study is carried out through group discussions for elderly care staff and constitutes the empirical material. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Föreställningar om den urbana världen : Identitetsaspekter i svensk stadsbild med exemplet Helsingborg 1903-1955

    Författare :Henrik Widmark; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Ola Wetterberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; Architecture; City planning; Heritage; Preservation; Spatial practices; Visual practices; Representations of Space; Urban culture; History; Memory; Modernity; Dominant urban identity; City space; Public art; Konstvetenskap; Gregor Paulsson; Helsingborg;

    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

  5. 4. Föreställningar om mat och ätande : Risk, kropp, identitet och den "ifrågasatta" maten i vår tid

    Författare :Marie-Louise Stjerna; Sonja Olin Lauritzen; Cecilia Fredriksson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; food; eating; social representations; photo-elicitation interviews; risk; the body; identity; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : In Western society, food is debated and in various ways contested. Social science research has described various cultural imperatives related to food and choices of diet, that raises questions about how people understand issues of food and eating in their everyday lives. LÄS MER

  7. 5. (Re)producing a periphery : popular representations of the Swedish North

    Författare :Madeleine Eriksson; Urban Lindgren; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Victoria Lawson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Representations; internal orientalism; modernity; Norrland; Sweden; news media; popular culture; place marketing; narrative identities; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The discourse on Norrland (literally ‘North land’ in English) as essentially ‘different’ has been(re)produced in literature, politics and science for as long as the idea of ‘Norrland’ has existed. Thus,when investigating the discourse that constructs the identity of Norrland in opposition to a Swedishnational identity, it is important to connect these representations to their contemporary (andchanging) political-economic contexts. LÄS MER