Search for dissertations about: "Traditional knowledge"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 773 swedish dissertations containing the words Traditional knowledge.

2. 1. Progressive Women, Traditional Men : The Politics of 'Knowledge' and Gendered stories of 'Development' In the Northern Periphery of the EU

   Author : Ulrika Dahl; Lisa Rofel; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European Union; Modernity; Sweden; Progressive; Women; Traditional; Men; Politics; Gendered stories; Cultural anthropology; Womens studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies is an ethnographic account of the meaning and politics of social scientific "knowledge production", exemplified in gendered stories of regional "development" in the inland northern Swedish province of Jämtland, after Sweden's 1995 entry into the EU and the cultural meanings they assign to men and women. European integration is experienced as an ongoing peripheralization of modernity, registered in visions of regional "development" centered on the heteronormatively defined ideal of jämställdhet (equality between men and women) and on the "resources" of place and history, forged in a cultural imaginary shared by social scientific researchers, state agencies, and grass-roots "practitioners". 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. Digital information and traditional knowledge : the implementation of GPS collars as a tool in reindeer husbandry

   Author : Kajsa Kuoljok; Alf Arvidsson; Marianne Liliequist; Ivar Bjørklund; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; reindeer herding; technology; GPS - global positional system; Actor network theory; ethnolgy; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation presents the use of global positioning systems (GPS) navigation devices to monitorthe reindeer within husbandry. The use of the GPS collar in the study area has expanded over theyears. READ MORE

7. 5. Whose Knowledge Counts? : A Study of Providers and Users of Antenatal Care in Rural Zimbabwe

   Author : Thubelihle Mathole; Beth Maina Ahlberg; Gunilla Lindmark; Els van Dongen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; International health; Evidence-based care; HIV AIDS; maternal health; midwifery; nurses; pregnancy; traditional birth attendants; Zimbabwe; Internationell hälsa; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis presents perspectives and experiences of different stakeholders and their ways of reasoning around pregnancy and pregnancy care. Data were generated from individual interviews with 25 health care providers, 18 women and 6 traditional birth attendants (TBAs) as well as 11 focus groups discussions with women, men and TBAs. READ MORE