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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden economic anthropology.

1. 21. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community

   Författare :Kristina Sliavaite; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ignalina nuclear power plant; Deindustrialization; post-socialism; East Central Europe; ethnicity; collective memory; social change; Russian speaking population; decline; modernization; migration; enclave; risk; social insecurity; uncertainty; national insurance; Social problems and welfare; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Sociala problem; migration; risk; social välfärd; socialförsäkring; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. LÄS MER

3. 22. Transforming Kiruna : Producing Space, Society, and Legacies of Inequality in the Swedish Ore Fields

   Författare :Elisa Maria López; Vladislava Vladimirova; Sverker Finnström; Reetta Toivanen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Space; nature; inequality; Sweden; Kiruna; mining; Sámi; reindeer herding; urban planning; displacement; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : Extractive resources industries are irreversibly transforming land, air, water, life and society around the world at an unprecedented rate, and Sweden is no exception. This anthropological study analyzes acute issues related to this transformation:  the resettlement of six thousand residents of the city of Kiruna due to ground deformations caused by large-scale iron mining by the Swedish state-owned company LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB). LÄS MER

4. 23. Beyond Transit : Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb

   Författare :Igor Petričević; Ivana Maček; Erik Olsson; Elissa Helms; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Croatia; Balkan route; transit; migration; emplacement; reception; precarity; affect; gap; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and other neighbouring European countries. Since the 2000s, these borderlands have become sites of continuous transit migration from the Middle East and Africa. LÄS MER

5. 24. Small-Small : Moral Economy and the Marketspace in Northern Ghana

   Författare :Ulrik Jennische; Christina Garsten; Johan Lindquist; Sten Hagberg; Dinah Rajak; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ghana; small-scale trade; moral economy; informality; space and place; citizenship; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : Over the past decade, the Ghanaian government has tried to include and accommodate the many people working in the so-called informal economy. This formalization process is in line with a global market-driven development discourse. LÄS MER

7. 25. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

   Författare :Hannah Pollack Sarnecki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Favela funk; Brazil; violence; sexuality; sovereignty; gangs factions; security; power; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Sammanfattning : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. LÄS MER