Sökning: "SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Social anthropology ethnography Ethnography"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 51 avhandlingar innehållade orden SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Social anthropology ethnography Ethnography.
16. Surviving trauma in exile and the integration-conundrum : navigating therapy and the imperatives of a host(ile?) society
Sammanfattning : “Undesirables” of the contemporary world (Agier, 2008), refugees are often considered “Others” whose lives can be wasted, at deadly borders, in detention centers, or at the margins of societies. Proving their suffering is a condition for accessing the right to asylum, but the current migration policies in the host countries expect them to quickly overcome it, and integrate, as a way to pay back for the protection they received. LÄS MER
17. User Centered Design Methods must also be User Centered: A Single Voice from the Field. A Study of User Centered Design in Practice
Sammanfattning : The present study concerns itself with the usability of the user centered design methodology, as this is defined by ISO 9241-210 (ISO9241-210, 2009) and other international standards: “[usability is the] extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use” (authors emphasis) (ISO9241-11, 1998; ISO9241-210, 2009, p. 3; ISO13407, 1999, p. LÄS MER
18. Ett fåfängt arbete : Möten med modeller i den svenska modeindustrin
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the working life of fashion models in the Swedish Fashion Industry based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork among a network of female and male models in Stockholm. It charts the development of the modelling business in Sweden and locates it within the changing labour market of late capitalism. LÄS MER
19. Reconfiguring Conservation and Ontological Politics : An Ethnography of Campesinos and Scientists in the Andean Páramos
Sammanfattning : This thesis offers an empirical analysis that critically assesses and expands the concept of “ontological politics” as a tool for understanding environmental conservation practice. It takes the case of páramos conservation in Colombia, a high mountain ecosystem located above 2600 mts altitude. LÄS MER
20. Bodies of vital matter: Notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern Italy
Sammanfattning : Bodies of Vital Matter presents an innovative study that explores folk beliefs relating to the vital force of the human body and to the transcendence of the corporal. The time frame is the period from the unification of Italy to the Second World War. There are three principal themes of investigation. LÄS MER