Sökning: "Local identity"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 285 avhandlingar innehållade orden Local identity.
6. Historiemedvetande och identitet : Om historiens närvaro i några estniska ungdomars liv
Sammanfattning : The issues that I deal with in this study arose as a result of a specific event in the Estonian capital Tallinn in the spring of 2007, when authorities removed from the city center the Soviet monument which shows a Soviet soldier during World War II. When the monument was moved to the war cemetery in another part of Tallinn, anger and frustration quickly spread among the Russian-speaking population and less than one day after the move Tallinn's streets filled with young Russian-speaking protesters. LÄS MER
7. Shaping an identity : Pitted Ware pottery and potters in southeast Sweden
Sammanfattning : The thesis is concerned with pottery and culture during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3300 – 2300 cal BC) in southeast Sweden. Its purpose is to investigate and discuss the significance of pottery in the Pitted Ware culture, particularly on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. LÄS MER
8. Is it local? : A study about the social production of local and regional foods and goods
Sammanfattning : Local and regional products are often attributed positive qualities, such as a potential for developing Europe’s rural regions economically and reconnecting producers and consumers in more sustainable food systems. However, they are broad categories that include many different understandings. LÄS MER
9. Turning Privilege Into Merit : Elite Schooling, Identity, and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Belief
Sammanfattning : Previous research on meritocratic ideology and elite adolescent identity has mainly approached it from the outside, understanding meritocratic identity as a rhetorical cover to justify privilege. Through a frame analytic approach this study nurtures a phenomenological insider perspective, exploring through a one-year ethnography how adolescents at an elite high school experience, negotiate and perform identity in the tension between the school’s institutional definition of identity and their everyday life as young adults. LÄS MER
10. Kolbottnar, bönemöten och krut : En etnologisk studie av Karlskoga : identitet och image : [an ethnological study of Karlskoga] : [identity and image]
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims at analysing how local history has been built up of variouselements in the past and how it is exploited. The exploitation may cause a tensionbetween different interests in society and may contribute to a change of identitiesand images. LÄS MER