Sökning: "phenomenon of place"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 227 avhandlingar innehållade orden phenomenon of place.
1. Communicating Place : Methods for Understanding Children's Experience of Place
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores how children communicate their experiences of place. It focuses on the qualitative methods of group interviews, walks, drawings and photographs, and asks how children communicate different aspects of place. LÄS MER
2. En mötesplats fylld av mening : En studie om gemenskap och samarbete i skapandet av Arvikafestivalen
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores what happens when people come together to pursue a common goal. It points to the importance for individuals to be part of a social context that they have chosen and how this belonging in turn can impact on the place where the phenomenon occurs. LÄS MER
3. Place-of-Origin Effects on Brand Equity : Explicating the evaluative pertinence of product categories and association strength
Sammanfattning : The country-of-origin effect - the alteration of judgment derived from an association to a place, is a much studied phenomenon with great potential implications for brand management and international marketing. However, in light of criticism towards the lack of conceptual development the extant literature, the relevance of the effect has been brought into question. LÄS MER
4. Ortnamnsanpassning som process : En undersökning av vendiska ortnamn och ortnamnsvarianter i Knýtlinga saga
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to theoretically and empirically describe and explain the phenomenon of place-name adaptation which does not necessarily end with the borrowing or replication of place-names but can continue further. 48 Wendish place-names in Knýtlinga saga, including their attestations and variants in a selection of the saga’s text carriers and corresponding text witnesses, constitute the primary material for the investigation. LÄS MER
5. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century
Sammanfattning : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. LÄS MER
