Sökning: "Quentin Skinner"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Quentin Skinner.

  1. 1. In Search of Caravans Lost . Iranian Intellectuals and Nationalist Discourse in the Inter-War Years

    Författare :Rouzbeh Parsi; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Europe; historical sociology; discourse theory; modernity; Iran; education; gender; Koselleck; secularism; journals; intellectuals; Foucault; nationalism; conceptual history; Skinner; Rüsen;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the characteristics of Iranian nationalist discourse between the World Wars. By looking at texts of intellectuals, men and women, published in three journals (Iranshahr, Name-ye Farangestan, and Ayandeh) in the 1920s this study maps the content of nationalist discourse and to what extent this discourse allows for dissonance. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Adoption of the Innovation System Concept in Sweden

    Författare :Magnus Eklund; Lars Magnusson; Mats Larsson; Dan Bäcklund; Mats Benner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conceptual history; Quentin Skinner; innovation system concept; innovation thinking; VINNOVA; OECD; Sweden; research policy; research funding reform; Research 2000; sectoral research; university autonomy; industrial policy; industrial crisis; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : In 2001 Sweden founded the government agency of VINNOVA, named after the OECD-endorsed innovation system concept. Criticising the common assumption that countries are passive and uncritical recipients of the approaches promoted by the OECD, this dissertation tries to show that Swedish actors were in fact very active and strategic as they contributed to the national adoption of the concept. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Att bygga ett samhälle : Tid, rum och politiska visioner i bostadspolitiken 1901–1947

    Författare :Malin Henriksson; Maria Wendt; Ulf Mörkenstam; Malin Rönnblom; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state; housing policy; time; space; longue durée; Reinhart Koselleck; Quentin Skinner; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of political modernization in Sweden, focusing on the formation of modern housing policy. The analysis reveals how changing concepts relating to time and space redefine a political and social order, thereby laying the foundation for the welfare state. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Shrines and Souls: The Reinvention of Religious Liberty and the Genesis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Författare :Linde Lindkvist; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Human rights; history of human rights; religious liberty; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; UDHR; Charles Malik; O. Frederick Nolde; Commission of the Churches on International Affairs; Partition Plan for Palestine; history of political thought; Quentin Skinner; Hannah Arendt.;

    Sammanfattning : Shrines and Souls provides a multi-layered contextualization of the article on religious liberty in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 18), which was propounded by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. It shows how the framers of the Declaration decided to break with some of the conventional ways of framing religious liberty in international law, by foregrounding the inner freedom of thought and conscience instead of the free exercise of religion, by directly recognizing the right to change religion or belief, and by restricting the human rights framework to the rights of individuals. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Vad gör kvalitet med utbildning? : Om kvalitetsbegreppets skilda innebörder och dess konsekvenser för utbildning

    Författare :Andreas Bergh; Ninni Wahlström; Bernt Gustavsson; Agneta Linné; Christina Segerholm; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; concept of quality; educational policy; municipality; independent school; speech-act; conceptual history; Sweden; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Education; Pedagogik; Pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate what linguistic meanings the concept of quality is imbued with in different educational arenas and to discuss the consequences of such meanings for education. From this aim the main research question is: What does the concept of quality do to education and what does education do to the concept of quality? The question indicates an interest in understanding how the concept of quality and education mutually influence each other. LÄS MER