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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 ... -
Representation and Stereotyping in Board Games. A Study of How Gender, Race, Sexuality, Ability and Age Are Portrayed in Strategic Board Games
(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 ... -
En riktig professor: Om forskarideal och dess påverkan på några individers relation till forskaryrket
(2012-02-09)Although women have had access to colleges and universities in Sweden for quite some time and the share of women at the undergraduate level has been high for many years (40% by the late 1950:s, nowadays women are a ... -
SAVE KORTEDALA LIBRARY Gendering Practices in Urban Activism
(2020-01-07)The aim of the study was to discuss conditions for urban activism, through looking at the interest group Save Kortedala Library and its gendering practices. The aim was furthermore to examine the role Kortedala Library ... -
SAVE KORTEDALA LIBRARY Gendering Practices in Urban Activism
(2019-10-23)The aim of the study was to discuss conditions for urban activism, through looking at the interest group Save Kortedala Library and its gendering practices. The aim was furthermore to examine the role Kortedala Library ... -
Sátántangó och Passion: varaktighet i realistisk och allegorisk gestaltning
(2015-09-22)This essay proposes and examines a coalition between the Deleuzian notion of time-images and two different cinematographic traits: realism and symbolic or allegoric content. The material in question are the films by directors ... -
Sägen som modell till handling. Mannen, graven och sägnen: En studie om Falks grav
(2017-06-27)In the woods of Hökensås, in the province of Västergötland, lies a grave. The grave belongs to Jonas Falk who was executed in the year 1855 for robbery and manslaughter. Falk was buried in unbridled soil but some time after ... -
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 ... -
Spår av jämställdhet
(2014-09-11)Målet för svensk jämställdhetspolitik är att män och kvinnor ska ha samma makt att forma samhället och sina egna liv. För att kunna arbeta mot jämställdhetsmålet krävs organisering; att individer sluter sig samman för ... -
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 ... -
SVENSKHET I FÖRÄNDRING - en kulturvetenskaplig analys av debatten om gettopaketet i svensk press
(2019-10-10)This thesis examines how swedish national identity is constructed in the media debate in Swedish press regarding a danish economical and political plan called ”ghettopakke” that was adopted in Denmark in 2018. In addition ... -
T HE GENDER EQUALITY CHARADE A Critical Perspective on the Adoption and Implementation of 40/60 Gender Quota in Malawi
(2022-11-02)While gender quotas have been widely adopted by countries around the world as an affirmative action to enhance women’s participation and representation in politics and other public spheres, the impact of the phenomenon ... -
The Devil is in the details: A feminist inquiry into diversity initiatives within the Swedish Private Sector
(2016-10-10)Diversity and gender equality are key buzzwords within the private sector in Sweden. The aim of my thesis was to interrogate how diversity is understood within the private sector in Sweden and identify key motivations for ... -
The Fields of Trans* Necropolitics: Trans Women‟s Narratives On the Vulnerabilities of Trans Death, Bereavement, Posthumous Challenges and Activism in Turkey
(2017-11-09)This study aims to bring forward the phenomenon of trans death, underscoring the challenges that trans women in İstanbul experience, endure and confront during the posthumous scenes of autopsy, funeral and burial. Departing ... -
The Intersectional Intention: (Re)producing Inequalities When Trying to Attain Gender Equality in Sweden
(2017-06-27)This thesis investigated the understanding of intersectionality that is being (re)produced in a Swedish governmental investigation report on gender equality (SOU 2015:86). The aim of this study was to critically examine ... -
The Poor Talent, the Unusually Knowing Housewife and the New You
(2015-09-08)The starting point of this thesis is the working class’ fight for knowledge, education and bildning during the 20th century in Sweden. With the general question “who has the right to knowledge?” I go over text- and image ... -
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 ... -
This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality
(2019-10-10)Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality ... -
To a Gender Equal Policy Plan and Beyond - Breaking the binary in gender policy making
(2022-10-28)The main aim of this pilot research is to write a set of recommendations aimed at guiding international organisations in making gender equality policy plans following a gender non-binary perspective. The definitions of ... -
TO PERFORM, OR NOT TO PERFORM? A queer reading of feminist theatre performances in Istanbul
(2020-11-30)Feminist theatre, I opine, is a tremendously valuable tool that could help individuals to gaze politically at their own lives. This thesis is compiled by an exploratory research into the theatrical stage of Istanbul ...