Search for dissertations about: "economic anthropology"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words economic anthropology.

  2. 21. Small-Small : Moral Economy and the Marketspace in Northern Ghana

    Author : Ulrik Jennische; Christina Garsten; Johan Lindquist; Sten Hagberg; Dinah Rajak; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ghana; small-scale trade; moral economy; informality; space and place; citizenship; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : Over the past decade, the Ghanaian government has tried to include and accommodate the many people working in the so-called informal economy. This formalization process is in line with a global market-driven development discourse. READ MORE

  4. 22. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

    Author : Hannah Pollack Sarnecki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Favela funk; Brazil; violence; sexuality; sovereignty; gangs factions; security; power; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. READ MORE

  5. 23. Mobilising care : Ecuadorian families and transnational lives between Ecuador and Spain

    Author : Gladis Aguirre Vidal; Johan Lindquist; Gudrun Dahl; Mark Johnson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; care; migration; transnationalism; moral practice; women; kinship; family; labour; Ecuador; Spain; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the dynamics of care in the transnational lives of Ecuadorian migrant women in Spain. It is concerned with the various forms of care that take shape and are sustained in the workplace, between friends, and among family members in Ecuador and Spain. READ MORE

  6. 24. Comeback Detroit : The return of whites and wealth to a Black city

    Author : Simon Johansson; Johan Lindqvist; Andrew Newman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Detroit; Comeback; Urban Change; Gentrification; Race; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Abstract : Since the 1950s, the city of Detroit has declined in terms of demography and economic prosperity.  Once among the wealthiest and largest cities of America, Detroit now continually ranks as one of nations poorest, Blackest and most abandoned urban areas. READ MORE

  7. 25. "Tired of weeping" : child death and mourning among Papel mothers in Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Jónína Einarsdóttir; Susan Reynolds Whyte; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : The study examines the assumption that mothers in poverty stricken areas with high rates of fertility and child mortality will, as a survival strategy, neglect their children, sometimes with a fatal outcome and then fail to mourn their death. The thesis is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in 1993-98 among the Papel people in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa. READ MORE