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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“You have to be healthy to cope with being sick” A qualitative interview study on the power relation between the Swedish healthcare system and endometriosis patients
(2025-01-14)Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease where cells similar to the uterine lining develop outside the uterus. It is estimated that every tenth person with a uterus has endometriosis. However, it is an unprioritised, ... -
NÖDVÄNDIGT, OMÖJLIGT OCH MENINGSFULLT. Om att arbeta med kulturtidskrifter
(2024-12-04)This master thesis deals with the working conditions and work motivators for editors of cultural journals in Sweden. Through the qualitative method of semi-structured interviews with editors of cultural journals this thesis ... -
Queer lives - Chronic futures. Negotiating neoliberalism, solidarities and futures among queer people with chronic illness in the context of Sweden
(2024-11-14)The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how queer people with chronic illness negotiate and respond to systems of ableism, neoliberalism and heteronormativity in the context of Sweden. The research material consists ... -
Konstförstörelse/Förstörelsekonster: En undersökning av konstruktiv ikonoklasm som konstnärlig process
(2024-10-28)Building on the concept of constructive iconoclasm as a creational force of iconicity, this thesis examines how the contemporary iconoclastic discourse is related to artistic process. Studies have shown that the performative ... -
DIGITALA RUM OCH RUMSLIGA DIGITALISERINGAR - hur hemmet tar plats på Instagram
(2024-10-21)In a world obsessed with the visual our homes have gone viral. Through the frame of Instagram family members seems switched to furnitures and the so-called smartphone surely opened the door to new, digital places. Social ... -
SPIRITUALITET OCH INTUITIVA VIBES Tjejers strävan efter respektabilitet i ett digitalt rum
(2024-10-07)On social media, girls create digital spaces where a distinctive spiritual culture emerges. This spiritual culture is therapeutic in nature, consisting of therapeutic compositions and happiness-generating templates that ... -
MED PUBLIKEN I CENTRUM. En studie om publikutveckling, representation, makt och demokrati på Kulturkvarteret i Örebro
(2024-09-18)Since the decision to build a cultural center, the relatively newly started Kulturkvarteret in Örebro has had to endure both criticism and praise. While Kulturkvarteret is establishing itself as one of the city's central ... -
Det har inte kommit till vår kommun ännu - En analys av svensk kulturpolitik
(2024-09-11)This thesis investigates recent changes in Swedish cultural policy, focusing on the perspectives of municipal civil servants. The study identifies two primary areas of concern: economic instability and political instability. ... -
In the Eyes of Media: Discourses on the Idea of Children in News Reporting on Youth Prisons in Sweden
(2024-07-18)This thesis aims to dissect how the idea of children is discursively constructed in the news reporting on youth prisons in Sweden, and to demonstrate how seemingly objective discourses on children are constructed and ... -
Mode, Media, Makt och Materialitet. En studie i AI och bilder av mode genererade i Stable Diffusion och Midjourney
(2024-06-28)The world today is experiencing an AI summer, urging us to engage with its technologies on a daily basis. Recently, researchers have begun to voice concerns about the potential risks if we do not address the inherent biases ...