Sökning: "political world city"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 39 avhandlingar innehållade orden political world city.
11. Göra gatan. Om gränser och kryphål på Möllevången och i Kapstaden
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is an ethnographic study focusing on two cities, Malmö in Sweden and Cape Town in South Africa. More specifically it focuses on three areas; the neighbourhoods Möllevången and Woodstock close to the respective city centres, and the street Long Street in the very heart of Cape Town central business district. LÄS MER
12. Navigating Troubled Waters : An analysis of how urban water regimes in the global South reproduce inequality
Sammanfattning : This research is an attempt to conceptualize the underlying forces behind persistent and ubiquitous problems of inequality in access to water in cities of the global south. Inequality in water access is hypothesized to result from urban water regimes that tend to prioritize the right to water access or to provide preferential terms of access for some groups in society, while marginalizing others. LÄS MER
13. Arkitekt i mellankrigstidens Europa - Fred Forbat och funktionalismen
Sammanfattning : This is the first comprehensive monograph on the subject of the architect Fred Forbat. He was a pioneer of functionalism who worked in four different countries. LÄS MER
14. The Shadows of the Past : A Study of Life-World and Identity of Serbian Youth after the Milošević Regime
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the consequences of the Milošević regime and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s for young people in Serbia. It deals with the conditions under which recent history makes itself relevant in the lives of two high-school classes of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds. LÄS MER
15. In-Between: Contemporary Art in Australia. Cross-culture, Contemporaneity, Globalization
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
