Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis - Böcker

Bio för barnens bästa? Svensk barnfilm som fostran och fritidsnöje under 60 år ser bortom myten om den svenska barnfilmen som "världens bästa". Med hjälp av den moderna barndomsforskningen och Michel Foucaults idéer om makt och kunskap undersöker ...

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This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts fro...

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1908 bodde det i Örebro strax under 30 000 personer, men staden hade tre biografer som visade film med flera föreställningar dagligen. Därtill tillkom en och annan ambulerande förevisare, som kunde stanna en längre period med visningar i någon av ...

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This thesis is a timely contribution to ethnological analysis of sexuality among Iranian women. Considering sexuality as gendered and socioculturally constructed, Fataneh Farahani examines the impact of Iranian Islamic discourses and contemporary ...

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As the subject of extensive research in visual arts and literature, landscape has been explored as a vehicle to assert national or artistic supremacy, and for how it forms and reflects cultural values and identities. Instead, this study examines l...

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This doctoral dissertation examines how the symbolic character of a relocated capital city influences and intersects with local conditions to shape the governance structure and relations in service delivery. The focus is on Abuja, the new capital ...

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Die vorliegende Studie behandelt Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit im lyrischen und didaktischen Werk der Herzogin Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1510-1558). Gezeigt wird, wie in den Schriften dieser Regentin und Reformationsfürstin zeitgenöss...

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Why is co-management underperforming in the Lake Victoria fisheries? Co-management was adopted in the Lake Victoria fisheries on the understanding that it has the capacity to provide space in which the poor resource users could be empowered to man...

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Svart arbete, informal purchases of work, is a widely debated societal phenomenon in Sweden. It is often seen as detrimental to contemporary welfare society, eroding taxpaying morals, fair competition and solidarity with fellow citizens. Acknowled...

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This thesis is based on three empirical studies of the director interlock network among Swedish firms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, focusing on its consequences for firm behavior and its association with ownership structures. Director in...

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Denna avhandling handlar om utövare av orientalisk dans i Stockholm i början av 2000-talet. Studien fokuserar elever och lärare på kurser, med uppmärksamheten främst riktad mot den majoritet kvinnor som väljer att dansa orientaliskt utan att själv...

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This thesis discusses the phonology of sentence level intonation in Stockholm Swedish. Unlike most other Germanic languages Swedish and Norwegian use pitch to convey both lexical and sentence level information. As is well known from previous resea...

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What happens to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences when the availability of cheaper alcohol increases? The availability increased as Sweden gradually adapted its traveller's allowances to the European Union standard. This made it...

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Este volumen recoge una serie de artículos en homenaje a la Dra. Diana Bravo, profesora de la Universidad de Estocolmo y directora del Programa Internacional EDICE (Estudios sobre el Discurso de la Cortesía en Español), con motivo de su sexagésimo...

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The materials examined here consist of 121 Russian letters dating from 1700-1715. The present study aims to define a stage in linguistic evolution and analyze the morphological heterogeneity in the textual corpus. The letters are divided into thre...

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The lesbian subculture in Moscow is a unique heterogeneous space of social interaction and cultural production that incorporates cultural flows and traditions that are a part of Russian mainstream culture, other Russian subcultures, and global cul...

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