Search for dissertations about: "material-semiotics"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word material-semiotics.

2. 1. Unpacking Rational Use of Antibiotics : Policy in Medical Practice and the Medical Debate

   Author : Hedvig Gröndal; Tora Holmberg; Ericka Johnson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Antibiotics; Policy; Medical Sociology; Actor-Network Theory; Human-microbial relations; Antimicrobial Resistance; Everyday Infections; Material semiotics; Medical sociology; Medical objects; Medical technologies; Medical knowledge; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : Rational use of antibiotics–using antibiotics only when needed and in the right way–is a prioritized goal in policy aimed at preventing antimicrobial resistance. A vast body of research is devoted to understanding why unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed. READ MORE

4. 2. Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site

   Author : Annika Capelan Köhler; Socialantropologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anthropology; Southern Cone; South American grasslands; fieldwork; Merino wool; formations; classifications; work of art; relationality; material-semiotics;

   Abstract : Contemporary debates on sustainability usually relies on standardised and normative categories, such as ‘social’ and ‘nature’, and on linear notions of time. This study explores a more complex perspective on the delicate borderlands between the ‘un-sustainable’ and the ‘sustainable’. READ MORE

5. 3. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability

   Author : Rebecka Näslund; Elisabeth Berg; Åsa Gardelli; Sisse Finken; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; Disability; Information and Communication Technologies; Intra-action; Material-discursive; Material Semiotics; Modes of ordering; Situated knowledges; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. READ MORE

6. 4. Tracing Wolves : Materiality, Effect and Difference

   Author : Andrew Mitchell; Mark Graham; Bengt G. Karlsson; Samantha Hurn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wolf; trace; materiality; effect; difference; transspecies; post-human; material-semiotic; human-animal; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : As wolves are seldom seen in Scandinavia, Tracing Wolves utilises the ‘trace’ as both a theoretical and methodological tool to aid comprehension of what a wolf is and what a wolf does. Consequently, this enquiry examines human-wolf practices, such as tracking, genetic analysis, GPS tracking, hunting, and wolf necropsies, via which Scandinavian wolves in Sweden manifest. READ MORE

7. 5. No Heroics, Please : Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital

   Author : Sara Bea; Gillian Haddow; Stephen Kemp; UK The University of Edinburgh Science Technology and Innovation Studies; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Deceased; organ donation;

   Abstract : This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). READ MORE