Sökning: "collective agency"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden collective agency.

1. 1. Governing street and market vending in Kitwe, Zambia : Shifting rationalities and vendors' individual and collective agency

   Författare :Lennert Jongh; Ilda Lindell; Andrew Byerley; Amin Kamete; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urban informality; informal economy; street vendors; market vendors; vendors’ agency; urban space; collective organizing; vendors’ connections; gray spaces; government rationality; assemblage; Kitwe; Zambia; sub-Saharan Africa; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the governing of street and market vending in the Zambian city of Kitwe. Street and market vending has often been studied in relation to neoliberal urban developments. Such studies have shown how governing practices are driven by ambitions to create “world-class cities” and to attract (international) investment. LÄS MER

3. 2. Collective Intentionality and Solidarity : A Multi-Methodological Investigation of How Collective Intentionality Shapes Solidarity on Different Levels of Analysis

   Författare :Zeynep Melis Kirgil; Andrea Voyer; Dawn T. Robinson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collective intentionality; solidarity; small groups; leadership; COVID-19; political ideology; political speeches; mixed methods; experiments; Sociology; sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : Collective intentionality lies at the heart of solidarity and social action. Collective intentions refer to thinking in a “We-mode” oriented toward the social group, contrary to individual-oriented thinking in “I-mode”. Theories in philosophy and sociology have long recognized the importance of collective intentions for solidarity. LÄS MER

4. 3. A Time and Place for Agency

   Författare :Lucinda David; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agency; Resilience; Temporality; place leadership; Policy; Regional development; institutional change; timing norms;

   Sammanfattning : If places indeed matter, as economic geographers believe, then it must matter most to the people who live their everyday lives in these places and experience the world materially and socially through it. When a crisis hits and uncertainty ensues, it affects people who call these places home the most. LÄS MER

5. 4. Challenging the gender paradox. women's collective agency in the transformation of Kerala politics

   Författare :Monica Erwér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender and development studies; power empowerment; collective agency; women s interests; gender politics; autonomous feminist network; Left Women s Movement; left parties; Kerala; India;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates gender and power theoretically by linking the field of gender and development with the debates within social movement theory. It builds a framework on the concepts of Empowerment, Agency, Political Field, Organisational Structure, Framing Processes, and Women's Interests and Identities. LÄS MER

7. 5. Härifrån till framtiden : Om gränslinjer, aktörskap och motstånd i tjejers vardagsliv

   Författare :Johanna Sixtensson; Malmö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :girls; everyday life; boundaries; embodied structures; inequality; agency; orientations; resistance; collective resistance; gender; class; race; intersectionality; spatiality; Malmö;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the everyday life of a group of teenage girls living in the city of Malmö. The analytical focus is on how the girls’ encounter, negotiate with, reproduce and embody unequal socio-spatial gender structures, class relations and processes of racialization in their every day lives’. LÄS MER