Sökning: "place meaning"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 386 avhandlingar innehållade orden place meaning.

  1. 1. En mötesplats fylld av mening : En studie om gemenskap och samarbete i skapandet av Arvikafestivalen

    Författare :Leena Hagsmo; Lars Aronsson; Lotta Braunerhielm; Johan Hultman; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social effects; social capital; place; sense of place; meeting place; activity space; festival organisation; Arvika Festival; Arvika; sociala effekter; socialt kapital; plats; känslan för plats; mötesplats; aktivitetsrum; festivalorganisation; Arvikafestivalen; Arvika; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

    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. 2. På plats i historien : Studier av hembygsföreningar på 2000-talet

    Författare :Anna Eskilsson; Erling Bjurström; Peter Aronsson; Svante Beckman; Lars Strömbäck; Bo Sundin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Place; use of history; local history; local identity; local heritage societies; local heritage movement; social movement; Linköping; Östergötland; Plats; historiebruk; lokalhistoria; lokal identitet; hembygdsförening; hembygdsrörelsen; folkrörelse; Linköping; Östergötland; Cultural heritage and cultural production; Kulturarv och kulturproduktion;

    Sammanfattning : Local heritage societies were established in Sweden for about a hundred years ago. The societies responded to the large changes of industrialisation, emigration and urbanisation during that time. Today there are about 2 000 societies with almost half a million members altogether. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Text, Place and Mobility : Investigations of Outdoor Education, Ecocriticism and Environmental Meaning Making

    Författare :Petra Hansson; Leif Östman; Johan Öhman; Marcia McKenzie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pragmatism; text analysis; environmental meaning making; outdoor education; Ecocriticism; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : The overall ambition of this thesis is to investigate the approaches taken to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism in a Swedish and in an international context, to investigate environmental meaning making and to conduce to the development of analytical methods for empirical investigations of environmental meaning making. Four objectives are formulated. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sense of place and culture in the landscape of home : Understanding social-ecological dynamics on the Wild Coast, South Africa

    Författare :Vanessa Anne Masterson; Maria Tengö; Thomas Elmqvist; Marja Spierenburg; Katrina Brown; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; agricultural abandonment; circular migration; community lands; Eastern Cape; narratives; place attachment; place meaning; photovoice; stewardship; Transkei; win-win conservation; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Sammanfattning : Development for sustainable poverty alleviation requires engagement with the values and cultural frames that enable or constrain communities to steward ecosystems and maintain their capacity to support human well-being. Rooted in a social-ecological systems (SES) perspective, this thesis explores the concept of sense of place to understand how emotional and cultural connections to place mediate human responses to change and influence interventions for development. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Nämnda ting men glömda : Ortnamn, landskap och rättsutövning

    Författare :Ola Svensson; Gunilla Byrman; Staffan Nyström; Per Vikstrand; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Court; judicial site; place of assembly; gallows; Skåne; justice; onomastics; place names; field names; härad; birk; landscape; Middle Ages; Late Iron Age; cult; place; spatiality; text; centrality; archaeology; historical geography; Humaniora; Humanities; Swedish; Svenska språket Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation describes the names related to justice and places in the landscape where justice was administered, applying an interdisciplinary perspective with place names as the chief source material.One aim is to collect and describe place names in Skåne designating or indirectly associated with meeting places and districts of the court, and to study the named places. LÄS MER