Search for dissertations about: "artisan"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word artisan.
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1. WomenWeave Daily : "Artisan Fashion" as "Slow and Sustainable Fashion"
Abstract : As awareness has grown of the detrimental, often lethal, aspects of fashion production and use, so too has a global movement to diminish its environmental harms and mediate its social exploitation. In all types of commercial, academic, and popular discourse about fashion, words such as eco-friendly, green, ethical, fair, and slow -- the last being a catch-all term for all things “not fast fashion”-- are ubiquitous. READ MORE
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2. Vocational skills formation in communities of practice : Experiences from primary school and the informal economy in Tanzania
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between school and working life in Tanzania; what goes on inside school in relation to what goes on outside. The focus is on vocational skills formation by which is understood the process whereby individuals develop skills necessary for everyday life and gainful employment. READ MORE
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3. From Public Pipes to Private Hands : Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Abstract : In cities around the world, public water systems have increasingly come to be operated by private companies. Along with an internationally funded investment program to refurbish the dilapidated water infrastructure, private operations were tested also in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE
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4. Machiya : architecture and history of the Kyoto town house
Abstract : Machiya is the term for a traditional house type, a merchantand artisan dwelling found in the cities. The focus of the thesisis on the spatial qualities and technical structure of themachiya in relation to the specific use of the house type. READ MORE
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5. Microbiological food safety of cheese produced in Swedish small-scale dairies : characteristics, growth and enterotoxin production of Staphylococcus aureus
Abstract : The number of small-scale dairies in Sweden has increased during the past decade. Current agricultural policy encourages such small-scale production and various ways to help producers have been proposed. Combining traditional cheese making and good product safety is a challenge, since several human pathogens pose a hazard in the products. READ MORE