Search for dissertations about: "social construction of reality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words social construction of reality.

  2. 21. Managing Multiplicity : On Control, Care and the Individual

    Author : Niklas Wällstedt; Roland Almqvist; Catasús Bino; Marion Brivot; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; Local governments; New Public Management; Ontological politics; Care; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : This is a thesis about managing multiplicity. It analyses how people working in municipalities are managing, controlling, and caring for the complex and contradictory world they live in. Building on more than 100 interviews and observations, the thesis examines the multiple realities of those who work in public sector organisations. READ MORE

  4. 22. Sociotechnical Knowledge. An Operationalised Approach to Localised Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Urban Development

    Author : Jaan-Henrik Kain; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; process; critical realism; sociotechnical; strategic choice approach; sustainable development; practice; action; social construction; decision-making; capital; implementation; infrastructure; urban; actor network theory; local; systems theory; design; partnerships; planning;

    Abstract : In processes of urban infrastructural reconfiguration, there is a counterproductive tension between tendencies of de-monopolisation and market liberalisation, on the one hand, and ambitions for sustainable urban development, drawing on Keynesian reformism and ecological modernisation, on the other. In this thesis, the aim is to overcome this tension and to facilitate a concrete operationalisation of the notion &'sustainable urban development' within concrete and localised processes of planning, design, decision-making and implementation. READ MORE

  5. 23. The Invisible Landscapes : The Construction of New Subjectivities in the Era of the Mobile Telephone

    Author : Miya Yoshida; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Subjectivities; Art History; Digital Network; Mobile Telecommunication; Geopolitics; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : The interventions of portable digital devices such as mobile telephones, mp3 players, PDAs and many others, have contributed to the formation of contemporary notions of space. The impact of these devices' mobility (informing the users' mobility) could even be paralleled to the shift from the effects of still photography to those of film in the 19th century. READ MORE

  6. 24. Co-developing pest management for organic apple production : combining participatory action research, activity theory, laboratory and field trials in a Swedish context

    Author : Weronika Swiergiel; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an interventionist, action-orientated and transdisciplinary approach to applied research that strives for the collaborative development of any practice together with relevant stakeholders. It enhances the relevance of research to practice by active stakeholder involvement in all research steps, including the spaces in which the practice is conducted, its iterative knowledge construction and the recognition that knowledge exists in practice and is created when attempting to transform reality. READ MORE

  7. 25. Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya

    Author : Benard Kilaka; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LAPSSET; mega infrastructure project; controversy; security practices; political relations; critical infrastructure protection; northern Kenya; Turkana; Lamu; pragmatic sociology; critical institutionalism;

    Abstract : This Ph.D. thesis accounts for the changing political relations between different actors in northern Kenya through a focus on controversies emerging from the securing of the LAPS-SET mega project. READ MORE