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Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism
(2022-10-13)This Doctoral thesis is an examination of a group of Swedish and Finnish artists and their role as important and active participants in a transnational Symbolist movement. It deals with the depiction of the spiritually ... -
Invoking the modal nymph: The emergence and dissemination of the concept of modality in Swedish folk music
(2022-09-02)Since the emergence of a concept of folk music, the study and practice of certain Western European musical traditions has been informed by notions of the music’s modality. Specifically, the idea that older or more indigenous ... -
Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film
(2021-11-19)This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster ... -
Film i stadens tjänst: Göteborg 1938-2015
(2021-03-26)The aim of this dissertation is to map and analyze the production of municipal city films in Gothenburg between 1938 and 2015 in relation to economic and political changes of the city. Covering a total of fourteen larger ... -
Längtans och drömmarnas hus - Ideal och praktik bland en ny generation stugägare
(2020-11-11)This dissertation examines second home ownership among a new generation of urban middle-class Swedes between the years 2015-2020. The main aim is to analyse motivation for buying one´s own second home, with the further ... -
Ålderdom, omsorg och makt. Gamlas situation och omsorgsrelationer i nyliberala tider
(2020-05-22)This dissertation examines the status of old age and the nature of elderly care in Sweden, where the welfare state is being transformed through neoliberalism. The overall aim is to study old age as identity and lived ... -
Mellan jaget och världen. Feminism och etik under nyliberala villkor
(2019-10-22)The overall purpose of this study is to investigate how the tension between feminism as an ethical and political project is brought into light under neoliberal conditions. More specifically, the aim is to, through 21 ... -
Audiovisual Constructions: Material Interrelations in Live Rock Performances
(2019-05-24)This dissertation examines and analyzes the material interrelations in audiovisual constructions of live rock performances. It explores the interrelations that take place among four key modes of a live rock performance’s ... -
Etnologiska kompositioner. Orienteringar i yrkeslivet
(2018-10-19)Using the discipline of European Ethnology in Sweden as a point of departure, this dissertation aims to examine graduated students’ experiences of entering the labor market. The main line of inquiry is how an educational ... -
Första klass mot framtiden. En musiksociologisk studie av Blå Tåget
(2018-04-03)This doctoral thesis will examine and highlight the factors, driving forces and conditions that led to the band Blå Tåget being formed in the late 1960’s, and the role they played in forming the Swedish progressive music ... -
”Fullständigt otillförlitlig, men absolut oumbärlig”. En historiografisk undersökning av projektet Svensk Stad
(2018-03-19)This dissertation is a historiographical study of the research project Svensk stad (Swedish Town). The project, lead by the professor in Art History Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977), included about 20 members and was conducted ... -
Birgittaskolorna. Modeateljéer och sömnadsskolor mellan tradition och förnyelse
(2016-10-20)The purpose of the study is to examine, compare and analyse the Birgitta Schools. These were two fashion studios and dressmaking schools in Stockholm directed by Emy Fick (1876-1959) and Elisabeth Glantzberg (1873-1951). ... -
Den ofrivilliga lyssnaren - möten med butiksmusik
(2016-08-26)The aim of this dissertation is to explore potential customer’s encounters with the phenomena of in-store music. The area chosen for the study is the core shopping district of Gothenburg, Sweden, known as Inom Vallgraven ... -
Temporalitet i visuell kultur. Om samtidens heterokrona estetiker
(2016-08-15)In contemporary society temporalities in different scales coexist, cooperate and collide. Clock time serves as a main reference for time, although a lot of processes have nothing to do with clock time and can’t be measured ... -
Berättelser om Breivik. Affektiva läsningar om våld och terrorism.
(2016-02-16)In this thesis, I take a closer look at three books that have received a lot of attention, as well as a handful of popular science and newspaper articles, about Anders Behring Breivik and the terrorist attack in Norway on ... -
I skuggan av en borg. Vardag och fest på Krapperups gods 1881-1995
(2014-05-27)ABSTRACT Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014 Title: I skuggan av en borg. Vardag och fest på Krapperups gods 1881–1995 English title: In the shadow of a castle. Everyday life and parties at the ... -
"We present Europe through our cultures”. Doing Europe in (international) cultural relations
(2014-05-04)The aim of this dissertation is to examine how Europe is done in practice within the area of (international) cultural relations. Since EUNIC (the European Union National Institutes for Culture) is, to date, the only actor ... -
Komposition. Trädgården – som förgrenar sig
(2013-10-18)With the compositional practise as the point of departure the text discusses different topics around musical composition and its artistic, philosophical and scientific context. Some initial explorations were carried out ...
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