Search for dissertations about: "GARDENS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the word GARDENS.

  2. 1. Gardens in the Wasteland : Christian Formation in Three Swedish Church Plants

    Author : Björn Asserhed; Joel Halldorf; Stefan Paas; Peter Ward; Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church planting; Christian formation; Secularisation; Practical theology; Situated learning theory; Identity; församlingsplantering; kristen formation; sekularisering; praktisk teologi; situerat lärande; identitet; Practical Theology including Religious Behavioural Sciences; Praktisk teologi med religionsbeteendevetenskap;

    Abstract : Gardens in the Wasteland is an ethnographic study of Christian formation within three Swedish church plants working against a backdrop of advanced secularisation. The thesis analyses the formative practices employed by these church plants with the intention of forming persons towards a lived Christian identity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century

    Author : Sofia Ņkerberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Zoological Gardens; Zoological Society of London; zoo; London; nineteenth century; acclimatisation; imperialism; leisure; public; guidebook; zoology; natural history; popular science;

    Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific impor­tance of various animal species. READ MORE

  5. 3. Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens

    Author : Joakim Seiler; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Management regimes; historical gardening; craft; eighteenth-century gardens; lawns; hedges;

    Abstract : Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens This research investigates and compares eighteenth-century and contemporary garden management methods with a focus on the structural elements of lawns and hedges at Gunnebo House, which is used as a craft laboratory. The concept of management regime is utilized for a discourse analysis of the garden through the norms embedded in the management. READ MORE

  6. 4. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

    Author : María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

    Abstract : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. READ MORE

  7. 5. More than flowers! : On the transformative practice of commoning urban gardens

    Author : Nathalie Bergame; Rebecka Milestad; Sara Borgström; Flaminia Paddeu; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; City of Stockholm; transformative practices; emancipatory mechanisms; commoning; structureagency dialectic; urban gardening.; Strategier för hållbar utveckling; Strategies for sustainable development;

    Abstract : Urban gardening is a burgeoning practice that increasingly takes place in urban centres of the world. In this thesis, I define urban gardens as socially mediated yet materially rooted phenomenon through which social and material relations are elaborated in common through time and space. READ MORE