Sökning: "material agency"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 260 avhandlingar innehållade orden material agency.
21. Visuell kultur i barns vardagsliv : Bilder, medier och praktiker
Sammanfattning : This study concerns visual culture in 64 children-s (6- to 8-year-olds) everyday practices at a Swedish after-school center. It draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, ranging from visual culture to discourse analysis, exposing the complexity of visuality in children-s social interactions, when talking about TV-programs, mimicing Spice Girls videos, drawing caricatures or looking at picture books. LÄS MER
22. Situating Simulators : The integration of simulations in medical practice
Sammanfattning : This study examined the practices of integrating simulators into medical education. Simulators have been observed in use to discern how medical practices are created out of the simulations. Video recordings of the simulations have been analysed, complemented by interviews with instructors and students. LÄS MER
23. Avslöjandets tid. Kvinnors bearbetning av sexuella övergrepp
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the aim is to explore how the phenomenon of working through child sexual abuse can be understood; its historical, discursive and social conditions and relations to gender and other power structures. The main study consists of 30 interviews conducted in 2003-2005 with eight women, 29 to 69 years old, representing three different social classes, all abused in childhood and all but one by their father. LÄS MER
24. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem
Sammanfattning : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. LÄS MER
25. Teachers in the marketisation of education
Sammanfattning : In many parts of the world, marketisation processes in welfare sectors like education are mobilised and legitimised through a discourse professing how market competition will bring about accountability, quality, and efficiency. In much of the Global South, the growth of so called low-fee private schools (LFP schools) is part of such marketisation processes. LÄS MER