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"Också en demokrati behöver kunna försvara sig själv". En kulturkritisk och rättsfilosofisk studie av hur samhället försöker hantera fascism

Wahlbom, Ebba (2019-08-08)

This thesis aims to explore how different actors in society discusses how society should handle fascist organisations. This includes politicians, journalists, the legal system and activists and antifascists. I began by ...

Olfaktoriska lager - En fenomenologisk undersökning av doftkonst i utställningen Sense Me.

Silverin, Karin (2020-11-19)

Olfactory art is a relatively new field of study in the art historical field and the existing literature is predominantly based on a distanced interpretation of olfactory artworks. In order to explore the gap caused by ...

Om den ofeministiska jämställdheten och den ojämställda feminismen: en diskursteoretisk analys av en feminismskritisk jämställdhetsrörelse verksam på nätet

Lindeborg, Anna (2013-08-28)

This essay analyses text written by a gender equality movement critical of feminism. The movement is active on the Internet and through this essay I would like to show the tensions in contemporary political debates on ...

On agents of power and support: Case studies regarding NGO and State institution discourses on intimate partner violence in the context of LGBT identities

Wilkinson, Thomas (2017-06-27)

The topic of intimate partner violence in contemporary discourse offers theoretical discussions, suggestions for policy reform, and movements for activism across many fields in the current context. However, it appears that ...

Oppressive Silence: A Qualitative Study on Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence in Namibia and Survivors’ Responses

Fuchs, Max Norbert (2024-06-17)

This thesis investigates same-sex intimate partner violence (SSIPV) in Namibia primarily through 12 in-depth interviews with survivors, conducted during three months of field research. In particular, I ex-amine the ...

Öppenhet och rymd i det tidiga 2000-talets villaarkitektur

Brevinge, Åsa (2014-11-25)

The aim of this Master´s thesis in Art History and Visual Studies is to examine the existence and the expressions of openness and interior space in the contemporary Swedish architecture of singlefamily houses. Research ...

Den perfekta kvinnan: En feministisk studie av de posthumanistiskt präglade filmerna Under the Skin, Her och Ghost in the Shell

Saaranen, Linnéa (2017-06-26)

This essay analyses the films Under the Skin, Her and Ghost in the Shell which all focus on the artificial woman, a character that is widely represented in both early films and in films produced today. Through feminist ...

Pilgrimsvandring som verktyg för förändring. Pilgrim’s Walk for Future’s aktualisering av pilgrimsteologin under nyliberala villkor

Andersson, Ida (2024-04-16)

In the essay the author examines how pilgrimage can be used as a tool to radicalise democracy in a late modern society marked by neoliberalism. Applying a dialectic perspective on social movements the essay puts forward ...

PLUGGING IN TO QUEER IN GOTHENBURG. An Emotion and Power-Sensitive In-depth Group Study on Being Queer in Gothenburg

Jaring, Johanna (2019-03-26)

This study aims to extend the existing knowledge of how different queer persons experience being queer in Gothenburg and in extension, attend to emotions and power relations in the process of knowledge production. The study ...

POSTHUMANISTISKA SUBJEKT I VISUELL KULTUR

Sandahl, Ann-Louise (2012-08-29)

The aim of the thesis is to explore how the human subject is depicted in contemporary posthuman cinema and how these films effect our comprehension of human subjectivity. The object of analysis is James Cameron’s Avatar ...

PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg

Farcas, Liliana (2021-10-21)

In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field ...

PREKÄRA PIONJÄRER - En studie om nyetablerade entreprenörers roll i omvandlingen av Gamlestaden

Swahn, Karin (2022-10-12)

In urban research into gentrification there has been a long schism between two perspectives: researchers who choose to look at the economic system that drives the fall and rise of prices in the city, and researchers who ...

Problems of Positioning. A qualitative study of narratives in a debate

Östling, Maja (2019-07-02)

This thesis aims to explore how positions of oneself and others are constructed in a debate, how these positions also construct the debate, and how this could have performative effects on the reader. The particular debate ...

Queer lives - Chronic futures. Negotiating neoliberalism, solidarities and futures among queer people with chronic illness in the context of Sweden

Petersen, Kaja (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 ...

DEN REPARATIVA SLÖJDEN. Ungdomar om motstånd, kulturarv, krishantering, prepping och framtiden

van Viegen, Mary (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 ...

Representation and Stereotyping in Board Games. A Study of How Gender, Race, Sexuality, Ability and Age Are Portrayed in Strategic Board Games

Oliviander, Maria (2019-07-08)

The purpose of this investigation is to see if contemporary strategic board games maintain a stereotypical representation of different societal groups. The main objectives are to see to what extent different social groups ...