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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden liminality practices.
1. Liminality at Work : Mobile Project Workers In-Between
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis addresses how mobile project workers; technical consultants working in projects, experience and deal with project-based work. The thesis consists of a compilation of five papers and an extended summary. It is based on three qualitative studies including methods like interviews, diaries, and observations. LÄS MER
2. Work Liminality and Liminality Competence : a study of mobile project workers
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about people engaged in project-based work, a work context that is becoming increasingly common since more and more firms are relying on project-based forms of organization. More specifically, the thesis deals with a specific condition arising in projectbased work, namely that of ‘work liminality’. LÄS MER
3. Praktiken im Zwischenraum : Transitorisches Schreiben bei Katja Lange-Müller
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes works by the contemporary German author Katja Lange-Müller, focusing on their representations of borders and in-between spaces. Thus, the thesis offers a new perspective on Lange-Müller’s work, which, in the few previous studies, has mainly been interpreted within the context of ‘subversive writing’ in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. LÄS MER
4. Hope Rites : An Ethnographic Study of Mechanical Help-Heart Implantation Treatment
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about cultural aspects of advanced medical technology for treating end-stage heart failure. New medical technologies like mechanical help-hearts save lives, but they also bring new uncertainties, risks, and challenges. LÄS MER
5. Apprentice Cosmopolitans : Social identity, community, and learning among ERASMUS exchange students
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Erasmus Programme, the European Union’s student exchange programme. This programme has, for the last three decades, resulted in an unprecedented exchange of ideas and people within the European Union, and it has quite radically changed the conditions for, and the appearance of, student life in many European universities. LÄS MER