Search for dissertations about: "Pasts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word Pasts.

2. 1. Stories of Pasts and Futures in Planning

   Author : Luciane Aguiar Borges; Hans Westlund; Åsa Svenfelt; Feras Hammami; Erik Westholm; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stories; Pasts; Futures; Planning; Power; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

   Abstract : Societies are constantly changing, facing new challenges and possibilities generated by innovative technologies, sociospatial re-structuring and mobilities. This research approaches these challenges by exploring the role that stories about pasts, presents and futures play in planning. READ MORE

4. 2. Pastoral pasts in the Amboseli landscape : An archaeological exploration of the Amboseli ecosystem from the later Holocene to the colonial period

   Author : Anna Shoemaker; Paul Lane; Andrew Reid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pastoralism; Amboseli; Historical Archaeology; Eastern Africa; Eastern African Iron Age; Maasai; Pastoral Archaeology; Usable Pasts; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : The Amboseli ecosystem, home of Amboseli National Park, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, and has long drawn the attention of conservationists and ecologists hoping to safeguard the healthy functioning of this Kenyan rangeland and the pastoral traditions that have brought this landscape into being. There is major concern currently however, as present day Amboseli pastoral livelihoods are said to be in decline owing to rangelands being settled, fenced, and converted to farmland. READ MORE

5. 3. Significant history and historical orientation : Ugandan students narrate their historical pasts

   Author : Ulrik Holmberg; Martin Stolare; Kenneth Nordgren; Paul Zanazanian; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical learning; history education; History education in Uganda; historical consciousness; historical orientation; upper secondary school; narrative; national narrative; History; Historia;

   Abstract : In 2012, Uganda celebrated 50 years of independence. The postcolonial era in the country has been marked by political turmoil and civil wars. Uganda, like many other postcolonial states in Africa, cannot be described as an ethnically or culturally homogenous state. READ MORE

6. 4. And Through Flows the River : Archaeology and the Pasts of Lao Pako

   Author : Anna Källén; Paul Sinclair; Cornelius Holtorf; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Lao Pako; Laos; Mainland Southeast Asia; archaeology; excavation; ceramics; iron production; ritual; gender; the past; time; postcolonial; critical theory; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a story about Lao Pako. Lao Pako is located on a small hill on the southern bank of the river Nam Ngum in central Laos. READ MORE

7. 5. Ordinary people, meaningful pasts – Negotiating narratives in public pedagogical spaces of family history research

   Author : Karen Ann Blom; Tobias Samuelsson; Carl-Johan Svensson; Åsa Nilsson Dahlström; Jerome De Groot; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family history; public pedagogy; public history; historical consciousness; significance; narrative; banal; use of history; participant perspectives; Sweden; släktforskning; public pedagogy; pedagogik; offentlig historia; historiemedvetande; betydelse; narrativ; banal; historiebruk; deltagarperspektiv; Sverige;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines three family history research experiences as public pedagogical spaces, analysing the narratives presented and participants’ negotiations with these. In the context of enhanced digitalisation and rapidly developing technologies, disturbances in the form of pandemics, hackers, and wars remind us of the instability of the present, raising existential questions and reinforcing the desire to anchor oneself in the past. READ MORE