Search for dissertations about: "life-making"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word life-making.

  2. 1. Making a life: Meanings of migration in Cape Verde

    Author : Lisa Åkesson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Cape Verde; culture of migration; transnationalism; sending country perspective; kinship; life-making;

    Abstract : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices associated with migratin in Cape Verde, and the social an historical space in which these are produced. More specifically, it analyses an ideology of migration that concerns collective experiences of Cape Verde's history, political economy, ecology and geography as well as notions about the life of the person. READ MORE

  4. 2. Socio-material mediations : learning, knowing and self-produced media within healthcare

    Author : Erling Björgvinsson; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interaction design; workplace studies; Interactive media;

    Abstract : The thesis discusses lessons learned and issued raised when exploring how self-produced rich media can facilitate sharing of meaning between healthcare professionals at an intensive care unit and between healthcare professionals and patients within a hand surgery clinic. Design experiments conducted at the intensive care unit focused on how healthcare professionals could collaboratively produce ‘best practice’ videos displayed on handheld devices and accessed through barcodes placed out in the unit. READ MORE

  5. 3. Living With Bad Surroundings : War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda

    Author : Sverker Finnström; Per Brandström; Susan R. Whyte; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Uganda; Acholi; political anthropology; existential-phenomenological anthropology; war; armed conflict; displacement; lived experience; Lord s Resistance Movement Army LRM A; LRA ; cosmology; religion; morality; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986. The Ugandan army is fighting a rebel insurgency group called the Lord’s Resistance Movement/Army. READ MORE