Sökning: "imagined community"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden imagined community.

  1. 1. Det föreställda folkbiblioteket : En diskursanalytisk studie av biblioteksdebatter i svenska medier 1970-2006

    Författare :Åse Hedemark; Eva Hemmungs Wirtén; Kerstin Rydbeck; Jenny Johannisson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Public library; mass media; discourse analysis; librarians; public debate; Libraryand information science; gender; authors; public library development; Book and library history; Bok- och bibliotekshistoria; History and philosophy subjects; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen; biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap; biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze debates and discourses about the public library in Swedish media from the 1970s up to and including 2006. The empirical material is derived from TV, radio and the daily press and by using discourse theory and methodology a number of debates are problematized. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The imagined environmental citizen : exploring the state - individual relationship in Swedish environmental policy

    Författare :Simon Matti; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; Statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : As environmental problems today are understood as being problems of collective action, they also depend on the broad engagement of individual citizens for their successful solution. Institutions directed towards resolving the environmental situation need, accordingly, to be perceived by the citizenry as promoting acceptable goals, for acceptable reasons and by the use of acceptable means. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Crocodile's Tears : East Timor in the Making

    Författare :Gudmund Jannisa; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; East Timor; Asian maritime trade; imagined community; Indonesia; nationalism; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : On 7 December 1975 Indonesian troops invaded the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, which had unilaterally declared itself independent on 28 November the same year. The immediate background to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor was that the old regime in Portugal was overthrown in April 1974, resulting in a decolonisation programme for Portugal's colonies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. From Young Migrants to "Good Swedes" : Belonging and the Manifestations of Borders and Boundaries in NGO Social Work

    Författare :Maria Moberg Stephenson; Åsa Källström; Jürgen Degner; Marcus Herz; Bridget Anderson; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Unaccompanied Young People; NGO Social Work; Belonging; Borders; Boundaries; Community; Citizenship; Mentoring; Kinship Care;

    Sammanfattning : Belonging is a contested concept, and for young people arriving unaccompanied by parents to seek asylum in Sweden, belonging is conditional. The aim of this thesis is thus to analyse belonging in the context of an NGO mentoring programme for young people defined as unaccompanied in Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Levda rum och beskrivna platser : former för landskapsidentitet

    Författare :Anders Häggström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Local community; region; identity; spatial practices; representation; narrative; imagined communities; museum; cultural heritage; visual culture; public rituals;

    Sammanfattning : In this study a cultural discourse perspective is used to discuss how regional identities are constructed during the 1900s. The investigation examines how local history and culture are used in symbolic forms to articulate the province as an imagined community in varying periods, media, and social contexts. The study deals with two problem areas. LÄS MER