De senaste decennierna har ”digital humaniora” nämnts i otaliga sammanhang och kommit att påverka litteraturvetenskaplig utbildning och forskning – trots att begreppets innebörd alltjämt är omdebatterad. Är det en ny disciplin eller specialisering av forskning och undervisning som redan bedrivs? På vilka sätt hänger digital humaniora ihop med samhä...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the localisation agenda in humanitarian aid put forward during the 2016 Grand Bargain. The thesis aims to prove that localisation remains a high level concept with little effective implementation in humanitarian contexts. The concepts of “the local”, decoloniality and localisation provide a theoretical framework...
This thesis examines how the democratic mission of public libraries has been affected by library digitalization by examining discourses on library digitalization in the Swedish national library strategy (2019). The research is based on a methodological framework combining a critical discourse approach with questions from Bacchi’s (2009) What’s the ...
Studiens syfte är att utforska musiklärares praxis angående val av repertoar i musikundervisning på grundskolan. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer visar studiens resultat på en dominans av populärmusikaliska genrer inom ensemblespel på alla tre grundskolor. Slutsatsen är att vid musiklyssning tenderar repertoar från andra kulturer äga rum, men...
After a short critical reflection on what is understood under anticolonial aesthetics and how it relates to the shift from political decolonization to a more epistemologically and aesthetically oriented decoloniality, the essay focuses on the seldom considered anticolonial and decolonial trajectories originating in the ex- and present colonies of t...
Since 1948, the United Nations (UN) has been tasked with trying to prevent genocides yet when it comes to providing militaristic intervention, the UN fails to act. This thesis explored why the UN did not intervene militarily in the Yazidi genocide of 2014 through analyzing the arguments in source documents from the UN bodies of the Secretary-Genera...
The aim of this master’s thesis in archival science is to understand how four individuals’ use or creation of archival records affects the experience of social, cultural, and ethnic belongingness in time and space. The questions investigated are: 1) How do the individuals conceptualize the records' origin and how do this affect their interpretation...
With this study, we intend to seek knowledge about how educators perceive and relate to norm conflicts in preschool. The aim of the study is to focus on what educators say about norm conflicts based on their work and how they believe that they can create relationships between children and their parents and colleagues among themselves. In this study...
Introduction The social media platform Reddit is a contemporary context where we have an opportunity to identify problems experienced by people regarding different aspects of life. The platform is virtually anonymous which might make users discuss their problems more freely. Reddit is divided in subreddits where different subjects are discussed and...
The thesis sets out to examine a digitization project of an obsolete art database that was issued by the Finnish joint municipal authority Finlands Svenska Förbund för Utbildning och Kultur (SÖFUK) and KulturÖsterbotten through questions on obsolescence, the reasoning behind using an obsolete database for so long, elements that characterize digitiz...
