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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 345 avhandlingar innehållade ordet modernity.
16. A Temple of Technology : Modernity and Industral Heritage at the Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923
Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the Jubilee Exhibitionin Gothenburg in 1923with more than four millionvisitors the biggest exhibition ever held in the Nordiccountries. In its wide-ranging displays of both historical andcontemporary material, technology and technological artifactsoccupied a central position. LÄS MER
17. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER
18. Global rörelse : Den globala rättviserörelsen och modernitetens omvandlingar
Sammanfattning : A basic premise of this dissertation is that social movements are political and social actors expressing the centrality of autonomy in modernity. To grasp the nature of the relation between politics and social movements, the latter has to be related to the profound transformation in the forms of politics implied by the breakthrough of modernity, and the subsequent transformations within modernity. LÄS MER
19. Tradition and Modernity in the Domestic Urban Kitchen Design in Uganda : A case of Kampala
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the design of modern domestic urban kitchens in Uganda. The research took place in Kampala, which is the capital city of Uganda. The cultural make up of Kampala residents is diverse; people come from all over the country of Uganda, as well as beyond. LÄS MER
20. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual elite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. LÄS MER