Search for dissertations about: "collective consumption"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words collective consumption.

  2. 1. Consumption and Practice : Unfolding Consumptive Moments and the Entanglement with Productive Aspects

    Author : Benjamin Hartmann; Jacob Östberg; Dannie Kjeldgaard; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates consumption through a practice-theoretical perspective. Practices are routinized sets of human activity involving doings, meanings, and objects. Previous work has suggested conceiving of consumption as moments in practices. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Making of Us : How affects shape collective bodies resisting gentrification

    Author : Maíra Magalhães Lopes; Jacob Östberg; Joel Hietanen; Robin Canniford; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collective bodies; multiplicities; packs; crowds; gentrification; affect; spatial injustice; wider consumption ideology; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how we can think of collective bodies as amalgamations of interplaying affects (i.e., multiplicities), rather than compositions of individuals. Using ethnography as my main method, I study urban activism collectives resisting gentrification in the city center of São Paulo, Brazil. READ MORE

  5. 3. GO LO GO HI : Tracing the Development of Masculine Domesticities from the Garage to the Penthouse — A Multi-Modal Exploration in Architecture, Urban Environments, Film, and the Arts

    Author : Janek Oźmin; Catharina Gabrielsson; Victor Edman; Valéry Didelon; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Multi-Modal; Sites of Enquiry; Masculine Domesticities; Suburban Garage; Penthouse; Architecture; The City; Film; Advertising Media; Technology; Consumption; Leisure; Real Estate; Spatial Container; Practice-Based Research; Urban Design; Stadsbyggnad;

    Abstract : GO LO GO HI is a multi-modal enquiry into the relationship between masculine domesticities and the architectures of the suburban garage and penthouse apartment. The project adopts the garage and the penthouse as sites of enquiry, which means thinking through architecture as a cultural phenomenon, the agency of which includes but is not limited to spatial design, material compositions, visual representations, and historical contexts. READ MORE

  6. 4. Negotiating Conventions : cleanliness, sustainability and everyday life

    Author : Tullia Jack; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conventions; sustainability; everyday life; consumption; water; energy;

    Abstract : Cleanliness has seen a rapid increase in both developed and developing countries, along with a parallel rise in not only water and energy but also cleaning products consumed. Water and energy supply as well as dealing with waste are environmentally critical in securing a sustainable future. READ MORE

  7. 5. Exploring the "Culture of Non-Payment" in the post-apartheid South Africa

    Author : Olivia Louw; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; focus groups; apartheid; privatization; geographies of exclusion; collective consumption; free riders; culture of non-payment; geographies of resistance; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : ”Residents are refusing to pay until an effort is made to clean up, while authorities are refusing to remove refuse until residents pay”. This is the front-page headline of a prominent morning newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa that strikes to the core of what this research seeks to explore. READ MORE