Sökning: "Pleasure"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 121 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Pleasure.

1. 11. The body in pain and pleasure : an ethnography of mixed martial arts

   Författare :Magnus Stenius; Marianne Liliequist; Håkan Berglund-Lake; Orvar Löfgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MMA; Violence; Embodiment; UFC; Gender; Masculinity; Pain; Flow; Ethnography; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a sport on the rise within the field of martial arts in which competitors fight in a cage and utilize full-contact movements using their fists, elbows, and knees as well as kicks, other strikes, and submission techniques to defeat their opponents. MMA has become a modern social movement in combat sports that has become globalized in a short time and is the fastest growing sport in the world. LÄS MER

3. 12. KinAesthetic Movement Interaction : Designing for the Pleasure of Motion

   Författare :Jin Moen; Yngve Sundblad; Cecilia Katzeff; Sally Jane Norman; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; interaction design; movment interaction; kinaesthetic; aesthetics; modern dance; design; human-computer interaction; interaktionsdesign; rörelseinteraktion; kinestetisk; estetik; modern dans; design; människa-datorinteraktion; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims at identifying and exploring properties and design aspects of human movement when used as interaction modality between people and technology. The work has been carried out with a multidisciplinary approach and combines theories, methods and practices from various areas such as modern dance, pedagogy, behavioural science, human computer interaction and research through design. LÄS MER

4. 13. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century

   Författare :Sofia Ņkerberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zoological Gardens; Zoological Society of London; zoo; London; nineteenth century; acclimatisation; imperialism; leisure; public; guidebook; zoology; natural history; popular science;

   Sammanfattning : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific impor­tance of various animal species. LÄS MER

5. 14. Vice in the Service of Virtue: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

   Författare :Lena Olsson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bildungsroman; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Fanny Hill; eighteenth-century erotica; pornography and literature; John Cleland; Eighteenth-century fiction; the English novel in the eighteenth century; John Locke and literature; prostitution in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : Originally published in two volumes in 1748-9, John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill) has long been an underground classic. Because of this underground status, and the prejudicial treatment of literary pornography, Memoirs has never been thoroughly investigated. LÄS MER

7. 15. Tourism Development in Resource Peripheries : conflicting and Unifying Spaces in Northern Sweden

   Författare :Joakim Byström; Dieter K. Müller; Rikard Eriksson; Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism development; labor market transformation; related diversification; path dependence; resource periphery; pleasure periphery; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The northern Swedish inland is a sparsely populated area with a historical dependence upon natural-resource extraction. Therefore, this region has traditionally been defined as a resource periphery for extractive purposes. However, the rise of tourism challenges this narrative by producing a pleasure periphery for touristic purposes. LÄS MER