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Kampen om Kommersen – kritik, motstånd och drömmar i den nyliberala staden
(2024-11-18)The aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which neoliberal hegemony is produced and the processes by which it is maintained, negotiated and challenged. I critically examine the decisions, reports and interventions ... -
Människorna, musiken och de mekaniska instrumenten i Norge cirka 1480-1890
(2024-01-30)An international history of mechanical musical instruments is well documented from a technological perspective (innovation, patents etc.), for instance musical clocks, barrel organs, musical box and organettes. The purpose ... -
Skivspeldosan som ett nytt musikmedium i Norge cirka 1890
(2024)This article shows how the two-part mechanical instrument culture, here represented by the disc musical box, was established in Norway fairly immediately after its innovation and emerged throughout the country. At first, ... -
Ett tjejligt rum. Tidningen Starlet 1966-1996
(2023-10-16)This dissertation examines the Swedish girls’ magazine Starlet (1966–96), with the primary aim of exploring it as a girls’ product and experience and to understand what practices and spatial constructions are made visible ... -
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 ... -
The 'essentially' feminine - a mapping through artistic practice of the feminine territory offered by Early Modern Music.
(Art Monitor, 2018-12-11)The ‘essentially’ feminine — a mapping through artistic practice of the feminine territory offered by Early Modern Music, is the somewhat complicated title of this book. But the content is not hard to understand a year ... -
Kärleken har 100 onda namn
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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 ...