Essays about: "An Imaginary Life"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words An Imaginary Life.
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1. Rethinking Imaginaries: A Discussion on the Swedish Tradition of Openness, the GDPR, and the Case of Publication Certificates
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : Sweden has an almost three-century-long tradition of openness, whose principles are enshrined in the state’s fundamental laws. When the revolution of the Internet was in full bloom at the turn of the century, with new forms of mass communication innovating the media landscape, Sweden saw the opportunity to strengthen freedom of expression and information, as one of the main pillars of openness. READ MORE
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2. What Kind of Home Makes a ‘Good Life’? A critical exploration of the Swedish kollektivhus to support a degrowth transition
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Under the capitalist growth imperative, mainstream housing is connected to high social and ecological consequences. In light of the need for an alternative approach to housing, my thesis adopts a degrowth perspective to critically explore an alternative housing model: the Swedish kollektivhus (‘collective house’; co-housing). READ MORE
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3. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskapAbstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE
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4. WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAbstract : I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own history to find reasons why I was standing there. READ MORE
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5. Enlightening the Present with the Past – Consumer’s Yearning for a Past Ethos: The Meaning Construction of Vintage Objects
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Past themed market resources through nostalgia marketing are recognised to be charged with a romantic, emotional, imaginary and mythical relationship to the mundane everyday life. Explaining marketers targeting of consumers who have not lived during the time which the objects ordinate from or allude to and their consumption of past themed market resources with nostalgia may seem counterintuitive since they have not lived in the time which the objects ordinate from. READ MORE
