Sökning: "subject-object relationship"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden subject-object relationship.
1. Hur blir djur mat? : En kritisk studie av den etiska djurproduktionen i svenska ekologiska organisationer
Sammanfattning : Modern Western society is characterized by an increased consumption of animals, which has led to consequences in the form of an intensified exploitation of animals and the environment. The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the processes by which certain animals are made into food, and how power structures between humans and animals are maintained or challenged in Swedish organic organizations. LÄS MER
2. The puzzle of social activity : the significance of tools in cognition and cooperation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the role of tools in social interactions, or more precisely the significance of tools in cognition and cooperation, from a situated cognition perspective. While mainstream cognitive science focuses on the internal symbolic representations and computational thought processes inside the heads of individuals, situated cognition approaches instead emphasise the central role of the interaction between agents and their material and social environment. LÄS MER
3. Surprise between media, minds and world : A Peircean process semiotic approach
Sammanfattning : The central idea of this thesis is that the relationship between cognition,media and environments is regulated by surprise. The relationship between cognition, media and environments is a foundational problem for studies of cognition, culture and/or communication. LÄS MER
4. An animal without an animal within : investigating the identities of pet keeping
Sammanfattning : If the human is an animal without an animal within—a creature that has transcended the animal condition—what is a pet? This creature balancing on the border between nature and culture, simultaneously included in and excluded from a human “we”, is the focus of this thesis. The thesis analyzes the discourses and normative frameworks structuring the meaning of pets in people’s lives. LÄS MER
5. Arkitekturens territorialitet : till en diskussion om territoriell makt och gestaltning i stadens offentliga rum
Sammanfattning : The point of departure of this dissertation is a consideration of the problems in the field of architecture, of conceptualizing and addressing aspects of the complex relationship between architectural form and use. The aim of the thesis is to create conditions for a discussion on architectural design and territorial power relations within the context of everyday life, and more specifically to investigate what role architectural design plays in these territorial power relations. LÄS MER
