Search for dissertations about: "critical ethnography"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the words critical ethnography.
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1. The School and the Animal Other : An Ethnography of Human-Animal Relations in Education
Abstract : How human-animal relations are expressed and negotiated has significance for the situation of animals in society and offers insights that contribute to our understanding of how we organize relations between humans as well. This critical ethnographic investigation is positioned at the intersection of education research and the interdisciplinary area of human-animal studies. READ MORE
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2. The body in pain and pleasure : an ethnography of mixed martial arts
Abstract : Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a sport on the rise within the field of martial arts in which competitors fight in a cage and utilize full-contact movements using their fists, elbows, and knees as well as kicks, other strikes, and submission techniques to defeat their opponents. MMA has become a modern social movement in combat sports that has become globalized in a short time and is the fastest growing sport in the world. READ MORE
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3. A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and praxis
Abstract : A history of two management concepts, valuing diversity and managing diversity, has its cultural and historic origins in the U.S., or, more exactly, in the management/organizational literature produced in the U.S. READ MORE
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4. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality
Abstract : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. READ MORE
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5. Sport in youth detention : A “pedagogical” practice?
Abstract : Sport can be an important part of life inside youth detention, often believed to contribute to the rehabilitation of youth. However, there has been little ethnographic research examining this phenomenon. READ MORE