Sökning: "Modernity"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 345 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Modernity.

  1. 16. A Temple of Technology : Modernity and Industral Heritage at the Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923

    Författare :Anders Houltz; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; modernity; cultural heritage; use of history; exhibitions; museums; museology; industrial identity; professionalization; the Gothenburg exhibition of 1923; Sweden; Gothenburg; 20th century;

    Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the Jubilee Exhibitionin Gothenburg in 1923–with more than four millionvisitors the biggest exhibition ever held in the Nordiccountries. In its wide-ranging displays of both historical andcontemporary material, technology and technological artifactsoccupied a central position. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Global rörelse : Den globala rättviserörelsen och modernitetens omvandlingar

    Författare :Magnus Wennerhag; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lorenz von Stein; social change; individualization; social movements; democracy; civil society; globalization; sociology; Gustave Le Bon; modernity; Alain Touraine; Peter Wagner; global justice movement; creativity; collective action; world social forum; mediation; politics; Lorenz von Stein; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : A basic premise of this dissertation is that social movements are political and social actors expressing the centrality of autonomy in modernity. To grasp the nature of the relation between politics and social movements, the latter has to be related to the profound transformation in the forms of politics implied by the breakthrough of modernity, and the subsequent transformations within modernity. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Tradition and Modernity in the Domestic Urban Kitchen Design in Uganda : A case of Kampala

    Författare :Salome Kweyunga; Inga Britt Werner; Hoai Anh Tran; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; tradition; modernity; culture; identity; domestic urban kitchen design;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the design of modern domestic urban kitchens in Uganda. The research took place in Kampala, which is the capital city of Uganda. The cultural make up of Kampala residents is diverse; people come from all over the country of Uganda, as well as beyond. LÄS MER

  7. 20. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity

    Författare :Leif Stenberg; Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES); []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Non-Christian religions; tradition; Quran; Religion; Ziauddin Sardar; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Maurice Bucaille; Ismail al-Faruqi; modernity; discourse; Islam; Islamization of science;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual elite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. LÄS MER