Sökning: "cultural memory"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 88 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural memory.

1. 21. An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain : Material and Metaphor

   Författare :Anna McWilliams; Mats Burström; Anders Andrén; John Schofield; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology of the contemporary past; Iron Curtain; Cold War; material culture; memory; cultural heritage; Berlin Wall; Austria; Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic; Italy; Slovenia; Yugoslavia; arkeologi; Archaeology; Archaeology subjects;

   Sammanfattning : The Iron Curtain was seen as the divider between East and West in Cold War Europe. The term is closely connected to the Cold War and expressions such as ‘behind the Iron Curtain’ or ‘after the fall of the Iron Curtain’ are common within historical discussions in the second half of the twentieth century. LÄS MER

3. 22. Samla samtid : Insamlingspraktiker och temporalitet på kulturhistoriska museer i Sverige

   Författare :Elin Nystrand von Unge; Lars Kaijser; Simon Ekström; Anne Eriksen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Collecting; museums; memory; heritage; temporality; contemporary; Insamling; museer; minne; kulturarv; temporalitet; samtid; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of contemporary collecting practices at museums of cultural history in Sweden. The study takes off from two questions: How is this practice of collecting understood at museums of cultural history today, and how are these modes of collecting effected when museums explicitly collect the “present” rather than the “past”? The aim is to examine how the present day has been collected, what modes of ordering were activated, as well as what relational effects contemporary collecting has had on the knowledge-building processes within the practice. LÄS MER

4. 23. Individual differences in the aging memory : Mediation accounts, moderators, and contextual factors

   Författare :Ola Sternäng; Åke Wahlin; Lars-Göran Nilsson; Nancy Pedersen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cognitive aging; interactions; context; mediation accounts; cross-cultural; longitudinal; individual differences; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Within the field of cognitive aging, mediation accounts propose that age affects cognitive abilities through a mediator variable. Most of these mediation accounts are developed based on studies with cross-sectional designs. LÄS MER

5. 24. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community

   Författare :Kristina Sliavaite; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ignalina nuclear power plant; Deindustrialization; post-socialism; East Central Europe; ethnicity; collective memory; social change; Russian speaking population; decline; modernization; migration; enclave; risk; social insecurity; uncertainty; national insurance; Social problems and welfare; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Sociala problem; migration; risk; social välfärd; socialförsäkring; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. LÄS MER

7. 25. Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

   Författare :Ekaterina Kalinina; Johan Fornäs; Staffan Ericsson; Vlad Strukov; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; structure of feeling; nostalgia; memory; past; Russia; Post-Soviet; mediation; television; fashion; internet; theatre; museums; restaurants.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Sammanfattning : Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. LÄS MER