Esta tese procurou contextualizar e analisar as reverberações, em Vitória, capital do Espírito Santo, dos debates que movimentaram o campo artístico contemporâneo, sobretudo, a partir da década de 1990, vinculando os termos arte e democracia. Tal vínculo pode ser associado tanto à emergência de um vocabulário novo no universo da arte (participação, colaboração, extradisciplinaridade etc.) quanto às expectativas criadas em torno da noção de globalização e das novas possibilidades de comunicação propiciadas pela internet. Embora seu caráter retórico ou apenas potencial já tenha sido apontado em estudos críticos, somente nos últimos anos isso ficou notório. A tese adotada nesta pesquisa, portanto, é a de que os mecanismos democráticos amplamente difundidos na virada do milênio, ao contrário de sua aparente função transformadora, atuavam como formas camufladas de apaziguamento, preservando o estrato hierárquico clássico. O recorte espacial selecionado para a discussão foi uma capital periférica brasileira, enquanto o recorte temporal considerou que um momento expressivo dos debates envolvendo arte e democracia em Vitória ocorreu na primeira década do século XXI. Adotando as ações e projetos desenvolvidos por coletivos e pelo poder público como guia, identificando suas referências, propósitos e limitações impostas ou autoimpostas, em cada um dos capítulos, o microcosmo do campo artístico capixaba constituiu um exemplo emblemático de que quanto mais distante dos pontos hegemônicos se observam tais práticas democráticas, tanto internacionais quanto nacionais, melhor podem ser detectados seus traços míticos, entre as quais a noção de que as fronteiras entre centro e periferia estavam sendo redesenhadas. / This dissertation sought to both contextualize and analyze the reverberations in Vitória, Espírito Santo\'s capital city, of the debates that moved the contemporary artistic field, especially since the 1990s, linking the terms Art and democracy. Such a link can be associated with both the emergence of a new vocabulary in the art universe (participation, collaboration, extra-disciplinarity etc.), and the expectations created around the notion of globalization and the new possibilities of communication provided by the Internet. Although its rhetorical or just potential character has already been pointed out in critical studies, it has only become apparent in recent years. The thesis adopted in this research, therefore, is that democratic mechanisms widely diffused at the turn of the millennium, contrary to their apparent transforming function, acted as camouflaged forms of appeasement, preserving the classical hierarchical stratum. The spatial cut selected for the discussion was a Brazilian peripheral capital, while the temporal cut considered that the most expressive moment of the debates involving art and democracy in Vitória occurred in the first decade of the 21st century. By adopting the actions and projects developed by art collectives and by the public sector as a guide, the identification of references, purposes and limitations imposed or self-imposed in each of the chapters, the microcosm of the art field of Espírito Santo was an emblematic example that the more distant from the hegemonic points one observes such democratic practices, both international and national, the better its mythical features can be detected, including the notion that the boundaries between center and periphery were being redrawn.

This dissertation concerns everyday life and sustainability in sparsely populated parts of Northern Sweden. The aim is to study how sustainability is constructed, experienced, practised and perceived in a field of tension between local everyday life and political discourses. Apart from written material, the study is based on interviews and observations performed in the municipalities Strömsund and Örnsköldsvik. Empirical themes include everyday life movements and means of transport, work and spare time practices, and experiences of time. The central theoretical concepts used are everyday life, provinces of meanings, typifications, community, place and policy. These concepts shape the analysis of processes pertaining to space and movement, work and leisure, time and tempo. The study shows gaps between sustainability policies and local experiences of sustainability. In order to highlight complications like the ones between the center and the periphery, polices and lived experiences, I have stressed the importance of the social dimension of sustainability. It is nevertheless important to nuance the concept of social sustainability since it carries an ambiguity, for example in terms of collisions with other dimensions of sustainability. Socially good life styles have a tendency to collide with the ecological definitions of sustainability. The emphasis on the social dimensions has been done in order to draw attention to unfair effects from a time-space perspective, and to point at the problem with urban norms in policies on sustainability.

This research is based on analyzing policys of the sparsely populated area (glesbygd) in Sweden formulated during cabinet of Reinfeldt and cabinet of Löfven. The purpose is to contribute knowledge about the sparsely populated areas construction thought the cabinets policys. The investigation has focused on what problems that has been constructed through policys, the causes behind the problems investigating through assumptions and presumptions, keywords and the dichotomy city/ sparsely populated area and the effects produced by the constructed problems. The method that has been used is a critical policy study (WPR) that is a kind of discursive analysis that is based on social constructive theory. The interest is furthermore to compare the two different governemnts to see similarities and differences. The result shows that the sparsely populated area has a negative development, the presumption and assumption is rooted in the sparsely populated area deviate from the city and that both the residents and the government are accountable to the represented problems. The results has been interpreted trough the theory center and periphery relation and urban preference that describe the results by thinking that there is a urban norm that permeate the thinking and agenda setting of the sparsely populated area.

A role of Latinisms in contemporary German language is the subject of this thesis. The thesis has been elaborated on the basis of findings acquired in the course of drafting dictionary entries within a project focused on development of the German-Czech Academic Dictionary. The role of the Latinisms within the German language vocabulary is analysed on the background of a confrontation of entries included in the monolingual dictionary Duden-Deutsches Universalwörterbuch with a structuralist theory of centre and periphery of language. The analyses, elaborated on the data obtained from the Mannheim German Reference Corpus (DeReKo) and the collocation database (CCDB) developed on the basis of the Corpus, are used for the purpose of the confrontation with the above- mentioned premise of the central or peripheral position of Latin loan words.

Exploitation of indigenous lands due to the extraction of natural resources is a global problem, historically and today. This paper will focus on a Swedish context, specifically the mining industry in Kiruna and how the state-owned mining company LKAB with a new discovery of rare earth elements (REE) threatens to exploit the lands of the Sami village of Gabna. Through a critical discourse analysis, the aim is to study to what extent and how Sami rights and interest are presented in the national media, how language in the national discourses can legitimize certain types of actions, and how this in turn can reproduce or challenge unequal power relations between the Sami and the Swedish state. In 13 investigated articles from Aftonbladet, the most dominant discourse is the presentation of the planned extraction as a contribution to the green transition and a solution to the climate crisis, which serves as legitimization of LKAB's actions. This, in combination with the peripheral position of the Sami, reproduce unequal power relations and shows practices of green colonialism as exploitation is legitimized through arguments about a green transition. In conclusion, this is a conflict of interest between the Swedish state and the Sami people, and whether it will follow the course of other colonial patterns remains to be seen.