Search for dissertations about: "Ethnographic knowledge"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 swedish dissertations containing the words Ethnographic knowledge.

  2. 1. Everyday Knowledge in Elder Care : An Ethnographic Study of Care Work

    Author : Ulrika Börjesson; Elisabet Cedersund; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; ethnography; knowledge; care work; elder care;

    Abstract : This dissertation is about how knowledge is constructed in interactions and what knowledge entails in practical social work. It is about how a collective can provide a foundation for the construction and development of knowledge through the interactions contextualized in this study on Swedish elder care, organized by the municipality. READ MORE

  4. 2. Evidence, Expertise and 'Other' Knowledge : Governing Welfare Collaboration

    Author : Josef Chaib; Gun Hedlund; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : collaboration; practices; knowledge; government; knowledge regimes;

    Abstract : I den här avhandlingen studeras styrning av välfärdssamverkan, med focus på betydelsen av kunskap i styrning. I offentlig verksamhet – och i välfärd i synnerhet – är samverkan mellan myndigheter, kommunala förvaltningar och välfärdsprofessionella ett återkommande sätt att hantera olika problem som de traditionella offentliga institutionerna anses oförmögna att lösa. READ MORE

  5. 3. Evidence, Expertise and 'Other' Knowledge : Governing Welfare Collaboration

    Author : Josef Chaib; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Collaboration; practices; government; knowledge; knowledge regimes; samverkan; praktiker; kunskap; styrning; kunskapsregim;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyses how welfare collaboration is governed, focusing on the role of knowledge in government. In the public sector – and in welfare especially – collaboration between agencies, municipal departments and welfare professions is a recurring response to various problems where the traditional public-sector institutions are considered inapt to provide solutions. READ MORE

  6. 4. Bringing power and knowledge together : information systems design for autonomy and control in command work

    Author : Per-Arne Persson; Sture Hägglund; Henrik Eriksson; James M. Nyce; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ethnographic; army command organizations; military; rationality of practice; design work; autonomy; events-frictions-and power; viable system; freedom of action; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : THIS THESIS PRESENTS an empirical ethnographic study that has been conducted as fieldwork within army command organizations, leading to a qualitative analysis of data. The title of the thesis captures the contents of both command work and research, both domains being affected by new technologies during a period of drastic changes in the military institution. READ MORE

  7. 5. Knowledge as Action : An Anthropological Study of Attac Sweden

    Author : Hilma Holm; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; globalisation; global justice movement.; knowledge; social movement; Sweden; Attac; anthropology;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine knowledge production around globalisation and politics in Attac Sweden. As a part of the global justice movement that emerged in the 1990s, the organisation Attac Sweden related to a larger process. READ MORE