Sökning: "cultural change"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 561 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural change.
1. Lost in Transformation : A critical study of two South African museums
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation Transformation, as understood in South Africa, is investigated in the ‘Natal Museum’ and the ‘Msunduzi Museum Incorporating the Voortrekker Complex’ in terms of socio-political structures, the museum as a place, its collections and displays. I have emphasised the ethnographical perspective and analysed it by using key concepts such as new museology, time, space and place. LÄS MER
2. Väntan : Etnografiskt kollage kring ett mellanrum
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about waiting. It's about what happens when an ethnographer goes into the field and asks people to fill a small and indeterminate word like waiting with thoughts, experiences and recollections. The study is primarily based on twenty qualitative interviews with thirteen interviewees in Gothenburg. LÄS MER
3. Voices for Change : Hopes and costs for empowerment - a study on women's claims in the Egyptian revolution
Sammanfattning : This study investigates women’s possibilities to actively participate in societal change in Egypt. It aims at enhancing the understanding of structural conditions for women’s agency and how these enables and/or restrains women’s participation in the aspiration for societal change as well as their aspiration to live a ‘full life’. LÄS MER
4. The Conservation Information System. Photogrammetry as a base for designing documentation in conservation and cultural resources management
Sammanfattning : The subject of this doctoral dissertation concerns issues of documentation operations in conservation and cultural resources management. The area lack explicitly formulated and standardized models for application in documentation issues. LÄS MER
5. Den nya stadens bibliotek : Om teknik, förnuft och känsla i gestaltningen av kunskaps- och upplevelsestadens folkbibliotek
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores how perceived challenges and changing conditions for public libraries are translated and enacted in a local library setting. In 2008, Malmoe City Library, a public library situated in the third largest city of Sweden, initiated an ambitious strategy for renewal and change of their services. LÄS MER