Sökning: "material-semiotics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet material-semiotics.
1. Unpacking Rational Use of Antibiotics : Policy in Medical Practice and the Medical Debate
Sammanfattning : Rational use of antibiotics–using antibiotics only when needed and in the right way–is a prioritized goal in policy aimed at preventing antimicrobial resistance. A vast body of research is devoted to understanding why unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed. LÄS MER
2. Fibre Formations : Wool as an anthropological site
Sammanfattning : Contemporary debates on sustainability usually relies on standardised and normative categories, such as ‘social’ and ‘nature’, and on linear notions of time. This study explores a more complex perspective on the delicate borderlands between the ‘un-sustainable’ and the ‘sustainable’. LÄS MER
3. Full gas mot en (o)hållbar framtid : Förväntningar på bränsleceller och vätgas 1978 - 2005 i relation till svensk energi- och miljöpolitik
Sammanfattning : I föreliggande avhandling undersöker Hultman hur bränsleceller och vätgas underolika tidpunkter beskrivits som delar i ett framtida energisystem 1978 – 2005. Detempiriska materialet som analyseras är statliga utredningar, böcker, rapporter,tidningsartiklar och riksdagstryck. LÄS MER
4. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. LÄS MER
5. Tracing Wolves : Materiality, Effect and Difference
Sammanfattning : As wolves are seldom seen in Scandinavia, Tracing Wolves utilises the ‘trace’ as both a theoretical and methodological tool to aid comprehension of what a wolf is and what a wolf does. Consequently, this enquiry examines human-wolf practices, such as tracking, genetic analysis, GPS tracking, hunting, and wolf necropsies, via which Scandinavian wolves in Sweden manifest. LÄS MER