Brake, John
Scholars of international politics have long linked states’ quest for prestige with assertions of national power: diplomatic saber-rattling, scrambles for colonies, arms races, and outright war. This thesis charts a sharply divergent, previously neglected, path to international prestige—foreign policy restraint. The argument in brief is that states...
Parmar, Ramandeep Fekre, Ibrahim
This thesis presents a quantitative study of trust in the police amongst first and second-generation immigrants in Sweden. Previous research suggests that the most socio-economically vulnerable groups in society trust the police the least. People with immigrant backgrounds tend to a larger extent belong to these groups. Yet, few studies have examin...
Hiort af Ornäs, Alice
This essay analyses escape artistry and its relation to body and mind. Drawing mainly from Finnish escape artist Uno Sunell’s life and advertisements for circus and vaudeville, escape artistry is analysed in relation to two themes: body – mind, and disenchantment – sense of wonder. The theoretical framework consists of modern performance theory inf...
Ingrid, Dahlström
In this essay I have studied wedding services in the Church of Sweden, as they are actually performed. I do this from a liturgical-theological perspective, a performance- perspective and from the perspective of ritual studies. According to the performance- perspective the wedding service can be seen as consisting of different scripts, for example, ...
Montijano Cañellas, Marc
The way in which the documentation about performance comes to us is not casual and analysing its qualities can help us to understand these works better. In this study, we examine and reflect upon the main opinions in this field, by Amelia Jones, Peggy Phelan, Philip Auslander and Erika Fischer-Lichte. Together with this review, we propose an expans...
Prieto, Julio
This article explores the intersections between the category of autofiction, the first-person documentary as film genre, and the question of collective memory in Argentina in the 2000s, and in particular in the so-called “generation of the children”. I am interested in examining the relation between the critical construction of the self that is cha...
Lucas, Hannah
This article examines how the engagement with textiles and textile-craft in The Book of Margery Kempe facilitates the performance of Margery's female religious identity. Drawing on the fundamental precepts of performance theory, the article responds to recent scholarly interest in the manifestations of material devotional culture and the performati...
Vanderschueren, Jonas
Censuur van overheidswege, rellen en zelfs pogingen tot aanslagen: in Polen heerst de afgelopen jaren een vijandig klimaat ten opzichte van hedendaags theater. De Poolse scene lijkt in korte tijd een politiek strijdveld te zijn geworden, soms zelfs letterlijk. De situatie in Polen vandaag is urgent, en dat lijkt een catalysator te zijn voor een her...
Kurtz, Wendy Perla
In my dissertation I reflect on the ritualistic aspects of mourning practices that accompany the current disinterment and reburial of Francoist victims from mass graves on the Iberian Peninsula. I use critical theories of performance—among them the contributions of Diana Taylor, Richard Schechner, and Paul Connerton—to argue the necessity to actual...
Kurtz, Wendy Perla
In my dissertation I reflect on the ritualistic aspects of mourning practices that accompany the current disinterment and reburial of Francoist victims from mass graves on the Iberian Peninsula. I use critical theories of performance—among them the contributions of Diana Taylor, Richard Schechner, and Paul Connerton—to argue the necessity to actual...