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11. Designing Community Economies : Exploring Alternatives for Infrastructuring Food Waste Activism
Sammanfattning : By drawing on past CSCW and SHCI scholarship engaged with how technology can support the collaborative work of organising activism and empowering people to respond to diverse sustainability challenges– my research contributes to the emerging field of digital civics by introducing the human geography concept ‘community economies’ as a new way to frame and determine the scope of the design of digital technologies for infrastructuring food waste activism. Using a combination of ethnographic research and participatory action research (PAR), the empirical data were collected through two long-term collaborations with food-sharing communities in Denmark and Sweden and through a collaboration with researchers on a related project that focused on a food-sharing community in Germany. LÄS MER
12. The Challenge from Nationalism : Problems of Community in Democracy
Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines the relationship between democracy and nationalism from a normative standpoint. A point of departure is the assumption that any democracy requires a referent community, or demos. Nationalism has, in practice, frequently provided democracies with this sense of community during the last two centuries. LÄS MER
13. Ways of Being Free : Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje and Okri
Sammanfattning : Iconized migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in literary criticism. LÄS MER
14. Mjukvarumiljöer för gemenskap : En studie av nätgemenskap, teknik och kultur
Sammanfattning : Denna avhandling handlar om mötesplatser på Internet, där så kallade nätgemenskaper uppstår. En viktig beståndsdel i varje nätgemenskap utgörs av mjukvarumiljön som skapar förutsättningar för Internetbaserad social interaktion. LÄS MER
15. Queer Community through Photographic Acts. Three Entrances to an Artistic Research Project Approaching LGBTQIA Russia
Sammanfattning : This compilation thesis is made within the field of fotografisk gestaltning (photography) and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographic acts. It consists of two artworks that have been presented in a series of exhibitions, published texts, workshops, and lectures. LÄS MER