Sökning: "life-trajectories"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet life-trajectories.
1. Formbara människor : Högre utbildning och arbete som utsnitt ur läkares och civilingenjörers levnadsbanor
Sammanfattning : Fokus i denna avhandling utgör läkares och civilingenjörers kunskaps- och identifikationsprocesser under utbildning och arbete – vilka studeras som utsnitt ur levnadsbanor. Syftet är att beskriva och tolka relationen mellan högre utbildning och arbete, dels utifrån föreställningar i forskning och policy, dels utifrån människors subjektivitet, vardagserfarenheter och liv. LÄS MER
2. Boteberättelser : En etnologisk studie av boteprocesser och det omprövande patientskapet
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyse how life-histories are expressed and reformulated in connection to a life crisis of ill health. The study is based on ten interviews with people who in connection with ill health have made use of treatments within both orthodox medicine and complementary medicine and who have also developed various forms of self-treatment. LÄS MER
3. Amnesty in Translation : Ideas, Interests and Organizational Change
Sammanfattning : Swedish Amnesty was founded in 1964 for the purpose of working for the release of prisoners of conscience. Forty years later the organization has expanded its realm of activity to include ideas such as women’s rights, homosexuals’ rights and corporate responsibility for human rights. LÄS MER
4. There and back again? : Dutch lifestyle migrants moving to rural Sweden in the early 21st century
Sammanfattning : This thesis has a twofold aim. First, it studies motivations and decision processes of Dutch families moving to rural Sweden, with a focus on Hällefors municipality in the Bergslagen area. Second, it explores how this migration flow can be conceptualised within migration theory. The results of the study are presented in four papers. LÄS MER
5. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER