Essays about: "cultural collective individual memory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words cultural collective individual memory.

1. 1. Resistance is Utile : a study of civil society organizing for public service regarding the Occupation of Sollefteå Hospital

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Mimmi Andersson Johansen; [2020]
   Keywords : resistance; occupation; discourse; biopower; identification; cultural heritage;

   Abstract : The declining access to public service is a concern for most rural areas in Sweden. This study aims to understand how civil society organize in order to maintain public service with the example of the occupation of Sollefteå Hospital. The protest opposes the closure of acute health care wards, most notably the maternity ward. READ MORE

3. 2. Artificially Authentic and Authentically Artificial : Experiencing the body of the past through the affect of the transmedial narrative of the Outlander-story world

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

   Author : Moa Hågbäck; [2019]
   Keywords : Material; physical; historic space; transmedia; cultural heritage tourism; affect; prosthetic; Scotland; cultural collective individual memory; memory culture; fan-experience;

   Abstract : Målet och syftet med denna studie är att observera, tolka, och vidareutveckla förståelsen för den samtida turistens interagerande med, och omförhandlande av, det historiska rummet genom individualistisk påverkan från fiktiva narrativ – i detta fallet, Outlanders transmediala berättelsevärld. Genom ett teoretiskt ramverk uppbyggt på materialism, påverkan, tidsresande och proteser har jag analyserat och kartlagt både kulturarvsplatserna samt Outlander-fansens interaktion med dessa genom att ha deltagit själv i två guidade endagarsturer, samt genom en djupgående, om än liten, enkät. READ MORE

4. 3. Canonising Culture: Collective Identity Construction in the Denmark Canon

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Stine Ebbesen; [2018]
   Keywords : Denmark Canon; collective identity; cultural heritage; canonisation; identity narrative; Danish identity; nationalism; European Studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Inspired by what appears to be a nationalist turn in cultural policy-making across Europe, this thesis is concerned with the recent upsurge in the canonisation of Danish culture as it seems to somewhat contradict the cultural policy priorities pursued by the supranational and intergovernmental bodies of which Denmark is a member. The purpose of the research is to investigate how collective identity is constructed in the Denmark Canon. READ MORE

5. 4. The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in two novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

   Author : Dora Cassano; [2018]
   Keywords : Cultural Memory; Adichie; Okparanta; Biafra; Afropolitanism;

   Abstract : Recently new novels about the Biafra war have appeared, proving the ongoing impact of the Nigerian civil war on writers’ interest, and the importance of memory in our life. For all these reasons, I decided to write the present thesis on how memory function in a literary work. READ MORE

6. 5. Commons Across Slovak Countryside

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Terezia Stevuliakova; [2017]
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   Abstract : Culture houses in Slovak villages, remnats of the former Soviet Union and other countries of Eastern Bloc, provides spaces for events and meetings that bring people together. 2 The project aims to explore how culture and spaces for it can ground other developing projects in a particular physical, social and historical context and enable users to become active in the present transformation of place and to mediate more diverse life in rural areas. READ MORE