Essays about: "diachronic case study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words diachronic case study.

  1. 1. The Many Layers of Sergei Parajanov : A Life’s Work Reprised

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Anna Strohmeyer; [2022]
    Keywords : Parajanov; dissident; censorship; sexual identity; poetic cinema; Soviet; post-Soviet; individual freedom; artistic freedom; prison art; queer studies; diachronic case study; political prisoner; historical revisionism; erasure;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis examines the various biographical threads, which created the complex fabric of Sergei Parajanov’s life and work, especially his films. His origins, education, marriages, family life, and friendships forged in film school and in the various studios, where he worked, are used to frame his cinematic productions. READ MORE

  3. 2. "No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police" : A diachronic comparative study and analysis of the power relations revealed in French media discourses

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julie Alves Canteiro; [2021]
    Keywords : Police violence; power relations; racial profiling; media and communication; France;

    Abstract : On May 26th, 2020, the world was shocked after learning that George Floyd had died at the hands of the police while being wrongfully arrested. Protests took place worldwide, demanding justice for Floyd as well as the end of the systematic racism present institutionally in police forces. READ MORE

  4. 3. Concept, Space, Home: A Conceptual History of Social Space, Functionalist Homes, and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Niklas Rönnerfalk; [2017]
    Keywords : Concepts; Home; Space; Conceptual History; Spatial Turn; Koselleck; Lefebvre; Semantics; Dialectics; Phenomenology; Public Private-Relations; Modernity; Modernization; Modern; the Social; Functionalism; Architecture; Stockholm Exhibition of 1930; Sattelzeit; Onomaseology; Socio-Spatiality; Social Space; the People´s Home; Acceptera; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : The field of Conceptual History is often criticized for considering only a small slice of the historical vocabulary it intends to historicize. What about the discourse of the silenced, working at home, robbed of a pen? Concepts are indicative of many contexts of meaning: in this thesis, therefore, propelled by the foregoing question and statement, it is argued that the main protagonist of German, conceptual history, i. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. A diachronic study of the semantics of the adjectives mean and gay

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Ingela Wennemark; [2011]
    Keywords : semantics; corpus; change; adjective;

    Abstract : This essay explores the semantic change of the adjectives mean and gay from the 1920s to the2000s. This was done by going through concordance lines which was collected from the Time Corpus. The aim of the paper is to investigate if there has been any change of meaning of the two words, and if that is the case how have they changed. READ MORE