Search for dissertations about: "Social anthropology ethnography"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the words Social anthropology ethnography.

  2. 16. Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg

    Author : Mathilda Rosengren; Matthew Gandy; Maan Barua; Steve Hinchliffe; University of Cambridge; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Berlin; Gothenburg; more-than-human ethnography; multispecies ethnography; more-than-human geography; urban green space; urban wastelands; landscape architecture; urban planning; non-human agency; affect; Stadtbrachen; Brachen; Anita-Berber-Park; St. Thomas Friedhof; Natur-Park Südgelände; Park am Gleisdreieck; Göteborg; Trollspisberget; Högåsberget; Frihamnen; Mossen; bostadsnära natur; Urban studies; Urbana studier;

    Abstract : This thesis explores more-than-human entanglements of contemporary urban environments in order to develop a rearticulation of urban landscapes as spaces decidedly beyond the exclusively human. Taking its cue from the question “How do we live with urban difference today?,” such spaces, the thesis argues, emerge through, as well as change with, a variety of socio-ecological entwinements. READ MORE

  4. 17. Only for You! : Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow

    Author : Thaïs Machado-Borges; Ruth Mandel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Only For You! Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow is an anthropological study of the reception of a popular and commercial mass-media product – Brazilian "soap-operas," or telenovelas. Telenovelas are broadcast throughout Brazil six days a week, at prime-time. They attract an audience of more than forty million viewers, every day. READ MORE

  5. 18. Twenty Girls : Growing Up, Ethnicity and Excitement

    Author : Helena Wulff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ungdomskultur ; etnicitet ; vänskap ; tonårsflickor ; mikrokultur ; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi;

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  6. 19. Performing Numbers : An Ethnography of Numbers in Everyday Organisational Life

    Author : Johan Jönsson; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Numbers; Ethnography; Performativity; Reactivity; Dramaturgy; Healthcare;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a study of the interplay between what numbers do and what people do with numbers in everyday organisational life. Couched in an ethnographic perspective, the study draws on rich empirical material crafted from participant observations conducted at a Scandinavian hospital. READ MORE

  7. 20. Surviving trauma in exile and the integration-conundrum : navigating therapy and the imperatives of a host(ile?) society

    Author : Mayssa Rekhis; Richard Rechtman; Rebecca Popenoe; Miriam Ticktin; Lotte Segal; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trauma; Psychotherapy; Refugees; Migration; Ethnography; Integration; Exile; Survival;

    Abstract : “Undesirables” of the contemporary world (Agier, 2008), refugees are often considered “Others” whose lives can be wasted, at deadly borders, in detention centers, or at the margins of societies. Proving their suffering is a condition for accessing the right to asylum, but the current migration policies in the host countries expect them to quickly overcome it, and integrate, as a way to pay back for the protection they received. READ MORE