Sökning: "Far East"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 93 uppsatser innehållade orden Far East.

  1. 1. Exhibiting the East : An Analysis of Representations of Pacific Asia in Three Exhibitions in Stockholm

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Yul Cho; [2023]
    Nyckelord :exhibitions; Sweden; curating; Asia; Asianness; minority; representation; artist as ethnographer; Stuart Hall; Hal Foster; Miwon Kwon;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of representations of Pacific Asia in exhibitions in Stockholm. In the Swedish culture and art sphere, a public discussion surrounding Asia is conspicuously absent even though there are significant amounts of residents in Sweden with an Asian background. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Displays of Deference, Projections of Power : The English East India Company in Japan, 1615–1622

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Författare :Tami Hioki; [2023]
    Nyckelord :English East India Company; Hirado; Japan; Richard Cocks; Tokugawa shogunate; connected histories; cosmopolitanism; power relations; global interactions;

    Sammanfattning : From 1613 to 1623, the English East India Company (EIC) maintained a trading post at Hirado, Japan. This trading post was one of the first that the EIC established, and because England was far from the empire it would one day become, Company members had to adjust to local customs and respect the laws of Japan in order to conduct business there. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den förtingligade utopin : Ostindiskt porslin på Kina slott; materialitet, dekoration och transkulturalism i svensk rokoko

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för musik och bild (MB)

    Författare :Joakim Boman; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Kinesiskt porslin; materiell kultur; Material Culture; Chinese Porcelain; transkulturalism; Rokoko; Kina Slott; agens;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyzes objects of Chinese porcelain found at Kina slott located on Drottningholm just outside Stockholm from a material culture (Material Culture Studies MCS) perspective. The aim is to examine how the materiality of porcelain can generate knowledge within MCS and to shed light on how it influenced the image of the Far East in Sweden during the mid-1700s. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Väntrummet : Bilden av Sverige ur asylsökandes perspektiv

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Åkesdotter Kajsa; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Landbild; Migration; Integration; Migrationsverket; Asylsökande; Henri Lefebvre;

    Sammanfattning : The essay Väntrummet was created with the aim of investigating how young asylum seekers' spatial perception of Sweden as a receiving country is affected by the state of limbo that arises as a result of the Migration Agency's long processing times. The focus of this essay is to illuminate the image of Sweden as a complex geographical space and its change "before" and "after" arrival. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Effects of Clear-Cutting a Hemiboreal Forest on Local CO2 Fluxes in Norunda, Sweden

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Författare :Mads Carlsen; [2023]
    Nyckelord :CO2 flux; Clear-cutting; Coniferous forest; Flux footprint; Sustainable forestry; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : As CO2 builds up in the atmosphere causing global climate change (IPCC, 2022) trees have become an international symbol of combatting this, and for good reason. Trees take up CO2 which as a result combats these changes, and when these trees are cut down fewer individuals remain to take up the CO2 that we humans emit (Chapin et al., 2011). LÄS MER