Sökning: "human encounter"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 134 avhandlingar innehållade orden human encounter.

1. 1. Mattering at the periphery : Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents

   Författare :Mathilde Martin; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; left behind places; discontent; peri-urban; lived experiences; everyday life; encounter; critical phenomenology;

   Sammanfattning : Amidst growing social unrest in the peripheries of Western European economies, this thesis investigates the lived experiences of those inhabiting “places that don’t matter.” Focusing on Yellow Vests activists in France, the thesis addresses the socio-political grievances and aspirations of peri-urban inhabitants, seeking to understand the complex fabric of peri-urban life and politics. LÄS MER

3. 2. Encountering the meeting place : The production of public space in contemporary Swedish planning

   Författare :Christopher Olsson; Mats Lundmark; Ida Andersson; Carina Listerborn; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban planning; public space; spaces of encounter; meeting place; redevelopment projects; the production of space;

   Sammanfattning : A common theme in contemporary Swedish planning discussions is that we no longer meet each other in public spaces. This perceived lack of interpersonal meetings and encounters is said to reinforce the use ofstereotypes and create further distance between differences in the city. LÄS MER

4. 3. On Environmental Grounds : Outdoor Recreation, Place Relations and Environmental Sustainability

   Författare :Daniel Wolf-Watz; Klas Sandell; Peter Fredman; Robert Pettersson; Ebba Lisberg Jensen; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental Concern; Place; Nature; Practice; Tourism; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the relationship between outdoor recreation and environmental concern as part of the wider issue of environmental sustainability in late-modern societies. It includes studies of environmentalists’ (that is environmentally committed individuals’) preferences and motivations with regard to outdoor recreation, and covers the inquiries of whether and how outdoor recreation can influence levels of environmental concern. LÄS MER

5. 4. Performing Co-production : On the logic and practice of shopping at IKEA

   Författare :Frida Andersson; Irene Molina; Susan Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; performativity; IKEA; experiential retailing; consumer studies; branding; materiality; shopping; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : Contemporary western society has often been described as a “consumer society” in relation to the producer oriented form that characterised the industrial society. While consumer habits used to be seen as a reflection of a person’s occupational status or place in a stable societal hierarchy, it has now become recognised as a practice through which people’s identity and status is partially defined by the choices they make as consumers. LÄS MER

7. 5. Fields of Green and Gold : Territorial hunger, rural planning, and the political ecologies of high-end golf

   Författare :Erik Jönsson; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political ecology; Tourism; Leisure; Rural Planning; Golf;

   Sammanfattning : Fields of Green and Gold is a multiple case study analysing the placing and establishment of two large-scale, high-profile, upmarket golf developments with the aim of exploring a political ecology of high-end golf. The cases studied are Bro Hof Slott Golf Club in Upplands-Bro, opened in 2007, and Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire, opened in 2012. LÄS MER