Sökning: "appadurai"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet appadurai.

  1. 1. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

    Författare :Anna Stibe; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arjun Appadurai; Githa Hariharan; Vikram Chandra; Amit Chaudhuri; the production of locality; work of the imagination; agency; haunting; storytelling; secularism; Indian English literature; cities.; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Terrakottaföremål från Ghana på British Museum : Materiella och immateriella assemblage

    Författare :Mari Granath Lagercrantz; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Camilla Flodin; Mårten Snickare; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :akan terracottas; Ghana; British Museum; musealization; Appadurai and Kopytoff; Deleuze and Guattari; DeLanda; the social life of things; rhizome; agency; assemblage theory; Robert P. Wild; El Anatsui; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to identify, describe and interpret two series of terracotta objects from southern Ghana originally donated by Robert P. Wild to the British Museum in London between 1933 and 1936. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Media Technologies in the Making : User-driven Software and Infrastructures for Computer Graphics Production

    Författare :Julia Velkova; Patrik Åker; Göran Bolin; Lisa Parks; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; computer graphics; computer animation; user-driven software; infrastructuring; media practice; repair; decommodification; gifting; commons; Blender; Synfig; Morevna project; Cosmos Laundromat; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Sammanfattning : Over the past few decades there have emerged greater possibilities for users and consumers of media to create or engage in the creation of digital media technologies. This PhD dissertation explores the ways in which the broadening of possibilities for making technologies, specifically software, has been taken advantage of by new producers of digital culture – freelancers, aspiring digital media creators and small studios – in the production of digital visual media. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Monsterkroppar : Transformation, transmedialitet och makeoverkultur

    Författare :Kristina Stenström; Anja Hirdman; Kristina Riegert; Thomas Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transmedia; audience; television; embodied spectatorship; makeover culture; late modernity; monstrosity; monster; vampire; zombie; transmedia; publik; television; förkroppsligat åskådarskap; makeoverkultur; senmodernitet; monstrositet; monster; vampyr; zombie; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. LÄS MER