Search for dissertations about: "existential geography"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words existential geography.

  2. 1. The power of place : Existential crises and place security in the context of pregnancy

    Author : Margareta Rämgård; Eric Clark; Anthony Gatrell; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gravida kvinnor psykologiska aspekter ; självuppfattning; rumsuppfattning; pregnant women; space perception; self perception; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Psychology; Psykologi; Social geography; health geography; existential crises; Place; ontological security; Socialgeografi;

    Abstract : The study explores the importance of place attachment on individuals sense of security during existential crises. Coping strategies of pregnant women are analysed, focusing on how the prospect of giving birth affects their relationship to place. READ MORE

  4. 2. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden

    Author : Erika Sigvardsdotter; Aida Aragao-Lagergren; Irene Molina; Yasmine Gunaratnam; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Undocumented migration; undocumented persons; feminist methodology; irregular migrants; existential geography; paradoxical space; Hannah Arendt; critical phenomenology; Sweden; political geography; papperslösa; absence and presence; embodied action; public space; alienation; disorientation; digital welfare state; health care; bio-politics; institutional border; embodiment; Sverige; vård för papperslösa; hälso- och sjukvård; migranter; papperslösa; fenomenologi; det offentliga rummet; Hannah Arendt; feministisk metodologi; den digitala välfärdsstaten; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. READ MORE