Search for dissertations about: "material things"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 171 swedish dissertations containing the words material things.

  2. 1. Babies’ engagements with everyday things : An ethnographic study of materiality, movement and participation

    Author : Alex Orrmalm; Anna Sparrman; Michael Tholander; Peter Kraftl; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; babies; material things; everydayness; participation; perspective; space; child and childhood studies; bebisar; materiella saker; vardagsliv; deltagande; perspektiv; plats; barn – och barndomsskapande;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how babies (1-18 months old) engage with material things in their everyday lives. The aim is to contribute with theoretical and empirical insights into babies own practices around material things and how attending to these practices can lead to reflections on participation, material culture and everyday space. READ MORE

  4. 2. Exploring material things in family life : Morality and intimacy in sibling- and child-parent interaction

    Author : Emilia Zotevska; Asta Čekaitė; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Anna Martín Bylund; Susan Danby; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family; Children; Materiality; Interaction; Everyday life; Familj; Barn; Materialitet; Interaktion; Vardagsliv;

    Abstract : This study examines the everyday family life of 12 families across Sweden. The study aims to explore the ways in which material things figure in the enactment of everyday family life, that is, how family life is accomplished in interaction between children, parents and material things during everyday activities. READ MORE

  5. 3. Makers, Materials and Machines : Understanding Experience and Situated Embodied Practice in the Makerspace

    Author : Sophie Landwehr Sydow; Jakob Tholander; Martin Jonsson; Maria Normark; Alexandra Weilenmann; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HCI; making; materials; machines; experience; makerspace; situated practice; embodied interaction; material interaction; maker culture; material turn; digital fabrication; material literacy; machine sensibility; pliable machine; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; informationssamhället;

    Abstract : This thesis explores interaction between humans, materials, and machines, in the context of makerspaces. The concept of making describes a practice that deals with new technologies in combination with craft to create artifacts in physical, digital and hybrid forms. READ MORE

  6. 4. Shards of Iron Age Communications. A ceramological study of internal structures and external contacts in the Gudme-Lundeborg Area, Funen during the Late Roman Iron Age

    Author : Ole Stilborg; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; local; Funen; Gudme-Lundeborg Area; trading site; cemetery; settlement; Late Roman Iron Age; material systems; Things; communication; Pottery; ceramology; import; center; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The objective of ceramology is to describe pottery craft traditions; the potters, their production, social organisation and the use of the products. Through this the human actions surrounding the pottery are studied. READ MORE

  7. 5. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE