Sökning: "culture change"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 512 avhandlingar innehållade orden culture change.
16. Kulturlandskapets korsvägar : mellersta Norrland under de två sista årtusendena f Kr
Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this thesis is to discuss the cultural significance of the material remains in the middle of northern Sweden from the last two millennia BC. Different artefacts and monuments from the provinces of Ångermanland, Jämtland and Medelpad are analysed in order to illuminate the often debated relationship between the coast and the interior. LÄS MER
17. Culture and Capacity : Drought and Gender Differentiated Vulnerability of Rural Poor in Nicaragua, 1970-2010
Sammanfattning : This dissertation interprets gender-differentiated vulnerability to drought within a rural community located in the dry zone, la zona seca, of Nicaragua, a region that has been identified by the government and NGO sector as suffering from prolonged and, since the 1970s, more frequent droughts. A combination of gender, capitals, and vulnerability demonstrates the value in using a multidimensional perspective to look at the socioeconomic and cultural contexts that form the capacity individuals have had to reduce their long-term vulnerability to drought in Nicaragua. LÄS MER
18. Voicing the Slum : Youth, Community Media and Social Change in Nairobi
Sammanfattning : Since late 2006, several small media projects have emerged in the slums of Nairobi with the aim to counterbalance the ignorance from mainstream media, provide the slums residents with news, information and an opportunity to voice their needs and discuss relevant issues. These media are best labelled community media, since their main concern is to serve the interests of the community, in this context the slums. LÄS MER
19. Rowing social-ecological systems: morals, culture and resilience
Sammanfattning : The shift from management and governance of ecosystems to relational complex adaptive social-ecological systems (SES) emphasizes a dynamic and integrated humans-in-nature perspective. Such a shift also needs to investigate how diversity and differences in cultures and morals relate to the existence of SES. LÄS MER
20. Spår : Om brädsportkultur, informella lärprocesser och identitet
Sammanfattning : Today’s society is subject to an increased importance of aesthetics and an increasing individualism. New trends are adopted early by young people, which make it interesting to focus on how identity is formed and meanings are constructed in a youth culture context and in relation to ongoing societal processes of change. LÄS MER