Search for dissertations about: "city memory"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words city memory.
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1. Re-Membering Beirut : Performing Memory and Community Across a 'Postwar' City
Abstract : More than 20 years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war (1975-1990), reconciliation remains elusive. A number of factors contribute to this stasis. READ MORE
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2. Creative voices of the city : Articulating media, space and cultural identities by creative collectives in Southeast Asia
Abstract : This thesis investigates the lived cultures of the individuals within collectives who are part of creative cities in Southeast Asia. Such individuals and their creative collectives are all too often rendered silent and unnoticed within the official narratives of creative city branding. READ MORE
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3. Recalling Urban Nature : Linking City People to Ecosystem Services
Abstract : Societal development is dependent on the generation of ecosystem services (ES) to sustain it; however, many ES are degrading. This thesis investigates how social-ecological features behind practices of actor groups shape the generation of ES. READ MORE
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4. Watermarks : Urban Flooding and Memoryscape in Argentina
Abstract : The relationship between social experience and action in the context of recurrent disasters is often thought of in terms of adaptation. This study problematises this assumption from an anthropological perspective by analysing the memoryscape that mediates past experiences of disasters. READ MORE
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5. "...achieved nothing worthy of memory" : Coinage and authority in the Roman empire c. AD 260-295
Abstract : This study examines how the Roman emperors c. AD. 260–295 attempt at maintaining their power-bases through legitimation of their claims to power, with reference to various potentially powerful groups of society, such as the military, the inhabitants of the provinces and the senate in Rome. READ MORE