Search for dissertations about: "Urban anthropology"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words Urban anthropology.

2. 16. Needed by Nobody : Homelessness, Humiliation, and Homelessness in Post-Socialist Russia

   Author : Tova Höjdestrand; Karin Norman; Galina Lindquist; Bruce Grant; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; post-socialist society; homelessness; housing; state surveillance; informal economy; urban space; intimate social relationships; gender; identity; ; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

   Abstract : Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian metropolitan cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of ‘vagrancy’ and similar offences was abolished. This study investigates homelessness as a sociostructural phenomenon as well as an individually experienced life condition, with a focus on homeless people in St. READ MORE

4. 17. Producing the Public : Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the Present

   Author : Jennifer Mack; Michael Herzfeld; Margareta Crawford; Eve Blau; Mary Margaret Steedly; Harvard University; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; Sweden; modernism; housing; suburbs; Syriac Orthodox Christians; standardization; Södertälje; Arkitektur; Architecture; History and Theory of Architecture; Arkitekturens historia och teori; Critical Studies; Kritiska studier; Stadsbyggnad; Urban Design;

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5. 18. Beyond Transit : Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb

   Author : Igor Petričević; Ivana Maček; Erik Olsson; Elissa Helms; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Croatia; Balkan route; transit; migration; emplacement; reception; precarity; affect; gap; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and other neighbouring European countries. Since the 2000s, these borderlands have become sites of continuous transit migration from the Middle East and Africa. READ MORE

6. 19. Feeling Across Distance : Transnational Migration, Emotions, and Family Life Between Bolivia and Spain

   Author : Tania González-Fernández; Shahram Khosravi; Erik Olsson; Ninna Nyberg Sørensen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; transnational families; emotion; affect; care; gender; life course; multi-sited ethnography; Bolivia; Spain; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : What are the relational dynamics of family life as it is lived across vast distances and over time? What underpins these relations, practices, and experiences of being apart and yet together? Based on a long-term multi-sited fieldwork carried out in Spain and Bolivia from 2013 to 2015, this study sets out to address these questions by investigating caring practices, mediated connections, (non)material exchanges, and lived experiences of “doing” and “feeling” family across borders. It conveys the story of ten families divided between Madrid and the Bolivian urban areas of Cochabamba, Sucre, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. READ MORE

7. 20. The Shadows of the Past : A Study of Life-World and Identity of Serbian Youth after the Milošević Regime

   Author : Jelena Spasenić; Hugh Beach; Lars Hagborg; Kjell Magnusson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; phenomenology; anthropology; socialization; life-world; identity; self; schema; memory; youth; school; Serbia; Yugoslavia; Milošević; family; society; post-war situation; popular culture; urban-rural; modern-traditional; social change; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The thesis explores the consequences of the Milošević regime and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s for young people in Serbia. It deals with the conditions under which recent history makes itself relevant in the lives of two high-school classes of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds. READ MORE