Search for dissertations about: "negotiating"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 146 swedish dissertations containing the word negotiating.
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1. Negotiating Identities : Exploring children’s perspectives on themselves and their lives
Abstract : This dissertation consists of four empirical studies as well as a framework of intersecting perspectives. The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain children’s perspectives of themselves and their lives within and outside of the school walls: at home, and in their diaries on the internet. READ MORE
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2. Negotiating Tensions : Designers’ responsibilities in democratic entanglements
Abstract : This thesis concerns the roles and responsibilities of designers when we design workshops with democratic ambitions. Reflecting on my experiences from making co-design workshops for citizen participation to support sustainable urban development in municipal planning processes, I inquire into designers’ societal entanglements and explore these from democratic, social, political and designerly perspectives. READ MORE
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3. Negotiating Solidarity : Collective Actions for Precarious Migrant Workers’ Rights in Sweden
Abstract : Precarious migrant workers are today an everyday part of the Swedish labour market. They often work under conditions of vulnerability, on temporary contracts and with few rights. This dissertation examines collective actions aiming to improve the precarious conditions of three categories of workers –discriminated, seasonal and undocumented. READ MORE
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4. Negotiating needs : Processing older persons as home care recipients in gerontological social work practices
Abstract : The study concerns the needs assessment processes that older persons undergo to gain access to home care. The participation of older persons, their relatives and municipal care managers was studied from a communicative perspective. The assessment meetings functions as formal problem-solving events. READ MORE
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5. Negotiating Memories : Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
Abstract : This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and negotiate victimhood through narratives after a period of war and mass atrocity and how they are represented in narratives and practices of memorialization. READ MORE