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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 170 avhandlingar innehållade orden Uses of the Past.

  1. 21. Fornstora dagar, moderna tider. Bruk av och debatter om svensk historia från sekelskifte till sekelskifte

    Författare :Ulf Zander; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; 20th century; Social Democracy; national identity; nationalism; modernity; tradition; Historical consciousness; use of history; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the study is to investigate uses of and debates on Swedish history during a period of 100 years. The perspective is broader than the traditional study of history, since it supplements the search for new facts, contexts and interpretations by which meaning is ascribed the the past by different producers and consumers of history in society. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Modernismens bilder : Den moderna bilderboken i Norden

    Författare :Elina Druker; Boel Westin; Nina Christensen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Children’s literature; picture books; modernism; literary history; illustration; artists’ books; intermediality; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is based on a survey of an extensive corpus of Nordic picture books and illustrated children’s books from mainly the 1940’s and 1950’s. It discusses different aspects of the position of the child, children’s culture and children’s literature in the works of the young generation of artists during this era. LÄS MER

  4. 23. A Future for the Past of Desert Vernacular Architecture

    Författare :Marwa Dabaieh; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; participatory action research; transdisciplinarity; thinking re-vernacular; architectural conservation; desert vernacular; Balat.; neo-desert vernacular;

    Sammanfattning : Desert vernacular architecture has always been the product of a sustainable building cycle. People inherited the traditional way of building from their ancestors and the knowledge was transferred and developed from one generation to another. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Den lokala profilen : Person, plats och kulturarv

    Författare :Johan Linder; Jeff Werner; Peter Gillgren; Henrik Widmark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural heritage; authenticity; masculinity; city branding; place branding; Selma Lagerlöf; Carl Linnaeus; Johan Petter Johansson; Kurt Wallander; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine the use of famous historical or fictional persons in place branding. It seeks to analyze the images of places that are produced, and the representations of persons that are used in branding practices. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Driving Violations : Investigating Forms of Irrational Rationality

    Författare :Sonja Forward; Lars Åberg; Dianne Parker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; theory of planned behaviour; driving violations; risk-taking; speeding; dangerous overtaking; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Several aspects contribute to road crashes and one important part is the ‘human factor’. This information is interesting but insufficient unless we also try to understand what is meant by the term. LÄS MER