Sökning: "community activists"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden community activists.
1. Kamp för bygden : En etnologisk studie av lokalt utvecklingsarbete
Sammanfattning : When collective action for community is defined as local development or as a struggle for survival different understandings are in focus. Politically, this kind of community action is defined as local development and understood in terms of growth and economics. LÄS MER
2. Upscaling, Training, Commoning
Sammanfattning : When on September 15, 2008 the financial conglomerate Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy – and with that ‘officially’ sparks the international financial crisis – still few would anticipate the invasive effect this crisis would come to have on the professional and personal life of many across the world. Today, it’s implosion remains a mere ‘blip’ in the universe of events that followed. LÄS MER
3. Subjects of Feminism : The Production and Practice of Anxiety in a Swedish Activist Community
Sammanfattning : Anxiety is a zeitgeist of our time. The range of themes to which anxiety attaches today are truly vast, but anxiety arises and is cultivated in specific ways among different groups of people. LÄS MER
4. Political Dimensions of Entrepreneurship : Exploring Competing Discourses in a Marginalized Urban Community Aspiring for Social Change
Sammanfattning : Entrepreneurship is a celebrated phenomenon in today’s society. Students are taught to become entrepreneurial and governments develop policies to support entrepreneurship based on the belief that it generates economic growth and societal development. LÄS MER
5. The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. LÄS MER