Essays about: "temporary agency"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words temporary agency.

1. 11. Making Material Matter : Outlining a Contemporary Curatorial Method

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Sander Hintzen; [2019]
   Keywords : curating; curatorial methodology; modernity; materiality; agency; material; revisionist history;

   Abstract : The thesis explores a multidisciplinary approach, bridging together perspectives from art-historical, philosophical and anthropological fields of knowledge to question and outline the way materiality has been thought about, and how this in turn can be informative to developing a curatorial methodology. By looking at Moderna Museet Stockholm, the thesis will demonstrate the mileage of thinking materially in the act of exhibition making and the curatorial position. READ MORE

3. 12. Museum as Activist: (Re)inventing Institutional Paradigm at the Museum of Movements in Malmö

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Olga Zabalueva; [2018]
   Keywords : migration museums; participation; activism; museum definition; democracy; Museum of Movements; museology; civil society; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Vad händer bakom museimontrar och magasindörrar? Vem bestämmer vilket kulturarv som ska bevaras och vilken del av det ska utställas? Vem driver det osynliga maskineriet av museernas backstage-funktioner och genomför dagliga museirutiner? Museer som modernitetsinstitutioner har en särskild roll i processen för kunskapsproduktion och maktfördelning inom samhällen, först och främst genom att synliggöra vissa grupper och historier. Sedan 1900-talet uppmärkte man efterfrågan på strukturella förändringar i museer och på 2000-talet står det klart att museer behöver agera och framhålla sitt sociala ansvar. READ MORE

4. 13. Comparison of forest fire suppression in Quebec and Sweden : a historical review, 1998-2015

   University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

   Author : Maryjane Heckel; [2018]
   Keywords : boreal wildfire suppression; firefighting resource; deployment; effectiveness; aircraft; personnel; area burned; cost; efficiency; response time; remoteness; Sweden; Quebec;

   Abstract : This study compared two suppression systems in Quebec and Sweden: a centralized wildfire agency working with remote fires in Quebec, and a decentralized fire suppression system in Sweden, with each municipality responsible for extinguishing fires in their community. Their management approaches reflect differences in population density and land area. READ MORE

5. 14. "It's to Protect the Country!": The Everyday Performance of Border Security in Sweden

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

   Author : Mette Skaarup; [2018]
   Keywords : Sweden; Borders; Security; Biopolitics; Foucault; Border control; Border security;

   Abstract : In response to the humanitarian crisis of 2015, Sweden introduced ‘temporary’ bordercontrols. The increasingly permanent controls warrant critical assessment and raise urgentquestions: How is border security exercised in practice? What is the relationship betweenintent and practices on the ground? Which logics drive the border control? This studyexplores these questions through in-depth interviews with border guards andethnographic field observations conducted at Hyllie station. READ MORE

6. 15. The financial crisis 2008-2009 and economic gender equality in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Ellen Böckman; [2017]
   Keywords : Sweden; gender equality; the financial crisis; taste discrimination; the division of labour; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The purpose of my thesis is to examine if the financial crisis 2008-2009 effects economic gender equality in Sweden during (2008-2009) and after (2010-2015) the crisis and if so, how. The purpose is also to analyse if the outcomes are consistent with Gary S. READ MORE