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People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in
In this article, I explore interpretations and depictions of the Hebrew Bible in Swedish daily press between 1987 and 2017. As a point of departure, I examine three debates concerning three different aspects of the Hebrew Bible (in the debates understood as the “Old Testament”): its depictions of women, God, and homosexuality. The analysis shows that the Hebrew Bible tends to be portrayed as a pro
Sweden is renowned for its centralized wage bargaining system, which has been studied for decades from the point of view of inflation, wage differentials and unemployment. A coordinated system in place since 1997 has been compared to the centralized system of the postwar era, while other scholars have pointed to differences in how the institutions work in practice. This paper studies media coverag
Under flera decennier var Svensk filmindustri (SF) Sveriges ledande producent och distributör av film till landets skolor. I detta kapitel analyseras hur denna privata aktör positionerade sig gentemot samhället under decennierna efter andra världskriget. Genom att studera tidskriften Svensk skolfilm och bildningsfilm visar kapitlet på att gränserna mellan begrepp som ”skolfilm”, ”bildningsfilm” oc
This thesis analyses collective memory in Contemporary Asian Societies through historical movies. It takes a borderless approach to infer the perception of the past in the Asian continent, filling the gap in a field mostly dominated by case studies. Asian historical movies are used as the data source of the analysis, following the historiophoty framework designed by White(1988) and Rosenstone (198
Journalism profession and journalists’ practices are usually critiqued when a new shift happens. Currently, digitalization of the newsrooms, economic state of journalism and changing labour conditions have an impact on shaping the models according to which newsrooms work and journalists understand their professional roles and identities. The aforementioned changes within the profession are usually
I denna uppsats undersöker jag vad texterna på kungahuset.se förmedlar i fråga om sociala konstruktioner som heteronormativitet och ”vi och dem”-perspektiv. Jag studerar också hur texter och bilder dramatiseras och myter skapas eller återberättas. Jag har avgränsat min studie till de publikationer som gjorts i den kungliga kalendern mellan 1-31 oktober 2012. Kungahuset.se är den svenska kungafamilIn this essay, I examine the mediation of social structures, like heteronormativity and "us and them" perspective, in the texts and images at kungahuset.se. I also study how text and images are dramatized and myths are created or retold. I have limited my study to the publications made in the royal calendar, from 1-31 October 2012. Kungahuset.se is the Swedish royal family's official
Review of the book The Birth of Computer Vision by James E. Dobson (2023) Minneapolis (MN), University of Minnesota Press, viii-205 pp.
Swedish Title: En Ny Era för Ett Nytt Burma: Avkoloniseringens Diskurs och Nationens Strävan i Burma efter Andra Världskriget This study explores the nature of the nationalist discourse in Burma (Myanmar) in the short period of time following World War II but preceding Burma’s declaration of independence on the 4th of January, 1948. Burma, then a British colony in Southeast Asia, had been promised
Special Area Studies, Autumn 2025 Special Area Studies ACCESSIBLE TO ALL EXCHANGE STUDENTS, AUTUMN 2025 SAS COURSE AT THE JOINT FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY Information may be requested from: international@ht.lu.se | Webpage: www.ht.lu.se/en/international/ MONDAY A.M. SASH62 Communism in East and Central Europe – Present, Past and Future Perspectives 1 September – 8 December 10.15 – 12.00
Special Area Studies, Autumn 2026 Special Area Studies ACCESSIBLE TO ALL EXCHANGE STUDENTS, AUTUMN 2026 SAS COURSE AT THE JOINT FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY Information may be requested from: international@ht.lu.se | Webpage: www.ht.lu.se/en/international/ MONDAY A.M. SASH62 Communism in East and Central Europe – Present, Past and Future Perspectives 31 August – 7 December 10.15 – 12.00 SO
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/sites/www.lunduniversity.lu.se/files/2026-02/Special-Area-Studies-schema-ht26.pdf - 2026-05-02
När nazistiska Nordiska motståndsrörelsen demonstrerade i Göteborg 30 september 2017 skapade det livlig debatt i media om rasistiska partiers rättigheter. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att vidga perspektivet på diskussionen i Sverige genom att undersöka hur stater kan bekämpa rasistiska partier utifrån idén om militant demokrati. Uppsatsen redogör för konceptet militant demokrati och undersöker On the 30th of September 2017 the Swedish Nazi party Nordiska motståndsrörelsen had a permit to demonstrate in the streets of Gothenburg. This was followed by a heated debate in the media on the rights of these kind of parties. The purpose of this essay is to add a wider perspective on the discussion in Sweden by examining how states can combat racist parties on the basis of militant democracy. Th
Professor Contact details Email: marina [dot] svensson [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se Phone: +46 46 222 40 68Organisation Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University Visiting address: Sölvegatan 18B, Lund Room number: 126 Service point: 61 WebpageMarina Svenssons profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Profile area member LU Profile Area: Human rightsI studied Ch
https://www.ace.lu.se/marina-svensson - 2026-05-01
This open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly translates as ‘subject-oriented prose’ or ‘professional communication’. The authors examine the written text’s capacity to transcend contextual boundaries, as a crucial factor in t
Popular Abstract in Swedish Föreställningen om att det fanns ett vänsterliberalt åsiktsmonopol som måste brytas var central när kristdemokraten Helmut Kohl som nybliven förbundskansler 1982 utlovade en ”intellektuell och moralisk vändpunkt”. Den tyska nationalkänslan skulle ”normaliseras”. Det negativa förflutna skulle neutraliseras. I avhandlingen skildras hur detta pund förvaltades under 1990-taThe subject of this study is the re-construction of German national identity and nationalist thinking within the framework of the 1990s’ history discourse in relation to the Nazi past and the Holocaust. The empirical focus is on national politics and the press. Maurice Halbwachs’ social constructionist theory on collective memory and Jan Assmann’s thesis on the defining power of elites in the cult
I Sverige kallar vi ofta media för den fjärde statsmakten. Den makt som medierna besitter att granska makthavare, påverka opinion, förmedla information till medborgare är en väsentlig del i en fungerande demokrati. Konsolidering av denna makt kan få konsekvenser för demokratin genom en likriktning av opinionen, och ett minskat antal perspektiv representerade i rapporteringen. Hur detta kan motverkIn Sweden the media is often called the fourth pillar of government. The pow-er the media has is used to hold persons of power accountable, create opinion, and spread information to the citizens. This is a vital part of a well-functioning democracy. The consolidation of this power could have a negative impact on democracy by reducing the number of perspectives and opinions represented in media ove
