Essays about: "European myths"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words European myths.

  1. 1. Mythical Horizons and Liminality: Discourses of Kosovo’s Sovereignty

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ejner Pedersen Trenter; [2020]
    Keywords : Sovereignty; Discourse; Liminality; Myth; Foreign Policy; Kosovo;

    Abstract : Despite the frequency of use amongst scholars of IR, myth remains largely a term of colloquiality. However, this paper aims to argue that as a distinct temporal and normative structure within discourse, it is a powerful tool for understanding the ways in which narratives give meaning to political phenomena, not just by describing how they are, but how they ought to be. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gravmonument i svenska parkmiljöer : idéer, ideal och formspråk

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Hanna Åberg; [2018]
    Keywords : gravar; tro; gravromantik; heliga lundar; Eden; Arkadien; Millesgården; Jacobsberg; Rosersberg; mortalitet;

    Abstract : Den här uppsatsen syftar till att besvara vilka idéer och ideal som kännetecknar gravmonument i svenska parkmiljö samt hur de har utformats genom historien. En litteraturstudie har utförts baserad på tvärvetenskaplig västerländsk litteratur med avsikt att förstå de influenser som format svenska gravmonument i parkmiljö. READ MORE

  4. 3. Rajyasri : Royal Splendour in the Vedas and the Epics

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Religionshistoria

    Author : Kristoffer af Edholm; [2014]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the late-Vedic goddess Śrī and her non-personified precedent śrī ‘splendour, glory, excellence, fortune’. Śrī has not before been studied in the light of the Avestan royal splendour, xᵛarənah, and is often interpreted one-sidedly as a pre-Aryan goddess of prosperity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Opus Alchemicum : Of myths and affects

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Beatrice Orlandi; [2014]
    Keywords : Alchemy; prussian blue; Myths; affect; Romania; gold; metamorphosis; tower; fountain; garden; horses; honey; music and space; performance; gipsy; nomadic; diaspora; traditions; ritual; ritual objects; girl and built envinronment;

    Abstract : Opus Alchemicum explores the fabrication of “reality” upon imagination, and the affective relation between ideas and matter in the built environment. Like an alchemic experiment, through the manipulation of real facts and their transformation into myth, stories, rituals and objects, the project tries to demonstrate how myths are not just produced but also produce “real” by creating a collective understanding and a pattern of relations, roles and ideas. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Foucauldian–Fairclaughian Discursive Analysis of the Social Construction of ICT for Environmentally Sustainable Urban Development – the Case of European Society

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2013]
    Keywords : ICT; sustainable urban development; environmental urban sustainability; energy efficiency technology; GHG emissions reductions; ICT4SUD; discourse; episteme; discursive construction; European society; information society; ICT industry; buildings; rebound effects; Foucauldian;

    Abstract : ICT has become so deeply embedded into the fabric of European society – in economic, political, and socio-cultural narratives, practices, and structures – that it has been constructed as holding tremendous untapped and inestimable potential for instigating and unleashing far-reaching societal transformation, addressing key societal challenges, and solving all societal problems. It has recently been seen, given its ubiquity, as a critical driver and powerful catalyst for sustainable urban development due to its potential to enable substantial energy savings and GHG emissions reductions in most urban sectors, especially buildings. READ MORE