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1. Through the Looking Glass : An Identity-Based View of Place Branding
Sammanfattning : Places of today face intense global competition for crucial resources. Attracting visitors and retaining residents is vital especially for post-industrial cities and rural places facing a loss of traditional industrial jobs, and urbanization and centralization of the population and economy. LÄS MER
2. 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
3. Becoming-place : (Re)conceptualising friluftsliv in the Swedish physical education and health curriculum
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to critically examine taken for granted assumptions underpinning friluftsliv and outdoor education as a learning area in the curriculum, and to explore the educational potential of a place-responsive pedagogy. A growing body of critical research in outdoor studies suggest that there has been a discursive shift away from an activity-based personal and social development discourse, in favour of more critical awareness in outdoor education research. LÄS MER
4. 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
5. Imagineering Place : The Branding of Five Chinese Mega-Cities
Sammanfattning : Cities, regions, nations and other places have in recent decades become active participants in the global competitive economy, and now operate in a global marketplace, competing with other places all over the world for investors, tourists, residents and workforce. As a result, places use marketing and branding strategies and practices to gain reputation and competitive advantage. LÄS MER
