Sökning: "language of revolution"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden language of revolution.
1. Trees of Knowledge : Science and the Shape of Genealogy
Sammanfattning : This study investigates early employments of family trees in the modern sciences, in order to historicise their iconic status and now established uses, notably in evolutionary biology and linguistics. Moving beyond disciplinary accounts to consider the wider cultural background, it examines how early uses within the sciences transformed family trees as a format of visual representation, as well as the meanings invested in them. LÄS MER
2. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre
Sammanfattning : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. LÄS MER
3. Borders and Belonging : Nation-Building in Georgia's Armenian and Azerbaijani Ethno-Regions, 2004–2012
Sammanfattning : Since the fall of the Soviet Union, scholars researching ethnic politics have approached the South Caucasus as a testing ground for theories of separatism and conflict. But the 2003 Rose Revolution brought a new generation of politicians to power in Georgia. LÄS MER
4. Ages of liberty : social upheaval, history writing, and the new public sphere in Sweden, 1740-1792
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates how different social groups used history as a political instrument in Sweden during the second half of the eighteenth century (1740-1792). More specifically, it analyzes how representations of the past were used to influence behavior, legitimize claims to power, mould opinion and forge collective identities. LÄS MER
5. Traditionens estetik : Spelet mellan inhemsk och internationell hemslöjd
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to show how a handicraft-aesthetics are shaped and reshaped, with a particular focus on the interplay between domestic and international handicraft. This is studied in a number of forums, and the negotiations often revolve around what it is that characterises good craft. LÄS MER