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2. 1. Religion as a lifeworld : an alternative to secularist concept of religion in social work

   Author : Magnus Weber; Carin Björngren Cuadra; Marcus Herz; William Cavanaugh; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Violent extremism; lifeworld; social work; religion;

   Abstract : The discourse on religious extremism and jihadism has stimulated deep interest in religion as a factor in social problems. So have other religion-related issues such as honour-related violence, migration and integration, and female circumcision. READ MORE

4. 2. Between health and healthcare : a lifeworld perspective on personal informatics

   Author : Robyn Schimmer; Karin Danielsson; Anna Croon Fors; Åsa Hörnsten; Ericka Johnson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; user experience; human-computer interaction; postphenomenology; lifeworld; design informatics; human-computer interaction; människa-datorinteraktion;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the role of technology in digitized life focusing on lived experiences of personal informatics technologies in health and healthcare contexts. The work departs from an interest in how digital technologies affects us as individuals in contemporary life. READ MORE

5. 3. A personal-recovery-oriented caring approach to suicidality

   Author : Linda Sellin; Lena Wiklund Gustin; Tomas Kumlin; Tuula Wallsten; Gunilla Carlsson; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Dialogue; hermeneutics; lifeworld; mental health nursing; participation; patient’s perspective; person-centred care; phenomenology; recovery; reflective lifeworld research; reflective understanding; relative’s perspective; suicidality; suicide prevention; Care Sciences; vårdvetenskap;

   Abstract : Persons who are subject to care due to suicidal thoughts and/or acts, are in a vulnerable situation, struggling with issues related to life and death as well as experiences of hopelessness and powerlessness. They may also experience themselves as a burden for their relatives. READ MORE

6. 4. Modern Genes : Body, Rationality and Ambivalence

   Author : Niclas Hagen; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Everyday experiences; Modernity; Everyday Life; Lifeworld; System; Genetics; Huntington’s disease.;

   Abstract : The main objective of this ethnological thesis is to investigate the linkage between everyday life with a genetic disease and intrinsic patterns of modernity. The thesis is a compilation thesis that contains four individual articles each addressing the everyday experience of a genetic disease from different angles, with different research questions and theoretical presumptions. READ MORE

7. 5. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

   Author : Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

   Abstract : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. READ MORE