Sökning: "multiplicities"
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1. The Making of Us : How affects shape collective bodies resisting gentrification
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how we can think of collective bodies as amalgamations of interplaying affects (i.e., multiplicities), rather than compositions of individuals. Using ethnography as my main method, I study urban activism collectives resisting gentrification in the city center of São Paulo, Brazil. LÄS MER
2. Ecologies of Practices and Thinking
Sammanfattning : How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist methodology which allows it to relate to the nonhuman as an active participant, rather than a passive object of inquiry. LÄS MER
3. The Statistics of Emission and Detection of Neutrons and Photons
Sammanfattning : One particular purpose of nuclear safeguards, in addition toaccounting for known materials, is the detection, identifying and quantifying unknown material, to prevent accidental and clandestine transports and uses of nuclear materials. This can be achieved in a non-destructive way through the various physical and statistical properties of particle emission and detection from such materials. LÄS MER
4. Safeguards: Modelling of the Detection and Characterization of Nuclear Materials
Sammanfattning : Nuclear safeguards is a collective term for the tools and methods needed to ensure nonproliferation and safety in connection to utilization of nuclear materials. It encompasses a variety of concepts from legislation to measurement equipment. LÄS MER
5. The multiplicities of prostitution experience : narratives about power and resistance
Sammanfattning : This thesis is not primarily about ‘the rights and wrongs of prostitution’, at least not as they are conveyed in the prostitution debate, rather it aims to shift the focus from what prostitution is (work or violence, empowerment or exploitation), the topic of most prostitution debate, to how prostitution operates. That is, how power relations, knowledges, discourses and practices interconnect in making particular forms of prostitution and particular ways of making sense of prostitution experience possible. LÄS MER
