Syftet med undersökningen är att uppmärksamma ett industriområde i förändring. Detta har gjorts genom att studera hur ett specifikt områdes kulturvärden har planerats att bevaras och vilka byggnader som ska rivas ochgöras om. Fallstudien som genomförts har utgått ifrån studiens frågeställningar och har använt CV-området iÖrebro som utgångspunkt. CV-området har varit en viktig del av Örebro stad och dess identitet i över 120 årmen nu har staden växt sig för stor för att ha industrier i centrum. Området står nu inför en förändring: att gåfrån ett industriområde till ett bostadsområde. Teorierna som använts för att besvara frågeställningarna är centrala inom fältet industriarv. Med en grund iteorin har sedan en diskussion och analys utförts kring diverse texter om industriarvet och CV-området. Dettaför att skapa en större förståelse av hur Örebro kommun och Jernhusen AB tänker kring området och hur devill utveckla det i framtiden. Undersökningen visade att det fanns ett stort fokus på att bevara industriarvet från1900-talets början till 1930-talet i den planerade utvecklingen av CV-området. Slutsatserna visade att Örebrokommun och Jernhusen AB förstår vilken inverkan det nya området kommer att sätta på den redan befintligabebyggelsen och att kulturvärdena kommer att förändras. De båda parterna var medvetna om att rivningar påområdet är oundvikligt men en avvägning har gjorts för att välja de byggnader som upplevs ha minst påverkanpå CV-områdets helhetsuppfattning. / The purpose of the thesis is to understand an industrial heritage in transformation. The questions raised in thethesis are the following: how does the new district propose to preserve the cultural values of the buildings andhow will they be used in the future? How does the demolishing process of choosing a certain building happen?The questions will be answered by the chosen case study: CV. The CV district has been a part of Örebro Citt´s history and identity for more than 120 years but now the city has reached its limit with an industrial district inthe city centre. The district now faces a new challenge in transforming an industrial district into a residentialarea. The theories that have been used in answering the question comes from the field of industrial heritage.The discussion and the analysis have been answered with the help of different literature that covers the districtand the industrial heritage. This creates a better understanding of how Örebro municipality and the propertyowner, Jernhusen AB wants to develop the area in the future. Both parties understand that the cultural valueswill be changed and that the demolishing of buildings will affect the area.

The island state of Singapore in Southeast Asia has a history of film censorship, one of several techniques in state repression it uses as a furtherance of state power. Yet, Singapore's success also depends on being open to global information and cultural flows. Drawing from queer theory, this thesis examines a recent case study of film censorship in Singapore, the 2010 film, The Kids are All Right. The thesis examines laws and regulations in Singapore to understand how films are interpellated into objects of moral danger, and also the reaction of some progressive Singaporeans to the censorship. The thesis also discusses the contradictions between state censorship and the recognition of its circumvention through copyright infringement and piracy. Finally, the thesis makes some suggestions about steps that can be taken to resist against film censorship, as well as directions for future research.

This research was conducted to see why some scholars have decided that Elizabethan prose fiction is no longer of value to a modern audience; this essay will apply narratological analyses and theory to examine Elizabethan prose fiction, noting where and how these works build their stories to involve their readers: differently than we would nowadays. The main subjects within narratology used for the analyses are the narrator, the narratee, focalisation, point of view and perspective. The main result found is that the overt intradiegetic narrator and narratee are the leading players when it comes to involving the reader in Elizabethan prose fiction.

Interacting with user interfaces has becoming something that everyone of all ages is doing whether it be using smart devices like phones and tablets, ordering at fast-food restaurants, watching movies on a plane, etc. With people of all ages interacting with interfaces, designers need to consider what limitations and barriers come with different age groups. This thesis aims to improve how elderly users interact with accessibility features on iPhones. The initial user testing conducted with elderly users discovered that many users are comfortable with their iPhones interface but that they could potentially benefit from accessibility features but are hesitant to explore. These insights were utilized in redesigning the interface for accessibility options on iOS, with the goal of creating a more inviting and user-friendly feature for elderly users. Final user testing showed that elderly users benefited from efficient interactions and instruction guides to make and perceive accessibility changes more effectively. The aim of the redesign was to address the users worries including confusion, hesitancy, and insufficient feedback.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Canadian music educator R. Murray Schafer developed the field of soundscape studies, later introducing the “soundwalk”: an empirical method for identifying a soundscape and its components through the activities of walking and close listening. Human activity in a soundscape, or a soundwalk, is known as anthropophony: a category of sounds produced by humans, including language, vocalizations, and musics. In this individual oral presentation, the primary researcher will share her experiences in creating a framework for her Master’s in Appalachian Studies Applied Project at East Tennessee State University. The soundwalk method will be adapted into a series of recorded “soundhikes.” During these hikes, the primary researcher and her participants will engage in a series of interviews in areas designated as state parks and national forests in the Upstate of South Carolina. These oral histories (with English-language translations, when applicable) will be submitted to the Archives of Appalachia, and will be used in the primary researcher’s ongoing research on Appalachian representation in the region’s protected spaces. As these protected spaces have reached nearly one hundred years of existence as “state parks” or “national forests”, the demographics of the people visiting them have changed drastically. The lenses of Critical Race Theory and Feminist Disability Theory will be used to explore these new demographic realties, and to advocate for resources benefitting those who have self-reported any of the following while attempting to enjoy Appalachian nature spaces: barriers to access, feelings of fear, or experiences of rejection. The ultimate goal of the oral history soundhike project, influenced by the principles of Public Sphere Theory, is to feature present-day voices which have not been historically included in Appalachian “nature narratives,” leading to increased representation in the field of Appalachian Studies. Though data collection has not yet begun, it is the hope of the primary researcher that this information will have a pragmatic application. Applicable portions of this project will be submitted to agencies, located in South Carolina’s Upstate region, which have indicated an interest in attracting more diverse stakeholders. The finished project will advocate for more diverse language and cultural resources and programming in protected nature spaces.

I denna studie problematiseras lönearbete som något självklart och för givet taget. Det uppmärksammas och problematiseras relationen mellan arbete och skapande av samhället som i dagsläget kräver att människor arbetar. Materialet består av 28 partiers politiska program och analyseras bland annat med hjälp av diskursanalys. Analysen visar att det bland många partier existerar en slags mall kring hur samhället ska fungera. Arbetet ska till exempel utöver individens försörjning också bidra till skatteintäkter. Dessa kan i sin tur hjälpa arbetslösa tillbaka till ett arbete. På något vis kommer det bland många partier fram ett synsätt där man menar att staten eller samhället måste överleva och där arbete ges en viktig roll. När det gäller synen på människan menar många partier att människor har en skyldighet att jobba för sin försörjning. Det framkommer också synsättet att arbete utgör en källa till friheten för individen. Några partier i undersökningen tar också upp delvis andra idéer när det gäller försörjningen vilket visar att det kan finnas möjligheter att ladda begreppet arbete med andra värderingar.

<p>"On Decolonizing the Mind" is generated at the juncture ofpostcolonial studies, Asian/ American studies, and globalization and transnational studies. Exploring literary imagination as an essential part of the social imaginary—one that not only reflects social realities but also fosters decolonizing imagination—I examine literary texts dealing with postcolonial issues in India, Ireland, and Korea in order to demonstrate how literary texts that revisit and rewrite colonial histories contribute to the on-going project of decolonizing the mind: representing and imagining otherwise. I argue that literary representations of colonial histories serve as an alternative historiography against the established discourses of colonial histories.</p> <p>I offer critical readings ofliterary texts such as Imaginary Maps, Comfort Woman, A Gesture Life, Translations, and Dictee. Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary Maps represents the postcolonial condition of indigenous peoples (particularly women) in India. Devi's text highlights her activism on behalf of indigenous peoples in India and leads us to think about the possibilities and limits of literary representation and imagination in engaging with oppressive social realities and creating viable solutions. The ordeals of "comfort women" during the Pacific War, which have begun to receive global recognition since the early 1990s, is an unresolved postcolonial issue in Korea and in many parts of East and South East Asian regions. Among the growing literature on this controversy, the literary representation of comfort women by North American writers demonstrates that the legacy of comfort women is a transnational issue that demands global justice. Focusing on Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman and Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, I analyze how literary representations of comfort women can be an effective medium through which to witness their cultural trauma. My study of Brian Friel's Translations and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee tackles the colonial encounter in Irish and Korean histories, focusing on the colonial policies ofimposing colonizers' languages on the colonized. Friel and Cha show different ways in which to find voices of difference, resistance, and subversion in a language not their own.</p> <p>My comparative study aims to make sense of the complicated ways in which national issues (indigenous peoples in India, the comfort women issue in Korea (and East and South East Asia), the postcolonial turmoil in Northern Ireland, and the postcolonial context of the United States) are closely related to global issues (colonialism, imperialism, global capitalism, and globalization). I claim that postcolonialism in the Western academy has focused too much on European colonization, especially British colonialism; we need to take into account the fact that Japan was a powerful colonial power and then to compare the effects of that colonization—and postcolonization—on places like Korea with British colonialism in India, as well as closer to home in Ireland. I hope that my study contributes to the elaboration of a transnational literacy that can offer a responsible form of cultural explanation through which to explore the interrelations between the national and the postcolonial (or the global).</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation examines the emergence of a discursive regime, which I call “the Anthropocenic Imaginary,” that invokes, instrumentalizes, and distorts the language of the earth sciences to bolster a neoliberal project of depoliticization. In recent years, the Anthropocene, a proposed geologic epoch, in which humanity figures as a planetary force and the planet exists as a human artifact, has become a frequent subject matter within American art and scholarship. It is now common for texts to refer, implicitly or explicitly, to the Earth’s transformation by humanity. This dissertation wagers that the Anthropocene should be understood not only as a geo-scientific descriptor, but also as a troping device, discursive regime, and cultural imaginary, which frames cultural and scholarly productions in a manner that legitimates the political and economic status quo. I argue that, despite appearing to be the product of studies that address the Earth’s anthropogenic modification, this discursive regime is a symptom of neoliberalism, a political, economic, and cultural ideology that schools subjects into privatized modes of being in order to induce acquiescence to the dominance of economic elites. I demonstrate that the discursive regime of the Anthropocenic Imaginary causes recent works of American scholarship, literature, and photography, which seem as though they should incite activism, to become depoliticized. I suggest that the Anthropocenic Imaginary is characterized by the metabolization of disaster, the transmutation of shocking material into something stultifying. I argue that it is possible to interpret the texts that the Anthropocenic Imaginary instrumentalizes otherwise than as legitimations of the status quo, and to bring to light the intractable disaster these works embody. Within this state of disaster, I suggest that it is possible to uncover a politically generative condition of non-normativity, which suggests that the way things are now cannot be made permanent. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation responds to the advent within American culture of a range of discourses that posit humanity as a world-altering force and the planet as a human artifact. It seeks to answer the following questions: What is it about the present moment that makes the thought that humans are a terrestrial force appealing? Who benefits from the idea that humans are defined by the capacity to act as world-shapers? Against the scholarly consensus, I propose that this idea is not the product of scientific studies that announce the dawn of the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch characterized by anthropogenic modification of the earth system. Rather, I suggest that it is the effect of a discursive regime that I call “the Anthropocenic Imaginary,” which instrumentalizes the vocabulary of the earth sciences to legitimate the dominance of neoliberalism, a political, economic, and cultural ideology, which exerts a depoliticizing influence upon culture and scholarship.

Denna uppsats ämnar att observera och analysera hur representationen av Alba, den venezuelanska-inmigranten, förändras utifrån hennes migrationsstatus i den satiriska telenovelan (dokusåpan) - och romantisk dramakomedi: Jane The Virgin (2014). Forskningsfrågan är: Vad kan representationen av latinokaraktären som illegal fylla för syfte i Jane the Virgin?  Materialet som har analyserats är nyckelpunkter i Albas narrativ som valts för att illustrera hur huvudsakligen Alba men även hennes omgivning påverkas olika beroende på hennes migrationsstatus. Hennes representation och narrativ visade sig vara negativ så länge hon var illegal, respektive positiv när hon fått sitt amerikanska medborgarskap. Relevanta teorier om telenovelas användes för att tolka denna observation, vilket visade att denna representation kan fylla ett eller flera syften samtidigt. Albas resa kan tolkas som negativt eftersom den grundar sig i stereotyper som vidga gapet mellan vi:et och de:m, eller som hjälpsam för invandrare som bor i USA och använder serier som ett verktyg i sitt assimileringsprocess, eller som utbildande för seriens publik som inte är lika insatt i de illegala invandrares verklighet. Med stöd i Stuart Halls teori om representation är slutsatsen att det inte finns ett rätt eller fel sätt att tolka Albas resa och representation i Jane the Virgin (2014) därmed kan den uppfylla en eller flera olika syften. Dock är det viktigt att vara medveten om hur kontext kan påverka den enskildes tolkning av  produktionen.   Mediaproduktionen har haft som mål att representera det venezuelanska migranten och det venezuelanska köket för att göra reklam till Antojitos en Suecias cateringföretag.

Den här uppsatsen utforskar teman relaterade till lathet, arbete och organisationer genom att genomföra intervjuer med olika individer. Materialet som samlats in genom dessa intervjuer ger insikt i de möjliga konsekvenserna av lathet inom organisationsstrukturer. Studien belyser vikten av att kontextualisera lathet i förhållande till både arbetskultur och organisationsstruktur. Resultaten av intervjuerna tyder på att uppfattningen om lathet varierar beroende på individens position, erfarenheter och bakgrund. Uppsatsen belyser lathetens roll och inverkan, särskilt hur den kan påverka arbetsmoral, effektivitet och teamdynamik inom organisatoriska sammanhang.