Search for dissertations about: "spatial practices and representations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words spatial practices and representations.

2. 1. Transaction Spaces : Consumption Configurations and City Formation

   Author : Lukas Smas; Brita Hermelin; Bo Lenntorp; Peter Jackson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumption; transactions spaces; city formation; everyday life; commodities; urban development; consumer services; retail; spatial practices and representations; time-geography; Stockholm; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

   Abstract : Consumption forms and is formed by the city. How, when and where commodities are transacted is essential in this urban drama of mutual relationships. This thesis explores how consumption and everyday life in cities are interrelated. READ MORE

4. 2. Networks and Nodes : The Practices of Local Learning Centres

   Author : Ulrik Lögdlund; Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren; Staffan Larsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Learning Centres; adult education; videoconference; actor-networks; actors; networks; Lärcentra; vuxenutbildning; videokonferens aktörsnätverk; aktörer; nätverk; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the practice of local learning centres in Sweden. The aim is to describe and to establish an understanding of relations and the actor-networks that surround the practice. The thesis is based on four different studies. READ MORE

5. 3. Constructing the Suburb : Swedish Discourses of Spatial Stigmatisation

   Author : Karin Backvall; Irene Molina; Roger Andersson; Mustafa Dikeç; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Spatial stigmatisation; segregation; representation; suburb; discourse; Geography; Geografi;

   Abstract : By exploring representations of place, this thesis treats practices of spatial stigmatisation in the context of segregated Swedish cities. In three papers, different aspects of stigmatisation and place-making are discussed and analysed, where the overarching ambition is to identify and critically deconstruct the ideology behind stigma as well as suggest ways of making representation positive. READ MORE

6. 4. Appearance and photographs of people in flight : A qualitative study of photojournalistic practices in spaces of (forced) migration

   Author : Rebecca Bengtsson Lundin; Miyase Christensen; Anna Roosvall; Myria Georgiou; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Photojournalism studies; photography; critical visual analysis; watching photography; appearance; encounters; photojournalistic practices; space; forced migration; flight; journalistik; Journalism;

   Abstract : This study explores photojournalistic practices by investigating how spaces of (forced) migration, as well as the people and objects moving in and across them, appeared in Swedish newspapers in 2015.Photographs are unique objects of study, as the presence of people in certain spaces becomes directly observable through them. READ MORE

7. 5. Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology

   Author : Martina Hjertman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical archaeology; digital history; media history; newspaper archaeology; newspaper studies; urbanity; marginality; othering; suburb; discourse; worldmaking; counter-narrative; counter- voice; modern era; port city; slum; those ‘of little note’; fire; travelogues; Göteborg; Majorna;

   Abstract : In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. READ MORE