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Krig & Konst. En studie av konstens möjliga funktion och kulturarvets betydelse under det pågående kriget i Ukraina.
(2025-10-07)The purpose of this study is to investigate how the Ukrainian artist Kinder Album and war photographers from the exhibition “Russian War Crimes” let their artistic works operate as a mean of cultural resistance against ... -
ATT BILDA I MOTVIND. Vad som står på spel för studieförbunden i Göteborg på grund av nedskärningarna
(2025-09-23)This thesis explores what is at stake for the study associations, popular adult education, and ultimately democracy, due to funding cuts, according to the study associations’ branches in Gothenburg. The thesis investigates ... -
"Var är mina cozy boys?” – En kvalitativ studie om relationen mellan mys, identitet och normer om kvinnlig könsidentitet
(2025-09-23)This essay aims to, through qualitative interviews, explore the relation between the individual, identity creation and the varying rituals and ideas behind “mys” (eng: cozy, coziness). It analyses the relationship between ... -
Närvaro genom frånvaro: kroppens spår i Ishiuchi Miyakos serie ひろしま / hiroshima (2007–)
(2025-09-03)This study examines Ishiuchi Miyako’s series ひろしま/hiroshima (2007–), portraying clothing worn by victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. It explores how images of material traces of trauma evoke a sense of presence of the ... -
DEN REPARATIVA SLÖJDEN. Ungdomar om motstånd, kulturarv, krishantering, prepping och framtiden
(2025-08-18)This master thesis is an attempt to fill in a gap in research that I found when I was investigating craft traditions in Sweden. Sweden is a country that has a rich cultural heritage when it comes to craft and we have ... -
Juxtaposition, Form and Intervals of Meaning : Essayistic Montage in Lucky People Center International (1998)
(2025-07-02)This thesis examines Lucky People Center International (Erik Pauser and Johan Söderberg, 1998) through the lens of the audiovisual essay, focusing particularly on montage, fragmentation and non-verbal thought. Rather than ... -
MELLANFÖRSKAPSSAMER – Om identitet, återtagande och (s)vårt kulturarv
(2025-06-30)This paper examines difficulties that heirs to swedified sami persons experience when learning about how colonialism forced a lot of people to hide or dim their sami identity. The purpose is to examine what genealogy can ... -
Thinking images: Filmic thought and the viewer’s perception in the films of Apicahtpong Weerasethakul
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores the concept of the ‘filmind’, film as a thinking entity, through Daniel Frampton’s book Filmosophy and the film phenomenological work of Vivian Sobchack. Highlighting the embodied viewer in the film ... -
Navigating between gendering and being gendered A qualitative study of non-binary gender unintelligibility and intersectional power relations around gendered embodiment in the Japanese context
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores the lived experiences of ten non-binary individuals in Japan, focusing on how they navigate the interplay between gendering themselves and being gendered by others within a cisnormative society. ... -
Not A Love Message: Gender and Intimacy as Spatial Practices in Online Tarot Reading
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores how space functions as a central organizing logic in online Tarot readings on China’s video-sharing platform Bilibili, shaping experiences of gender, intimacy, and collective meaning-making. Using a ... -
Invisible Wounds and Benevolent Harm The Cultural Blind Spot Rearticulating Obstetric Violence as Gendered Structural Violence
(2025-06-27)This thesis critically investigates the invisibility of obstetric violence, focusing on how coercive and harmful practices during childbirth are normalized, dismissed, or justified within institutional and cultural frameworks. ... -
Marginaler i rörelse: Materialitet och agens i skärningspunkten mellan transnationell feminism, globalisering och kulturell hybriditet
(2025-06-27)This thesis explores how three contemporary Mexican women artists, Teresa Margolles, Julieta Aranda, and Minerva Cuevas navigate and critically engage with the global art world through a postcolonial and transnational ... -
Skärselden i bilder, Makten över själarna
(2025-06-26)This essay examines how art could be used to bring forth and clarify the Catholic doctrines of purgatory. The research questions are: • How are the Catholic Church’s doctrines of purgatory illustrated in art? • How ... -
...nästan som en i familjen
(2025-05-14)In the essay, an iconologic analysis is made on the videowork ...nästan som en i familjen by Astrid Göransson, with support from Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf's theories on experience and insight, Karl Hansson 's theories ... -
“Gud va duktig du är”. En intervjustudie om kvinnors erfarenheter av jämställdhet i heterosexuella relationer
(2025-04-17)The essay examines women's experiences of gender equality and how it is defined and done in heterosexual relationships, putting equality in a private, intimate and personal context. The essay was done through semi-structured ... -
Den skenbara stillheten. En analys av fotografiets roll i Godland
(2025-02-04)This essay investigates the role of photography in the film Godland (Volaða Land, Hlynur Palmason, 2022) through the notion of stillness, movement and colonial gaze. A claim is made that throughout the film, stillness is ... -
The Honest and the Bent: an investigation of Representation and White Hegemony in Mercurio’s TV series Line of Duty
(2025-02-03)This essay analyses how whiteness is portrayed and its hegemony reinforced through the practice of representation in Jed Mercurio’s highly acclaimed TV-series Line of Duty. It analyses scenes from the first season using ... -
Trädgården, atmosfärer och den mänskliga närvaron - En mångsinnlig platsanalys av Azaleadalen i Slottsskogen
(2025-02-03)This study focuses on Azaleadalen, a part of the public park Slottsskogen in Gothenburg. It examines how the garden is perceived through a multisensory perspective and how the atmosphere of a garden is created, interpreted ...
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