Sökning: "city novel"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 76 uppsatser innehållade orden city novel.

  1. 16. Citizens resisting Smart Cities’ initiatives : The case of Concepción (Chile) and the R+D PACYT project.

    Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Författare :Natalia Belén Sandoval Quezada; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Smart cities; urban social conflict; right to the city; flagship projects; corporate storytelling; placebo interventions.;

    Sammanfattning : Parque Científico y Tecnológico (PACYT, Science and Technology Park) is a large-scale R+D project that seems to be framed in a Smart City plan for Concepción, Chile, which the media has presented as “the Chilean Silicon Valley” (Araus, 2015; Tele13, 2019) and promises to bring not only research and development opportunities for the city but also thousands of direct and indirect jobs (Estudio Interdiseño, 2018; la Tercera, 2015) carried out by PACYT Corporation. Nonetheless, voices have raised to question the construction of the 91 hectares initiative, and some of them have even organized in citizen groups targeting the creation of the urban complex, which actively share information contesting the PACYT through social media, and coordinate activities to protest and spread the word. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Från Hasse och Tage till Ebba Grön : Kulturskildringar av svenska förorten mellan 1954-1984

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Historia

    Författare :Moa Ekström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Suburbs; Folkhemmet; space; place; modern;

    Sammanfattning : In the year of 1933, a large housing survey was carried out in Sweden, which was carried out against the background of the large housing shortage in the country, but most of all in the big cities such as Stockholm and Gothenburg. The results of the survey showed that the country needed housebuilding but foremost modern new houses and apartments which suited a modern lifestyle. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Masthuggets asociala : En postkolonial analys av Zac O´Yeahs Tandooriälgen

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :david gottfridson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Zac O´Yeah; Postkolonialism; Otherness; Mimicry; Tandooriälgen;

    Sammanfattning : In this study, I analyze Zac O´Yeah´s novel Tandooriälgen (2006) and discuss how it relates to postcolonial theory and terms like otherness and mimicry. The novel takes place in a not so distant future, where Sweden and Europe have joined the Asian Union which is governed by India. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Fadern och sonen – de förlorade : En studie av maskulinitet och faderskap i Paul Austers City of Glass och The Locked Room

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Linn Ålund Thorgren; [2021]
    Nyckelord :litteraturvetenskap; amerikansk litteratur; postmodern litteratur; trilogi;

    Sammanfattning : Paul Austers New York Trilogy has long been considered a classic postmodern detective tale. But isn’t there more to the story? In this study I investigate how masculinity and fatherhood is portrayed in the first and the third novel of the trilogy, City of Glass and The Locked Room. Using a theoretical framework including R.W. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Livskomposition : Rum, fönster och litterär demokrati i Virginia Woolfs The Years

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

    Författare :Marcus Rombo; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Woolf; Rancière; The Years; spatiality; windows; the politics of literature; literary democracy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis considers Virginia Woolf’s The Years (1937) in relation to Jacques Rancière’s thinking of the politics of literature. It examines the novel’s different spatial configurations and the relationships it establishes between private and public spaces, home and city, inner and outer. LÄS MER