Sökning: "Tom Mels"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Tom Mels.

1. 1. Wild Landscapes : The Cultural Nature of Swedish National Parks

   Författare :Tom Mels; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national park; landscape; space; reinvention; performance; representation; wilderness; Social geography; imagery; nature; Socialgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : Since their emergence in the late 19th century, national park spaces have been perceived as articulations of untouched nature or wild landscape beyond society. Yet no understanding of national parks can do without the recognition that they exist in historical spaces created, institutionalised and prepared for them by cultural practices and modes of representation. LÄS MER

3. 2. Öländska platser : anslagstavlor i synliggörandets geografi

   Författare :Christer Foghagen; Lars Aronsson; Tom Mels; Per Olof Hallin; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Turism; plats; Öland; platsskapande; rum; lokal- och regional utveckling; relationell teori; ekonomisk geografi; humanistisk geografi; mat- och odlingstraditioner; konst; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Human Geography; Cultural Economy;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is an explorative excursion into the concept of place creation and place construction. It departures from the way place is discussed within both relational theory and humanistic geography. LÄS MER

4. 3. Tillsammans : Bidrag till den etniska boendesegregationens geofilosofi

   Författare :Kenny Jansson; Roger Andersson; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Etnisk boendesegregation; etnicitet; geofilosofi; Gilles Deleuze; William James; Henri Lefebvre; radikal empirism; integration; non-representational theory; rytmanalys; Rinkeby; Stockholm; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : What happens if geography itself is posed as a question instead of as a mere framework for other, geographical, questions? What about the geography of ethnic residential segregation? If we did not start out by postulating individuals, ethnicities, neighbourhoods, nation-states or other geographies, what would it be? This thesis is an attempt to investigate the geography of ethnic residential segregation as a question of radical empiricism. It begins in the observation that ideology, in the broadest sense, permeates the question of ethnic residential segregation, both politically and scientifically. LÄS MER

5. 4. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

   Författare :Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. LÄS MER

7. 5. Coastal livelihoods : A study of population and land-use in Noarootsi, Estonia 1690 to 1940

   Författare :Hele Kiimann; Tom Mels; Peeter Maandi; Göran Hoppe; Ulf Jansson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Noarootsi; Estonia; cartographical analysis; interdisciplinary study; soil cover change; landscape history; coastal peasants; Estonian-Swedish; feudal manor system; land reform.;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how the inhabitants formed the coastal landscape of northwest Estonia through both internal change and external impact by estate owners, provincial government and imperial decrees. Two villages on the largely Swedish populated Noarootsi peninsula, Einbi (Enby) and Kudani (Gutanäs), are examined in detail. LÄS MER