Essays about: "modernity"

Showing result 41 - 45 of 194 essays containing the word modernity.

  1. 41. Evil Monsters and Machines : A Techno-Orientalist Perspective on Threat Perception in the United Kingdom

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Lisa Bergsten; [2021]
    Keywords : techno-orientalism; orientalism; security; threat perception; United Kingdom; China; discourse analysis; poststructuralism;

    Abstract : This thesis looks at the construction of China as a security threat in the United Kingdom, through the theoretical lens of techno-Orientalism. The main argument is that techno-Orientalist ideas influence the Western perception of China as a security threat, which leads to the creation of certain fears regarding China which affects the identity creation of both the United Kingdom and China. READ MORE

  3. 42. Design And Race: "African Design" In The Shadow Of Modernity

    University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

    Author : Kibandu Pello-Esso; [2021]
    Keywords : race; spatial design; diaspora; decoloniality; planetarian habitability; modernity; reparation;

    Abstract : To explore the question of how race and design are related, I have developed a set of analysis strategies, involving props that are investigating objecthood and subjectivity. I use prototyping techniques and sketching in full scale. READ MORE

  4. 43. High Demands and Even Higher Ambitions : An Analysis of Swedish Development Policy

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

    Author : Måns Frenning; [2021]
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    Abstract : This study is a poststructural policy analysis of the Swedish governmental writing called Politics for Global Development in the Implementation of Agenda 2030. The writing is the most recent Swedish development policy and is built upon agenda 2030. The method that is used in this thesis is described by Carol Bacchi and called WPR. READ MORE

  5. 44. The Effects of Globalisation, Modernization and Politics on the Apprenticeship of Dāphā Music : An Ethnographic Study from Tahnani, Kirtipur, Nepal

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Rabindra Maharjan; [2021]
    Keywords : Music in Nepal; Dāphā Music; Musical Apprenticeship; Ethnomusicology; Music and Globalisation;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the changing apprenticeship environment within the Dāphā Khalaḥ from Kirtipur Newar communities. The Dāphā music tradition comes from Nepal and is one of the oldest music traditions in South Asia.  This tradition has been practiced for centuries by the Newars, the indigenous people of Kathmandu. READ MORE

  6. 45. The Swedish Dream – appropriation of nature at the timber frontier in ‘Swedish America’, Norrland, 1850-1900

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Anton Blanck; [2021]
    Keywords : Keywords: socio-ecological transformations; modernity; human-nature relations; Sweden; environmental history; capitalist transitions; steam-power; historical natures; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a historiographical account of the multiple socio-ecological transformations that occurred in Västernorrland, Sweden, during the second half of the 19th century. By engaging with ecological Marxist thinking, such as the world-ecology framework proposed by Jason W. READ MORE