Sökning: "emergent culture"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden emergent culture.
1. Magical Flutes : Music Culture and Music Groups in a Changing Bolivia
Sammanfattning : The main part of this dissertation consists of an ethnographic study of three music groups which are part of an urban music movement in Bolivia. I describe the groups Los Masis, Inkallajta and Flor Tani Tani, their experiences and their ideas about music-making. LÄS MER
2. The Making of a Reading Society : Developing a Culture of Reading in Rwanda
Sammanfattning : Following a growing concern among education stakeholders about the lack of a reading culture and low literacy levels among Rwandans in general and university students in particular, the aim of this thesis is to increase the awareness of Rwandans about the development of a reading culture and early literacy. To achieve this aim, four studies with participants representing different experiences related to reading culture were performed. LÄS MER
3. En kapitalistisk anda : kulturella förändringar i 1100-talets Danmark
Sammanfattning : The Early Middle Ages, comprising the period ca. 1000-1250, is usually described as a dynamic and eventful time, when many spheres of society underwent radical changes. The aim of this dissertation is to link these processes together in an overall holistic description of medieval society. LÄS MER
4. The senses of modernism : Technology, perception, and modernist aesthetics
Sammanfattning : This study argues that there is a constitutive relationship between technological change and literary modernism. Moving within a historical trajectory that extends from 1880 to 1930, The Senses of Modernism proposes that high-modernist aesthetics is inseparable from a newly emergent and technologically mediated crisis of the senses. LÄS MER
5. Learning for safety: Improvements of Swedish authorities’ toolkits for societal resilience
Sammanfattning : This thesis suggests improvements of selected parts of the Swedish authorities’ toolkits for societal safety and crisis management; crisis response evaluations, crisis management exercises and organizational risk assessments. The thesis also explores how visualizations of safety culture data can be used to support safety culture development. LÄS MER