Sökning: "globalization"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 209 avhandlingar innehållade ordet globalization.

  1. 1. Inequality, Globalization and Health

    Författare :Therese Nilsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Liberalization; Height-for-age; Life expectancy; Inequality measurement; Multidimensionality; Globalization; Inequality; Health; Household data; Panel data; Zambia;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four independent studies that analyze various aspects of the nexus of inequality, globalization, and health with the aim to build our knowledge so some of the empirical relationships connecting these three concepts. Using data on four welfare attributes in Zambian households, Chapter 2 explores three approaches to evaluate multidimensional inequality. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Globalization, Justice, and Communication : A Critical Study of Global Ethics

    Författare :Jenny Ehnberg; Elena Namli; Carl-Henric Grenholm; Tina Beattie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; global ethics; globalization; ethical theory; normative ethics; human rights; global justice; discourse ethics; universalism; contextualism; moral pluralism; communication; capabilities approach; M.C Nussbaum; S. Benhabib; D. Hollenbach; W. Schweiker; Etik; Ethics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to seek to an answer to the question of what constitutes a tenable model for global ethics. This is done in part by a critical engagement with four different models of global ethics; two proposals from political philosophy and two contributions from theological ethics. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Global Art World, Inc. : On the globalization of contemporary art

    Författare :Charlotte Bydler; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Hans Hayden; Sarat Maharaj; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; globalization; art world-system; biennials; contemporary art; art historiography; Arthur C. Danto; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Gerardo Mosquera; Paul Virilio; interpellation; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; globalisering; konstvärldssystem; biennaler; samtidskonst; konsthistoriografi;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines certain segments of the art world-system in which geographical distances seemed to vanishing as a result of faster and more intense interaction levels. This particular art world-system has been conceptualized in contradictory ways. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Televisual Representations of France and the UK under Globalization

    Författare :Maria Hellman; Jan Hallenberg; Alexa Robertson; Johan Ericsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; globalization; television; collective identity; the BBC; the TF1; news media culture; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine how France and the UK are represented in the television news texts at two different periods in time in order to explore whether and how these representations have changed as globalization has progressed. The thesis contributes to the study of collective identities, political cultures and comparative methods of mass communication. LÄS MER

  7. 5. In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization

    Författare :Beatrice Persson; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES; contemporary art; Australian art; Aboriginal art; cross-culture; contemporaneity; globalization; postcolonialism; diaspora; cultural semiotics; Emily Kame Kngwarreye; Fiona Foley; Ricky Swallow; John Young;

    Sammanfattning : This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context of Australia and the fact that the contemporary art scene in Australia is divided into Australian and Aboriginal art respectively. This is a division originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, resulting in an Australian art descending from a Western art practice, where there is further focus on two categories within this art. LÄS MER